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Linggo, Disyembre 6, 2015

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Another aerial




Todd Shipyards and the Hoboken Shore Railroad, 1959. Collection of author.
Another aerial, but this time it is of the Hoboken Shore in 1959. The Todd shipyards can be seen at right just before the interchange tracks with the Erie at Weehawken. The Hoboken Shore's yard stretches in front of the highway ramp. A string of yellow reefers sits on the far yard track - maybe just arrived from the west coast getting ready to move to the car float and to a Manhattan Island pocket terminal for tomorrow morning's markets.

Amongst other things I haven't known about before now is a pedestrian walkway bridge behind and to the right of the blue Todd Shipyard building. It crosses the Hoboken Shore yard and the Erie approach tracks to their Weehawken Yard to the right of the photo.

One of the questions rolling around the back of my head is how to model the front edge of the layout. We will be looking from this vantage point - standing in the Hudson - and most of the interesting stuff is on this side of the tracks. A considered approach is to model only the track on the layout itself and then model the river stuff on a separate removable piece for photos and non-operational viewing. I'd probably pick a couple of areas to do this with like a shipyard and a set of docks. Too many good modeling opportunities to pass up...





Sabado, Enero 3, 2015

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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.