Ship pier on your layout?

This may not be what you are exactly looking for, but it has some useful information.

I hope this may help you.

http://members.trainweb.com/be...co/pierstations.html

Ralph

Thanks Ralph,  There is a map on your link, that shows the railroad lines in New York.  I have been listening to a book on the how the PRR build the tunnels and its station.  The map helped me understand the book.  The book is "Conquering Gotham"

rboatertoo,

I'm glad I can help.

The start of the map was due to, when I was a young kid living on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, N.Y.C., N.Y.S., I remember around 1946, or '47, my father driving our family north bound on the East River Drive (F.D.R.), before the F.D.R. had become an elevated roadway.

To the right of and east of the E R D is a strip of land which runs under the Williamsburg Bridge, this strip of land was located between and parallel to the E.R.D. and the East River.

I thought, I saw parked freight cars on track, on this strip of land, sort of a small holding RR. freight yard.

BUT!!!!!  According to Thomas R. Flagg, who researched the area and time period, wrote a few books and informing me that I was wrong in what I thought I saw, as there were only pier stations for RR. barges loaded with Railcars and it is possible that I saw a loaded lighter tied up to and parallel to the shore line.

This is why I now have the info. I have just posted.

There is a lot more info. regarding just the N.Y. Harbor RR. on the internet, as well, as in books.

Enjoy,

Ralph 

Here's the vintage pic I referenced in the original post