Well, I've heard from many of you and not one objects to allowing attachments on this list. Therefore I'm enclosing this image of a post card showing the Ice...
Hi, In Stanhope there is a huge, fenced in abandoned factory. The Sussex Branch ran through the property just before it crossed Rt. 206. Anyone know anything...
Mike, You've found one of those interesting yet mysterious sections of the Sussex Branch. In the 1980s a company known as Dynapac was in or near that...
Maybe this will make things clearer to everyone. This one of the reasons I wanted to allow attachments. It saves me the trouble of putting it temporarily on...
The March 2003 Issue of Railroad Model Craftsman has an article about Kitbashing a Borden's 'Butterdish' milkcar in 'N' scale. Very good news for Sussex...
Links to the LOC don't work very well as they are temporary. Here's one of the photos from the LOC. There are 3 available and they want $40.00 for prints of...
<http://www.sussexbranchmemorial.com/Papers/papers.html> I've placed 5 train orders related to the Sussex Branch at the link above. These were sent to me by...
So reads the headline from the January 22, 1903 issue of the Sussex Register. This article is long and barely mentions the fact that the man built the Sussex...
January 28, 1903 Stanhope Eagle The building contractor of the new station has loaded all his tools and material aboard the cars to be shipped away. The...
I found this while perusing the Stephens collection in the Franklin Library. It took me a while to secure the actual book from the library so I could scan...
Hi Dave, Although Lew O'Dell may have gotten credit for putting that book together, the credit for that particular photo goes to Allan M. Herdman, also of...
I live in Hopatcong, and am wondering where/how/if to get onto the roadbeds for cross country skiing. I did once from Johnson Park, but had to brave some No...
Hal Morris
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Feb 19, 2003 1:29 pm
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<http://www.sussexbranchmemorial.com/Trail_guide/directions.html> Hal, The link above will take you to a page I created with maps and directions for where to...
Thanks to those who've responded. Maybe what I'm thinking of isn't the Sussex Branch. There is a highly built up road bed that passes behind the Lake...
Hal Morris
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Feb 19, 2003 6:09 pm
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Hal, You're probaly thinking of the Lackawanna Cut-off which is now owned by NJ for re-activiation of rail service in the near future?? If it is the Cut-off...
fred heilich
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Feb 19, 2003 8:25 pm
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Hal - I believe you may be speaking of the Lehigh & Hudson River RR (which track
still exists from Franklin NJ north as part of the modern NYSW). The LHR was...
John C Zeman
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Feb 20, 2003 1:55 am
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The picture is from the airport and just across from the farm where there was the nationally famous (notorious) kidnapping of a child who was killed some 40...
Bill Truran
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Feb 20, 2003 3:20 am
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That would be the ex E-L cutoff indeed (Conrail into the early 1980s). It is
scheduled to be an operating passenger line in 2005, and there is a website
for...
John C Zeman
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Feb 20, 2003 4:12 am
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John, He's speaking of the State Owned Lackawanna Cut-Off property which runs from (about) lake Hopatcong to the Water Gap. Dave -- ... -- DL&W Sussex Branch:...
And I believe the photo is also the location of where hikers encounter the 'unfriendlies' I've not hiked there, but others have. Dave -- The picture is from...
Dave Rutan
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Feb 20, 2003 2:20 pm
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Penn-Jersey Rail Coalition: <http://www.pennjerseyrail.org/> Dave -- That would be the ex E-L cutoff indeed (Conrail into the early 1980s). It is scheduled to...
I've recently been asked about what sidings may have still been in use in Newton in 1966. If anyone was there, remembers or has information I do not, I'd...
I've been trying to scour our local library system for history books about the local towns. Today I got a hold of one: Lafayette Township, New Jersey,...
I had a nice visit with John Willever of Washington Twp. (Warren County) yesterday. He was very generous and open with the materials he's collected over the...
Mr. Willever has a collection of photographs which are basically those available from Syracuse University (need to make THAT connection) However he has a few...
Mr. Willever's maps also showed that the two stone quarries betwen Cranberry Lake and Jefferson Lake indeed had sidings and in fact, the one just below...
Looking through Mr. Willever's photos, I came across this photo of the inspection engine 'A' on the turntable (or near it) at Branchville. Those of you...
Should be Rule 90 (b) not just (b) ... -- The First Railroad in Sussex County New Jersey http://SussexBranchMemorial.com Monomania can be a good thing...
I should mention that after going over the same areas on my 1918 Vals that I discovered the siding was still in place by the one quarry and an unconnected...
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