Then and Now

Kent LoudonOGR Forum Member

Gladstone, NJ, Delaware Lackwanna & Western (Erie-Lackawanna) NJ Transit. One photo is a postcard view from about 1900. The more recent view is from 2006.

What I found most surprising is that the track configuration is basically the same. The old runaround is now stub end. It and the Freight House spur are now used for MU storage, but I recall when there was a ramp at the end of the Freight House spur for unloading farm equipment from flatcars!

The Freight House and Passenger Station have changed little, if any. The elevated platform is a recent addition, but the concrete base for the water plug is still there! (Despite the 1931 electrification, the plug itself was still there in the 1950's, to service the tri-weekly local freight.) The house at the end of track was demolished in the 1960's - by a runaway train!

Lastly, the barns at the far right are now a commercial establishment, I forget exactly what.

2/19/138:20 PM

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Very cool!. Thanks. I love then and now shots like that.

2/19/139:14 PM

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philgOGR Forum Member

Thank you!

2/20/139:36 AM

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N&W Class JOGR Forum Member

Yes that is very cool....thanks.

2/20/134:51 PM

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Kent LoudonOGR Forum Member

OOPS! I don't know how the photos got there twice! ...or how to remove the extras.

2/20/137:20 PM

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cngwOGR Forum Member DIGITAL SUBSCRIBER

Is it just me?? I see no picts. I also clicked and got page does not exist.

Greg

2/21/137:37 AM

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nmtrainsOGR Forum Member

I see nuttin either! Just "error message"

2/21/139:29 AM

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philgOGR Forum Member

Is it just me?? I see no picts. I also clicked and got page does not exist.

I see 2 of each. I must be getting your copies.

2/21/139:48 AM

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Kent LoudonOGR Forum Member

The Pix apparently do not show up in the digest version.

Notes: The freight shed is currently used for MOW equipment storage. The passenger station is completely closed to the public and only used by train crews.

2/21/139:53 AM

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boin106OGR Forum Member DIGITAL SUBSCRIBER

These are photos of what used to be the Southern Pacific Bayshore Yard. It was located on the southern border of San Francisco and the town of Brisbane, where I live. I used to go down there with my grandfather when I was a kid and watch steam engines. My dad's best friend was the yardmaster. As a beat cop, I would drive my cruiser into the yard on graveyard shift and have coffee with him and some of the SP Police cops. It was a fair-sized classification yard with shops and a roundhouse. The yard started in the early 1900's. It began closing in the beginning of the 1980's. Almost all of the buildings and all of the track (except for the UP mainline and CalTrain) were tore up. Now...all that exists are the old tender repair shop (which is now a fire wood business) and the roundhouse. In 2001 a fire burned off half of the roundhouse roof. Just recently the roundhouse was designated as a state historic landmark. There are organizations and hopes of restoring it into a railroad museum. It would be nice if that came to fruition. Matt

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nyclinesOGR Forum Member

This was the Hocking Valley fright depot in Pomeroy Ohio , later it became the C&O RR . WE are think the picture is 1915 give or take a couple years . It sat along side the Ohio River in southeast Ohio. It lasted until the early 1990s when they put Mc Donalds in its place. very sad it was still in really good shape .