INDUSTRIAL, OFFLINE
TERMINAL RAILROADS &
RAIL-MARINE OPERATIONS
OF 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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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.
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New York Central Railroad
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New York Central Railroad #11
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The following map section is taken from a New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Lighterage Map issued ca. 1918:. |
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"I am a son of Joseph V. Gallagher, one of the four Gallagher brothers that ran the company from the early twenties to sometime in the thirties. Your question about the company operating in either Jersey or LI City would be no, expect that the company was sold to Colonial Concrete, headquartered in Jersey, sometime in the thirties.
The photos of scows were mostly likely taken
at the terminals of customers where sand was
delivered." If this is indeed the case, and by rough triangulation of the field of view, then it is believed that Goodwin - Gallagher had their bulkhead location immediately north of the Queensboro (59th Street) Bridge. (That being ascertained by the photographer being in LIC, and on the east shore of the East River on the right and Blackwells Island on the left or west). Also, Ms. Berdy recalled images in her research of a sand dealer just north of the Queensboro Bridge, where the current Queensbridge Park is located. She also goes on to state, there was extensive excavation work in the same vicinity for the 59th Street Subway tunnels (current "N" & "R" train). However, other images reviewed of the actual Contract 61 (N & R line) excavation work, show towering steel cranes on a turntable, that go down into very large (at least 40' x 40') vertical shafts excavated into the ground where the excavated material was unloaded into dump cars. The image above fails to show this type of vertical shaft and crane, and instead shows a silo type structure with dump chute. It is this structure that leads the author to believe this was a aggregate dealer not a construction/excavation site. |
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| New York Container Terminal | CSX / NYCT Arlington Yard | CSX Arthur Kill Lift Bridge |
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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 |
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
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Returning to the New York Container Terminal in May
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CSX - PANYNJ Arthur Kill Vertical
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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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The Arthur Kill Vertical Lift Railroad Bridge was constructed in 1958 through 1959, and officially opened August 25, 1959 by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.
This vertical lift bridge replaced an older swing span that was damaged in a ship collision.
This single track bridge connects Cranston Junction in Elizabeth, New Jersey and Arlington Yard in Staten Island, New York
This bridge is the largest vertical lift bridge in the world.
The two towers are 215 feet in height.
The movable span is 558 feet in length.
In the raised position the span is 135 feet above Mean High Water
In the lowered position the span is 31 feet above Mean High Water.
In 1991, it was taken out of service when the last freight train to use the North Branch (former Staten Island Rapid Transit) crossed it.
In 1994, the New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC) purchased the bridge and the North Shore branch of rail service from CSX.
In 2004, NYCEDC and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (PANYNJ) announced plans to rehabilitate the bridge and reactivate freight rail service on Staten Island. Repairs to the bridge included repainting the steel and rehabilitating the lift mechanism.
The bridge has been painted in "royal blue" in homage to the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. The rehabilitation project was completed in June 2006.
On October 4, 2006, a "train" crossed the bridge for the first time in 16 years. It consisted of just a single locomotive which took on switching duties at the New York Container Terminal.
The bridge now sees regular service for both arriving and departing container stack trains for the New York Container Terminal, and trains of municipal waste departing Arlington Yard.
The bridge is kept in the up position to minimize marine navigation obstacle.
It is lowered on a predetermined schedule, and after the US Coast Guard has
announced its scheduled lowering several times during the day of lowering
(2 hour warning, 1 hour warning, 30 minute warning, 15 minute and 5 minute
warnings are issued)
It is usually lowered twice a day: one in the morning for inbound traffic, one in afternoon for outbound traffic.
It used to appear that the bridge was lowered twice a week (Tuesdays and Thursdays), but increased rail traffic seems to warrant almost daily operation.
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New York New Jersey
Rail
Brooklyn, NY & Greenville, NJ
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This active railroad has been moved to its own page. Please click here:
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.
As of December 2010, New York New Jersey Rail purchased the Port Jersey Railroad. Information is now placed withing the Port Jersey RR chapter of New York New Jersey Rail.
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