Hello Tom, Jim P and RJR
RJR -- Good to see another Mountie here --- now its 3 to 1 (Mt. vs: Hayes) heh. I came to the Mount a few years after you left the high school there in 1952 - so we both know well how the area and the Mount was in those 1950's years !
Jim P -- Glad you enjoyed the posting and photos, etc. You were lucky if not always distracted looking out the classroom window...heh !
Yes, between the NYCRR, the LIRR and the NHRR, and the PRR at L.I.C. Sunnyside yards and at Penn Station, we had a great variety of motive power and passenger and MU Train (and freight) rolling stock to enjoy and photograph when and where we did. Great times -- and always a load of rail activity with so many then active and fully intact rail yards (and working car floats) all around the city then!! Sad to see the massive South Bronx Harlem River yards reduced to near nothing now of what it was thru the 1930's-60's eras !. Just about all of its tracks and structures, including the remaining (from May 1958 thru some time in 2005) short low steel EL trestle from where it connected to the 3rd Ave EL's famous " S " curving double deck structure at its westerly end, to its east end at the Stone Embankment Wall for the NHRR-NYW&B Willis Avenue Station and head house / offices.
Tom - Glad you also enjoyed these photos and memories -- well, now we have 3 MOUNTIES here -- heh
ALSO -- on the Mott Haven / Harlem yards topic - Here are a few videos I found -- hope they work and link open-up here the way I copy-pasted embedded them. One --the short one below - was taken in March 1957 of 16mm film of the CNJ RR Bronx Terminal operation
regards - Joe F
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tO_8ZCm3Vqw&sns=em
The other two videos are of that HO Scale Working model of the CNJ RR circular Freight house and with all the track work and special-work replicated and functioning, including car floats. I had mentioned this unique HO Scale Freight Switching layout in one of my previous posts above.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pErgphjRECo&nohtml5=False
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iaxalIXgqQ&sns=em&nohtml5=False#t=284.830757
