Hi Bill; That is CNJ's Bronx freight terminal. It is very doubtful it was ever a locomotive round house, because the only tracks are those visible in the photo! All cars and the locomotive (four wheel steam switcher, 8 wheel boxcab diesel or four wheel diesel "critter" depending on the era) arrived and departed via the car float bridges visible at the right rear over the freight house. There was absolutely NO land-rail connections! Several other NY area railroads (Erie and LV among them) had similar "island" terminals serviced by car float only. It allowed less freight handling to float the whole cars over and park them at the house or team tracks for unloading than to unload them on the Jersey side and transfer the freight by barge or truck.
There have been threads on the subject on the Yahoo CNJ Modeler group and the Rail Marine group; and the makers of Fast Tracks switch tools have a whole site devoted to the terminal here: http://www.bronx-terminal.com/ Pieter Roos --- Bill Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All, > > I found this photo on one of my Yahoo groups. > http://www.lanestrains.com/roundhouse.jpg It is > really interesting. I think > it says Central RR Of New Jersey on the building. It > could have been a > roundhouse at 1 time but was converted to a truck to > boxcar transfer. There > is NO turntable in the middle of that building! The > track looks like it is > circular and goes all the way around it. So I guess > the CNJ did run around > in small circles! Unfortunately it is only about 30 > KB so you really can't > zoom much. If you know where it is and have a better > photo of it please > reply and share it with us. > > Very different & interesting! > > Thank You, > Bill Lane > > Modeling the Mighty Pennsy & PRSL in 1957 in S Scale > since 1988 > > See my finished models at: > http://www.lanestrains.com > Winner of the 2007 Josh Seltzer NASG Website Award > Look at what has been made in PRR in S Scale! > > Importing a Brass S Scale PRR X29 & G26 > http://www.pennsysmodels.com > > PRR Builders Photos Bought, Sold & Traded > (Trading is MUCH preferred) > http://www.lanestrains.com/PRRphotos.xls > > ***Join the PRR T&HS*** > The other members are not ALL like me! > http://www.prrths.com > http://www.lanestrains.com/PRRTHS_Application.pdf > > Join the Pennsylvania Reading Seashore Lines > Historical Society > It's FREE (for now) http://www.prslhs.com > Preserving The Memory Of The PRSL > > See my Altoona train videos here > http://www.myspace.com/billlane > > > > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.485 / Virus Database: 269.13.8/993 - > Release Date: 9/6/2007 > 3:18 PM > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > Pieter E. Roos Railroad Home Page at www.geocities.com/pieter_roos/pieter_1.html Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
