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gizwiz > Now a registered landmark, this was a railroad leveling device for freight cars. A barge full of freight cars, about 12 to 16 of them would be brought over from New Jersey via Tug. Depending on the tide, this device would raise or lower the landside tracks (now torn out) so the cars be off-loaded with a small switch engine. Most of the shots in this album were taken with a Samsung cell phone camera. I was just out on a long walk and haven't planned on taking pictures, but then I couldn't resist. The camera phone was the only camera handy at the time.
gizwiz > Rotting away in the foreground is part of a another freight car levelng device. It's hard to believe, but at 72nd Street & the Hudson River there was a huge railroad yard, complete with a Roundhouse. The Roundhouse was torn down in the 40's, and the rest of the tracks were abandoned in the late 1970's. Then everything was all torn up to make room for the 7 buildings of Trump Place.
gizwiz > Right inside Riverside Park South is this real decomissioned diesel locomotive. It can't go far because the tracks end three feet in front of the locomotive and three feet behind it!
gizwiz > It was an old New York Central switch engine, the kind that moved freight cars on and off those huge RR barges.
gizwiz > This is not Riverside Park south, but since we're looking at diesel locomotives, I thought I'd drop this picture in here. I got to drive this locomotive when I was visiting San Francisco's Golden Gate Railroad Museum. You could get instruction & pilot the locomotive by making a $150 donation. It was worth it! The museum operated on an abandoned Navy Yard, so there were no other running trains anywhere. There was one RR Crossing though, and I had to learn the proper whistle signals when approaching it. The museum has since moved, but I don't think it was because of my driving.
gizwiz > In the distance, about 1/2 mile from the rotting railroad machinery, is the West 79th Street Boat Basin. I have a boat there. See that big yacht? My 22' workboat & 24' runabout are no where near that yacht. And the yacht owner likes it that way.
gizwiz > My first visit to the High Line, a railroad that ran in Manhattan. It originally ran at street level, but after many accidents with traffic, it became an elevated railroad. Only about two miles long, it delivered freight to companies right off the Hudson River. It was about to be torn down, when a movement started to save it & turn it into an elevated park. Loving railroads, I became a charter member. www.thehighline.org.
gizwiz > All the tracks were removed during the change-over to a park. After the renovation, some of the tracks were relaid & orginal types of wild flowers replanted. It is an amazing job! Hard to believe but all of this is about 25 feet in the air on elevated columns. That tunnel goes right through a building.
gizwiz > Here's a shot that shows how railroad sidings let companies take full sized box cars right inside their building. (Now bricked over.)
Now a registered landmark, this was a railroad leveling device for freight cars. A barge full of freight cars, about 12 to 16 of them would be brought over from New Jersey via Tug. Depending on the tide, this device would raise or lower the landside tracks (now torn out) so the cars be off-loaded with a small switch engine. Most of the shots in this album were taken with a Samsung cell phone camera. I was just out on a long walk and haven't planned on taking pictures, but then I couldn't resist. The camera phone was the only camera handy at the time.
 > Now a registered landmark, this was a railroad leveling device for freight cars. A barge full of freight cars, about 12 to 16 of them would be brought over from New Jersey via Tug. Depending on the tide, this device would raise or lower the landside tracks (now torn out) so the cars be off-loaded with a small switch engine. Most of the shots in this album were taken with a Samsung cell phone camera. I was just out on a long walk and haven't planned on taking pictures, but then I couldn't resist. The camera phone was the only camera handy at the time.
Now a registered landmark, this was a railroad leveling device for freight cars. A barge full of freight cars, about 12 to 16 of them would be brought over from New Jersey via Tug. Depending on the tide, this device would raise or lower the landside tracks (now torn out) so the cars be off-loaded with a small switch engine. Most of the shots in this album were taken with a Samsung cell phone camera. I was just out on a long walk and haven't planned on taking pictures, but then I couldn't resist. The camera phone was the only camera handy at the time.
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