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Posted by pennytrains on Friday, April 15, 2022 5:42 PM

Yep.  Things change.  I'm waiting for Tom Hanks to throw out the first pitch at the very first home opener for the brand new (?) Cleveland Guardians at 7:10.

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Posted by 54light15 on Friday, April 15, 2022 3:38 PM

In the various books I have about ocean liners they mostly refer to it as the North River but then most of the companies that operated the ships were European. 

Further off topic- as a native New Yorker (Long Island, anyway) I never once ate a pushcart hot dog, neither Sabrett's or Hebrew National. I did once eat nothing but pushcart pretzels when in the City for the day. I didn't feel so good when I got home. 

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Posted by Flintlock76 on Friday, April 15, 2022 8:49 AM

My mother's a New York City girl, if I remember correctly her old neighborhood was 107th Street and Central Park West.  She never called the Hudson River the North River and neither did anyone else I know.

Interestingly though, on 18th Century maps of New York City and it's environs it IS shown as the North River.  As an aside the Hackensack River is sometimes shown as the "First River" and the Passaic as the "Second River." 

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Posted by charlie hebdo on Friday, April 15, 2022 7:06 AM

OM:

Of course my mother was growing up in Manhattan (west 40s?)  long, long ago.  Names for places can change because it just happens. Example around here a town you visited is called West Chicago, but it was once named Turner Junction.  Ditto Glen Ellyn was Stacey s Tavern. Nothing to do with "PC" not that there is anything wrong with that.  During a tragic period of history, almost every town in Germany had an Adolf Hitler Platz. Thankfully they all reverted to there earlier names.

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Posted by Overmod on Friday, April 15, 2022 4:58 AM

It IS the North River.  Amusingly enough, I did not know the correct meaning until someone here corrected me... I thought it was North in the sense 'north to Albany and the Erie Canal connection' -- it is north because the Delaware is the South River.

But the whole time I was growing up, first at 114th and Amsterdam, then in Tenafly and Englewood, NJ, very few people called it anything but the Hudson.  You can have fun with those apparently simple questions like 'what is the diameter of an 8-inch shell' and 'who is buried in Grant's Tomb' with this:  Manhattan is an island running roughly north-south.  The river along the east side of the island is the East River.  What's the river along the west side of the island?

The PRR tunnels were famously the 'North River Tunnels'... until, apparently, Conrail and Amtrak complicated things by distinguishing the two east-west bores under the river as the 'north' and 'south' river tunnels, at which point it would be enormously convenient to refer to them as the north and south Hudson River tunnels... when the ridiculous Gateway kludge is built adjacent to them, the same convention might apply.

There is a sort of amusing parallel.  The George Washington Bridge over the Hudson/North was double-decked in the early 1960s.  There are almost no connections that allow emergency responders to get from one deck to the other -- so the Port Authority needs a way to distinguish the upper deck and its approaches from the lower deck's.  Therefore on official Port Authority drawings and in their emergency response procedures, the lower deck is officially termed the "Martha Washington Bridge".  (It does not help that the bridge on the other side of Manhattan is also the Washington Bridge...)

I suspect there are going to be efforts to have dead white man Henry Hudson's name removed from the river and... well, just renamed North if they can't decide on a more appropriate name.  I will be amused to see how they get to renaming the two decks of the GWB; a surprisingly long list of potential contenders can't be brought up on a family-friendly forum.

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Posted by Overmod on Friday, April 15, 2022 4:54 AM

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It's doing it again.

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Posted by charlie hebdo on Thursday, April 14, 2022 9:10 PM

Overmod
Overmod wrote the following post 2 hours ago: As a native New Yorker, it's not the East River, it's the Hudson. 

My mother was a native of Manhattan. She and her relatives always called it the North River.

 

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Posted by Overmod on Thursday, April 14, 2022 6:49 PM
As a native New Yorker, it's not the East River, it's the Hudson. I'm just used to the various formulae for dirty water dogs, where you put spices in the water and leave the dogs to pickle all day. The trick ingredients are vinegar (can be red wine vinegar), nutmeg and a little cumin. Catch the drip on the buns as you insert the wiener. [this is perfectly, perfectly safe to say on a family-friendly forum]. When we made hot dogs to subsidize the Railroad Club at my high school, we started them this way and had them floating in hot water. Then we would take them out, split them, and grill the open sides down on one of those cast-iron square hibachis. All the condiment it really needs is mustard, but the rest of that stuff is good, too... Incidentally, there was a conspiracy on the part of New Jersey officials to channelize "people from other states" along the route of the Turnpike (for you-know-what on the grand scale) and the Garden State Parkway (for ongestion and needless tolls everywhere) so that they would never actually get off the highway, go driving around, and discover all the reasons New Jersey is still a 'garden state'...
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Posted by pennytrains on Thursday, April 14, 2022 6:24 PM

TANGENT ALERT!  Going off topic!  Laugh  Best way to eat a hot dog is on Italian Bread with Sesame seeds.  Lightly toasted if it's not bakery fresh.  Unless of course you can get a fresh steamed bun like from a hot dog cart!  Chef  We will now resume our regularly scheduled topic.  Dinner

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Posted by CSSHEGEWISCH on Thursday, April 14, 2022 2:18 PM

pennytrains
 
zugmann

 

 
Backshop
With all the chemical plants in NJ, maybe it's that there's NOT something in the water in VA...

