About 4 blocks west of where they drop the ball on New Years Eve.
Mike
These pictures show how much railroad actually penetrated our lives and neighborhods, even in big cities like NY!
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I love old photos that teach us how limited our knowledge of things is. And for all the HO modelers notice the 18" and 22" radius curves on the lower left.
What does it say on the sign on the building in the background? "West Shore RR ????"
henry6These pictures show how much railroad actually penetrated our lives and neighborhods, even in big cities like NY!
The amazing thing here, TZ,is how bereft of freight rail the city is today! Most of what rail there was is gone and what is is so hidden or buried, you don't know it's there! And the West Shore was the NYC's line from Weehawken, NJ to Selkirk and Albany up the west side of the Hudson....started by PRR people to compete tie to tie with the NYC to Buffalo. Morgan had a fit, put all parties afloat in the Hudson on his yacht, went to Europe himself and told his skipper not to dock the yacht until the two sides settled their competitive battle! Love to ride the West Shore steam ferries into the mid 50's!
West Shore R.R. - N.Y.O. & W. R.R.
The water tower in this picture is in the Christmas trees picture. A little bit hard to see is the Paramount Building in Times Square at the left margin. 42nd St. ferry terminal is just to the right of the New York Central pier.
Ferry terminal with a newer facade and the NYC pier from the 12th Ave. side.
henry6 And the West Shore was the NYC's line from Weehawken, NJ to Selkirk and Albany up the west side of the Hudson....started by PRR people to compete tie to tie with the NYC to Buffalo. Morgan had a fit, put all parties afloat in the Hudson on his yacht, went to Europe himself and told his skipper not to dock the yacht until the two sides settled their competitive battle!
Yes, Justin Pierpont Morgan was quite a man! I believe that it was in 1893 that JP Morgan and Company lent money to the federal government when the nation's economy was in a bad way. He was concerned not just for his personal fortune, but for the economy of the nation as a whole.
Users of highways benefitted from the NYC's counter blow to the PRR, the South Pennsylvania Railroad. No track was laid, but several tunnels that were bored were later used when the Pennsylvania Turnpike was constructed.
Johnny
The High Line ascending at 12th Ave. & 35th St.
J.P. Morgan's horse drawn limo at 12th Ave. & 35th St.
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