ATSION CRANBERRY BOGS ABANDONED

[Teegate]

Uploaded about 4 days ago. Not sure when recorded. Used a drone.

 

[MuckSavage]

Nice work

 

[ecampbell]

Too short. I could look for hours. Not even barrel distortion, either a very good lens or compensated by software.
He has others, click on his name.

 

[MuckSavage]

Thanks for sharing Ed, I never realized there were so many cars at Winslow Junction

 

[RednekF350]

Uploaded about 4 days ago. Not sure when recorded. Used a drone.

Parkdale. One of my favorite places in the Pines.

 

[GermanG]

Thanks for sharing Ed, I never realized there were so many cars at Winslow Junction

It's funny you should say that. I was noting how few were left. There used to be far more freight, passenger cars and engines stored there.

*Edit: I am talking about the vintage equipment stored on the SRNJ tracks. Perhaps you are talking about the hopper cars temporarily parked on the Beesely Point line up above.

 

[ecampbell]

It's a very interesting place to visit. When I was there in 2011 we saw some cars of the Blue Comet, painted brown now, but some blue poked through.
WE took a side trip to an accident the Blue Comet had in Hammonton.
https://forums.njpinebarrens.com/threads/train-kills-mother-two-children.5879/

 

[smoke_jumper]

Parkdale. One of my favorite places in the Pines.

One of mine too. Beavers are really changing it though.

 

[MuckSavage]

It's funny you should say that. I was noting how few were left. There used to be far more freight, passenger cars and engines stored there.

*Edit: I am talking about the vintage equipment stored on the SRNJ tracks. Perhaps you are talking about the hopper cars temporarily parked on the Beesely Point line up above.

I'm not sure I know the 2 locations.

 

[manumuskin]

Okay,The question is what was there first? 206 or the bogs? I just aeriald back to 31 and both were there then but it looks as if 206 may have been dirt?It's very white looking.Was the bogs built around the road using it as a dam? Or were the bogs already there and they availed themselves of the dam whilst building the road?I"d bet there was already a road there first with a berm built across the swamp to keep it above water.

 

[46er]

Don't know the date of the historic topo maps, but RT206/Trenton Road shows as a road crossing a marsh on it.

http://maps.njpinebarrens.com/#lat=39.715859730308416&lng=-74.74081965166175&z=14&type=hist&gpx=

 

[manumuskin]

I believe that map is from late 1800's but not sure.it would appear the road was there first unless they just neglected to show the bogs.

 

[46er]

the road was there first unless they just neglected to show the bogs.

May be the case as I could not find any 'bogs' notated on that map.

 

[Teegate]

I am pretty certain that road is really old. It was called Middle Road on old maps I have so it tells us that most likely the current 206 did not go straight into Hammonton, rather it turned off here which is Middle Road today.

http://maps.njpinebarrens.com/#lat=39.68469316896313&lng=-74.76270217102052&z=15&type=terrain&gpx=

 

[46er]

I am pretty certain that road is really old.

It had many names and routes. From the Wiki;

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Route_206#History