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Miscellaneous Freight Railroad Images in New York City

INDUSTRIAL & OFFLINE TERMINAL RAILROADS
OF THE BROOKLYN, QUEENS, STATEN ISLAND, BRONX & MANHATTAN:


MISCELLANEOUS FREIGHT RAILROAD IMAGES
IN NEW YORK CITY

(historical & present day)

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(photo album only)

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Historical Era Modern Era


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updated:
WEDNESDAY, 03 JANUARY 2010 - 17:50


NYNH & H Hell Gate yard images added 02/03/2010 Historical Era
location notations added to select NYC Manhattan photos 01/23/2010 Historical Era


   This page, for the most part, is an album of images pertaining to freight operations in Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island, Bronx, and Manhattan.

   Where possible, I have tried to provide locomotive data.

   The first section, is a compilation of historical images I have encountered while researching the topics and locations on my website.

   The second section are images that I took of modern era operations that now occupy the sites of the former railroads and operations that I research.


Historical Era

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New York Central
Street Operations
Manhattan, NY

New York, New Haven & Hartford
Harlem Yard Float Bridges

Bronx, NY

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New York Central Railroad - Street Operations (pre-Highline)
Manhattan, NY


New York Central Lines - Hudson Street & Vestry Street - ca. 1900
(looking northeast at 188, 190, 192 Hudson Street.
train is heading  (pushing) towards New York Central & Hudson River Freight Depot one block right (south).

Vestry Street streetcar left edge of photo)

NYPL Digital Archives

New York Central Railroad #6

builder:
c/n:
built:
wheel arrangement:
cylinders:
driver diameter:
retired:

Schenectady
2954
1/1890
0-4-0 Dummy
15" x 22"
46"
1913

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New York Central West 30th Street Yard - Eleventh Avenue & West 30th Street - ca. 1906
Looking northeast.

NYPL Digital Archives

New York Central Railroad #1906

builder:
c/n:
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wheel arrangement:
cylinders:
driver diameter:
weight:




0-6-0 Dummy
18" x 24"
55"

63 Ton

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New York Central Railroad - Eleventh Avenue* & West 26th Street - ca. 1911
Man on horse is a NYCRR Watchman / RR Policeman a/k/a "West Side Cowboy" escorting the locomotive as required by NY City law.
Bain News Service
George Grantham Bain collection

Shorpy photo archives

New York Central Railroad #11

builder:
c/n:
built:
wheel arrangement:
cylinders:
driver diameter:
renumbered:
retired:

Schenectady
2480
2/1888
0-4-0 Dummy
15" x 22"
46"
#4
1909

* According to Tim Zukas, this is Tenth Avenue, not Eleventh Avenue. Why the discrepancy in negative marking?

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New York Central Railroad - Meat Packing District - Eleventh* Avenue & West 12th Street - ca. 1911
Man on horse is a NYCRR Watchman / RR Policeman a/k/a "West Side Cowboy" escorting the locomotive as required by NY City law.
Bain News Service
George Grantham Bain collection

Shorpy photo archives

New York Central Railroad #11

builder:
c/n:
built:
wheel arrangement:
cylinders:
driver diameter:
renumbered:
retired:

Schenectady
2480
2/1888
0-4-0 Dummy
15" x 22"
46"
#4
1909

* According to Tim Zukas, this is Tenth Avenue, not Eleventh Avenue. Why the discrepancy in negative marking?

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New York Central Railroad - Eleventh Avenue* & ? Street - ca. 1911
Man on horse is a NYCRR Watchman / RR Policeman a/k/a "West Side Cowboy" escorting the locomotive as required by NY City law.\
Bain News Service
George Grantham Bain collection

Shorpy photo archives

New York Central Railroad #11

builder:
c/n:
built:
wheel arrangement:
cylinders:
driver diameter:
renumbered:
retired:

Schenectady
2480
2/1888
0-4-0 Dummy
15" x 22"
46"
#4
1909

* According to Tim Zukas, this is Tenth Avenue, not Eleventh Avenue. Why the discrepancy in negative marking?

