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Nostalgia & History > The Orignal "Urban Cowboys" NYC West Side Freight LineDate: 03/15/13 08:21 The Orignal "Urban Cowboys" NYC West Side Freight Line Author: zars This link is from a web site/blog of appreciation for the High Line, the conversion of the old New York Central West Side Freight line into the High Line park. It features B&W video from the 1930's showing remaining street-level switching by early NYC box cab diesels being led by the famous "West Side Cowboys" that preceded the trains and the recently completed viaduct that is now the High Line.
http://www.livinthehighline.com/the-original-urban-cowboy/ Date: 03/15/13 11:23 Re: The Orignal "Urban Cowboys" NYC West Side Freight Author: coach This is, perhaps, the ultimate "rail to trail" conversion, ever!
Date: 03/15/13 13:23 Re: The Original "Urban Cowboys" NYC West Side Freight Author: pwh The photo is a early 20Th century. Note no "horseless carriages" visible. The locomotive is a Shay geared steam locomotive. The locomotive was shrouded so as not to scare the horses
Date: 03/15/13 14:55 Re: The Original "Urban Cowboys" NYC West Side Freight Author: nycman Wow, great history. I can remember driving directly beneath the "El" in the 1950s.
Date: 03/15/13 16:44 Re: The Original "Urban Cowboys" NYC West Side Freight Author: Lackawanna484 nycman Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > Wow, great history. I can remember driving > directly beneath the "El" in the 1950s. You can still drive below the High Line spur to the Post Office Annex on Tenth Avenue now. The NY Central used to switch mail and express cars in and out of the third floor level of the giant facility. Date: 03/16/13 10:35 Re: NYC West Side Freight Author: timz2 > The locomotive is a
> Shay geared steam locomotive. The first pic in his link (10th Ave around 26th St) doesn't show a Shay. They came later. |