NJT control cab equipped coach 6060 leads NJ Transit train 1001 around the sharp curve at the west end of the 'new' (in 2002) connection and onto former Erie Greenwood Lake branch trackage which will take it to former Lackawanna Boonton branch trackage at Mountain View, NJ. I was an Erie-Lackawanna towerman a year or so after the Boonton branch trains started running to Hoboken over the Greenwood Lake branch. The Erie branch was built to much less stringent engineering standards than the DL&W Boonton Line, which was their freight main into the New York area. They referred to the Greenwood Lake portion of their new run as the 'Burma Road'. Note that NJT 4210 (GP40PH-2B) is powering the train 2nd out in the train. David Sommer posted a photo of this pair trailing inbound at Dover a few days before I found them here in Montclair. I don't know why the control coach is needed to lead the diesel.

Photographed by Warren Beckwith, February 4, 2019.
Added to the photo archive by Warren Beckwith, February 19, 2019.
Railroad: New Jersey Transit.

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