Newport/Hoboken - Amazing RR history here!

Wow - this is a helluva beautiful railroad terminal. You can still feel the grandeur of yesteryear…
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Not a huge terminal, but nice. Since its "off the beaten track, by big cit standards, there's been no idiot come along to "Update" it, or screw around with it.
Its been cleaned up, but left alone. Still the same benches that I sat on 50 years ago. Of the 5 terminals that were on the jersey side of the hudson, its the only active one left...and the only other one left is CNJ Communipaw, which hasnt seen a train since 1967. I think HOB was the largest of the 5 terminals, too.

Can't mention railroads in Hoboken with out a shout-out to the old Hoboken Shore RR.

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pdtrains wrote:Not a huge terminal, but nice. Since its "off the beaten track, by big cit standards, there's been no idiot come along to "Update" it, or screw around with it.
Its been cleaned up, but left alone. Still the same benches that I sat on 50 years ago. Of the 5 terminals that were on the jersey side of the hudson, its the only active one left...and the only other one left is CNJ Communipaw, which hasnt seen a train since 1967. I think HOB was the largest of the 5 terminals, too.

Hoboken is/(was?) 18 tracks and CNJ 20 tracks so about the same size.

Absolutely gorgeous.

I've always been a fan of ornate architecture, especially rail terminals and old theatres.

I've also been intrigued by the complicated trackwork of these stub-end terminals.