A different Horseshoe Curve (photo from 1936)

Trains Magazine General Discussion
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Sharing a photo from an unknown photographer of a less famous horseshoe curve, the one in the Palisades in Edgewater NJ on the Hudson River Line of the Public Service Coordinated Transportation trolley route #1 from Edgewater to Paterson.

http://knox.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=1813266

Thiis image is of a former Trenton Fast Line interurban heading back down the hill to Edgewater.

Very sad to me that this service is completely obleterated as the only tracks that went through my hometown of Paramus NJ were on this line.

Charles Freericks

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Had no idea NJ had any embankment that high…I see they have double rails on the sharp curve to contain it on the road bed if it would derail…I’m assuming that is the purpose.

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I barely remember the Hoboken-Union trolley going up the viaduct from the elevated terminal at the DL&W station (I was maybe 4 or 5 when it came down but did ride it!) but there were two other acents of the hill. There was another in Hoboken and one at Weehawken from the WS/OW terminal, bot in roadways.