 

I'm told its what makes Jersey pizza what it is.   

Nathan's hot dogs too!  I can taste the East River!  Laugh

 
Proof positive that Chicago hot dogs are better than New York hot dogs!Yeah
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Posted by pennytrains on Tuesday, April 12, 2022 5:22 PM

zugmann

 

 
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With all the chemical plants in NJ, maybe it's that there's NOT something in the water in VA...

 

I'm told its what makes Jersey pizza what it is. 

 

Nathan's hot dogs too!  I can taste the East River!  Laugh

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Posted by Overmod on Tuesday, April 12, 2022 5:11 PM

The moral, my friend, of that pitiful end is plain for all to hear...

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Posted by Flintlock76 on Tuesday, April 12, 2022 4:48 PM

rixflix
I can no longer recite "Abdul Abulbul Ameer" from memory, so I won't write it here. Are you grateful?

Not really.  I KNOW that stupid song and it's been running through my head all day since your post!  Thanks a lot!  Bang Head

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Posted by Flintlock76 on Tuesday, April 12, 2022 11:31 AM

zugmann

 

 
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With all the chemical plants in NJ, maybe it's that there's NOT something in the water in VA...

 

I'm told its what makes Jersey pizza what it is. 

 

Shhhhhh, that's the secret ingredient!  Pizza

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Posted by Flintlock76 on Tuesday, April 12, 2022 11:29 AM

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Flintlock76
 

When we moved to Virginia 34 years ago I was struck by how many tall women (5'10" or more) there are here compared to where we lived in New Jersey.

Something in the water maybe?  Wink

 

 

With all the chemical plants in NJ, maybe it's that there's NOT something in the water in VA...Big Smile

 

 

Ever hear NJ's unofficial state motto?

"New Jersey, where there's a rainbow in every puddle!"   Wink

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Posted by rixflix on Tuesday, April 12, 2022 11:02 AM

I can almost hear Bert Parks saying something like: "And now our very own corn-fed cutie, ladies and gentlemen...Miss Iowa."

To go even further off-topic:

Rootle-tee-toot, rootle-tee-toot,

we are the girls of The Institute.

We don't smoke and we don't chew

and we don't go with boys that do.

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Posted by zugmann on Tuesday, April 12, 2022 9:41 AM

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With all the chemical plants in NJ, maybe it's that there's NOT something in the water in VA...

I'm told its what makes Jersey pizza what it is. 

It's been fun.  But it isn't much fun anymore.   Signing off for now. 


  

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Posted by Backshop on Tuesday, April 12, 2022 9:34 AM

Flintlock76
 

When we moved to Virginia 34 years ago I was struck by how many tall women (5'10" or more) there are here compared to where we lived in New Jersey.

Something in the water maybe?  Wink

With all the chemical plants in NJ, maybe it's that there's NOT something in the water in VA...Big Smile

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Posted by Erik_Mag on Monday, April 11, 2022 10:56 PM

I suspect it may be genetic differences between the NJ population and the VA population. Becky also has a point with the meat and dairy.

My mom did her first year of college in Springfield, OH and she was one of of the taller students, her next three years were at a college in Northfield, MN and she felt short...

The Maine two foot passenger cars had to be sized to acommodate the tall residents...

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Posted by pennytrains on Monday, April 11, 2022 6:13 PM

More likely something in the meat and dairy!  Chef

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Posted by Flintlock76 on Monday, April 11, 2022 9:44 AM

Erik_Mag

 

 
pennytrains

 I'm 6 feet tall by the way. Wink

 

 

FWIW, my wife is 6' tall as well (we met in the local tall club) and my daughter is also about 6'.

 

When we moved to Virginia 34 years ago I was struck by how many tall women (5'10" or more) there are here compared to where we lived in New Jersey.

Something in the water maybe?  Wink

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Posted by Erik_Mag on Sunday, April 10, 2022 7:31 PM

pennytrains

 I'm 6 feet tall by the way. Wink

FWIW, my wife is 6' tall as well (we met in the local tall club) and my daughter is also about 6'.

