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׉E	Feature Articles
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Departments
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Volunteering,
Most of us are Volunteers in the Society. Even those few
who receive a “Paycheck” for what they do, also Volunteer.
From those who work at the O’Susquehanna Mine to those
who maintain our equipment. I’ve seen the “Teenagers”
who came out years ago to make a few bucks stay on and
continue to help giving up their weekends in the process,
that says a lot.
We each have our own reason for coming out from wanting
to play with that big “Lionel Set” to wanting to learn what it
takes to run, how to fix or just what makes it tick. Some just
like to work on the RofW to keep it open or to help push it
further South.
I hope each of you reading this, takes some time to think
about why you are a Volunteer, who got you started, who
nurtured you. Was it a Friend, a Parent or Grand Parent?
Was it because you had a Family member who worked for
the Railroad? Was it you just wanted to spend time with a
loved one or a Spouse?
If you are like me it was several things and the memory
always make me smile.
Volunteering is what makes us the success we are and I
thank each and every one of you for being “Part of the
Family”.
Good things are happening!
As always there are a ton of things to do and so little time to
do them. Your help will make it happen. Come out and give
an hour or a day, it all helps.
Ongoing work in 2017 & 2018.
Work on the Coaches
Work on the M1.
Brush/tree cutting along the ROW
Work in the Station Area
There are a few new things coming in 2018, but more on
that in a future issue!
As always, my “door” is always open to you, our members.
President
John Stocker
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The Blair Trail
Robert Kopperhaver
President’s Message
John Stocker
Maintenance of Way
Don Chaudruc
10 Bel-Del News in pictures
12 Maywood Station Historical
Committee
Ed Kaminski
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From The Current Time Table
Ralph Bonanno
Shop Talk
Martin Den Bleyker
Covers
Front: NYSW #3014 on the SU-99 in Maywood NJ
taken on October 28, 2012
Photo: Ed Kaminski
Rear Top: Delaware River Railroad Excursions in
Carpentersville, New Jersey September of 2017.
Photo: Photo: Chris Cotty
Rear Bottom: : NYSW Symbol #550 is seen heading
east at Shahola, Pennsylvania in October of 1995 with
NYSW 3614, Delaware Lackawanna 4740, and NYSW
3612 leading. Joe Geronimo
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iThe N.Y.S.& W. Blairstown station circa 1900– 1910
This article was originally published in the Skylands Visitor
Magazine. I would like to thank both the author, Robert
Kopperhaver and Tom Drake of Skylands visitor magazine for
graciously allowing us to use the article.
Considering how important John Blair was to the history of
Northern New Jersey and our new York Susquehanna & Western
I thought you would enjoy this.
I
n 1839, the Warren County village known as Gravel Hill
renamed itself in honor of its most celebrated citizen, 37year-old
John Insley Blair. In 2014, Blairstown's 175th
anniversary celebration of that event brought to mind not only
the man's profound influence on the development of transportation
and industry in America, but also suggests a virtual trail of
his life through the places where he learned to make his way.
Blair's life, which spanned the entire nineteenth century—more
than 40% of America's history—reflects the country's
development over those hundred years from a segmented rural
society, to a cohesive industrial nation designed in no small part
by the railroad and financial networks that he facilitated. Despite
his accomplishment as one of the world's wealthiest men, Blair,
known to townsfolk as "plain John I.", sustained a simple,
unembellished lifestyle in his beloved village. The area's extraordinary
heritage is in large part due to the fact that his ambition,
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and his ideas that flourished throughout America originated
here in the New Jersey frontier.
Perhaps someday John I. Blair's birthplace will be marked for
all to see, but for now its exact location is uncertain. In 1802,
he was born in a log cabin near "the big spring", Shippen's
spring, located on Foul Rift Road near the railroad culvert two
miles south of Belvidere. It was here that his father oversaw
shipping of iron products downriver from the Oxford
Furnace's company wharf.
When John was two, the Blairs moved to a farm near Hope.
Along the way, much of their route probably followed that of
today's County Route 519. They may have passed by a tiny
house, now the White Township Historical Museum at
Bridgeville, that two centuries later would hold memorabilia
relating to their son's accomplishments. And continuing in
their wagon a short distance farther, how awed his parents
would have been to imagine that half a century later a huge
steam-powered Warren Railroad "iron horse" would cross this
road, due mainly to the entrepreneurial genius of their son.
