... Actually, the Sussex Branch trail (I've recently discovered,) is under the auspices of 2 bodies. Cranberry Lake - south is in the Allamuchy State Park,...
Dave, Yesterday I was out on the mountain bike in Allamuchy Mountain State Park (between Cranberry Lake & Waterloo Road). I rode up the mountain toward the old...
Joe, If you mean just south of the lake, there was a quarry there with a siding into the 1900s. This is also where the ice harvesting took place from the...
The DL&W (and the CNJ Edison Branch to Nolan's Point) had numerous sidings for ice harvesting and other biz. Take a guess at what they were and you probably...
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Nov 4, 2004 4:13 pm
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Fall Hike on the Sussex Branch Trail Saturday, November 6th 2004 My Fall hike on the Sussex Branch trail will be in Andover. We will gather in the trail...
This year's Santa train for the Tristate chapter of the NRHS is running on December 11, 2004. This date happens to coincide with the 150th anniversary of the...
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Nov 7, 2004 7:38 pm
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Just want to let you know that the weather turned our pretty good for the hike last Saturday. The Cut-Off tunnel/Culvert has been beautified by the Sussex...
Hi Dave and group, Glad to hear your hike went well. What mile post was missing it's marker? I have a friend that's a welder and we could make up some new...
as Dave knows I work in Sparta w/a birdseye view from my office of the Susqie about 3/4 mi east of Sparta Jct...I notice increased train activity over last few...
Harvey Bass
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Nov 11, 2004 12:06 pm
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I saw this on another list. Rumor has it Sam Sloan was frugal, because he wanted to save the Sussex Branch... Dave -- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004...
This year's Santa train for the Tristate chapter of the NRHS is running on December 11, 2004. This date happens to coincide with the 150th anniversary of the...
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Nov 21, 2004 6:52 pm
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Sam SLoan was TYPICAL of many of the old time railroad men. These guys treated the company's property as if it were their own and ALWAYS did everything they...
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At noon on the cold wintry day of December 11, 1854, the citizens of Newton, New Jersey gathered to witness the coming of the iron horse. The large train-barn...
I've been having some luck on one of my many side projects. Among other things, I've been slowly working on drawings of the Becker's Creamery at Strader's...
On Christmas Eve morning I found an express mail package on my doorstep at 8:00 AM. Inside was my complimentary HO scale Branchville station kit from the...
A benefactor has sent me few new views of the Waterloo area. The first is a nice shot of the Sussex Railroad engine #3, the John I. Blair. The second is a...
To anyone who has the book 'Lackawanna Railroad in Northwest New Jersey'. Over the years I've found a few things which aren't quite right and I've noted them...
Dave - Thanks for that info! I have the book and will be annotating it with your corrections. I think I read on the Erie-Lackawanna mailing list that this book...
Bob, The Tri-State chapter of the NRHS (http://www.Tri-State-Rail-History.org/) has this book slated to be reprinted after Iron Mines of New Jersey....
As you are probably aware, by 1960, just prior to the Erie merger, Waterloo was served by only one train 6 days/week, westbound # 1021 (#1067 on Sat), stopping...
The Boston Flyer was the only regular through train on the Sussex Branch until the building of the Stanhope cut-off. It ran from about 1893-1896. Taber III...
... -- Pg. 153 Mail carrying on the Sussex Branch ended in 1958 ...And just about everywhere else! Wasn't that the dreadfull date when the Post Office...
Dave, I checked out the rock cut just south of Cranberry Lake. The rail bed is indeed there. In fact, with the thin layer of snow on the ground it really stood...
Dave, That is a great picture. I know this area very well and, like Doug, never suspected that there was a siding there. That is near the original horse-drawn...
The whole section between Cranberry Lake is under photographed as far as historic content goes. I'd love to find some photos of the Cascade mine operations,...
Dave, Perhaps the siding used the mule roadbed (since it was there, it would have been cheap to convert to a siding). I know the mule road makes an "S" near...
http://dlw-sussexbranch.com/Modeling/Plans/Netcong/Freight-House/freight.html The link above will take you to the latest addition to my website: drawings of...
Friends, Because of today's big storm out here in the northeast, I'm sending out this article which I'm finally deigning to type in. I'm sending it out in...
... So the engine containing all the train men with their shovels and buckets was cut loose and amid the howling wind and drifting snow, their cheery good-bye...
The conclusion... A party of five started with Mr. Burrell to try and get through to Hamler's. After an absence of nearly three hours they returned drawing Mr....
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