Canal Society of New Jersey On November 17, 2006 I'll be giving a DL&W Sussex Branch presentation at the Canal Society of New Jersey. Meeting starts at 7:10...
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Hmm. Sorry about that. Here's the latest info. I'm pretty sure there won't be any more details. Dave -- Canal Society of New Jersey On November 17, 2006...
Dave, What will be the location of the Canal Society meeting on Nov 17th? Tom Schmieder ... _________________________________________________________________ ...
Tom, The meeting will be at the Morris County Cultural Center, 300 Mendham Rd., Morris Twp.[Morristown] at 7:10 p.m. Dave ... -- The First Railroad in Sussex...
This year's Santa train for the Tristate chapter of the NRHS is running on December 16, 2004. The rides offered are very nice, being in New Jersey Transit's...
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Nov 5, 2006 7:49 pm
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Canal Society of New Jersey On November 17, 2006 I'll be giving my Sussex Branch presentation at the Canal Society of New Jersey. The meeting will be at the...
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Nov 5, 2006 7:49 pm
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Dave: Did you mention that the Greenberg book is being reprinted in 2007? Are there any details available? Thanks, Gene Deimling...
Dave: I am not sure where I heard this information but my assumption that it was a reprint. Gene Deimling Wailea, HI ... From: Dave Rutan <rutan3@...> ...
Gene, It wasn't the Santa Train announcement that went out a while ago, was it? The train ride benefits the organization that published the book, but I...
Waterloo Hike On Sunday, December 3, 2006 I'll be part of a Waterloo Hike in connection with the Canal Society of New Jersey. We'll meet in the Waterloo Road...
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Nov 19, 2006 7:07 pm
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This year's Santa train for the Tristate chapter of the NRHS is running on December 16, 2004. The rides offered are very nice, being in New Jersey Transit's...
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Nov 19, 2006 7:07 pm
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Re Santa trains: They're charging $12/$6 round trip for these runs! I guess that's OK, if you really wannna talk to Santa. (I assume that's the purpose of...
I thought I was bad.......now I see I am only a novice..... There is only one Santa train consist and therefore it does not and can not meet itself. The...
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Nov 20, 2006 11:49 pm
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Ah me, my attempts at sarchastic humor have never been fully appreciated... Actually, I made the Hackettstown-Dover round trip about a week after service began...
To the "Scrooge-killer" (Bob Bodenstein): I have to side with Scrooge on this one = The original email appeared to imply that there were two trains. The...
Paul Rottmann
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Nov 21, 2006 9:05 pm
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There are two trains. That is why the Fuel Job crew at Port Morris wrote "Bi-Polar Express" on the dirty airtank on the Metro North Engine they used two years...
At this link: http://dlw-sussexbranch.com/Temp/index.html is a photo of a culvert sent to me. I have had two individuals tell me this is either the Hole-in the...
Have we seen this before? It looks familiar for some reason. It appears to be two bridges, the deck/girder bridge in the foregound and the stone arch bridge in...
Great observation. The first place I think of is the Philipsburg area, where several lines parallel one another, passing over several roadways -- but the E-L...
I've read that story too. I wonder if it was ever covered in Weird NJ. Anyway, I'm unsure if it was supposed to be canal related or railroad related. No one...
I'm thinking this is somewhere on the Washington line west of Netcong. Dave ... -- Modeling the D.L.& W. Sussex Branch If it weren't fun, I wouldn't do it. ...
Dave, I get Weird NJ and I have never seen that story in there. Someone should contact WeirdNJ and ask them if they every heard of this story. See if they...
CAROL ROSKAM
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Nov 22, 2006 1:38 pm
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It does look a little like Grand Avenue in Hackettstown, but I am not too familiar with it. TM [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
No, it was related to the railroad in the book. Only a short blurb about it. I could see someone being "de-headed" by a train but a canal boat? That would be...
What about the Boonton Line near Mountain Lakes. Tom Dimmick DK Search, Inc. A OneSource Company tom.dksearch@... Strategic Staffing Solutions ...
Tom Dimmick
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Nov 22, 2006 6:56 pm
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... concerning a "ghost head" that traveled up and down the abandoned right of way(old track one I assume) near Waterloo Station? Is this the "hookerman" story...
No, this one has never been "Thrashed". Hookerman was from the Chester Branch or the CNJ Highbridge Branch. It could be people confuse it with the Hookerman...
No, the Hookerman story concerned the spirit of a railroad worker who was killed in an accident in which his hand was severed (hence the replacement hook which...
I'd need to find a photo... Not many rail photographers took the culverts, mostly just engines at nose distance. Dave ... -- Modeling the D.L.& W. Sussex...