Re:(erielack) Nor'easter Question

["Janet & Randy Brown" <jananran_@_mymailstation.com>]

Back in the days of Erie's Pavonia (Jersey City) Terminal, the Northern and the Susquehanna used Track 13, which extended past the north side of the terminal out over the river.  Sometimes.  At high tide, the water would be over the track.  The loading Susquehanna train would pull out, with its traction motor having kept dry, and the waiting Northern train, behind a K-1 or K-4, would come wading up out of the briney with wheels and lower steps dripping.  It was an act of faith to back down into the water only because "that's the way we do it."

And that was at daily high tide!

Randy Brown
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I just heard that the nor'easter storm heading for the northeast this weekend will carry a 3 to 5 foot storm surge with it.  This could raise the water to track level at Hoboken Terminal.  I remember one time when the water came up in the ferryhouse in the 60s.  The boats were running but you could only board on the upper decks.  That proabably made for a pretty steep ramp to the boat.  With the possibility of the surge, and flooding, it brings up a question.  If the water reaches track level, how do they keep PATH free from flooding?  I've never heard of the tubes filling up with water.  But if the terminal flooded I could imagine the steps to PATH looking like a waterfall.
 
Ed Montgomery
 
 

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