Young Blair spent his boyhood on the Beaver Brook farm
along present day CR-519, two miles south of the village of
Hope, near Swayze's Mill Road. Although he received only a
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Blairstown in keeping with the prominence of its namesake. The Flat Iron building, seen on the right of the photo, was enlarged from
a smaller rear section owned by John Blair to serve as the Post Office in 1889. A large, chiseled-out boulder that ran along the street
side was filled with water to refresh stage coach horse teams.
rudimentary education, attending classes in Hope when farm
demands allowed, the boy trapped muskrats and rabbits that
he sold on the family's supply trips to Easton. Many years
later he shared in a rare interview
that never in his life did he
ever feel so wealthy as he did
when he made his first money
selling sixteen pelts for a dollar.
About 1813, at the age of
eleven, young Blair declared his
education complete as he began
his first career in the mercantile
business, working as a clerk in
the store of his cousin, Judge
Blair, in Hope. The stone
building, still in use today,
stands at the northwest corner
of High and Walnut Streets. He
worked there for about seven
years, except for a short time
when he went back to the farm
to help out upon the death of his father. The building in which
he probably attended school remains on the east side of CR
519, south of the blinking light.
The Beaver Brook farmhouse, boyhood home of John I. Blair, on the road from Hope to Bridgeville.
Photo, 1896.
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and Walnut Streets, still in use today.
Late in his teens, about 1820, John I. Blair moved to the
small hamlet of Butts' Bridge, soon to be called Gravel Hill,
which at the time contained only
four houses and a mill. There he
went into partnership as a
storekeeper, two years later
owning the store outright, a
business he would foster for forty
years. At age 23, Blair became the
postmaster of the local office and,
at age 26, he married Anne Locke
with whom he established a homestead
at Gravel Hill. As his
mercantile business grew, Blair set
up family members in other stores
in Paulina, Marksboro, Huntsville,
and Johnsonburg, thereby creating
a chain of Blair-operated
establishments. He became a
wholesale distributor, purchasing
local farm produce and carting it
by several horse-and-wagon teams
to eastern New Jersey and New
York. The return trips brought
back fresh goods to be sold to
other local merchants, as well as
for his own stores.
In 1830, at 28 years of age, Blair
and brother James had accumulated
enough capital to open a
National Bank in Belvidere, which
handled many of the Blair family's
transactions in land companies, mining interests, and railroad
construction. John I. retained leadership of the bank, noted
In 1860, Blair constructed a brick store at 9 Clinton Street in Delaware. The post office has
occupied the building since 1884 without interruption, making it the oldest in New Jersey still
operating in its original building
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line depot until passenger service was halted in 1938. The 2 1/2 story wood frame combination freight and passenger station had a
raised platform around the freight portion and a track level passenger platform. In 1958 the NYS&W retired the freight station, and
it eventually burned down in 1973.
for its stability and solidity, until the end of his life. Although
the building is now gone, its site is covered, ironically, by the
drive-through lanes for the PNC bank on Mansfield and Front
Streets. And a block away on Hardwick Street is another
reminder of John I.'s family wealth, the mansion of his son,
DeWitt Clinton Blair, which later housed for many years the
Warren County Library.
Later, John I. became interested in flour and cotton production,
eventually operating four flouring mills at one time. One cotton
mill was located along the Paulins Kill downstream from
Marksboro. His business acumen unmatched, Blair once purchased,
at a greatly reduced price, a large batch of cotton that
had seemingly spoiled. After culling out the small amount that
was ruined, he processed the rest, turning a profit of $15,000, a
bonanza in his day. Other transactions brought various
amounts of real estate into his hands, and his cumulative local
landholdings became substantial. Mr. Blair began to follow
other entrepreneurial pursuits that would ensure him a fabled
legacy as railroad mogul and land developer.
During the 1840s and 50s, Blair joined the Scranton brothers at
Slocum Hollow, PA, (the future site of Scranton) in the
Lackawanna Coal & Iron Company, one of the earliest suppli6
ers
of steel rails to railroad companies. To reach the
lucrative eastern markets for their coal and iron products,
by the early 1850s the new company had built a rail line of
its own— the Delaware, Lackawanna, & Western— as far
south as the Delaware Water Gap, but still needed to
connect to one of the existing New Jersey railroads in order
to reach their intended markets. Blair moved quickly,
forming the Warren Railroad Company, of which he was
the major stockholder and president, then taking charge to
establish its financing, right-of-ways, and construction. By
1857, the Warren Railroad had been completed and leased
to the DL&W, linking it with the Jersey Central at Hampton.
