At the head of this article on pages 78/79 of the Spring issue,there is a photo of the entrance to the Bergan Arches.
Down in the right hand corner of the photo,on page 79,there looks to be an abandoned right of way.
Anyone know anything about it?
It appears in Morning Sun's ,Erie Railroad Trackside by Bob Collins ( if fleetingly) but no mention is made of it,and I don't have a really detailed map of this area.
Thanks
Steve
I have a very old Erie photo album by Kalmbach that features the same photo. It identifies the ROW as an "abandoned roadway of an electric line." That isn't much to go on, but maybe others can expand on it.
When the Arches were built circa 1909 a streetcar line crossed diagonally (?) above it near the east end of the Arches. The streetcar track worked its way sidehill down to the Jersey City flats south of the Erie.
I'm no expert, but leafing thru Hamm's book it seems the line ran to the Erie ferry terminal via 9th/7th St and Pavonia Ave; ended July 1938.
I think some of it was Erie industrial tracks but also the NYC ran on the Erie branch from Weehawken to Journal Sq. to deliver to the PRR, There was a branch name given to the track that lasted into CR days.
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Thanks a lot for the replies- at least I know what it was now.
Thanks again
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