That was an excellent series, and I have read and reread it. However we were discussing The Bronx, not Manhattan. Paul B Randy writes: > B&O, DL&W, Lehigh Valley and Erie also had freight stations > on the west side of Manhattan, in the neighborhood between > 23rd Street and 30th Street. They also were freight stations > and tram tracks, with the miniature yards to serve them. LV > and Erie did service the enormous warehouse which stood > between them, but the basic traffic moved to and from the > railroads by truck. Their was no cnbbection with the NYC > "High Line"; they were competitors. And the ERIE's yards there were extensively (and admirably) covered in the Diamond by lister Vince, who must be wondering if anybody read it . . . . SGL The Erie Lackawanna Mailing List Sponsored by the ELH&TS http://www.elhts.org ------------------------------
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