WallyFromColumbia

Lackawanna Cut-Off

Bravo on creating a separate article, Lackawanna Cut-Off (NJ Transit), for the rail restoration efforts. I fully support the move.Martindelaware (talk) 10:26, 14 November 2012 (UTC)

:-)WallyFromColumbia (talk) 17:55, 24 November 2012 (UTC)

Question: Your article about the Lackawanna Cutoff - Lubber Run Fill mentions a dam creating lake Lackawanna north of the fill. Google Maps shows Lackawanna Lake SOUTH of the fill with Dallis Pond NORTH of the fill. YutchAdams (talk) 16:18, 25 January 2015 (UTC)

Good point. There's a separate dam that creates Lake Lackawanna, but that's not associated with the Cut-Off. I'll make that correction. WallyFromColumbia (talk) 15:45, 28 January 2015 (UTC)

Waterloo Village

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Rockaway Valley Railroad

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The photo of the Morristown and Erie Railway right of way does not reflect the original construction by Melick. The entire line from Whippany to Morristown was rebuilt in the three years following the opening of the railroad, using a new grade and alignment. In this case, the M&E gave up a very curvy but low grade route by the river for a much straighter, but more heavily graded route running behind todays Morris County Mall. Apparently the route by the river was so curvy and poorly built that it created operational problems. Little, if any, of the original Whippany River Railway alignment is in use today. See People Paper and Profits, the story of a Unique NJ SHort Line, published in the 1960's by T Tabor III.

I can send you photos of some RVRR artifacts that I have if you would ever want to see them.

Gerry

Thanks, Gerry, that would be great if you could send that info. It's true that the photo is of a rebuilt section, although the intent was to show how a "Melick section" of track might look. If you feel that the caption could be improved, please feel free to do so. WallyFromColumbia (talk) 15:56, 28 January 2015 (UTC)

Cutoff overpass for L&NE ROW

That's a nifty photo. Thanks for uploading it. Choess 20:39, 13 December 2006 (UTC) Wally From Columbia (NJ) (talk) 12:12, 24 August 2010 (UTC)== Paulins Kill now a Featured Article == As of a few moments ago, Paulins Kill was promoted to Featured Article status. I just wanted to thank you for your contributions to and suggestions for improving the article over these past few months and that I appreciate your help in bringing this article to notice as a Featured Article. Once again, thank you, and keep up the good work. —ExplorerCDT 22:54, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

Photo use?

Hi Wally from Columbia. Just double checking regarding the photo of the Steamtown excursion atop the Tunkhannock Creek Viaduct at the article Steamtown National Historic Site. You indicate that you were the copyright holder to the photo, and you have released it to the public domain. Is that correct? If that is accurate, then there is no problem using it in another publication. (Still, if you would like photo credit, we may be able to accommodate that. No handles or user names, though.) Also, do you know what year that photo was taken? Steamtown excursions ran over the viaduct only from 1989 to 1993 -- although another one is scheduled to happen on 9 September 2007. Please reply on my talk page. Thanks — Michael J ^(talk) 20:56, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

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The recent Lackawanna Cut-Off articles

I'll put this as mildly as I can. I love the fact that you've done us a favor an introduced the articles on this stuff. However, there also comes a point where having the article versus having a stubby article with numerous errors. I realize you're new to the site, and can give you definitely a chance to make some good work. However, just as a suggestion, until we can figure this out, I'd offer to stop making articles on the LCO for a while, since I just did a number to East Stroudsburg's. Hope you don't mind it too much. Mitch32^{(Transportation Historian)} 20:56, 1 September 2010 (UTC)

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Galleries at Lackawanna Cut-Off

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Dispute resolution

Hi Wally. I noticed you added another new image to the Lackawanna Cut-Off article. I still think this is an abuse of the gallery script (and I have new concerns about your captions - specifically the original research contained within them). I thought we could try out the new dispute resolution page to resolve our difference of opinion on this. Please join me here for a discussion: Wikipedia:Dispute resolution noticeboard#Lackawanna Cut-Off. Cheers, Rkitko ^(talk) 03:15, 19 June 2011 (UTC)

