Pdxrailtransit Wrote:
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> Pdxrailtransit Wrote:
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> > George Andrews Wrote:
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> > > Delaware, Lackawanna & Western built the
> > > Blairstown Cutoff, sometimes called the New
> > Jersey
> > > Cutoff, between Port Morris N.J., and
> Slateford
> > > Jct. PA., on the Delaware River. This line
> > avoided
> > > 17 miles and a helper district on " The Old
> Main
> > "
> > > via Washington, N.J. DL & W also built the
> > > Nicholson Cutoff between Clarks Summit &
> > > Hallstead, PA., across the hills North of
> > > Scranton.
> > > How about The Marceline Cutoff ??? Name the
> > > railroad, location, and years of operation.
> >
> > Doesn't the Marcelline cutoff have something to
> do
> > with Santa Fe's crossing of the Missouri R. ?
>
> Oh geez! Way off:
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Oh wow, that would have gone right through where my in-law's house was later built (by the red line marked "P.E."). Since that area is a bit hilly and I never saw any evidence of grading around there (the PE ran down the middle of Oak Knoll), I rather doubt the line was actually built. My in-law's house was built in the 1950s, but many houses around there are much older.