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Posted by Flintlock76 on Sunday, April 10, 2022 7:16 AM

Thanks for the shots Becky, those T1's are big 'uns all right.  Looks like the drone shot was a bit deceiving.

Six feet tall?  That's cool, if our paths ever cross we can have a good eye-to-eye conversation!

kgb, thanks for that link.  Those I10's had some fat boilers on them, no wonder they were candidates for the conversion to Northerns.

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Posted by pennytrains on Saturday, April 9, 2022 6:56 PM

Flintlock76

You know, looking at a drone shot in one of the videos I get the impression 2102's a little on the small side for a Northern, but then I'm used to N&W 611. But as you said, T-1's got the job done! 

Oh.  Trust me, they're HUGE!

My eye level on 2100's drivers.

 https://link.shutterfly.com/G5YPpEQb6ob

My eye level on 611's at Bellevue.

https://link.shutterfly.com/xv5Xg03b6ob

I'm 6 feet tall by the way. Wink

 

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Posted by kgbw49 on Saturday, April 9, 2022 6:55 PM

Flintlock76

You know, looking at a drone shot in one of the videos I get the impression 2102's a little on the small side for a Northern, but then I'm used to N&W 611. But as you said, T-1's got the job done!

Speaking of the Rambles, here's a short chase film from 1962.  That engine's MOVING!  It's not 2102 though, but no matter.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pehUWiKFnLk

 

 

I counted 174 revolutions of the 70-inch drivers in one minute on the first part of the film.

A 70-inch diameter driver multiplied by 22/7 for the circumfrence travels 220 inches in one revolution.

Multiply 220 inches per revolution times 174 revolutions per minute is 38,280 inches in one minute.

One mile of 5,280 feet times 12 inches per foot is 63,360 inches.

38,280 inches in a minute divided by 63,360 inches per mile is .604 miles in one minute.

Multiply .604 miles in one minute times 60 minutes in an hour and you get 36 miles per hour.

One corollary, though - I don't know the speed of that old film and whether or not it would play back in "one-to-one real-time playback". Sometimes those old films don't play back in real time which can result in some  of the choppiness.

So it very well could be if that film was playing back at, say, .8 speed, then the train would have been traveling at 45 mph.

Fun stuff - bottom line - it was moving along with the varnish!

 

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Posted by kgbw49 on Saturday, April 9, 2022 6:29 PM

This web site has a photo of Reading I-10sa 2-8-0 2017, built in 1923.

I-10sa 2-8-0 2044 was converted to Reading 2102, which is in the following photo.

The Reading Shops used the 2-8-0 boiler and firebox, added a course to the front of the boiler, new one-piece integrated cast steel engine bed with Boxpok drivers, and "abracadabra" - out came T1 2102. Quite the transformation!

https://donsdepot.donrossgroup.net/dr817.htm

What Reading Shops did with the I-10sa 2-8-0s and other locomotives puts them right up there with Frisco, Mopac and Illinois Central in terms of what they did to convert locomotives to 8-coupled Northerns or Mountains.

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Posted by Flintlock76 on Saturday, April 9, 2022 2:18 PM

You know, looking at a drone shot in one of the videos I get the impression 2102's a little on the small side for a Northern, but then I'm used to N&W 611. But as you said, T-1's got the job done!

Speaking of the Rambles, here's a short chase film from 1962.  That engine's MOVING!  It's not 2102 though, but no matter.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pehUWiKFnLk

 

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Posted by kgbw49 on Saturday, April 9, 2022 11:40 AM

'76, sounds like you're just a ramblin' kind of guy, as Steve Martin would say!

Here is an interesting web page from steamlocomotive.com with comparative data for several 4-8-4 types, including the J and the T1.

Same driver diameter at 70 inches, same cylinder size of 27 x 32, and the wide firebox, but the J is, to use a football metaphor, just a "Gronk-sized" bruiser - big and fast (as we all know), so it has a several key statistics upsized from the T1.

But the T1 is still big. It did the job it was built for, and did the job well, and it is absolutely awesome to have it back! Thank you, Andy Muller!

https://steamlocomotive.com/locobase.php?country=USA&wheel=4-8-4

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Posted by Flintlock76 on Friday, April 8, 2022 8:28 PM

kgbw49
'76, that is a great observation!

Thanks!  When I saw 2102 all slicked up the J1 was the first thing that popped into my mind, I've seen that J1 picture you linked, in fact it's in one of my N&W books.  I thought the resemblence was remarkable.

By the way, I was re-reading my copy of "Eastern Steam Pictorial" by Bert Pennypacker this afternoon and thought I saw something familiar on the full-color dust jacket.  I took a closer look and sure enough, it's 2102 on one of the Reading "Iron Horse Rambles" from around 1960 or so.  Some coincidence, huh? 

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