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Re: (erielack) Re: CNJ Interchange
BTW and way O.T. (You may delete now . . .)
LIRR consignees on the Bay Ridge Branch -- including a lumber yeard here in
Bay Ridge (I live across the park from the LIRR yard at 65th St, BTW)
received their cars via the float bridge at LIC.
In otherwords, a boxcar coming from New England or the PRR went Port-
Morris-LIC or Greenville to LIC and came back to Bay Ridge, even though the
lumber yard **overlooked** the receiving yard for the float bridges.
And you can'tt even want to **think** how convoluted the routing was to get
a boxcar from the PRR to Huber Ink -- which was directly across the right
of way from the lumber yard (and in sight of the float bridges and could see
Greenville out its second floor windows!) -- but it was off the SBK known
popularly today as the N Train on the subway <g>.
If a shiper specified "Via LIRR" the car went to LIC, down to Parkville for
interchange, then up to 9th Ave, then via the local freight running throught
he Fourth Avenue BMT subway to 59th, and then switched into Huber Ink!
The PRR was very protective of its Bay Ridge investment, and was not about
to let the others take advantage of it. The closest it came was when the
USRA allowed the NYCentral to serve Fresh Pond over the then-brand-new Hell
Gate Bridge.
You might find it as curious as it soes to other historians that Gov Al
Smith stopped Mayor Hylan's four-track tunnel between Bay Ridge and St
George well after construction started (two shafts and some tunnel -- maybe
300 feet about in Bay Ridge, and when he left office a short time later,
owned a ubstantial block of PRR shares he didn;t own when he took office.
Cheers,
Jim Guthrie
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