Bush Terminal transfer bridge work.

Large Weeks barge mounted crane at Bush Terminal this morning. Looks to be moving the pontoon transfer bridge. Hope this is not the end of an era, but only a temporary move.

It's going to the Greenville side so they can float to both sides.

Here's a couple of grab photos.

At 10AM, being rigged:

http://jtunnel.rrpicturearchives.net/sh ... id=3283248

At Noon, already on the barge:

http://jtunnel.rrpicturearchives.net/sh ... id=3283249

Didn't the float bridges on the Brooklyn side sink during the hurricane?

Brooklyn fared well. Greenville got hit bad, and it is reported the the PANYNJ has torn down the old PRR Transfer Bridges. The sad end of a era.

The reason for the movement of the Bush Terminal Bridge. Hopefully traffic can resume soon.

jtunnel wrote:Brooklyn fared well. Greenville got hit bad, and it is reported the the PANYNJ has torn down the old PRR Transfer Bridges. The sad end of a era.

The reason for the movement of the Bush Terminal Bridge. Hopefully traffic can resume soon.

For more information and pictures please check here:
http://members.trainweb.com/bedt/indloc ... #Hurricane

Joe

JoeRailRoad wrote:

jtunnel wrote:Brooklyn fared well. Greenville got hit bad, and it is reported the the PANYNJ has torn down the old PRR Transfer Bridges. The sad end of a era.

The reason for the movement of the Bush Terminal Bridge. Hopefully traffic can resume soon.

For more information and pictures please check here:
http://members.trainweb.com/bedt/indloc ... #Hurricane

Joe

That was very interesting and informative. Thank you for that.


Will 29 be refloated again for the 2nd time in it's life or will it be written off as a total loss?

I guess out of the 4 transfer bridges over there none were repairable status. Well at least NYNJ has the 2 new bridges on the Brooklyn side.

From looking at the link JoeRR provided,most of the foundations for the old PRR bridges had been damaged to the point
that any kind of salvage was not possible,and unsafe as well. 1 of the lift towers had shifted to the next lift tower over.
2 out 4 of the bridges were unusable to begin with,however,some parts of the PRR bridges were saved for museum use.

Service should be up in a week or two. Obviously everything being floated between 65st and the new pontoon installed on the Greenville side. From the Bush side you could make out the black float bridge gantries. They were easier to trace on a clear day with the headlight of the locomotive loading the floats on the Jersey side.

Are the 2 gantry cable houses in Long Island City with "Long Island" painted on them the last left now in NY harbor?

freightguy wrote:

Are the 2 gantry cable houses in Long Island City with "Long Island" painted on them the last left now in NY harbor?

I think there's still one on the west side of manhattan just south of 72nd street at what was the old NYC yard. The new park there also has that ex BEDT S2 painted in NYC black & lettering...

Gentlemen,

The Gantries at Long Island City (Queens) and West 69th (Manhattan), and Brooklyn Navy Yard (Brooklyn) are French Patent a/k/a "contained apron" type transfer bridges. This type had a single gantry for two side by side individual track spans, and as the apron was contained within the span end.

The former Greenville gantries (2 gantries: one for the span and one for the apron) were the last of their type in NY Harbor. The transfer bridges at Greenville were of the "seperate apron" type or Bensel Patent.

Previous "seperate apron" transfer bridges in the New York Harbor area were located at:

• 8 at NYNH&H Oak Point (Bronx),
  • 4 at B&O St George (Staten Island),
    • 1 at PRR West 37th Street (Manhattan), and
      • at least 4 at PRR Harsimus Cove (New Jersey).

All of these were torn down many decades ago.

I highly recommend reading the following to learn the design differences of the various types of transfer bridges used within New York Harbor:

http://members.trainweb.com/bedt/indloc ... ridge.html

This link here is to a table of the types of all known float bridges in NY Harbor, when and where used, and those that have been subsequently relocated and/or surviving in New York Harbor area:

http://members.trainweb.com/bedt/indloc ... rlist.html

Sincerely,

Phil

DogBert wrote:
The new park there also has that ex BEDT S2 painted in NYC black & lettering...

The ex-BEDT locomotive (BEDT #25) in New York Central livery is an ALCo S1. No turbo, Blunt Trucks.

Phil

I could never tell those apart & was too lazy to google

DogBert wrote:I could never tell those apart & was too lazy to google

It took me years to learn the differences. Not that it really makes a difference either.. LOL