Re: (rshsdepot) Communipaw redux . . .

[Seth Bramson <sbramson_@_bellsouth.net>]

rshsdepot
Au contriare, my friend!
The sheds are still in at Communipaw.  (I see them every year during the Antique
Show in June; I'm set up right in front of one of the bumper posts!)

In re LV.  They not only had the freight terminal there, but they also had the
"Lehigh Valley Terminal" up in the Bronx.  I have a booklet on it.  The Lehigh
had some pretty extensive freight operations in and around N. Y. Harbor.  As far
as the L. V. trains, I do believe they did go into Exchange Place prior to the
opening of the Penn.  If you remind me of the date of the opening of Penn Sta, I
can check my L. V. tt's and give you "the" answer, as I have them back to (yes)
pre-1900.

Incidentally, all, there is a wonderful book, now long out of print, very rare
and sought after titled "The Hoboken Ferry," and I do not remember if it
chronicles the CNJ ferry operation but it does, of course, concentrate on the
Hoboken services, actually going back PRE railroad!

"Paul S. Luchter" wrote:

> It was unfortunate they ripped out the Bush sheds at Communipaw....I really
> miss the ferry slips they removed on the waterfront...now there is an
> historic station with no rational, no tracks or sheds in back, no ferry
> slips in front...why would someone put that station there? many kids should
> ask the Science Museum's staff...
>
> Oh yeah, those ferry slips were built later, the ones that were there in
> 67...Probably contemporaneous with the ferry slips along the North River put
> up between mid-1890's and 1910's, though a few in Manhattan were redone in
> 20's...The copper and rivets have that feel...The big signs that they also
> should have left, that had neat lights and all-those may be 1920's, maybe
> earlier..
>
> Here is a different question relating to this....probably a dumb one I
> admit....The Lehigh Valley had a freight terminal just north of CNJ
> terminal...Why did they not use it for passengers (I think I know that they
> went to Pennsy Staqtion at Exchange Place, am I right?)
>

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