As
the railway came north through Washington and Oxford,
then turned west along its final stretch, the tracks found
their way roughly parallel and north of what is now State
Route 46, across the Beaver Brook, then through the 900
foot-long Manunka Chunk Tunnels. A junction and station
were erected at the tunnel's exit, and the WRR continued
along the ridge (above the current highway) towards its
junction with the DL&W.
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Just before the Warren Railroad made its Delaware River
crossing into Pennsylvania, Blair built one more station,
this time conceiving an entire town that would originate and
mature in tandem with the commerce his railroad would
bring. In anticipation, he purchased tracts of farmland that
he would subdivide and resell as lots arranged between the
hillside and the river. The site sprouted quickly into the
village of Delaware Station, (later Delaware) with a hotel
and general store, creamery, wood-working factories and a
wagon manufacturer. Scant evidence of the village's
railroad years remains in the sunken pit of a turntable, an
occasional visible bit of railroad tie, well-worn bridge
abutments, and the intermittently discernible rail bed
through the village, following a bit of road out of town
known as Old Route 46. But, although the station and hotel
are gone, today's Delaware Historic District, listed on the
National Register of Historic Places in 2003, consists
largely of buildings erected in that era, mostly unaltered
and retaining the flavor of that time.
In 1859, at age 57, when most men of his day had reached
the end of their productive lives, Blair retired from his
mercantile business of forty years to focus on building
railroads and developing towns along their routes, applying
his New Jersey prototype to America's Midwest. With no
interest in operating completed railroads, he constructed rail
lines that were then leased or sold to other companies. Blair
became the major shareholder in more than a dozen railroad
companies, and ultimately acquired nearly two million
acres from the government for railroad and land development.
Under his directorship in six different land
companies, over eighty towns were laid out, many named
after family and associates, as he often assisted newly
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organized church congregations within those towns with
donations of land and finances. In one interview he proudly
proclaimed that he built every railroad for cash, never entered
into railroad schemes on mere speculation, and never had to
sell stock to finance his projects.
ven at age 75, Blair continued to involve himself in railroad
development when he constructed the Blairstown Railway in
his own backyard. By 1877 the railway began moving freight
and passengers from its Blairstown station past a stop at
Kalarama, the depots at Vail and Hainesburg—site of the
Lackawanna Railroad's massive poured concrete viaduct—past
the former hamlet of Warrington and Columbia Junction to its
terminus at Delaware Station. There, freight and riders could
transfer to DL&W trains heading eastward into New York or to
destinations westward. Perhaps to facilitate his personal or family's
trips to the outside world, the project was more likely
another speculative venture. Sure enough, in the early 1880s,
the Blairstown Railway was sold to the New York,
Susquehanna & Western Railroad, becoming part of that
company's main line as it extended westerly to the
Pennsylvania coal fields and eastward toward Newton and
beyond.
The name most commonly associated with the Blairstown
Railway is "the Dinkey", the line's short train usually made up
of a small steam locomotive pulling one or two cars. After
serving for nearly half a century, the train was replaced in 1924
with a single motor car powered by a gasoline engine which
served until 1928, when service was discontinued. Today, the
rails are gone and most of the old right-of-way has become the
Paulinskill Valley Trail along which the railway's bucolic
views may still be enjoyed as well as the awesome Hainesburg,
or Paulinskill, viaduct. Access to the rail trail is provided at
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Footbridge Park in Blairstown and at various road crossings
from Blairstown to near Columbia. From there to Delaware
village, the old Dinkey tracks are covered by Route 46.
n 1887, at the age of 85, disenchanted with the construction
scheme of the Northwestern Railroad, John Blair cashed in
his stock for $2,000,000. To save the exchange rate between
Chicago and New York, he carried the cash in two satchels to
New York where he personally deposited the money. Yet the
great entrepreneur's frugality was matched by his public
benevolence. Perhaps spurred by a desire to afford others
more than his own meager education as a youth, Blair, at age
46, with other town leaders, fostered the formation of a
private school, the Blair Presbyterial Academy in 1848. A
sturdy stone schoolhouse was constructed on a knoll at the
western edge of the hamlet where classes met until about
1854 and in later years was used as the Music Hall. Often
referred to as "the Old Academy", the rugged structure still
stands adjacent to the cemetery, which holds the grave of the
Academy's greatest benefactor, John I. Blair, as marked by a
tall monument.
