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1964 slide: Fairmount Ave station, train, Temple Ave view
« on: July 02, 2011, 01:10:07 AM »
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35mm Original Kodachrome Color Slide. Erie-Lackawanna Railroad Train and Station at Fairmount Avenue in Hackensack, New Jersey in June 1964. No other information included.



Are those sidings going into Packard's?


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Re: 1964 slide: Fairmount Ave station, train, Temple Ave view
« Reply #1 on: July 02, 2011, 07:34:39 AM »
Yes, the siding went to the Northwest corner of the building where the Garden Center was in the later years. I believe it was spit and another branch went to the south side of the building as well.

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Re: 1964 slide: Fairmount Ave station, train, Temple Ave view
« Reply #2 on: July 03, 2011, 05:11:48 PM »
- I remember seeing the sidings in the Packards Lot.
- I guess this predates the helmet law in NJ for motorcycles.
- Would the train actually stop at Fairmount, Ross and Anderson Stations on the same trips?
- How were the gates activated?  I thought this was done manually, but I don't see anyone actually doing that here. 
- When was this station named Cranberry Junction? I'm guessing after active service ended.
- Those same pine trees are still there.

I may have more later.  I love this image. Thanks Bob.

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Re: 1964 slide: Fairmount Ave station, train, Temple Ave view
« Reply #3 on: July 03, 2011, 06:15:11 PM »
I like the picture a lot too. It's not the angle you usually see, it shows the rail connection to Packard's, it's got a '55 Olds, AND it shows the tower at Main St.

Helmets were definitely not required in 1964. I remember riding helmetless with a friend on his bike in 1965 or 1966.

Trains stopped at Ross Ave?

Manually operated gates? Seriously?

Here's some information I found from various sources:


HELMETS

The history of motorcycle helmet laws in the United States is characterized by change. In 1967, to increase motorcycle helmet use, the federal government required the states to enact helmet use laws in order to qualify for certain federal safety programs and highway construction funds. The federal incentive worked. By the early 1970s, almost all the states had universal motorcycle helmet laws. Michigan was the first state to repeal its law in 1968, beginning a pattern of repeal, reenactment, and amendment of motorcycle helmet laws. In 1976, states successfully lobbied Congress to stop the Department of Transportation from assessing financial penalties on states without helmet laws.


GIFT SHOP

By 1966, the station building had been sold off by the Erie Railroad for private usage as Barbara's General Store and Gifts.


SIDING

There was also a third track in the opposite side working as a partial freight yard.



AUTOMATIC ELECTRIC RAILWAY GATES

Fred W. Watson, a Canadian from New Brunswick, patented the invention of the automatic electric railway gate with the U.S. Patent Office in 1881. This was a departure from the mechanical gates that had been the state of the art until then.


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Re: 1964 slide: Fairmount Ave station, train, Temple Ave view
« Reply #4 on: July 03, 2011, 07:38:34 PM »
Growing up, I seem to remember a transit worker always being in the signal towers.  What was that person's job?

I vaguely rember seeing a "Ross Avenue" sign on a picture of a train station but may be mistaken. I understand that Transit never actually sold the Fairmount station but leased it over the years commercially.

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Re: 1964 slide: Fairmount Ave station, train, Temple Ave view
« Reply #5 on: July 03, 2011, 08:06:59 PM »
Growing up, I seem to remember a transit worker always being in the signal towers.  What was that person's job?

Railroads have also long used signal towers to alert drivers about changes or problems on the rails ahead. Acting as a sort of railroad traffic device, these towers are elevated to be at a highly visible location for oncoming trains. Older railroad signal towers had human operators that would use flag semaphores to pass information to locomotives. Today, most railroad signal towers are automated and use a traffic light system.

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Re: 1964 slide: Fairmount Ave station, train, Temple Ave view
« Reply #6 on: July 06, 2011, 09:23:37 PM »


Railroads have also long used signal towers to alert drivers about changes or problems on the rails ahead. Acting as a sort of railroad traffic device, these towers are elevated to be at a highly visible location for oncoming trains.

There still is an active tower on the Bergen Line that runs alongside Eire Ave in Rutherford in between East Rutherford....I see someone there what seems like all the time, I don't know what they are doing, maybe just making sure the computers are doing their job...But I think they occupy it 24 hours a day..i'm just saying...