Brooklyn Eastern District Terminal

Malcolm Laughlin wrote: <snip> This evening I realized that it is a photo of a model cleverly superimposed on a real background photo. If you study maps of the area, you will see that the round

List, In addition to Mike's posting as to the location of the shot in the transparency, I can add some further information as regard to the tank engine in the photo also. The engine is Brooklyn

That's interesting. Did they just part the car behind the gas station and run a line from it to the pumps? No need to have tanks in the ground. Dave Demeny

<schuyler.larrabee@...> wrote: <http://www.first-out.com/ebay/0726035.jpg> the NP. One (or a few) of them Maybe the LSBC stole them? Or was that only after the time frame of this group? Time

As is easily determined, because the diagonal creases go the wrong way. Many of the responses to the question about the origin of this refrigerator car have been not merely speculative but

Forwarding a useful note from the erielack list. Click the first link, then click the top thumbnail on that page. SGL

David, I stand by my earlier statement that the photo was taken from the Bronx side of the NYC bridge to the Park Ave. Viaduct and Grand Central Station. Notice in the lower right the railing for

After some study, I'm certain of what that view is. It is looking down Third Avenue from the Bronx. The bridge to the left is the Willis Avenue Bridge. This is the same bridge that is behind the

Not to be confused with the more common cars of Hercules Powder Company. <g> Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2906 Forest Ave., Berkeley, CA 94705

http://www.shorpy.com/node/4058?size=_original Scott Pitzer

Tom C? wrote: "SFRD 50' cars did not get diagonal panel roofs, when rebuilt." That's true, and the car in question is not an SFRD car, but look again - that's not a diagonal panel roof. What looks

wrote: Also, keep in mind that the Hudson river was a navigable waterway for ocean going ships, and as such, that bridge is WAY too low (I think the discussions I've seen about the proposed bridge

Per the caption in the book, it is indeed, the Harlem River and the bridge to the immediate rear is the Second Ave Elevated RR Bridge. On page 52 is a map of NYC and you can see the CNJ yard on the

someone else mentioned this car could be NHIX. NRC disposition records show NHIX 998 blt Oct 47 was destroyed on the PRR in Nov 48 Could be a match. Roger Hinman if so, with the car only a year

From what can be seen in the photo the reefer could be a NHIX 900 series car leased to the Northern Pacific. These cars had the rectangular panel roof as on the car in the photo. Can't see how many

The photo is taken from the Bronx and is looking across the Harlem River south toward Manhattan. The bridge to the left is the 3rd Ave Bridge and it appears the photo may have been taken from the New

I just arrived at the Wabash number series by re-checking the N&W Coal Cars book.... it doesn't give a number range for the 38000 series Wabash cars but states that the N&W got them back when the

Doc, You've saved me once again--thanks so much. That six-pack of beer I owe you has turned into a case. John John Golden On the Road in Little Rock, AR wrote: 40' and the completely you can

This is right on. For those interested in this type of operation with heavy 1950s LCL and team track ops, the November and December 1989 issues of Railpace Magazine ran a two-part article by David