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.[1]
The 0.75-mile (1.1-km) fill averages 24 feet (7.3 m) high and is up to 78 feet (24 m) 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 70 mph (110 km/h).
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.[2]
References
- ↑ Taber, Thomas Townsend; Taber, Thomas Townsend III (1980). The Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad in the Twentieth Century 1, p. 35. Muncy, PA: Privately printed. ISBN 09603398-25 Search this book on
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- ↑ 1906 Survey Map of the Hopatcong-Slateford Cut-Off, September 1, 1906.
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