| Posted by Tom on October 29, 2014 | |
Nice photo, Dennis. It means so much more when the photographer adds a write-up to the photo and you've made this one more than a little interesting. Very informative !
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| Posted by on October 29, 2014 | |
Thank you for this interesting story. And thanks to the screeners for not noticing the foreground clutter.
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Nice picture and story... thanks for sharing. This railfan is sort of in the same situation... I now live on an "island" of sorts in St Petersburg FL. There is only one active track here now, and it sees very little action. :-(
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Good to see a community that recognizes and appreciates it's history. Nicely captured!
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Wait a minute ... "There is exactly one diesel switcher on my island"? What about the little GE 45-tonners that MTA uses on Maintenance of Way trains in the subways? (I know, I know ... There's always one jerk on here who will contradict whatever one posts. But, factually, those are not "on" the island, but under it, I suppose...)
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As a kid, my grandmother once took me down to the southern end of Riverside Park to see the locomotives and freight trains in the 60th Street Yard. An engineer saw me and invited me to ride with him in the cab of a switcher as me pulled a cut of cars off a barge that had just been tied up.
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Craig, Craig, Craig. Everybody knows subways are not REAL trains. Gee whiz, some people… :-)
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Great narrative. By coincidence, I was just reading an article tonight in a September 1996 Railroad Model Craftsman about Manhattan's West Side Line.
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