MP 84.6
The L&NE left NYS&W rails at Swartswood Junction. The
NYS&W JU train order office operator controlled movements onto and
off of the L&NE, which - in this view - is the track diverging to the left.
- northward view, October 26, 1961 - William T. Greenberg, Jr.
The JU order board is set at STOP, which
is a permissive stop allowing the train to continue moving at a speed not exceeding 5 miles per hour.
The NYS&W operator uses a loop to hand the L&NE conductor orders
as the train slowly rolls through the turnout onto L&NE tracks.
- northward view, December 21, 1941 - Richard S. Loane
Prior to the onset of war in Europe, when the L&NE had still been in the passenger business, a short armstrong turntable alongside the mainline in the vicinity of Swartswood Junction was used to turn the company's Brill motor cars (L&NE No. 90 or 91) for its run back to Goshen, New York.
A short distance westbound of Swartswood Junction the
NYS&W climbed the hillside (to the right in this view) and the L&NE
went on a high fill. Junction Road crossed over the L&NE and
immediately dropped below the railroad's gradient. -
northeastward view, December 3, 1961 - Howard E. Johnston
At times certain physical features of a railroad draw a
photographer's attention. The hole in the wall north of Swartswood
Junction was one of those inexplicable photographic draws. Although concrete
road arches were common in northwest New Jersey, they were fairly uncommon on
the L&NE's line across the Garden State. This one was over Parsons
Road. - northwestward view, December 3, 1961 - Howard E.
Johnston
L&NE No. 301, pulling the westbound Maybrook, disturbs
the solitude as it thunders through the farmlands north of Swartswood
Junction. - northward view, January 1942 - Richard S. Loane
Back in 1962 if you didn't know that you were in
Baleville, you wouldn't have known that you had been in Baleville. It was
that kind of serene, pastoral, farm community that once dotted the landscape
of Sussex County, New Jersey. - northward view, June 25, 1962
- William T. Greenberg, Jr.
The scrappers who dismantled the L&NE were
affiliated through common ownership with the Wellsville, Addison & Galeton
Railroad Corporation, a 91 mile short-line that ran between New York and
Pennsylvania. In this view, WAG No. 1280 - a General Electric Company
1,000 HP heavy industrial diesel, crosses Myrtle Street in downtown Baleville.
- northwestward view, August 24, 1962 - Howard E. Johnston
MP 89.6 At
Augusta Junction
(click to view track diagram) the L&NE crossed the
DL&W's Sussex Branch under protection of semaphore signals and stop
boards. The two companies had originally
exchanged freight at this location and had jointly erected a station in 1890.
After the interchange business between the two roads dwindled during the
depression years, the station was removed in 1936. The agent-operator was
discontinued shortly thereafter.
In this scene taken from the L&NE, the crossing is straight ahead,
the interchange track to the right, and the facing turnout (diverting to the
right) the connection to the Lackawanna. - northward view, November
12, 1961 - William T. Greenberg, Jr.
The DL&W's Sussex Branch originated in Port
Morris and terminated at Branchville. The semaphores and stop boards (black
rectangle across track in distance) were always set to STOP in all directions. If the train order
operator was not on duty, an approaching train - on either railroad - had
to stop (not less than 200 feet nor more than 800 feet from the signal), a crewman
enter the cabin, set the aspect levers to proceed if no other train was
approaching, make the train move, and then reset the levers back to stop. The
little shack on the right is the Augusta Junction Train Order Office.
- northward view, November 12, 1961 - William T. Greenberg, Jr.
Leaving Augusta Junction
the L&NE immediately crossed over the Paulins Kill on a through plate
girder bridge. - southward view, June 25, 1962 - William T.
Greenberg, Jr.
The fireman aboard L&NE No. 154 pours on the
coal as his westbound freight swiftly closes the distance to Augusta.
- northward view, July 11, 1939 - R. H. Young
Pelletown was another of those small rural communities
the L&NE passed through that had little to distinguish the railroad's passing
other than a grade crossing. It looks like Pelletown also had a concrete
telephone box. - eastward view, June 10, 1962 - William T.
Greenberg, Jr.
MP 98.5 Sussex Junction was north of Patakating Creek,
which the L&NE crossed on another through plate girder. The builder's plate on
this bridge said it had been erected by the American Bridge & Iron Works of
New York City during 1908. The gondola car and locomotive crane sitting
across the bridge are on the branch. -
northward view, June 10, 1962 - William T. Greenberg, Jr.
The
L&NE's Deckertown Extension
(click to view track diagram) left the mainline a
short distance east of the Patakating Creek crossing. The highway overpass is
Route 23. Visible beyond highway bridge are abutment and pier of the NYS&W's
abandoned line into Sussex. - northeastward view, December 3,
1961 - Howard E. Johnston
MP 99.1
The L&NE station was on the southwest side of
Sussex, about a half-mile from the junction with the mainline.
- southwestward view, circa 1961 - photographer unknown
At the turn of the century the town of Sussex had been
known as Deckertown, hence the L&NE's name for the short branch
that terminated at a few small businesses. The Deckertown Extension was
abandoned on November 1, 1961. - northwestward view, March 24,
1962 - William T. Greenberg, Jr.