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New York Central Railroad West 35th Street Yard - Twelfth Avenue & West 35th Street - March 17, 1929

(looking north)

P. L. Sperr photo
NYPL Digital Archives

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New York Central Railroad West 35th Street Yard - Eleventh Avenue & West 34th Street - May 12, 1930
P. L. Sperr photo

NYPL Digital Archives

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New York Central West 30th Street Yard - Eleventh Avenue & West 31th Street - June 2, 1931
(looking northeast)

P. L. Sperr photo
NYPL Digital Archives

New York Central Railroad #1536

c/n:
built:
# units built:
renumbered:
body:
motor:
weight:
retired:
scrapped:
notes:

ALCo c/n 68369 - GE c/n 11121
8/1930
35 (#1526 - #1560)
#536
T3-2
1 - 300 hp
126 tons
7/1953
10/1955

"Tri Power"

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New York Central West 30th Street Yard - Eleventh Avenue & West 30th Street - February 7, 1932
(looking northwest)

P. L. Sperr photo
NYPL Digital Archives

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New York Central Railroad West 35th Street Yard - Twelfth Avenue & West 35th Street - May 30, 1934

(looking east)

P. L. Sperr photo
NYPL Digital Archives

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New York Central - Eleventh Avenue & West 49th Street -1936
unknown photographer
A. LaBianca collection
via S. Berliner

New York Central Railroad #1542

c/n:
built:
# units built:
renumbered:
body:
motor:
weight:
retired:
rebuilt:
retired:
notes:

ALCo c/n 68735 - GE c/n 11127
11/1930
35 (#1526 - #1560)
#542
T3-2
1 - 300 hp
129 tons (possibly an error - all others in this series weighed 126 tons)
11/1949
11/1950 to slug #473
5/1962

"Tri Power"

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New York Central Railroad West 39th Street Yard - Twelfth Avenue & West 39th Street - March 4, 1937
(looking east)
P. L. Sperr photo
(this location by the way, is still a railroad yard, albeit the Long Island Rail Road Penn Station storage yard)

NYPL Digital Archives

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New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Hell Gate Yard Float Bridges
Bronx, NY


New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad "Hell Gate" Yard - April 21, 1931
(looking north)
P. L. Sperr photo
NYPL Digital Archives

added 03 February 2010

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New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad "Hell Gate" Yard - unknown date
(looking north)
unknown photographer

added 03 February 2010

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Modern Era

Please note:
The photographs in the following section were taken by myself (the author)
and not for reproduction or use without my express consent.
Please contact me at bedt14@aol.com for consent.

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New York Container Terminal CSX / NYCT Arlington Yard CSX Arthur Kill Lift Bridge

New York New Jersey Rail

Port Jersey


New York Container Terminal
Howland Hook, Staten Island, NY

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Please note:
General photography / videography is prohibited at the New York Container Terminal facility.

I submitted a written request and was granted permission by officials of Port Authority of New York & New Jersey and New York Container Terminal
to photograph the locomotive operations. If you do not have permission, you will be stopped and detained - security is tight!

Special thanks are due to:

Frank Rose
Gary L. Smith
Arie Van Tol

Supervisor of Rail Operations, NYCT,
Maintenance Unit Supervisor, NY Marine Terminals, PANYNJ 
Manager of Marine Terminals, PANYNJ

   You may view the New York Container Terminal website here: New York Container Terminal


February 26, 2009 - New York Container Terminal, Howland Hook, Staten Island, NY
Morristown & Erie Railroad (leased power) #20 - SW1500

NYCT locomotive #2109 (GP38-2) was temporarily out of service with a cracked gear pan.
NYCT leased this locomotive from Morristown & Erie while NYCT #2109 was awaiting receipt of the new gear pan.

