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Updated: 10 Jul 2009, 20:25 ET
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RAILROADING
Continuation Page 5

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NOTE: Page size is limited by HTML to 30kB; thus, I've been forced to add this continuation page and continuation pages to fit the lengthy Horseshoe Curve and Berlinerwerke sagas and relocate the Vest Pocket Railroads You Can Model.

NOTE: In addition, I've also been forced to move Long Island Rail Road and related Long Island railroad information onto two separate LIRR continuation pages.

INDEX:

On the main RR page:

Link to ALCo Love Song (moved 16 Dec 99 to it's own separate page)
EMD Paean
New York, Westchester & Boston Railroad
(moved to page 4 on 09 Oct 2001) (10 Jul 09)
Standard Gauge

On Railroad Continuation Page 1:
TRAIN SHED Cyclopedia.
1941 Loco Prices

On Railroad Continuation Page 2:
RR Miscellany, including:
A and B vs. F Ends.
Southern Railroad.
B&O and C&O.
Bering Strait Tunnel.

On Railroad Continuation Page 3:
(Material moved from Railroad Page 2 on 21 Apr 00)
Oddities.
including a Staten Island Trackless Trolley!
Articulateds (and Duplexiii).
Degrees of Curvature.
RR Questions (Help)

On Railroad Continuation Page 4:
Anhalter Bahnhof - world's largest trainshed.
New York, Westchester & Boston. (10 Jul 09)
RR Miscellany.
Trolleys (about nomenclature) {moved from BHRA page on 10 Feb 2005}.
Staten Island RR

On this continuation page 5:
(10 Jul 09) New York, Westchester & Boston - continued. (10 Jul 09)

On other pages:

ALCO-GE-IR Boxcabs,
ALCO-GE-IR Survivor Boxcabs continuation page, with roster, and
ALCO-GE-IR Survivor Boxcabs continuation page, with notes,
ALCO-GE-IR CNJ #1000 Survivor Boxcab (the first production unit sold),
ALCO-GE-IR Boxcabs Continuation Page, including LIRR #401,
the world's first production diesel road switcher, and
Ingersoll-Rand Boxcabs, with a 1929 I-R boxcab brochure,
and I-R and GE Instruction Sheets for a 1929 600HP, 100-ton unit.
Other Boxcabs, with a boxcabs bibliography.
S. Berliner, III's Pennsylvania Railroad Page,
with THE SOUTH PENN RR,
and PRR Modeling (Penn Line/Cary/Bowser)
Berlinerwerke Saga (HO-Scale, included with Horseshoe Curve information)
and continuation pages with prototype and HO/N/S scale dimensions,
satellite photo, pictures, description of the Horseshoe Curve.
Brooklyn Eastern District Terminal Railroad
EMD - Electro-Motive Division of GM - models, etc.,
including EMD engines EMD may never have dreamed of,
such as the great DDP45!

Railroads You can Model,
Marion River Carry Railroad* (now on its own page).
Vest Pocket Railroads You Can Model:
Degnon Terminal Railroad, plus
Murrer's and Kearney Sidings, and Blissville/Laurel Hill (and Maspeth and Fresh Pond).
Vest Pocket Railroads You Can Model - continued
Atlas Terminal RR

Schnable and other Giant RR Cars, et seq..
The Whyte System of Classification (4-4-0, 4-6-2, B-B, etc.).
MODEL RAILROADING, et seq.
plus Z-Scale (1:220) Model Railroading.
Sub-Z Scale - 1:440 and even 1:900 Tiny Trains!
Long Island Rail Road, et seq.
Long Island Railroads

Long Island Rail Road Historical Society Home Page.

Brooklyn Historic Railway Association and the legendary LIRR Atlantic Avenue Tunnel.

PRR Horseshoe and Muleshoe Curves
minor write up here; on separate page with Berlinerwerke Saga
Schnabel heavy duty freight cars
on Model Railroads page (now with photos!)

Railroad Eagles - my/Dave Morrison's page about the Penn Station and Grand Central Terminal eagles.

Z-Scale (1:220) Model Railroading.
Z-Scale Page 3 with
Half-Z Scale - 1:440 Tiny Trains and even 1:900 Tiniest Trains!

HOW TO BOOT A STEAM LOCOMOTIVE or How to hostle without really tiring -
(Firing up a cold oil burner).

Give Credit Where Credit is Due Department - see the main RR page.

NEW YORK, WESTCHESTER & BOSTON RAILWAY (continued)

- this old railroad was the "New York, Westchester & Boston Railway", NOT the "New York, Boston & Westchester Railroad" as previously noted both on the preceding page and elsewhere on the Net.

(10 Jul 09)

[Continued from New York, Westchester & Boston on RR page 4.]

Up in Scarsdale, Westchester County, New York, catty-corner at the west side of the complex intersection of Heathcote Road, Wilmot Road, and Weaver Street-Palmer Avenue (County Road 125) [Heathcote Five Corners], there sits a small building (300 Heathcote Road) with a dramatic red-tiled roof. It also has had a dramatic life, starting as a sand and gravel works and then the New York, Westchester & Boston Railway's Heathcote Road station. By incredible coincidence, my folks rented there in the summers when I was born and only a few years old, in houses directly next to that station, and on either side within a mile! Then it became the headquarters of the Scarsdale Volunteer Ambulance Corps. The corpsmen had dug down 17 feet from the floor of the old station. One of their Junior Corps. members did some research on the building and found some neat stuff. It seems that the building they were using was the second on the site. The first one was built in 1912 as a material transfer station and was used to supply local road building crews. An article in a local paper had a detailed description of the station and how well it fit in with the feel of the town. Most locals were against having a freight station in Scarsdale. Around 1920, the building apparently was removed and the spaces below filled with large rocks and dirt. The openings to the tracks were sealed and the new station was built on a new foundation. They dug down next to one of the six supports to find out how far down it went. They had gotten down to one floor but thought they might get down to another. The article said that the cars would dump their loads and it would be moved to the waiting carts; if so, then the floor should be at least 4 to 6 feet down from the point they had reached. The Scarsdale Volunteer Ambulance Corps is no longer using the building.

(10 Jul 09)

I was up in the area on 09 Jul 2009 and found that the station (NYW&B or ambulance) was being renovated as a local realtor's office ( Engel & Völkers) and I took a few pix with my cellphone camera:

I assume that the realtor knows all about the building but, just in case, have advised them just to be sure.

A good site for the NYW&B is Pierce Haviland's; another is Howard Finkel's NYW&B pages on New York City Subways. (10 Jul 09)

Steam lovers, see my Science and Technology page! Ah, the power of steam!

There is an incredible simulation program by Charlie Dockstadter on steam valve gear available on the Alaska Live Steamers VALVE GEAR ON THE COMPUTER page.

THUMBS UP!

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S. Berliner, III

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