Bones of the Branch I'll be presenting an updated version of my 'Bones of the Branch' Powerpoint show for the Sussex County Railroad club at their January...
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Jan 1, 2008 2:27 pm
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Hello all, I was told of this group by Al McCormick and had to join immediately! I've been interested in the Erie Lackawanna since I was a teenager, and in...
Hello Rich, Welcome to the group and looking forward to seeing those pictures too. Ken richnysme <martyshouse@...> wrote: Hello all, I was told of this...
Welcome Rich; I remember when the Carlstadt club had live overhead catenary on the O scale layout and a working hump yard on the H-O layout. Waaayy back,?your...
... the O scale layout ... Jeff, The HO railroad is new since the 80's but has a humpyard, the catenary is long gone on the O scale, a blessing as far as I'm ...
Rich Like others, I want to welcome you to the group. I remember the New York Society open house in the Hoboken Terminal. As I recall the society had a TT...
... the ... continue ... Thank you all for welcoming me to the group. I don't recall anyone mentioning that there was a full time TT scale railroad in...
I got some information from the historian at Steamtown. the file I got has to do with issues on the Branchville arm of the Sussex Branch. Of interest here is...
The Lackawanna's Sussex Branch I'll be presenting my 'core' Sussex Branch PowerPoint show at the Prince of Peace Lutheran Church in March. ...
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Feb 1, 2008 3:57 pm
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Perusing the latest dispatch from Steamtown (my tax dollars at work,) I can pretty much boil down all the whiny memos and letters. At Warbasse, where the...
Also, around 1940 there was a problem near Branchville Junction with one of the signal masts tottering as a train would pass. This was remedied by shortening...
Cool stuff about the junctions, Dave. As a matter of point, the smashboard you speak of? that was eventually installed at Warbasse Jct. is now in my...
Dave, Probably easiest to describe a smashboard as a long brightly painted board on a semaphore mast. The idea is that if the train crew fails to stop and...
With regard to the use of smashboards, I was told a year or two ago that the PATH system still uses this technology, if one would want to call it that....
I took a ride on PATH last weekend and sure enough, they still have smash boards on the Hackensack River bridge. More interesting, the PATH line still has...
Kent Loudon
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Feb 20, 2008 1:56 am
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The Lackawanna's Sussex Branch I'll be presenting my 'core' Sussex Branch PowerPoint show at the Prince of Peace Lutheran Church in March. ...
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Mar 1, 2008 4:48 pm
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The date for this show has not yet been set, but it will be in April. Stay tuned....
Hi all, I have lived in the area for a couple of years since retiring and moving from Bloomingdale in Passaic County. I became interested in model trains as a...
Welcome Gene, While I've been a little slow on the research lately, a colleague and I were bumming around the intersection of Rt 517 and Rt 23 last weekend ...
Dave, First I've heard of this Tramway as I have been doing my own research in that area of the Sussex Calcite Company. Can you elaborate further or tell me ...
Welcome aboard Gene! There is lots to learn here. I am George Mason, and a really good friend of mine Dave Rutan started this group to disseminate all...
Barry, Sussex Calcite was over behind the Middle school wasn't it? It crossed Rt 23 between the Wok & Sushi and the Lakeland bank. To my knowledge that was...
Sussex Calcite was related to Samuel T. Munson of where the Munson house is. That was a "regular" rail gage, spurred into the rails going to Sterling Hill Mine...
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