26th Street yard in NYC

John, that's my neck of the woods. I believe the yards around 26th St. were not NYC yards, if I'm correct, the Lehigh Valley had a yard on 26th......I believe the B&O had a yard on 27th St. ...it been a while since I looked at the maps. I can dig them up if you need more info.....also what era are you wanting to model....I model the Hudson division, Park Ave. viaduct to Harmon....early 30s

Some info

http://www.oldnyc.com/w26st_ya...nts/w26st_yards.html

http://members.trainweb.com/bedt/indloco/bo26.html

Of note, the NYC was the only railroad that had track that accessed Manhattan.  All other railroads access Manhattan Via car float.

yes Jim, you are correct, I just looked at my maps, the B&O had a yard between 25th and 26th, and the Lehigh had the yard between 26th and 27th. crossing 13th Ave. to the docks..

Great prototype subject for a switching layout.

I was just more curious as to what your gonna model John, I never thought about modeling those yards, Me being die hard Central, but that's a real cool subject matter......still like to know more of your plans....

Hi John.

Sorry to butt in like this and not trying to steal your thread but you have revived memories from the past and I have not been well for the last couple of months I'm struggling, maybe this is what I need to get me going again.

I once spent nearly ten years researching the Erie 149th St Bronx terminal on the Harlem river with a view to building an actual scale model of it, I mean an actual scale model in O scale that's how small it was in real life not many people can say they actually built an O scale model layout that was the same size as the real thing think about it .

I still have all my research and instructions on how to build the whole thing from scratch in a folder (60 odd pages) waiting for a publisher to come along and offer to print it into a proper book I have had an offer but haven't heard since the first initial contact but I can dream can't I!

Here is a couple of drawings from my manuscripts sorry for the poor photos the real ones are first class.  I lived New York Harbor for many years (In modelling form) I have never been to New York, it was an interesting ride for a bloke living in a country so far away (about 16,000 miles) such is the power of the internet.

 I would still love to build it, If I could only reverse my age a couple of years and improve my health.

Hope I'm not a nuisance your a good bloke, mate. Roo.

John.

A couple more facts about 149TH Street terminal.

There is no run round track needed, all the freight cars are pulled off the float and pushed into team tracks this is one thing that made it attractive to me. 

 The isometric drawing shows a short spur on the right side top this was going to be an Engine house spur as far as I know the engine house was never built.

Go to the left side top, there was supposed to be a turnout and a track built linking up to the NYC Railroad this was never built. NYC had a Float bridge and yard almost next to Erie's terminal on the Harlem River.

In model form there are only three structures to make, two freight houses and the float bridge.

All the curves on my model drawings are not as sharp as the original prototype.  True!

I'm getting carried away with myself.  I did mention a book about this unfortunately some photos were sent to me on the condition I would not publish them in public as the owners themselves were going to do a similar thing not in a book but an article for a magazine, my mind is forgetting these important points old age and bad health is making me forgetful, I have always kept to my promise and never shown them anywhere else. Of course all the drawings for the model belong to me personally. Thanks.  Roo.