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February 26, 2009 - New York Container Terminal, Howland Hook, Staten Island, NY
Morristown & Erie Railroad (leased power) #20 - SW1500
just east of Western Avenue crossing
Arlington Yard in background

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February 26, 2009 - New York Container Terminal, Howland Hook, Staten Island, NY
Morristown & Erie Railroad (leased power) #20 - SW1500
Western Avenue crossing

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February 26, 2009 - New York Container Terminal, Howland Hook, Staten Island, NY
Morristown & Erie Railroad (leased power) #20 - SW1500
Western Avenue crossing
(taken from Arlington Yard)

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Returning to the New York Container Terminal in May 2009 for my exploration of the Procter & Gamble property,
I caught #2109 back in service:


May 1, 2009 - New York Container Terminal, Howland Hook, Staten Island, NY
New York Container Terminal #2109 - GP38-2
Western Avenue crossing

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May 1, 2009 - New York Container Terminal, Howland Hook, Staten Island, NY
New York Container Terminal #2109 - GP38-2
Western Avenue crossing


CSX  / NYCT Arlington Yard
Staten Island, NY

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February 26, 2009 - CSX municipal waste container train PN-08 pulling into the AK Bridge approach from the Travis Branch Loop (west).
CSX #5277 and #5327 (ES44DC)

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February 26, 2009 - After clearing the turnout from the Travis Branch into the AK Bridge Approach (left track),
the train pulls clear of the crossover in the Arlington Yard throat tracks.
The train then reverses direction and backs the municipal waste containers down (east) into Arlington Yard.
That's James the of the CSX train crew hitching a ride into the yard.

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February 26, 2009 - The  CSX locomotives on the Arlington Yard throat track crossover backing (east) into the yard.

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February 26, 2009 - Trackman of the New York Container Terminal throwing the turnout,
after the CSX crew dropped of the municipal waste cars, and pulled back forward (west).
Now it will back down (east) on the intermodal container stack train to couple up.

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While the CSX crew is moving forward to pick up the container stack train already assembled in Arlington Yard,
the NYCT crew is already bringing up more containers from the NYCT into the Arlington Yard.


NYCT locomotive (leased M&E #20) moving back down the incline to the NYCT facility.

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February 26, 2009 - CSX crew backing down (east) on the intermodal container stack train.

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February 26, 2009 - CSX locomotives coupled up to intermodal container stack train and preparing to pull train forward (west)
clear of turnout, and back down on municipal waste containers with the intermodal container stacks.
Once the intermodal container cars are coupled up to the municipal waster container cars, the CSX crew
will wait for the AK (Arthur Kill) Bridge to drop, and will then proceed west to Cranston Junction, NJ.
The CSX crew on this trick was particularly friendly and informative! Thats JJ in the cab (engineer) and
James (conductor / brakeman) on the ground.


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CSX - PANYNJ Arthur Kill Vertical Lift Bridge
Elizabeth, NJ  / Staten Island, NY

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   One of, if not my favorite railway bridge, is the Arthur Kill Vertical Lift Bridge " AK Bridge" connecting Cranston Junction, in Elizabeth, New Jersey; with Arlington Yard and the North Branch, Staten Island, NY.

   This bridge is the longest vertical lift bridge in the world, and was built by the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad.

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May 1, 2009 - CSX # 5393 (ES44DC) & #504 (CW44AH)

(according to Gary Smith of the NYCT, that bridge approach grade is approximately 2½ %!)

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New York New Jersey Rail
Brooklyn, NY & Greenville, NJ

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   New York New Jersey Rail operates the former New York Cross Harbor Railroad, which was the successor to the New York Dock Railway, which in turn absorbed the Bush Terminal Railroad.

   The New York New Jersey has operations at either end of the carfloat route: Bush Terminal Brooklyn, NY and Greenville, NJ.

   The New York New Jersey Rail website may be viewed here: New York New Jersey Rail

   Paul Strubeck's website has a detailed history of this operation, as well as locomotive roster history: New York Cross Harbor Railroad


July 2006 - Brooklyn, NY

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July 2006 - Brooklyn, NY

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July 2006 - Greenville, NJ

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July 2006 - Greenville, NJ

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July 2006 - Greenville, NJ

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February 26, 2009 - Greenville, NJ

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February 26, 2009 - Greenville, NJ

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February 26, 2009 - Greenville, NJ


Port Jersey
Jersey City, NJ

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   The Port Jersey Railroad is a small shortline, but don't let that fool you. They move a substantial about of freight in Jersey City from various modes of shipping.

   Their website may be viewed here: Port Jersey Railroad


February 26, 2009 - Jersey City, NJ

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February 26, 2009 - Jersey City, NJ

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February 26, 2009 - Jersey City, NJ

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February 26, 2009 - Jersey City, NJ


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