Generations of Hoboken Shore Locomotive photos

Representing early and late generation Hoboken Shore Railroad locomotives. All that is missing is the HH660. Yes, I would have to computer model and 3d print all but the 44 tonner... Backdating at some point with catenary? Fun to think about...!

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Updated Locomotive Photos

I have updated the Erie Locomotive page with several 300 and 400 series locomotive photographs I currently have on hand. There are some weird formatting issues I am still wrestling with Blogger on, hence why a couple of images are out of sequence and caption spacing is off. I probably am asking too much posting so many photos in one entry.

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Some More Locomotive Photos

Erie № 418 EMD NW-2 blt.10-49

Erie № 420 EMD NW-2 blt. 10-49

Erie № 520 Alco S-2 blt. 5-49 mu equipped

HBS № 701 GE 44-tonner

Harlem Transfer Company HTCO № 53 GE 44-tonner

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Photos of more yard goats

Nos. 401 and 520 in their later years. Sure, fresh, new, shiny locomotives are great, but I think these little goats get better with age and weathering.

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Ephemera and Photos

Bethlehem Steel workers strike, 6 June 1947, Hoboken, NJ.

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I believe information is worthless unless it gets used, so as a matter of principle, I try to post any ephemera I acquire, and I do it in the spirit of the Creative Commons Copyright to share information freely for non-commercial endeavors. So, feel free to use anything I post with a courtesy credit as long as it is not for commercial endeavors. Its just the right thing to do, and I endeavor to be diligent in return.


These latest bits of visual information are a grab bag to catch up.

Bethlehem Steel workers strike (reverse), 6 June 1947, Hoboken, NJ.

Erie bad order card

Erie bad order card (reverse)

Erie Railroad NY Division & Side Lines schematic (no date)

A seat card from 1956 announcing the change of stations to the Lackawanna's Hoboken Terminal. The two railroads would merge four years later.

Inside a Seatrain Lines ship showing the multiple levels of storage in this stage of the evolution to containerized shipping.

A cut away view of the operation that was published in Popular Mechanics Magazine (http://books.google.com/books?id=0N4DAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA122#v=onepage&q&f=true). this would be amazing to model!

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HBS Photos

14th Street (Coming behind the Stahl Soap Factory, August 1972, from the Jay Held collection)

More from Tim Stuy. The first is a great shot somewhere along 14th street where there are a lot of industries served. The gates are really interesting to me. I'm thinking that operators will need a key to unlock and lock the many industry gates along the line. I'll have to look closely at the maps to see if I can identify from the track and building shapes exactly where it is.

Car float (HBS 701 at the float bridge on October 24, 1964; Rich Taylor photo.)

Next is a signature shot of the care float slip and approach trestle with the Empire State Building in the background. From an excursion trip.

The builder's card for the IR-GE boxcab.

I still need to add some details to my SketchUp model and replace my first 3D print with a completed model. I use Shapeways to print, and the level of detail has gotten fine enough to print rivets. 

Thanks to Tim for letting me post these, and there are more items from him to post later on!

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Photos of the HOG from Steve Berkheimer

Here are some photos that I got from Steve Berkheimer of the original HOG.  Enjoy!

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