EL Port Morris, NJ Tower

Hardcoaler Apr 12, 2016

  1. Hardcoaler

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    Just read that local opposition in a northwestern IL Chicago suburb has predictably risen against CN's want to add just over 4 Miles of track on the former EJ&E to create a length of double track because business is strong. Good grief. The new track somehow threatens a forest preserve, wetlands and quality of life from the "noise, vibration and annoyance of freight trains". You'd think that a hump yard was being built.
     
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    folks will grasp at straws in an attempt to defeat that which that have no knowledge or understanding. Defeat CHANGE at all costs. They would be better to sit quietly and be thought a fool, than to open their mouths and remove all doubt, which they do on a daily basis. AARGH, with apologies to Charlie Brown.
     
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    A few more shots from 02/1983 at the eastern end of the DL&W's New Jersey Cut-Off at Port Morris, NJ. As seen here, the Cut-Off had been abandoned by CR because the route lacked freight customers. The "old road" through Washington, NJ stayed in operation throughout and remains today hauling commuters and probably local freight as well. As documented here in an earlier post, a short section of the Cut-Off has been reconstructed to add commuter service there.

    Standing on the Cut-Off looking east, there was once a large yard here:
    1983-02 002 Port Morris NJ - for upload.jpg

    Looking west, the "old road" curves to the left. Cut-Off proceeded straight, in front of the tower.
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    Port Morris Jct. tower, a typical DL&W built-for-the-ages reinforced concrete structure. It still stands.
    1983-02 004 Tower Port Morris NJ - for upload.jpg
     
  4. BoxcabE50

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    I am guessing this tower was the office named "Port Morris Junction"?

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  5. Hardcoaler

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    Yes, Port Morris Jct. is correct. That TO is really cool. :) To explain the order, the Lehigh & Hudson River made interchange with the DL&W at Netcong, NJ by operating over DL&W track between the L&HR at Andover Jct. and Netcong on the DL&W's "old road", about 7 miles.
     
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    There are more DL&W to view on my web site... :)
     
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    Port Morris Tower in its prime, from the John W. Barriger III National Railroad Library.

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    In living color:

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  9. Hardcoaler

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    By the way, if anyone wonders how there can be a "Port" Morris in the middle of New Jersey, it was an important location on the Morris Canal, completed in the early 1830s.

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