Nostalgia & History > DLW location please

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Original-Slide-DL-W-Lackawanna-Passenger-Train-Scene-1950s-/351501087391?hash=item51d718f29f

On the Boonton Line w/b into Denville NJ  Cantenary is the M&E which joins just ahead and wires extend to Dover. 



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 09/04/15 12:44 by pal77.

pal77 Wrote:
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> On the Boonton Line w/b into Denville NJ 
> Cantenary is the M&E which joins just ahead and
> wires extend to Dover. 

you've got good eyes ... i cant even see the catenary

Ya, what catenary?

In the distance behind the tower and station the M&E runs along the base of the hill.

pal77 Wrote:
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> On the Boonton Line w/b into Denville NJ 
> Cantenary is the M&E which joins just ahead and
> wires extend to Dover. 

+1 on that ID

Here's a more recent view of the tower, which is now an MW base. 

The slide is interesting to me because it was done after the removal of the stub Rockaway branch, which would have crossed the  tracks just past the bridges over NJ highway 53. The original Morris & Essex lines crossed at a right angle the Boonton Line on which this train is heading west. Once the electrification was installed in the 1930s, the electric lines bent westerly and met the Boonton Line, and followed that route into Dover. The original M&E became the Rockaway branch. I believe the stub of track from the "bend" to the wye came out about 1958.  The wye was still in place as of 2014.

Denville and the wye