- --- Njricky2_@_aol.com wrote > If anyone gets to Manhattan when the weather warms up, go to West 23 St. > and the Hudson River. I was there last Thursday night for a film show done by the Working Harbor Committee: vintage films (1930's - 1960's) showing the harbor - including a few railroad car floats in use and a glimpse of an OLD DLW switcher, I think an ALCo HH330. http://www.pier63maritime.com/ http://www.workingharbor.com/home.html > There is a cafe set up on a Lackawanna barge, complete with an EL > caboose sitting there that you can enter and have a look around. Yes, it's a real DLW carfloat, but you wouldn't recognize it. The caboose is Erie Dunmore from 1946. > The menu is picnic food (burgers, etc.) and drinks are available. The > best is that it's affordable, not like our tourist traps in midtown. Closed for the winter, unfortunately. Also a Water Taxi landing, also closed for the winter. > It's worth taking the trip downtown. You can take either the C or E > trains to W23 and 8 Ave or the #1 train to W23 and 7 Ave. Then just walk > west to the river. Or take the 23rd St crosstown bus; it's a free transfer on your Metro-Card. I went in by PATH from Hoboken so I walked 20 minutes - it really is a mile from 6th Avenue to the river. > Sunsets over NJ are great. It's a very relaxing experience. Amen. It even looked interesting after dark, with all the lights in Jersey City, Hoboken and Weehawken. Gary R. Kazin DL&W Milepost R35.7 Rockaway, New Jersey __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com The Erie Lackawanna Mailing List Sponsored by the ELH&TS http://www.elhts.org ------------------------------
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