>From Archives_@_Railfan.net >Message-ID: <01ab01c66b7a$d0a982f0$7a01a8c0_@_paul> >Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2006 06:51:05 -0400 >From: "Paul Brezicki" <doctorpb_@_bellsouth.net> >Subject: (erielack) May Calendar Photo > >Erie's Bronx outpost was the 149th St Freight Station, and was one of two >"inland stations" with trackage, the other being 28th St in Manhattan. It >was very close to the Bronx Terminal Market and I imagine had a spur into >there, although there was no direct connection to the NYC. > >Paul B > >Did the tug and barge travel all the way up the Hudson to Harlem Transfer >via Spuyten Dyvil to Harlem River or did they go around the bottom of the >island and up the East River to Harlem River? > >If they only went across to West 28 St., was there a connection the NYC's >High Line and then up the West Side and across Spuyten Dyvil to the Bronx? > >Rick I was a NYC yard clerk at Bronx Terminal Market in 1960-61, and there was no track connection through the fence between the Market and the Erie. The Erie handled wine cars to the Market using a car float to the Market's own float bridge. I'm pretty sure that the tug and float came up the Harlem River, not around Spuyten Duyvil. On one of the NYC (??) forums a while back it was fairly well documented that there was a track connection between the Erie yard at 28th St. and the NYC 30th St. Yard, but I think it ran through a warehouse, and it was not used for interchange. The Erie Lackawanna Mailing List Sponsored by the ELH&TS http://www.elhts.org ------------------------------
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