Lackawanna Cut-Off - Part 21A: The "Missing" 21 Miles - Andover to Greendell 

Thank you. I appreciate hearing that. I really wasn't sure how to handle the sequence--leave it in, or edit it. The creation of the closed captioning was a bit challenging since their part of the dialogue wasn't detected. I always tweak the CC anyway, because the RU-vid generated version is always terrible.

Jason is a regular out there as Larissa got to talk to him while waiting for me to arrive in a future segment.

I imagine it was a much quicker trip, lol.

Yes, of course. The line was all double track. And about 20% of it was three tracks wide. At both ends it was four tracks wide.

That was Wolf's Corner Road.

Check out Part 4 (Pequest Fill) where we are at ground level with the schoolhouse. I'll look into the harness, although then turning will be a problem.

Well, the Sussex Branch itself had replaced the mine railroad long before the Cut-Off. So, the ROW of the Sussex Branch is the only one that goes under the Cut-Off there.

Long story...it loosened my rear wheel, which came off while I was riding around my neighborhood. Ouch!

I'm OK without it. Once I'm done with the mini-series (Part 21) I won't need it. Besides, the work-out is good. It's only frustrating when I run into the sections that are not negotiable on two wheels.

John Hollister, you can get in the ROW easily from Roseville Road, which parallels the Cut-Off at the station site. That’s at the top of the first hill on Roseville Road coming in from Route 206.

Yes, the loose ballast. A mountain bike would be ideal. I once took a racing bike up there (my present bike is a hybrid) and it was awful. Years of dirt bikers and ATVers, I'm afraid.

Thank you. I expect that there will be those kind of spots. Just east of the Paulinskill Viaduct--and the bridge itself--is not good either

There are two schools of thought on the use of the Jordan Spreader in Feb 1983, neither of which makes a whole lot of sense. The first school of thought is that they were keeping the line open as a bypass route in case of snow closing down the Lehigh Valley, for example. I find that very unlikely, given that spike removal had already been done, making it risky to run any freight on the line...and the need to run over the Poconos and then via NJ Transit. The second school of thought was that Conrail was trying to accelerate the removal of the rail, which would take another 19 months to complete. That doesn't make a whole lot of sense either, as the snow would most likely be gone in a month or so anyway. They were in that much of a rush? Somebody gave the order to do it. Presumably it came up via P'Burg and went out by the wye to the Water Gap. Your guess is as good as mine.

John Losito, there was only one derailment that I’m aware of that ever happened on the Cut-Off itself and that was at Greendell. So, no, wind has never been an issue on the Pequest Fill.

@@LackawannaCutOff Thanks Chuck! Just wondering.

I think they will clear trees off of the railroad's property. Beyond that they won't touch them.

@LackawannaCutOff that's cool you when they will have passenger rail service or freight service back running again?

No, not on the Pequest Fill.

Ron Bach, NJ Transit is not going west of Andover without funding.

@@LackawannaCutOff Are they intending to apply? Or is PA going to build this?

Probably one siding somewhere on the Cut-Off.

About five years ago I finally turned in my old racing bike that was over 30 years old. It was about time.

Actually it's about 20 miles to the Delaware River Viaduct, 21 miles to Slateford Jct.