Tag: freight trains
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Back to the 1960s — fireboat special
UPDATE 3: This post has been updated with a correction. The transfer bridge where the Frying Pan and Harvey are located was a B&O Railroad Pier, not Lehigh Valley as originally written. The LV transfer bridge which fed the Starrett Lehigh Building was located north of Pier 66, closer to where the Pier 66 boat…
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North of North
A trip 30 miles up the Hudson on Wednesday to Verplanck, NY, beyond the limits of the North River, found some familiar vessels. The Coast Guard Cutter Sturgeon Bay, which passed us heading north on Tuesday, was anchored near the top of Haverstraw Bay. Sitting across the river at Stony Point is an old fire…
North River Notes 