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Bradbury Fill
Bradbury Fill is one of the embankments on the Lackawanna Cut-Off railroad line in northwest New Jersey. It was built from 1908 to 1911 by Waltz & Reece Construction Company. It sits between mileposts 49.1 and 49.8 in Byram Township, just west of Waltz & Reece Cut and east of Lubber Run Fill Lubber Run Fill is a fill on the Lackawanna Cut-Off railroad line in northwest New Jersey. Located between mileposts 50.1 and 50.5 in Byram Township, it was built between 1908 and 1911 by contractor Waltz & Reece Construction Company. It .... The 0.75-mile (1.1-km) fill averages high and is up to tall. It is made of 457,000 cubic yards of fill material obtained by dynamite blasting and other methods. It carries a 2° curve that permits . Abandoned in 1983, the line is to be reactivated as a single-track line by NJ Transit in 2026. Bradbury Fill is named after Mrs. Delia R. Bradbury, who had owned most of the land used for the fill.1906 Survey Map of the Hopatcong-Slate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lackawanna Cut-Off Curve East Of Lake Lackawanna
__NOTOC__ Lackawanna (; from a Lenni Lenape word meaning "stream that forks") is the name of various places and later businesses in the mid-Atlantic United States, generally tracing their name in some manner from the Lackawanna River in Pennsylvania. Places Inhabited places * Lackawanna, New York, a city in Erie County, New York, just south of Buffalo * Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, a county in northeast Pennsylvania, of which the county seat is Scranton Natural formations * Lackawanna River, a tributary of the Susquehanna River in northeastern Pennsylvania *Lake Lackawanna, Sussex County, NJ, a man-made lake (circa 1911) and golf course Other places * Lackawanna Coal Mine, a former mine redeveloped as a museum in Scranton, Pennsylvania * Lackawanna College, a college in Scranton, Pennsylvania * Lackawanna State Park, in northeastern Pennsylvania *Lackawanna State Forest, former name of Pinchot State Forest Railroads * Delaware-Lackawanna Railroad, an extant shortline ra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Embankment (transportation)
A road, railway line, or canal is normally raised onto an embankment made of compacted soil (typically clay or rock-based) to avoid a change in level required by the terrain, the alternatives being either to have an unacceptable change in level or detour to follow a contour. A cutting is used for the same purpose where the land is originally higher than required. Materials Embankments are often constructed using material obtained from a cutting. Embankments need to be constructed using non-aerated and waterproofed, compacted (or entirely non-porous) material to provide adequate support to the formation and a long-term level surface with stability. An example material for road embankment building is sand-bentonite mixture often used as a protective to protect underground utility cables and pipelines. Intersection of embankments To intersect an embankment without a high flyover, a series of tunnels can consist of a section of high tensile strength viaduct (typically built of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Jersey
New Jersey is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States. It is bordered on the north and east by the state of New York; on the east, southeast, and south by the Atlantic Ocean; on the west by the Delaware River and Pennsylvania; and on the southwest by Delaware Bay and the state of Delaware. At , New Jersey is the fifth-smallest state in land area; but with close to 9.3 million residents, it ranks 11th in population and first in population density. The state capital is Trenton, and the most populous city is Newark. With the exception of Warren County, all of the state's 21 counties lie within the combined statistical areas of New York City or Philadelphia. New Jersey was first inhabited by Native Americans for at least 2,800 years, with the Lenape being the dominant group when Europeans arrived in the early 17th century. Dutch and Swedish colonists founded the first European settlements in the state. The British later seized control o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Waltz & Reece Construction Company
The Waltz & Reece Construction Company was a construction company that operated in the first quarter of the 20th century, best known for its work on the Lackawanna Cut-off in New Jersey. The original partners were P.L. Reece and J.B. Waltz. In 1899, they put a lien on the Yellowstone Park railway company to recover $5,293.47 owed to them for work on the railroad. The partners incorporated the company in Billings, Montana, on May 28, 1902. Between 1908 and 1911, the company built the section of the Lackawanna Cut-off that ran from mileposts 48.2 to 50.2, working occasionally by torchlight to keep the massive project on schedule. Dubbed Section 2, the stretch included the Waltz & Reece Cut, the deepest cut on the project. The cut required the removal of 822,400 cubic yards of fill material by blasting with dynamite and other methods. In 1912, the company moved its headquarters from Stanhope and Netcong, New Jersey, to Nicholson, Pennsylvania. Reece and Waltz, both engineers, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Byram Township, NJ
Byram Township is a township in Sussex County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the township's population was 8,350, reflecting an increase of 96 (+1.2%) from the 8,254 counted in the 2000 Census, which had in turn increased by 206 (+2.6%) from the 8,048 counted in the 1990 Census. The municipality is known as the "Township of Lakes", as there are roughly two dozen lakes and ponds within its borders.FAQ Byram Township. Accessed July 1, 2011. "Byram Township is located in Northern New Jersey in Sussex County. Byram is known as ''The Township of Lakes'', having more than two dozen lakes and ponds. Several large communities have grown around the larger lakes." History Byram Township was created by an act by the[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Waltz & Reece Cut
Waltz & Reece Cut is the deepest cut on the Lackawanna Cut-Off railroad line in northwest New Jersey. The cut is long, has an average depth of , and a maximum depth of . Located between mileposts 48.3 and 49.0 in Byram Township, NJ, Byram Township, it sits on a tangent (straight) section of right-of-way just west of McMickle Cut (Lackawanna Cut-Off), McMickle Cut and just east of Bradbury Fill. It was built between 1908 and 1911 by Waltz & Reece Construction Company, which removed 822,400 cubic yards of fill material by blasting with dynamite or other methods.Taber, Thomas Townsend; Taber, Thomas Townsend III (1980). The Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad in the Twentieth Century 1, p. 35. Muncy, PA: Privately printed. . The line was abandoned in 1983. In 2012, a single track was relaid through the cut as part of NJ Transit's plans to restart rail service no earlier than 2021. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Waltz and Reece Cut Lackawanna Cut-Off ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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