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

[Seth Bramson <sbramson_@_bellsouth.net>]

rshsdepot
A PARTIAL answer to Steve's question:  The Museum of the City of New York, up
on (I think) 5th Avenue has much of the material we are looking for.  I do not
know how they keep it or how easy it is to access, but I sure recommend it as a
starting point for local research.

Steven Delibert wrote:

>     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?

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