60th Street Yard: (Satellite, see topo map below. It stretched along the river from 60th Street up 72nd Street.)
Hudson Yard: (Satellite, I can't find the official name for this railyard.)
John Sandusky posted five photos with the comment: "New York central railroad 69th street transfer bridge. West side of Manhattan."
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| Dennis DeBruler commented on John's post 40°46'44.6"N 73°59'22.2"W |
60th Street Yard
This post taught me that NYC had much more than a ferry dock along the river.
Sahib Akhundzadeh posted four photos with the comment:
Twelfth Avenue, at West 59th Street. The New York Central Railroad 60th Street railway yard.New York, 1924.Credit: P. L. Sperr / NYPL
Sam Pilcer: Was there well into the 1970s. Could hear cars coupling all night.
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| 1 A view looking south from the New York Central's 60th Street railyard toward West 59th Street, where the large power plant of the Interborough subway system can be seen. New York, 1924. Credit: P. L. Sperr / NYPL |
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| 2 A view looking north from the New York Central's 60th Street railway yard. New York, 1924. Credit: P. L. Sperr / NYPL |
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| 3 A view looking north from the New York Central's 60th Street railyard. New York, 1924. Credit: P. L. Sperr / NYPL |
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| 4 A view looking south from the New York Central's 60th Street railyard toward West 59th Street, where the large power plant of the Interborough subway system can be seen. New York, 1924. Credit: P. L. Sperr / NYPL |
I see that the yard used to go up to 76th Street.
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| Steven Alexis Eisenman commented on Shaib's post |
Note the roundhouse on the left (north) side of the yard.
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| Shaib commented on his post Where from pics 1-4 were taken, plus some explanations. An airview of the 60th Street rail yard, 1921. |
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| Shaib commented on his post West Side Highway, 60th Street railway yard and IRT power plant, May 1974 |
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| Shaib commented on his post 1930 |
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| Sahib Akhundzadeh posted NORTH END OF 59TH-72ND STREET FREIGHT TERMINALS OF THE NEW YORK CENTRAL RAILROAD The above picture, taken from a hydroplane over the Hudson River, shows the northern extremity of the freight yards and terminals which extend from 59th to 72nd Street, Manhattan. In the center is Dock 1, longest pier in this area. At the left, the Round house, with 21 stalls, turning an average of 60 engines a day. At the right, four float bridges, over which 500 cars daily, eastbound and westbound, have been handled. This terminal outlay, together with the piers and yards immediately to the south, can handle 1,800,000 lighterage tons yearly. The volume of team track freight has greatly increased in recent months, coincident with the industrial development of uptown Manhattan. The terminals shown form the principal assembling and distributing station of New York’s "Life Line", the only railroad tracks which enter Manhattan Island. Thomas Quinn: date of photo? Sahib Akhundzadeh: Thomas Quinn 1920's Christopher Cutler: It is very impressive but was also very labor intensive. Even more difficult was when freight was shipped over water. In that case the local shipping cost was greater than the rail cost of shipping all the way from Chicago. Droege's great books on the port of NY are my source. [Some comments indicated the Trump bought this railyard land when Penn Central went bankrupt for pennies on the dollar.] Philip M. Goldstein: It's one thing to share images. It's another to have the history.. http://members.trainweb.com/bedt/indloco/nycmanhattan.html Doug Hitchcok shared |
Hudson Yard
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| Sahib Akhundzadeh posted High-angle view of rail yard for New York Central's West Side Line, from the top of R. H. Macy & Co. warehouse at the N. E. corner of 35th Street and Eleventh Avenue. New York, Sept. 1957. Credit: Angelo Rizzuto / Library of Congress |
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| Shaib commented on his post Railyard between 11th and 12th Avenues, as viewed looking north in 1951 |
The NYC West Side Line is still used down to 34th Street because it joins the Pennsy tunnels so that Amtrak trains can use the Pennsy depot. The highline that went further south is now a trail.
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| 1955/58 Weehawken and 1956/59 Central Park Quads @ 24,000 |
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