Fort McGuire Dix spur.We assume you mean the Lakehurst Naval Air Station Spur? Fort Dix and McGuire AFB were served by the Union Transportation and PRR out in the Wrightstown side.
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Fort McGuire Dix spur.We assume you mean the Lakehurst Naval Air Station Spur? Fort Dix and McGuire AFB were served by the Union Transportation and PRR out in the Wrightstown side.
The picture of NS 3045 at Gold Lumber shows how bad the track is at that spot. On that day, the engines snowplow hit the ground and dug into an adjacent concrete foundation that was once a train station.There was only 1 station in Farmingdale and it was a joint PRR & CNJ station located at the northeast quadrant of the diamond at south end of Boud Ave. See my avatar, picture taken from Railroad Ave, looking northeast early 1900s. Station later enlarged in 1920s but was long gone by 1980. Looking at aerial photo from 2002 shows nothing but grass at the location.
You can also see a picture of an NS engine on that spur in the pictures.That spur was used to haul away plutonium contaminated soil from a Bomarc missile silo accident on 539. The loading was done just inside the gate on Hope Chapel Road.
along with the remains of a couple of switchesCharlie,
In general, the $6.5 million project will remove approximately 12,000 cubic yards of soil and 440 cubic yards@Tanker;
of building debris over six-months beginning next spring. The debris will be packaged appropriately and taken
by truck along Fort Dix and NAES Lakehurst roads to a refurbished rail loading facility on NAES Lakehurst.
The material will then be loaded onto railroad gondola cars and taken to the commercial rail line east of the
base via a reconstructed rail spur.