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Beautiful-Living-671 t1_itpq6vd wrote
It's where the Turnpike Extension today curves in to join 139 towards the Holland Tunnel. This is a westbound train coming out of the Erie station via the 10th St Embankment, on the curve heading towards the Bergen Arches. No tracks exist there today.
ferocious_coug t1_itpymia wrote
Is this where they’re trying to build that High Line style park?
Beautiful-Living-671 t1_itq47xh wrote
No, that's the Sixth Street Embankment.
The Tenth Street Embankment was part of the Erie Yard and has now been mostly redeveloped. You can see the stone walls preserved though along most of 10th St.
A_Downboat_Is_A_Sub t1_itqxau0 wrote
Yes, just a bit northeast of Dickinson HS, probably taken from the edge of the hill.
And before someone asks, that other train in the background is not PATH. PATH goes into it's tunnel several blocks south of here at the end of 1st St.
Beautiful-Living-671 t1_itrbo4k wrote
The train in the background is coming off a wye from the north-south connecting track that led from the Erie yard to the West Shore line that began at Weehawken.
TrafficSNAFU t1_itrxz93 wrote
I checked with a person who use to work on the Erie Lackawanna Railroad, he mentioned that the Erie had a coach shop on Monmouth Street.
objectimpermanence t1_itsiglg wrote
Curious to know if your friend (or anyone else for that matter) has photos of Pavonia Terminal.
There are hardly any photos of that place online, especially of the interiors, which is super weird for what was such a major terminal.
TrafficSNAFU t1_itskrjz wrote
I think part of that comes down to two reasons. Railfan photographers focused on the trains arriving and departing the old terminal and the fact that it was demolished so early as the Erie moved their passenger operations to Hoboken just before they merged with the Lackawanna Railroad. Finding photos of the interiors of both Exchange Place Terminal (Pennsylvania Railroad) and Weehawken Terminal (New York Central Railroad) is also tricky, as they both were torn down around the same time as Pavonia.
Beautiful-Living-671 t1_itujbwn wrote
The Wikipedia page has the only front-facing photo I know of. Here are two of the rear from Kenneth French's "Railroads of Hoboken and Jersey City":
You have to remember this was built just before the Columbian Exposition. That fair was revolutionary in popularizing neoclassical architecture, and nearly every train station after followed that model. Pavonia terminal was just a wooden Victorian shack by comparison and not of much visual interest.
It was also quickly swallowed up by the ferry house in front of it, making photos even more difficult. But it is strange that there is nothing of the interior available.
TrafficSNAFU t1_itr4w5m wrote
Originally thought it was a NYS&W train, as they utilized the Erie's Pavonia Terminal at the time. I'm thinking now that there may have been a coach yard for storing and servicing passenger trains down there.
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VanWorst t1_itpl4i0 wrote
Where is this? By Dickinson?