In 1851, Blair donated funds for the construction of a dormitory
dubbed "Blair Hall", for which the entire campus was
ultimately named. When this building burned down in 1867,
Blair proposed to the resident farmers that he would foot the
bill for construction of a new building if they would assist in
transporting local stone for the structure. As construction
began they were surprised at the scope and size of the new
"Insley Hall", named in honor of Blair's wife's family. Three
stories tall, plus attic and basement, it set the pattern for the
Academy's magnificent architecture, as it expanded through
modern times, supported largely by Blair and his family.
Over the years, Blair also provided financial support for
Princeton University and Lafayette College.
In 1896, Blair presented a new electric plant to the Academy
and also provided sixty-seven incandescent lamps "to light
the town". His water works, built first to provide his home
with water, were extended next to the Academy and finally to
portions of Blairstown.
Very late in his life, at the age of 88, John I., son, DeWitt
Clinton, and grandson, C. Ledyard, extended the family's
financial houses by founding the prestigious New York City
banking firm of Blair & Company primarily to manage the
Gould family's railroad interests. John I. also held mortgage
bonds of dozens of companies and the controlling ownership
of various large corporations. Near the end of his life, when
asked why he did not live the same splendidly luxurious life
as his son did, he replied in humor, "Well, I'll tell you. I
haven't got a rich father as he does." And upon John I.'s
death, one newspaper stated that he had died because "he was
simply worn out".
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By Don Chaudruc
This article is proof that this Society continues to thrive, moving
forward and expanding year after year. In spring of 2017
I went to my fellow board members and asked for the approval
of funding for some maintenance of way equipment; this
included a Fairmount tie inserter and a RTW tie crane. On
the Bel-Del we have had a group of Society volunteers that
have continued to take care of the maintenance of way year
after year. A few years back this consisted mostly of brush
cutting, weed spraying, and general clean-up of the line. Last
year the Society entered into a fundraiser in Milford, NJ
which I guess you could say led into our forming of a track
department. After watching and learning from our track contractor
last year a group of our society volunteers including,
but not limited to, Rob Fink, Peter Lally, Chris Spiwak, Mike
McCann, Don Kinney, Jeff Modica and Dylan Vieytes made
Our newly acquired tie inserter at work just North of Milford.
into the ownership of a steam locomotive and a complete
train set that operates weekly through most of the year. We
will be adding a shop facility by the end of the year and now
Society members can be proud of the fact that we now have a
respectable track department.
Our freshly painted tie crane at work North of Milford.
The brush cutter hard at work.
the choice to move forward with an attempt to form the Societies
own real track department. So, in April of 2017 the
Board of Directors did approve the purchase of the tie crane
and tie inserter, they were moved to the Kinney family farm
next to the railroad right of way. The above listed crew spent
weeks giving the machines a basic go over, making some
wiring upgrades, servicing the engines, replacing hydraulic
hoses and repairs as needed. They both received a new paint
job in late August and were put to work right away. Between
the last week in August and
the end of September Society
volunteers were responsible
for the installation of just
over 500 ties on the railroad
in multiple locations. (with
the assistance and training of
two members from Tri-State
Track.) I personally feel this
is another milestone in the
future of the Society. The
Society has grown over the
years in such a positive manner
and this just continues to
compliment that. On the
operating end of the Society
it started with a brokendown
M-1 being returned to
service. Now it has grown
Pete Lally spiking away.
Rob Fink hard at work rebuilding our tie inserter.
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around the railroad is with pictures!
Here are some pictures of the work.
Left to right, top to bottom:
1.The corn Maze for 2017! 2. Over the Winter
the 531 received a brand new carpet! 3. You never
know what the day will bring. One morning
this huge tree fell in front of us! 4. Dino Days
returned to the railroad this August! 6. A leaky
flue being removed from the smokebox of #142
7. After many years of mud we finally got a nicely
paved platform! 8. Painting the front of #162
South main Phillipsburg our newly owned offices,
neing poainted. 9. Our newest piece of
maintenance of way equipment, a tie inserter. 10.
Millie at the annual Milford Days Event. 11. Les,
Chris, Bob and Pete on duty at Milford Alive.
12. Our new gift shop at the mine, built by Dylan
Vieytes 13. Greg Ruch working on the front end
of #142 14. Keegan Forke inside of the firebox
of #142 working on stay bolt replacement.
