Railroads of Hoboken and Jersey CityArcadia Publishing, 2002 - 128 pagina's With over two hundred historical photographs, Railroads of Hoboken and Jersey City explores the cultural and commercial effects of railway travel in two important New Jersey cities. Because of their unique location directly across the Hudson River from Manhattan, Hoboken and Jersey City have long been centers of transportation activity. When the railway industry was booming in the early twentieth century, four major passenger terminals dotted the left bank of the Hudson from the Jersey Central to the Pennsylvania to the Erie to the Lackawanna. Thousands of people streamed through these terminals every day to the ferries that then took them across the river to New York City. Additionally, tons of freight were brought through the vast train yards along the waterfront. Railroads of Hoboken and Jersey City tells the history of the railroads between the mid-1800s and the 1970s. It also explores how the once vibrant waterfronts of Hoboken and Jersey City went through tremendous decline and how, over time, the waterfront has been restored and redeveloped. New residential and commercial buildings have sprouted along the old Pennsylvania and Erie properties, the Lackawanna Terminal has been restored, and the Central Railroad Terminal is now part of Liberty State Park, one of New Jersey's most popular tourist destinations. |
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Acknowledgments | 6 |
The Central Railroad of New Jersey | 21 |
The Pennsylvania Railroad | 41 |
The Erie Railroad | 55 |
The Hudson Manhattan Railroad PATH | 77 |
Freight and Other Lines | 97 |
Trolleys | 113 |
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abandoned Adolph Q aerial photograph aerial view Baltimore & Ohio barges Bergen Arches built Central Railroad terminal City and Hoboken City Historical Project clock tower Collection of Leon Ellis Island entrance Erie Railroad Exchange Place ferry building ferry slips foreground freight tracks freight yards Greenville train yards hill Hoboken and Jersey Holland Tunnel horse Hudson & Manhattan Hudson River Hudson-Bergen Light Rail Jersey Central Jersey City Historical Jersey City Landmarks Jersey Transit Johnston Avenue Journal Square Journal Square Transportation Lackawanna terminal Lehigh Valley Railroad Leon Yost Liberty State Park Manhattan train Manhattan tubes Newark Avenue Palisade PATH station Pennsylvania Railroad Photograph by Adolph Photograph by Leon photograph shows photograph was taken picture postcard shows Public Service building Railroad Avenue railroad property RAILROADS OF HOBOKEN razed right of center seen shown skyline Square Transportation Center Statue of Liberty Summit Avenue Station train sheds trestle waiting room York City
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