LOOKING FOR ANOTHER MYSTERY SPUR FROM YEARS AGO...
I recall from the mid-late 1980s I used to play racketball with a buddy of mine somewhere along the Rt 22 corridor. I think near Somerville or Watchung. I don't really recall. The place was the Ricocheete Racketball Club or something. I was a huge 2 story building with a gym and racketball courts on both stories.
While driving around we passed RR tracks with those darth vader style flashers. I think we must have passed the quarry running track but then I recall driving on a two lane road in an industrial area passing a spur track with side of highway flashers (again the darth vader style), not overhead. The flashers had an "exempt" sign on it. I remember the spur dead ended and was up against a warehouse and was obviously unused as there were wood pallets and debris laying on the rails.
Anyone know where this spur/siding with the flashers would be? I don't think it would have been on the quarry track as I don't think any of those spurs had flashers. I do recall it being somewhere around Rt 22.
I recall from the mid-late 1980s I used to play racketball with a buddy of mine somewhere along the Rt 22 corridor. I think near Somerville or Watchung. I don't really recall. The place was the Ricocheete Racketball Club or something. I was a huge 2 story building with a gym and racketball courts on both stories.
While driving around we passed RR tracks with those darth vader style flashers. I think we must have passed the quarry running track but then I recall driving on a two lane road in an industrial area passing a spur track with side of highway flashers (again the darth vader style), not overhead. The flashers had an "exempt" sign on it. I remember the spur dead ended and was up against a warehouse and was obviously unused as there were wood pallets and debris laying on the rails.
Anyone know where this spur/siding with the flashers would be? I don't think it would have been on the quarry track as I don't think any of those spurs had flashers. I do recall it being somewhere around Rt 22.