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Pennsylvania
Railroad Facilities In Color
Volume
1: NEW YORK DIVISION Sunnyside to Lane
By: Robert
J. Yanosey
Morning
Sun Books, Inc., 2008
Hardcover, 128 pages, All Color
An all-rail ride to the “Big Apple” was Pennsylvania Railroad President Alexander Cassatt’s goal and he accomplished it by 1910 with remarkable construction achievements. See the vital east end of the New York Division in full color through its facilities ranging from the incomparable Penn Station New York to a lowly block station in Waverly Yard.
Contents Include:
FOREWARD...3
NEW YORK DIVISION SUNNYSIDE TO LANE...4
MAIN LINE...7
Sunnyside Yard - Commissary Building - Workers Entrance Building - East River
Tunnels - Loop Tracks - Harold Tower - Loop A - Express Building - R Tower -
Coach Yard - Q Tower - Engine Terminal - Wheel Shop - Enginehouse Washer -
Enginehouse - Sanding Facility - Boilerhouse, First Aid Building, Battery House,
Storehouse and Lavatory Building - Enginehouse Tracks - Lead Tracks - Sub Tracks
- F Tower - Penn Station - Tenth Avenue Portal - Yard A - Yard B - Hudson River
Tunnels - North Bergen Portal - Substation No. 3 - Bridge 3.10 - High Line -
Portal Tower - Portal Drawbridge - Engine Track - Substation #4 - Hudson Tower -
Manhattan Transfer - Harrison Yard - Newark Improvements - Fourth Street Station
- Dock Tower - Dock Movable Bridge - RW Jumpover - Bridge9.9-A - Bridge 9.9-B, C
- RE Jumpover - Newark - South Street Storage Yard - South Street Station -
Hunter Tower - Lane Tower
NEW YORK CITY RAIL-WATER
FACILITIES...78
New York City rail-water facilities - 37th Street floatbridge
WEST NEWARK BRANCH...79
JERSEY CITY BRANCH...80
Exchange Place - Hudson & Manhattan Railroad - Harborside Terminal -
Jacy Tower - Grove Street - Waldo Avenue Yard - H&M Tunnel Portal -
Bergen Cut - Waldo Tower - Journal Square - West Side Avenue - Hack
Passenger Bridge - Display Yard - Grape Interlocking - Karny Tower -
Meadows Eastward Receiving Yard
PASSAIC & HARSIMUS
BRANCH...102
Harsimus Cove Yard - Tug Dispatchers Office - Sanding Facility - Hudson
Street Branch - JH Yard Office - Marion Junction - Hack Freight Bridge -
Meadows Yard - Karny Tower - Kearny TrucTrain Terminal - Meadows Sanding
Facility - Meadows Shops - Western Roundhouse - Point-No-Point Bridge -
Bridge 2.83 - WA-5 Cabin - WA-3 Cabin
GREENVILLE BRANCH...120
Float Bridges - Lighterage Pier - Tugboat Fueling Station - Engine
Terminal - Bay Drawbridge - CY Tower - Waverly Yard - Haynes Avenue - WA-6
Cabin