15. Don Gardner busy in the shop. 16. In order
to handle the very large crows we get in the fall ,
we built an addition to our platform at the mine,
140 long and 12 feet wide. 17 crows of people
gather to board the Easter Bunny train.
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and records covering the history of the New York, Susquehanna
& Western Railroad.
UPCOMING EVENTS
By Ed Kaminski
The Maywood Station
Museum is operated
and staffed by the
volunteer membership
of the Maywood
Station Historical
Committee. The main
focus of the museum
is concentrated on the
history of Maywood
Station and the New
York, Susquehanna
& Western Railroad
and the roles they
played in the development
of the Borough
of Maywood and the
surrounding area. The
museum collection
There will be an open house at the station on Sunday
November 5 from noon to 3pm and Santa visits the station on
Saturday Dec. 16 from 10am to noon.
New York, Susquehanna & Western Alco S-2 #206 and Caboose
#24542 after the blizzard at the Maywood Station Museum
on March 14, 2017. Photo by Ed Kaminski.
Leased CSX GP38-2 #2732 at the Maywood Station Museum.
Photo by Ed Kaminski.
The Maywood Station Museum hosted an "Out of House,
House Concert" with House of Hamill, 4/1/2017. at5 Brix City
Brewing in Little Ferry, NJ.
Photo by Ed Kaminski.
contains hundreds of photographs, displays, documents, maps
and artifacts covering the histories of Maywood Station, the
NYS&W and local railroads, the Borough of Maywood, and
the local region, which are changed periodically and designed
to entertain and educate visitors of all ages as well as offer a
virtual timeline to these subjects. Maywood Station is listed on
the National Register of Historical Places and the State of New
Jersey Register of Historical Places. In addition, the Maywood
Station Museum is listed as a Historical Archive by the State of
New Jersey. Maywood Station Museum is also the official
site of the New York, Susquehanna & Western Technical &
Historical Society's archive, which contains 1000's of
NYSW #3014 passing Maywood Station.
Photo by Ed Kaminski.
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are radio alarm type, and broadcast over the road channel in
use, AAR 025, 162.485 MHz.
Over the course of the summer, owing to track work on
the Middletown & New Jersey’s Hudson Secondary between
Warwick and Campbell Hall, NY, NYSW road train SU 100
detoured via NJ Transit between CP Hudson Jct (Where they
normally turn onto the Hudson Secondary to Warwick) and
Passaic Jct (BT on NJ Transit) on July 20. The train picked
up pilots at Campbell Hall, and then traversed the line east
under the cover of darkness, arriving at home rails between
530 and 6 AM on the morning of the 20th. Power was 4
SD60’s. there were rumors that the 99 might also operate the
same way, but they did not pan out as the trackwork was
completed in time and the train went west via its normal routing.
I
was going to attempt to explain the current
OK Folks, it’s that time again; time to try and
summarize the goings on at our favorite railroad. It’s been a
while since the last column, so relax and read while I attempt
to summarize some of what’s been happening in recent
months. There’s a fair amount of news this time around, so
let’s get going……
OPERATIONS
Plenty of news this time around, so let’s see where to
begin. There has been plenty of activity in the capital
improvements department this year. There have been a
multitude of grade crossing upgrades on the Southern
Division (and some on the Northern Division, too), as well as
the installation in several areas of welded rail, ties, and
ballast. On the Southern Division, welded rail was laid out
and installed on the North Bergen Industrial track east of the
CSX Intermodal yard in Little Ferry. Previously, welded rail
was installed only as far east as the 83rd
the way to the end of track at the Marion interchange in
Jersey City, MP 3.70. RJ Corman was the contractor who
did the actual installation. The original stick rail was then
removed, and placed into waiting gondolas for final disposition.
Also, several other stretches of mainline track had
welded rail installed/replaced. This included some spots in
Paterson, West Oakland NJ, as well as a few curves between
Sparta Jct and Warwick, NY.
This year also saw the reopening of the Utica line in its
entirety, plus the installation of new ties in many locations.
Several light engine moves between Utica and Binghamton
were made, as well as a tie train to drop new ties along the
line in several locations. As most know, there were several
washouts along the line south of Sherburne and north of
Greene. The county and state paid for the rehabilitation, with
the intent of long term development of new industry in
several locations along the line.
