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Re: (rshsdepot) Communipaw redux . . .

rshsdepot
Wasn't aware that the Bush train sheds had been removed at Jersey City, so 
it must have been within the last two years. They were still there when I 
visited last in the spring of '98. Sorry to hear this.

The Liberty Park Commission people (the late Morris Pesin & Audrey Zapp) 
were convinced that they were unstable, and there was no convincing them 
otherwise. They had even had them shored up with steel I-beams, which really 
made a mess. We offered the free services of an architect and engineer in 
1982 to review their condition, but they denied us access to their roofs 
"for insurance reasons." We just threw up our hands and left...

Don


>From: "Paul S. Luchter" <luckyshow_@_mindspring.com>
>Reply-To: rshsdepot_@_lists.railfan.net
>To: "RSHSDepot" <rshsdepot_@_lists.railfan.net>
>Subject: (rshsdepot) Communipaw redux . . .
>Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2001 00:05:47 -0500
>
>rshsdepot
>Sorry about forgetting to retitle the "thread"...
>
>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?)
>
>And no more arguing, or I'll send you all before the Supreme Court!!
>
>Paul Luchter
>

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