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Re: (rshsdepot) Re:SIRT
rshsdepot
The CNJ station that is in Communipaw was built far before 1920's...DL&W in
Hoboken with the upper deck ferry loading, the copper Victorian roof, and a
225 foot clock tower which fell down-I tried looking it up but the book is
very detailed and I haven't found when-20's or 30's maybe-the Hoboken
landmark went up 1907, where the immigrants docked was known as Immigrant's
Slip, I used incorrect name last time...
I don't have the right book to look up Liberty State Park Science Museum/CNJ
Communipaw, Jersey City B&O terminal, but it is a Victorian
Richardsonian-type ...and all the sites on the net I found that put a date
on it (and mentioned the architect I forget the name of) said it was
built/opened 1889.
[why would anyone send to Reply to All when if you send to RSHS List, if you
respond to any message from RSHS, it goes to all on the list?]
And here is a tidbit for any of you far way out there westerners: The
Lackawanna RR W.23rd Street (Manhattan) Ferry Terminal also was sheathed in
copper with a (shorter) clock tower....And to complete the circle, (and to
please others I will modify the Subject heading), the 14th Street Crosstown
streetcar of the New York Railways terminated in a loop here, to the north
the Erie Pavonia Ferry ("electric ferries") ,to the south at a perpendicular
angle to the DL&W ferry building was the one for the CNJ for ferries to
Communipaw...I have great pictures of some of this in books....The CNJ ferry
was also for not only the B&O but the Reading too
Paul
- -----Original Message-----
From: ERIE LACKAWANNA SD45-2 <ERIE-LACKAWANNA_@_prodigy.net>
To: rshsdepot_@_lists.railfan.net <rshsdepot@lists.railfan.net>
Date: Wednesday, February 28, 2001 10:09 PM
Subject: Re: (rshsdepot) Re:SIRT
>rshsdepot
>But original Communipaw station was tiny where a newer one B&O used was
>patterned after the DLW Hoboken station and neither iof these are 1889
>designs. B&O stopped using St George as I told you before, after New CNJ
>Jersey City terminal was built. That is also not the original Hoboken
>Terminal either. Don't have a year the DLW and CNJ terminals were built but
>guess in the 20's. Very simple running to Jersey City to NYC was faster
than
>going to St George. Back then all railroads competed for business and had
to
>find faster routes to satisfy passengers. B&O competed with PRR to DC.
>
>Jerome
>
>
>> rshsdepot
>> BUT-the CNJ terminal at Communipaw dates to 1868, the last terminal
>building
>> that is today preserved was opened 1889, so I am not sure how the early
>> 1900's would have anything to do with when Communipaw was first used by
>> CNJ...if B&O had Washington to St. George early 1900's that was stopped
>for
>> another reason...
>>
>> Paul
>>
>> PS-I for one like when a long thread like this is going-hell I get so
many
>> messages that want me to make 50,000 dollars a day, what is the big \deal
>> about lots of messages...it is not like they are large or anything
>really...
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: ERIE LACKAWANNA SD45-2 <ERIE-LACKAWANNA_@_prodigy.net>
>> To: rshsdepot_@_lists.railfan.net <rshsdepot@lists.railfan.net>
>> Date: Wednesday, February 28, 2001 6:46 PM
>> Subject: Re: (rshsdepot) Re:SIRT
>>
>>
>> >rshsdepot
>> >Washington to St George service lasted much longer than two monhs in the
>> >early 1900's.. Pullman cars were used which would not be on the alleged
>St
>> >George-Cranford run I never heard of. What was its purpose?
>> >
>> >St George service was terminated when new CNJ Terminal opened in Jersey
>> City
>> >in which B&O used White 788 buses to take passengers as far as Columbus
>> >Circle. In both cases, St George and Jersey City service connected
>> Manhattan
>> >via ferry
>> >
>> >----- Original Message -----
>> >From: <I95BERNIEW_@_aol.com>
>> >To: <rshsdepot_@_lists.railfan.net>
>> >Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2001 5:48 PM
>> >Subject: (rshsdepot) Re:SIRT
>> >
>> >
>> >> rshsdepot
>> >> Living in Cranford I did some research through microfilm copies of the
>> >local
>> >> town newspaper. There was only a brief period, I believe in the
1800s,
>> >when
>> >> the B&O ran experimental service between Cranford and Staten Island.
I
>> >> believe this was only done for a month or two.
>> >>
>> >> I believe I have a copy of the original article someplace. I'll try
to
>> >dig
>> >> it up and I'll post the details.
>> >>
>> >> Bernie Wagenblast
>> >
>>
>
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