On the Southern Division, several new defect detectors
were installed and made operational earlier this year. These
are located on the main line at Maywood (MP 15), Franklin
Lakes (MP 29), Smith Mills (MP 39), Stockholm/Hardyston
(MP 51), Sparta (MP 62) and Warwick, NY (MP 83). So
now, those who follow the railroad by radio can follow the
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assignments on the Southern Division, but as they are in a
constant state of refinement and change, it would be outdated
by the time you are reading this. One interesting note in this
regard, is that there is (at press time) a 5 AM job at
Ridgefield Park symbolled WS-0 (as in zero). It’s believed
this is the result of an inside joke by someone. And speaking
of inside jokes, as I mentioned above, the NYS&W detoured
via NJ Transit in July. During this period, with the 100/99
crew in the hotel, there was still the need to move freight. So,
an extra was run between Ridgefield Park/Bogota and
Warwick NY and return with hot cars to drop and pick up at
Sparta as well as interchange with the M&NJ in Warwick.
The road crew was called from the hotel and made this
“Warwick turn” with the normal road train power. However,
owing to a prankster on the railroad (and you know who you
are), they got “creative”, and the train operated as an extra
(unscheduled) road train, using the symbol SU-X. Yep, you
read that right; SU-X. After the round trip was completed,
the road crew went back into the hotel, took rest, and then
eventually went home on the SU 99 as normally done.
As for traffic in general, the SU 100 and 99 still
street crossing in
North Bergen.
This year saw welded rail installed east of 83rd street, all
interchange with the M&NJ, but no longer in Warwick by
Jones Chemical as had been done in the past. Instead, a new
runaround siding track was installed near Hudson Jct, just
below the connection to the Hudson Secondary at CP Hudson
Jct. Its located adjacent to the Sarah Wells Trail road crossing
and is approx. 3000’ in length and has been in use for some
time.
Speaking of the M&NJ, and this ties into the NYS&W, a
new propane transload facility has been opened up near
Montgomery NY on the M&NJ line north of Campbell Hall,
towards Walden, NY. They have two tracks and are now
receiving cars on a daily basis. Some of this new traffic
comes in via the NS from Croxton, whose train H70 drops in
Campbell hall. Other traffic is handled by the NYS&W, and
in order to have cars in position for the opening day of the
facility in September of this year, the NYSW ran an SU 100
east on Labor Day evening, an exception to the normal
holiday train annulment. The move and delivery of the cars
was made without incident. This should provide some additional
traffic for the NYSW over the long term, even though
some cars come via NS.
As for the road trains themselves, they are running as
usual on their well established schedule of Sun-Tues-Thurs
for the SU-100 and Mon-Wed-Fri for the SU-99. The
departure time for the 99 from Bogota NJ is contingent on
when the inbound SU-100 crew goes off duty. Most times
they are back on duty at about 4 PM, but owing to a variety
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of circumstances, this may not always be the case. The crew is
entitled to 10 hours undisturbed rest before going back on
duty to go home. As noted, times shown are for information
only and do not constitute a guarantee of service. The
departure time for the SU 100 is usually anytime after 6 pm
from Binghamton, but again, as with the SU-99, times tend to
vary on occasion.
As for local operations on the Southern Division, they
are busy as always, and though while the actual car loadings
handled over the summer haven’t broken records, the railroad
HAS in fact maintained respectable traffic levels over all,
considering some of the significant operational changes this
summer at interchange partner CSX, under the direction of
new CEO Hunter Harrison. As in the past, there are usually
two morning jobs, and the rest of the crews are usually
“second trick” assignments, that is they go on duty mid to late
afternoon. The Sparta crew, the SJ-1, still goes on duty in the
late afternoon, and occasionally comes east over the mountain
to pick up (or drop) cars or grab ballast cars from the Tilcon
quarry in Pompton Lakes, NJ. There is still the afternoon crew
that goes east of Ridgefield Park to North Bergen and Jersey
City; The local that goes west to Butler and return, one yard
job that handles the intermodal switching at the CSX yard in
Little Ferry, plus another local crew that pretty much goes
only as far west as Passaic Jct.
As for the Northern Division, there is the steady Utica
crew, the UT-1. There is also the CL-1 and 2 both based out
of Cortland NY on the Syracuse side, as well as the normal
BH assignments out of Binghamton, whose start times escape
me. (If anyone can fill me in on these Northern Division
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assignments and start times, please email me at:
blet601@gmail.com and I’ll ensure they get added to the next
column).
