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PostPosted: Fri Apr 17, 2020 11:24 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

"SEATRAIN TEXAS" (includes photos)........

http://www.navsource.org/archives/30/13/13053.htm
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 17, 2020 7:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Must mention "SeaLand".........

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SeaLand
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 17, 2020 7:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The "SS IDEAL-X", the world's first commercially-successful container ship (a converted WW2 tanker); the revolutionary vessel sailed from Newark to Houston in 1956.

She did not have a long service life; the vessel was later sold and was scrapped in 1964.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Ideal_X
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 17, 2020 9:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Though the concept of containerization was certainly less labor intensive and cheaper than the loading/unloading of traditional freighters, containerization, indeed, ended the era of freighters docking at Hudson River piers.

Then, too, there were the issues of waterfront corruption, as clearly depicted in 1954's "ON THE WATERFRONT".

Through the 1960's, numerous piers lined both sides of the Hudson River, where freighters loaded/discharged cargo.

Recall, also, the "deep water" piers in Staten Island, that once lined the waterfront from Tompkinsville to Clifton (served by trucks and the B&O/SIRT)

Freighters, also, docked on the East River, on both the Manhattan and Brooklyn sides.

The combination of the growing trend towards containerization, plus the closing of most industries within the port, rendered both "traditional" freighters and their piers obsolete.

A new era was beginning.....

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PostPosted: Fri Apr 17, 2020 9:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

In this 1970 photo, we see a train of elderly SIRT ME-1's (1925) heading to St. George terminal and its ferry connections.

Note the early container facilities off to the left (west)..........

http://www.newdavesrailpix.com/sirt/htm/sirt31.htm

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PostPosted: Fri Apr 17, 2020 9:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Further recalling industrial/freight rail service on Staten Island, here we see a steeplecab operated by "AMERICAN COCK CO.".........

http://www.newdavesrailpix.com/nyc/htm/adc01.htm

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PostPosted: Fri Apr 17, 2020 9:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Back in the old days, BEDT was also a major rail/marine operation in New York Harbor.

This timeless scene dates to 1964, showing a BEDT tug hard at work with two loaded carfloats, traveling up the Hudson (note those classic "Fallen Flag" freight cars!)

The large brick building in the background (w/smokestacks) had been, in previous years, the H&M (Hudson Tubes) powerhouse; Harborside Terminal can also be seen on the left.........

http://www.rr-fallenflags.org/misc-b/btrr-b44amh.jpg

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PostPosted: Fri Apr 17, 2020 9:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Nothing seen here on the New Jersey waterfront exists today; here, in 1976, we see new R-46 subway cars (signed "E" and "EE") on a BEDT barge, awaiting their trip away from the rails of the Erie-Lackawanna/ConRail, and across the harbor to MTA rails.......

http://www.rr-fallenflags.org/misc-b/btrr-b60abp.jpg

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PostPosted: Fri Apr 17, 2020 10:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Mention must be made of the magnificent, unique (and historic) "STARRETT-LEHIGH" building in Manhattan, once an important part of the Lehigh Valley Railroad's rail/truck operations on the West Side of Manhattan (inside the huge building, the box cars rode on elevators!).......

https://www.starrett-lehigh.com/the-building/about-starrett-lehigh
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 17, 2020 10:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ahhh, behold our glorious industrial past! Very Happy

In 1963, we see the handsome and elegant-looking B&O tugboat "WALTER PRICE" on the East River, handling a carfloat.

I remember the B&O's St. George float yard (adjacent to the ferry terminal) being quite busy back in the 60's.

Here is yet another classic example of yesterday's commonplace becoming today's memories......

http://www.rr-fallenflags.org/bo/bo-tug.jpg

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PostPosted: Fri Apr 17, 2020 10:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Here's an interesting page (w/links) on railroad yards in New York City.......

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_railroad_yards_in_New_York_City
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 17, 2020 10:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

See also:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arlington_Yard

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howland_Hook_Marine_Terminal
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 18, 2020 12:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

LIONEL "aquarium cars" cafloated across the Hudson River??....well......in a manner of speaking...... Wink

Many years ago, there was an excellent article in "CLASSIC TOY TRAINS" about LIONEL's famed "Aquarium Cars"; in the article, there was also some fascinating information on actual aquarium cars that once traveled on the rails, and this included mentioning the shipment of live fish from upstate New York to Manhattan, via the NYCRR.

These rail cars were equipped with tanks into which live fish were loaded; the cars, which were equipped with steam lines and high-speed passenger trucks (like milk cars and REA cars) traveled down to Weehawken, where they were then carfloated across the Hudson River to Manhattan.

From there, trucks took over, delivering the live fish to New York markets (recall, at the time, New York still had a very large Jewish population)

Talk about the perfect combination of "rails 'n water"......Wink

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PostPosted: Sat Apr 18, 2020 1:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

See also.......

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shedd_Aquarium *

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monticello_Railway_Museum **

*Note mention of the "NAUTILUS" rail car, and also, the trips by rail from Florida to Chicago, transporting live specimens, in 1930.

**Home to the "NAUTILIS II" aquarium car.
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Speaking of fish in relation to this thread.....

Many people today wonder where the inspiration came from the classic 1970's thriller, "JAWS".

Even many New Jerseyans would be quite surprised to learn that the inspiration for "JAWS" came from several incidents along the New Jersey Shore......and, also, involving a creek adjacent to a NY&LB trestle! Shocked

In 1916, a vicious shark attack took place 200 yards east of the double-track NY&LB trestle at Matawan, which then spanned Matawan Creek.

In July, 1916, a young man who, ironically, would later become a CNJ employee, was grazed by a shark near the trestle; three days later, a young boy was swimming in the same location was attacked by a shark.

The boy's teenage friend tried to rescue him, but was attacked himself, and, sadly, later died of his wounds.

Another boy, swimming further down the creek was attacked by a shark, and, though he managed to climb out of the water, lost a leg.

A few days later, the mangled remains of one of the boys who were swimming near the NY&LB trestle were found.

These tragic incidents, coupled with others, were said to basis for both the book and the motion picture, "JAWS".

As an aside, the Matawan Creek trestle burned down in a spectacular fire in December, 1946; typical of the CNJ's long-standing "Can Do" policy, a "temporary" replacement trestle was constructed and put into operation in just ten days!

Many re-routings became the norm prior to the new trestle's opening (and for some time to come), over rail lines that, sadly, no longer exist today.

This single-tracked trestle remained in use by both CNJ and PRR trains until early 1953, when the filling in of the former creek area was finally completed, and service (both to Jersey City and New York) went back to normal.

Today, NJT's North Jersey Coast Line commuters (and train crews), rolling through Matawan, have little or no idea that the "landlocked" area that they are passing through was once a creek crossed by a trestle.....a trestle that once spanned the waters where vicious shark attacks had taken place, over a century earlier........

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