Re: (rshsdepot) Manhattan College and Manhattan Station 1855

[Ivan Berger <OldMaven_@_comcast.net>]

luckyshow_@_mindspring.com wrote:
> 
> I  didn't even realize Manhattan College was once in Manhattan, I will have to look up the history.  This is not as stupid as it sounds, Manhattan Colege is now in Riverdale in the Bronx, Five Towns College is not in the Five Towns, West New York is in New Jersey, East New York is in Brooklyn, Manhattan Junction is today's Broadway Junction, etceteras...ok maybe it was stupid of me not to know...

	...and the town of Jersey Shore is in Pennsylvania.
> 
> In library I have been reading newspapers from 1930's from Flushing (Flushing Evening Journal, North Shore Journal, and Whitestone...lots on how they tried to save the LIRR branch, tried to get subway to run it...interesting that at least this time they didn't force its closure by protesting its inefficiencies..when I have read Nassau County papers that  is exactly what they did with the traction lines, especially the Long Island Traction ones. The line was financialy pressed and it sems the final straw was all the regulations to improve stuff that put them under for good...

	I believe that the "subway" lines (actually, elevated) in the Rockaways are old
LIRR tracks, too.

	A note on traction lines: Long ago, probably in the '30s, my Uncle Jerry went
from NYC to Boston via interurban traction lines.  That meant a LOT of changes,
where the trolley line would end at one town's outskirts and you'd have to walk
a few hundred feet across the border to get the next trolley.

	Trolleys were still running in the Bronx in 1945, when I moved out.  In New
Haven, then, too, as I recall.

- -Ivan Berger


> -------Original Message-------
> From: Jim Guthrie <jguthrie_@_pipeline.com>
> Sent: 06/07/03 10:02 PM
> To: rshsdepot_@_lists.railfan.net
> Subject: Re: (rshsdepot) Manhattan College and Manhattan Station 1855
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> > "Manhattan College and Manhattan Station 1855:
> > http://newman.baruch.cuny.edu/digital/2000/subway/images/steam_rr.jpg
> >
> > OK, what station was this exactly?
> 
> It was Manhattan College -- located in Manhattan around 131-132nd St. The
> water you see in the foreground is the Hudson (North) River, and the train
> is heading (most likely in 1855) to the NYC&HR Terminal at St. John's Park
> in downtown Manhattan.
> 
> Cheers,
> Jim
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Ivan Berger

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