Old New York

On occasion New York Westchester and Back cars were serviced at Van Ness shop for Heavy repairs and modifications. New Haven equipment was loaned to the NYW&B at that time To make service.

The connection between the Dyre ave line and the NH at 174th St. remained well into the 60's. It was used for new car deliveries, coal and ballast hoppers and BMT el cars from Brooklyn for scrapping. Many cars were scrapped at the site between the  Colosium bus garage and the 174th St. Bridge along the Bronx River.

Great pictures and history lesson. Someone needs to document this in a digital book

This thread is so large, not sure if this has been included yet, but I stumbled upon this collection of "oldest video of NYC" which I thought you'd all like.

Best...Rich

Cool Video   Lots of Erie stuff on the West side of manhattan   And I never knew the NY Aquarium was originally in Battery Park

Very cool video,

When I was a young boy growing up in NYC, my grand father and father took me to FAO Schwarz and Madison Hardware regularly. Always a treat. Santa also left some really nice items that I still have. 

Some Freight

Nice photos.

Don

In the photo with the Erie Boxcab, does it look like the auto the autos and flatbed truck have their headlights blacked out? Hard to tell for sure. If it is, then it would date the picture as being during WWII, from Dec. 1941 to 1945.

 Tom 

Bob,

  Great photos...I noticed what looks like some sort of double poling pocket on each corner of the pilot, I guess to give the crew more options (dangerous as they may be), depending on the angle/position of cars on adjacent tracks. Never noticed that on any other locomotive before.

  Tom

great photos. wonderful history here.

Does any one make  a steeplecab, like this?

Over the years, there have been a number of steeplecab electrics offered in brass and/or kit form. I don't believe anything specific for the 4001 has been introduced. A steeplecab is in the ETS line but it is a model of a different prototype and utilizes tinplate construction. I've included pictures of a few of the available options below. The ETS locomotive is in the third picture.

Bob

SOmething to add to my York list!!  Thanks Bob

Bob I remember getting stuck on West street while the Pennsy moved cars across the street to the floats  Car floats always amazed me.

BTW  I have one of those ETS boxcabs   Cool little engine that runs pretty good.

Some Jay Street Connecting RR. Located in Brooklyn between the Brooklun Bridge and Manhattan Bridge and to the North .Operated from around 1900 to 1959.  They had two yards and two float locations. The two yards were connected by street trackage .Two steam tank engines were used until 1931. There were a variety of small locomotives used over the years including Jay street No 4 which was thought to be the first diesel locomotive built by GE in 1918. Iy only lasted a short time on the Jay street line, being returned to GE in 1919. Iy looked a lot ike that ETS engine except no pantographs. The Jay st  Connecting had two tigs for floating operations. The John McCormack was thought to be the largest RR Tug operated in NY harbor in Float service. 

 No 3 doing some street running

 No 4 Posing when new

 No 300 an Alco  box cab

 No 5 an Alco- GE HH600

 Np 7511  a Vukcan product

 The John McCormack underway in NY Upper bay. She was very colorful

 The John McCornack working a car float

I remember as a boy in the 1950s, seeing the car floats going up and down the East River, under the Williamsburg Bridge.

Richie

Rich

We could have been neighbors in those days. I lived on S Second street.

I lived at 253 Rutledge, between Marcy and Harrison Aves.  I used to walk up to the Hewes St. station and travel into Union Square(changed at Canal St. for uptown Bway local), pretty bold for an 8 year old.

Richie