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A couple of additional observations: For anyone interested in looking up the LOC’s 1896 Sanborn map showing the 3rd St. carbarn site, it’s on map #18 in the series. This map also shows some long-gone earlier JSR structures and the Celerlon Park menagerie winter quarters. (Map #19 shows the JSR power...

While my knowledge of Jamestown Street Ry. history of close to zero, I was fascinated by the JSR carbarn description and particularly the vexing mystery of that second historic carbarn photo. I did a little internet research and, for what it’s worth, came up with these findings: First off, clearly t...

Forgot to mention the surviving CT station/substation at Stow. But you probably knew that.

I’m just a summer resident at Chautauqua, and can’t intelligently comment on what’s in Jamestown, but there is a former CTC carbarn opposite the ex-PRR station in Mayville, now occupied by Evergreen Outfitters. As you doubtless already know, CTC stations still survive at Ashville, Cheneys Point (now...

Routing was RDG- LV to Newark via Bound Brook, thence PRR. RDG power was used, which was changed to a PRR electric at Manhattan Transfer.

[quote="Minneapolitan"]Where did the Staten Island Railway fit in with the B&O? I've heard there was some historical connection, at least, between the two. I know they went as far west as Cranford where they connected with CNJ. How did they operate? The Staten Island Rapid Transit, as ...

Has anything new happened here in the three years since the last posting?

It's been quite some time that I've been to Charles Town, so I wasn't aware of this relocated station. But I can say that it's definitely not the old B&O Charles Town station. Perhaps it's a B&O station relocated from somewhere else, an N&W station from somewhere, or maybe even a newly b...

As Noel says, there's no difference in meaning. Historically, though, the word "railway" originated in Great Britain, and all lines in the UK and Ireland are called "railways." This practice was generally adopted in other countries in the old British empire -- thus, for instance,...

Another problem was that these were straight AC cars and would have had to be rebuilt electrically for the DC operation into GCT.

I'm not sure this was one of the incidents, but two recent of railfan photographers being hassled by MTA police made the headlines in the Baltimore Sun last week. Faced with the threat of an ACLU lawsuit, the MTA's administrator promptly repudiated his police and stated there was neither any law or ...

Regarding FDR's earlier trips via this route, the evidence from my father's diaries shows that the Wash.-Hyde Park trips were split roughly 50-50 between B&O/NYC West Shore and PRR-NH-NYC/Hudson Div. before WWII. Afterwards, B&O routing was used almost exclusively because of the Secret Servi...

Also check the B&O Historical Society. I did an extensive article on the history of this line in about 1988, and while I suppose the HS wouldn't still have extra back copies, they may be able to photocopy it for you.

HHH

Joe's posting was very enlightening to me and confirmed some of my own experiences living in Shaker during the 1950s, as well as the reminiscences of a Jewish friend who lived in that area from the 1920s onward. I did a book on the Vans a few years ago and generally came to the same conclusions, alt...

To add to Tommy's comments, the original Camden & Amboy main line between Trenton and New Brunswick followed the east bank of the Delaware & Raritan Canal from Trenton to Kingston, then headed NE across country to a point near Monmouth Jct. where it then followed the present alignment to New...