Re: (rshsdepot) Lower Manhattan Depots [was B&O Railroad Museum]

["Steven Delibert" <stevdel_@_prodigy.net>]

rshsdepot
Jim =

    I'm particularly interested in "real railroad" operation on the 'way
downtown parts of the NY & Northern; I know that they built down to City
Hall and Astor House at Broadway-Vesey St - Park Row, that this was largely
a horsecar operation, including through passenger cars for "steam" trains;
and I have references to horses pulling boxcars down the Bowery in the
1880's; but I don't really have a coherent picture of all these operations.
Do you have one, or know where to look?
    Thanks
    Steve Delibert

> For those interested in the evolution of  passenger stations and
> terminals in NYC, keep in mind that major El stations sold interline
> rail tickets -- so a B&O passenger could purchase, say, a Washington
> Pullman ticket at, say, 42nd St on the El. The LIRR offered through
> tickets (and timetables) for service to Whitehall St via the El and
> 34th st branch; the New York and Northern no only had through
> schedules and ticketing from Rector St and Whitehall, but originated a
> Boston sleeper from the El station at 155th St, Manhattan.
>

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