Overlinking

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Dear Stefan, Stefan2 (talk) why did you proceed with the deletion of this file over the objections that I raised? I believe you totally misunderstood the conditions under which the file was created. The file was not "derived from a computer screen". The map was created by me ON a computer screen and then photographed. Please kindly explain as to why the copyright of such an image would possibly belong to anyone other than myself? As a result, I would propose to re-introduce this image for use.WallyFromColumbia (talk) 13:16, 15 November 2012 (UTC)

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I've added the copyright tag. Hopefully that resolves this issue. If not, please let me know.WallyFromColumbia (talk) 14:40, 4 January 2013 (UTC)

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Wally, I've been reviewing the two images list at Wikipedia:Possibly unfree files/2013 November 19 and as the US copyright law stands I can't find a way of making them public domain as unpublished images like these that are works for hire are copyrighted for 120 years from creation. However the one get out might be your statement Perry Shoemaker stating the railroad never claimed copyright on them. Is this doccmented anywhere? If so that might be usable as a release into the public domain. I know it's bizarre but US copyright doesn't realise the concept of no copyright existing other than for federal works. Nthep (talk) 17:24, 5 March 2014 (UTC)

Need to check sources of PV article to which you nicely contributed

Wally, where did you draw most of your material, in Feb 2013, for the extensive beef-up that you did of the Pharmacovigilance article? Am dealing with questions of sourcing of the current article content (tags were added). RSVP at talk, at that article? Leprof 7272 (talk) 13:54, 28 March 2014 (UTC)

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User:Magog the Ogre, (t • c) I'm afraid that I respectfully disagree. This is not a derivative work, in my opinion. A 1911 map was used by me to draw a computer image "free hand". No copyrighted map program was used to draw the image. The computer image was photographed by me in 1988. In 2008 it was digitally scanned by me.WallyFromColumbia (talk) 14:22, 25 June 2014 (UTC)

Birthplace of the Lackawanna Cutoff (construction)

The Cutoff was built between 1908 and 1911 between Port Morris Junction and Slateford Junction but there's no information on where the Cutoff began construction at, the first spot where the building of the cutoff began, the first spot where trackage was laid. It was built in sections but doesn't have information on which section began construction and completed first. Do you know where (along) the cutoff began construction first and do you know which section/part of the cutoff was completed first?71.188.58.49 (talk) 15:41, 2 January 2016 (UTC)

That's an interesting question, User talk:71.188.58.49. The project was divided up into seven sections, and comprehensive information on when each section was completed doesn't exist in the records I've seen thus far. It is thought that this information would have been in the chief engineer's files, but those documents probably left the railroad when the chief engineer, Lincoln Bush, left the DL&W in 1912 to join the construction company of David W. Flickwir, which would became Flickwir & Bush. I'm presently going through the correspondence files of Lackawanna President Wm. Truesdale, and there are limited references to sections of track being laid that I've seen in the files up to mid-1911. Without that "rosetta stone" of information, however, we can only assume that the sections started work in August 1908 and finished up sometime late in 1911. Ironically, the Flickwir section (Section 3) fell behind and I suspect that Flickwir and Bush had a lot to talk about, which presumably led to Flickwir coaxing Bush to join his company. If I do undercover more detailed information on this, I'll add it to the construction table. WallyFromColumbia (talk) 17:52, 25 January 2016 (UTC)

Rockaway Valley Railroad

I want to thank you for the incredible work that you put into this page. As a proud Morris Countian it makes me so happy to see a beautifully written article about something I heard so much about when I was growing up. Thank you for your dedication to the many railroads that used to blanket this area and the many that still do. I hope that you are healthy and safe in these troubling times.

Sincerely, JerseyThroughandThrough (talk) 05:03, 28 April 2020 (UTC)

JerseyThroughandThrough - Thank you for your kind words!

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