Re: (rshsdepot) NJ streetcars to NYC via Staten Island . . .

["Paul S. Luchter" <luckyshow_@_mindspring.com>]

I don't think it is any closer from Tottenville to Perth Amboy than up where
the rail bridge is...also although I don't have a nautical chart for there
(I do for Newtown Creek area), I think it may actually be rougher and deeper
water there: whether this means anything to do with bridge building I am not
sure...Also where exactly the Fulton Street they meant was...maybe it was in
Jersey and they were going to use two ferries, one from NJ to SI and one to
Whitehall..I am not sure a Fulton Street is in SI

Paul
- -----Original Message-----
From: Seth Bramson <sbramson_@_bellsouth.net>
To: Paul S. Luchter <luckyshow_@_mindspring.com>
Cc: RSHSDepot <rshsdepot_@_lists.railfan.net>
Date: Thursday, March 22, 2001 7:45 AM
Subject: Re: (rshsdepot) NJ streetcars to NYC via Staten Island . . .


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>"Paul S. Luchter" wrote:
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>> I also saw an article 1895 about plans for NJ traction to use ferries to
Whitehall Street from Staten Island (at Fulton Street) but don't remember
how exactly it would have gotten to Staten Island-wish I'd copied that
article, sorry..
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>> Do you folks remember, when we were on the B&O/S. I. thread, I wrote that
I couldn't remember the name of the place where I thought there was a rail
crossing from S. I. to NJ, and it turned out to be (I thought) Perth Amboy,
but was
>> told there was never same at P. A.   Well, I think I may have seen the
article Paul is referring to and I THINK it mentions the crossing (planned)
at Perth Amboy, which, as I understand it (never unhappy about the folks on
this list
>> correcting me!) is the closest point in NJ to SI.  Is that correct?  If
so, since I believe NJ electric railway service either went to or was
planned for P. A., that would have been the logical crossover point, no?
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