It's a fascinating operation with trains arriving and departing by barge.
Thanks, Gramp. I didn't think it looked big enough to be a roundhouse. Also, it doesn't look like it ever had the loco exhaust vents. And the track running around it doesn't seem like something at a roundhouse.
Carl, I hope you enjoy the puzzle.
It was the freight house. http://members.trainweb.com/bedt/indloco/crrnjbxt.html
Is that thing real, or is it just a figment of the artist's imagination?
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Carl, I'm not sure that was ever a roundhouse. Maybe someone on this forum could clear that up.
We just ordered this puzzle (and we won't drink the water once it gets here). I hope we have better luck getting this one than we did last time we ordered one via the Internet (had to change our MasterCard number).Interesting use for a roundhouse! I will enjoy seeing the old freight cars--they look reasonably authentic, for a painting. We've almost always got a puzzle going on, and they're usually 1000-piece ones. I've been busy with research and book editing, so lately Pat's been the one who does the most work. However, this one I hope I can take a crack at.
Carl
Railroader Emeritus (practiced railroading for 46 years--and in 2010 I finally got it right!)
CAACSCOCOM--I don't want to behave improperly, so I just won't behave at all. (SM)
York1 On a personal note .... When I retired, one gift to me was a 1000 piece puzzle. My brother and his wife love putting together puzzles. I found out I was the opposite. I got obsessed with finding just one more piece, then one more piece, then ... When I finished the puzzle, I decided I'd rather obsess over a model railroad layout.
On a personal note ....
When I retired, one gift to me was a 1000 piece puzzle.
My brother and his wife love putting together puzzles. I found out I was the opposite. I got obsessed with finding just one more piece, then one more piece, then ...
When I finished the puzzle, I decided I'd rather obsess over a model railroad layout.
That's interesting. People come at stuff differently. When we did the Bronx terminal one, I was all about "Well this is a CNJ hopper, and that's the ladder on the end, and here;s the reporting mark, so ... " My wife, OTOH, she's all about shapes and colors. She probably did 70% of the puzzle, and much of that was while sitting across the table from me, working at the image upside-down! She's the puzzle person. That's the first one (of MANY she's done) where I worked at it start to finish. She buys them, and has taken to getting railroad ones, hoping I'll join her more. And it was fun. She just ordered one which, she says, has a diesel streamliner racing a steam-pulled train.
caldreamer Definitly NOT the East River, thats' for sure!!!
Definitly NOT the East River, thats' for sure!!!
York1 John
Out of an abundance of caution, we decided not to drink the puzzle.
That water is awfully, suspiciously blue.
Stuck inside by the pandemic?
My wife and I just did this puzzle. Challenging and fun.
Scroll over it to see more detail.
Still in training.
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