Wild find and composition!
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Queen Elizabeth rode the train to NYC (well to the ferry) on these very tracks.
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Great image/great notes/great that you are covering off-the-beaten-path subjects. Please keep up the good work.
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| Posted by Sport! on December 12, 2015 | |
Yikes.
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| Posted by Tom on December 12, 2015 | |
Falcone, I saw this picture and figured there had to be an interesting history. This is the kind of Railpictures.net submittal that I appreciate the most. Your explanation adds a great deal.
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Great railroad archeology! Thanks for sharing.
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| Posted by xBNSFer on December 22, 2015 | |
I grew up down the street from the North Shore Line, as it was known, and fondly remember MU'ed B&O (and later Chessie) switchers hauling freights on the line (along with GP7/9's and even a WM GP18/20 once), which still sports the ruins of passenger stations and longer ties to which the third rail was once attached.
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| Posted by xBNSFer on January 30, 2019 | |
Found out later what I thought was a WM GP18/20 was actually one of their home-made "chop nose" GP7s/9s (WM didn't roster any GP18s/20s).
Little known fact about the Bayonne Bridge; it was built to accommodate a rail line. Needless to say, a rail line was never added. Sort of a good predictor about what will happen with the new Tappan Zee Bridge, also built to "accommodate" a rail line. (And yes I know the new bridge has a different name, but it will always be the Tappan Zee to me.)
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