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Re: (erielack) NY Harbor Interchange (was: CNJ Interchange)
Ralph,
Thanks for the link. It should be remembered that other than the LIRR, not
much coal actually got floated around NY. Most was dumped and delivered by
barge. Going back a few years, even the Poughkeepsie Bridge carried a small
percentage of New England anthracite, with the combined New Haven Maybrook,
D&H/B&M, D&H/Rutland and D&H/B&A traffic only eclipsing water traffic in the
1930s.
Going back further, the Erie, DL&W and the others dumped coal at NY and
barged it to New England -- in some cases transloading it back to rail at
Providence, Boston or Salem. There were several reasons for this, icluding a
desire not to tie up coal hoppers off line with a
who-knows-when-they'll-be-back style of railroading <g>. One mighjt also
posit the case that some of the hoppers were not good for interchange
service (The Erie and NYS&W Side Dumps being a perfect example).
In any case, since Steve posted figure for 1941, here's some meat for the
bones -- namely tons over the dumpers in the Port in 1941:
Railroad Location Anthracite Bituminous
CNJ Pier 18, JC 1,022,102 1,726,296
CNJ Elizabethport 4,161 58,546
CNJ Port Liberty 47 158,103
DL&W Hoboken 803,106 402,490
LV Perth Amboy 1,239,811 57,768
RDG Port Reading 1,418,664 1,468,572
PRR South Amboy 1,021,631 2,951,250
NYS&W Edgewater 894,064 62,725
NYO&W Weehawken 183,927
It represents about half of the anthracite delivered to the NY area. I don;t
have good 1941 figures, but in 1940 New Jersey sidings and team tracks
received 4,293,000 tons; NYC and Long Island received 2,444,000 tons
delievered by rail, 513,000 tons went to the New Haven, and 297,000 tons
went to upstate NY by rail.
This gives you an idea of the kind of business the railroads were doing in
coal in NYC on the eve of war, and you can see there's a relatively small
percentage being interchanged.
Cheers,
Jim Guthrie
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