28th Street Yard Initial Sketch

An initial sketch for the Erie 28th Street Yard

I can get the Terminal Stores Warehouse and the 28th Street Yard in a 5'x8' area, to include the float bridge, elevated road and street track of the NYC and Lehigh Valley, I would need an additional 4' in length. hmmm.(Vince Lee and David Ramos are also building versions of the 28th Street Yards.)

Of course, the idea is to stack several yards from around New York Harbor on top of each other (see my article in LDJ no.38 about the Dial-a-Yard concept) , so how the other yards shake out will determine what the overall benchwork size will be. Height of building will be a severe limiter, also, as the Terminal Warehouse is several stories tall. Other New York Harbor yards desired are the DL&W Harlem Transfer Terminal, Erie's 149th Street, maybe the CNJ Bronx Terminal (which Tim Warris is building also),  and either the B.E.D.T. or the Jay Street Connecting RR. There are a lot of yards to choose from around the harbor, so this is by no means a final list!

References: Vincent Lee and Thomas Flagg, Erie R.R. 28th St. Freight Terminal, The Diamond, vol. 18, no.4. pp 4-15.

-Riley

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Hi res 28th Street

For Vince and other interested viewers: The 28th Street aerial file is too large to post a hi-res scan on the blog, but I've made a very large (2400 dpi) file available for a limited time as a Dropbox link for your personal use. You must report back what you see, though! :)

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License.

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28th Street Aerial

Aerial from Hudson River looking at Manhattan Island with the Liggett Building on the right, Erie's 28th Street Yard, a block of industrial buildings and then the much larger New York Central yards. Photo in collection of the author.

Just a quick post of a photo of the Erie 28th street yard and waterfront from March 13, 1929. What is interesting about this aside from the information that can be gotten from the photo itself, is that the reverse side is mislabeled. Somehow the label from another photo got attached to this one. The reverse says it is of automobile crates in Hoboken:

Reverse side of 28th Street aerial photo above.

It may be from this photo seen on eBay several months ago:

Photo seen on eBay dated 1947.

Regardless of the tag, both are fine photos for this researcher.

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