As usual, this summer saw the annual movement of the
James Strates carnival train over the Southern Tier from Middletown
NY to Buffalo via NJT and the CNYK (Southern Tier
to Binghamton) and the NS to Buffalo. This year’s train operated
west on Aug 2nd in mid-afternoon. The train operated with
light power to assemble the train, as NS H-08 from Croxton,
then to Port Jervis NY where it was handed off to the NYSW
BH-2 crew to take to Binghamton. Power was a pair of NS
GE’s, 8392 (ex Conrail unit) and 9440. The train was followed
by quite the contingent of fans west of Port Jervis along the
Delaware, some going all the way to Binghamton.
MOTIVE POWER SUMMARY
There has been some activity to report in this area as well,
though probably not as significant as it has been in the past.
The SD60’s are earning their keep on the SU 100/99 trains as
well as work trains and local assignments on the Northern
Division. The Utica job has, as been the case for some time, the
lone GP40 on the roster, the 3040. This has been supplemented
by power already leased/assigned to the NYSW, but usually
when the 3040 is due for its 92-day inspection or if there is
some other mechanical issue. The SD33 ECO units are still
around, though at press time the 3016 was sidelined for a
mechanical issue, with the 3012 working out of Ridgefield
Park, NJ, most (but not all) times on the crew that goes east to
North Bergen and Jersey City. The 3018 and 3022 have been
pretty much captive on the Northern Division, being assigned
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at either Binghamton or Cortland.
Other power on the property includes the normal
contingent of power: CSX units 2700, 2732, and 2782; plus
the NS 5291, 5294, and the 5146 (the high hood GP38-2).
These units are rotated between divisions as needs require
and generally only leave the property when they are due for
their respective 92-day inspections.
Earlier this summer, CSX found it short of a 4-axle
locomotive when their normally assigned one went north for
its usual inspection and reassignment. CSX requires a 4-axle
unit to serve the ex- Erie-E-L-Conrail Northern Branch
industrial with its Mon-Fri local, C777. However, Selkirk
didn’t send a replacement unit, so CSX simply “borrowed”
the CSX 2782, which had just returned from inspection and
was awaiting delivery to the NYSW. In return, CSX “lent”
the NYSW SD40-3 4072, a “spongebob square cab” SD40
rebuild with a new, redesigned cab. This went on for a
couple of weeks, with the 4072 even making a few round
trips on the SU-99/100 trains to and from Binghamton and
Syracuse. Something a little different, to be sure.
IN CLOSING
As you know, it’s been a while since this column last
appeared, so forgive me if I omitted anything. I try to keep a
running list of items to report on for the following column,
but sometimes things escape me, and I’m sure some things
have escaped me here as well. That said, as I always note,
this column, the REFLECTOR, and the THS as a whole are
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Bottom left :Westbound SU 99 passing the L&HR station,
Warwick NY July 2017
Bottom right: A rare Daylight SU 99 westbound at Campbell
Hall, NY July 2017
only as good as its members. So, we cannot do it without you.
Whether its contributing to this publication, submitting images
for the following year’s calendar, volunteering in any of the
numerous capacities of the THS, we need you! Plain and simple.
No you, no us. There are plenty of ways to contribute to
the success of the society. You can find the society on the
web, attend a meeting and ask an officer about getting involved,
or email me with any news items of interest. My email
address is: blet601@gmail.com. Any emails will be acknowledged
and replied as best as my schedule allows. Until next
time…….
Photographs on next page..
All photographs by the author.
Top left :A rare Daylight SU 99 westbound at Campbell Hall,
NY July 2017
Top right : Westbound SU 99 led by SD40 3018 at Excelsior
Mills June 2017
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facility than that and brings me to our new “luxury” engine
house.
This is not a new concept for us. We have already
constructed such a building, only to have its location become
a detriment and we sold it. While the dimensions will not be
quite the same, our new structure will be rather similar in
that it can house four coaches on two interior tracks with
room for shop functions and storage. The idea of it being
“luxury” comes in having electricity without listening to a
generator, water without trucking it in, sewerage without a
porta-privy (or the nearest bush) and heat without someone
stoking a wood stove.
Where it will be better than the old building will
be a concrete floor and a pit and both of these are vital to the
heavy inspection that will be required when 142 is retired for
We entered 2017 as a year of great expectation but, as
is the custom, accomplishment didn’t keep up to the
expectation, at least, not in how long it took, trying the patience
of all involved.
Winter was quite mild and the regular maintenance on
142 went smoothly enough, until one of the arch tubes was
found to be leaking during the annual inspection. The problem
here is that we wanted to hold off a replacement of this nature
until the next annual inspection. The arch tube was replaced
and the engine spent one entire weekend in service before a
second arch tube leaked and had to be likewise replaced.
In September, the engine reached the end of cycle
known as a fifteen-year or a 1,472 (operating day) inspection.
This was, of course, a major inconvenience of a date as our
operating season extended until October 29th, and a waiver had
to be requested from the F.R.A. to postpone the inspection
date.
This all focuses on the major priority of the Society
for 2017. Up until now, maintenance work on 142 has been in
what I’ve described as an overgrown tent – a canvas covered
Quonset hut, about one foot longer than the engine and its tenDylan
Vieytes working on the societies office in downtown
Phillipsburg.
Keith Cadigan and CMO Matthews discuss work on steam locomotive #142 in our
current “tent” shop..
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2017. Obviously, this will facilitate
all the other work that gets put off
far too often. For example, while
plans are not finalized for the layout,
one coach bay would be more
or less dedicated to a paint shop.
Painting is not practical in winter
and the coaches get used all summer;
a tough combination even
without considering the dust flying
all about the old location.
Once it was decided where the new
shop would go, it was a matter of
obtaining the property, which was
to be donated to us. The problem
arose in the owner having to
get approval for a new site plan to
include sub-dividing the property
for us and that was delayed to
the point of severe angst, to say the
least. In a classic case of worth-the
-wait, its location is so convenient,
it brings radical change to the
operational routine on the railroad.
On another real estate front, two
major events, Thomas and Polar,
are heavy merchandising situations,
as well as requiring a great
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an additional coach stair plus a bi-level entry or, a car and
a half extension to one side. Further improvements will be
forthcoming to upgrade and extend the station and our engineers
can breathe a little easier making that critical stop.
Finally, this was the year we expected to arrive in
Riegelsville, our goal for the regular trips since we began operations
in 2004. Early in the year, we removed the tree root
problem that stopped the active track at mile 42.67 and the
track needs minimal work to be put in service down to 42.3 at
the crossing. Our schedule, however, only accounts for mile
43 and that’s where the trains stop. Riegelsville station is between
the next crossing at 41.9 and mile 42. Because the station
is up against a cliff, the runaround was north of the station
between the 42 milepost and the crossing at 42.3.
So there are three elements involved. First, we want
Our new platform at Lehigh Junction, freshly paved .
deal of decoration and other accessories that, when unused,
need storage. For years we have been renting a storefront on
South Main Street in order to use the garage attached to the
property as our warehouse. As there was concern about losing
the facility, a move was made to acquire the property to insure
its retention and to provide lodging, replacing two rents we
pay with a mortgage. There is also the potential to rent out a
store front for further income.
The station was not without improvement. On August
16th, the platform was finally paved. This eliminated large
puddles and erosion from the hill, rocks and uneven footing
and allows a permanent safety strip to be painted. Electric conduit
was laid in the ground for power and lighting before the
paving. In the future, we hope to raise the platform to eight
inches over the rail to eliminate the use of step boxes but, this
is an intermediate step we can well live with for some time.
At Snyders station, formally Mine station, we had
only two boxes a coach –length apart so that both ends of one
car could be opened. Engineers had only about a four-foot
margin to accurately stop the train. This became a real detriment
in the busiest month of October when the station is used,
well over the original intended capacity, for the mine and corn
to get over the crossing at 42.3 and place a station in the area
of the north end of the runaround to unload for the winery, just
above us there. Second, is to create the runaround, so that the
engine leads the train north and not pushes it, which delays it.
Third, is to get into the station proper so we can unload people
there who wish to walk across the bridge to the Riegelsville in
PA and enjoy the restaurant in the inn there. Ultimately, we
want to reconstruct the station building that burned down in
1969.
So, 2017 will see a great deal of improvement by
year’s end and bring us that much closer to our goals. With
increased activity and ridership, the “Help Wanted” sign is
always out. We are in need of many different skills that can
also be learned along the way. With the advent of a new shop
and lots of room to work, many different projects can proceed
simultaneously. Contact Mechanical@nyswths.org for information
on how to help.
The new platform at “Snyder” station . Serving the Mine and
Corn Maze.
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CMO Gary Matthews busy doing prep work to replace stay
bolts on locomotive #142.
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