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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 · Posted: Mon Jul 20, 2026 10:14 pm Post subject:

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Here is a riverfront view of the Weehawken, just after ferry service was shut down in 1959 (looking west)

Boulevard East, seen at the top, saw frequent bus service into the PABT (a 15 minute ride via the Lincoln Tunnel) by several independent bus companies (roday all long defunct)............

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?142336

(courtesy: nycsubway.org)

["WEEHAWKEN"]

NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 · Posted: Mon Jul 20, 2026 10:37 pm Post subject:

Jere are a few PSNJ photos that afford excellent views of the NYC's West Shore terminal and extensive yards; today, the area us nowtotally built over, and not a trace remains of the terminal (which burned down in 1962; I personally remember this massive blaze)

The sprawling yards, also, are gone without a trace.

ASVs served the terminal until 1947; streetcars until 1949, buses until 1959............

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?116259 (note streetcar and new PS 4509)

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?116257 (interestingly, the former PS streetcar ROW is still intact today; the line poles are also still in place today, AFAIK)

https://nycsubway.org/perl/show?116258

(courtesy: nycsubway.org)

*(The NYC ended tug/carfloat/lighter operations in 1968; a portion of the freight yards remained in operation until early 1976)

NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 · Posted: Tue Jul 21, 2026 12:53 pm Post subject:

The tunnel...........

West Shore commuter trains (and freights) burrowed under Weehawken and Union City to reach North Bergen from the waterfront area.

Conrail used one of rge the tunnels through the 1990s; originally, there were two tunnels, but the old tunnel wall was demolished to make a new two-track tunnel for the HBLR..........

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?53649

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?27635

(courtesy:nycsubway.org)

["HBLR"]

NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 · Posted: Tue Jul 21, 2026 1:00 pm Post subject:

Here is the site of the former NYC West Shore terminal and yardst oday; the modern Waterway ferry terminal is out of the picture the right.

As you can see, nothingremains of any of the old NYC facilities..........

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?48256

(courtesyLnycsubway.org)

NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 · Posted: Tue Jul 21, 2026 1:14 pm Post subject:

Port Imperial now occupies the site of the West Shore Terminal and yards; note the illustration from 1906......this how the area appeared through the 1950s.

Interesting history...........

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_Imperial

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NY WATERWAY"]

NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 · Posted: Tue Jul 21, 2026 1:25 pm Post subject:

This outstanding photo dates to about 1948 (looking notheast)

Note the massive grain elevator, which stood until the 1960s.

Note also the PS streetcar; hard to believe all seen here is now long gone.........

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?116260

(coirtesy: nycsubway.org)

["WEST SHORE TERM"]

Cyberider · Joined: 27 Apr 2007 Posts: 1456 Location: Tempe, AZ

The former facilities were much more impressive!

NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 · Posted: Tue Jul 21, 2026 5:54 pm Post subject:

NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 · Posted: Tue Jul 21, 2026 6:08 pm Post subject:

"The mysterious archway at Weehawken".......

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?116253 (photo dates to 1948)

(courtesy:nycsubway.org)

What was that arch for?

See:

https://www.cable-car-guy.com/html/ccnynj.html

(scroll down page to "Weehawken Viaduct And Elevators"; click on link. This was a most unique and impressive operation, while it lasted!)

Cyberider · Joined: 27 Apr 2007 Posts: 1456 Location: Tempe, AZ

Trying to put the pieces together. "Demolished in 1900" and photo from 1948?

NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 · Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2026 7:31 pm Post subject:

NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 · Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2026 11:21 pm Post subject:

Bear Mountain..........

Until West Shore service was cut back to Haverstraw in the 1950s, the trains also served Bear Mountain, then a popular "day tripper" destination.

The station was connected by a covered walkway to the Hudson River Day Line dock................

"NYO"

["HRDL"]

NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 · Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2026 11:29 pm Post subject:

From "PT" boat to commuter "ferry"............

After the West Shore ferries were shut down in March of 1959, a prestigious Wes tShore commuter's club planned to purchase a retired "PT" boat and converted it into a "ferry", to carry the well-heeled, former West Shore commuters into Manhattan from lower Westchester.

Plans for this unique service faced too many obstavles, and the idea was soon scrapped................

'NYO"

["ELCO"]

Cyberider · Joined: 27 Apr 2007 Posts: 1456 Location: Tempe, AZ

NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 · Posted: Thu Jul 23, 2026 4:09 pm Post subject:

Cyberider:

If you read that "cable car guy" page's lonks on this operation, you will swe that that viaduct and passenger elevators actually pre-dated (and, in fact, was replaced by) the earliest electric streetcars.

Narrow gauge steam trains connected with the elevators at the east end of that massive "viaduct"; they ran first west, and then heaed north, into the area of upper Hudson County that borders southern Bergen (where I've lived for over 50 years)

There really osn't all that much out there on this very obscure (and most interesting) rail operation; what I DO know comes from many years of reading historical articles and contemporary descriptions, and then "fitting the pieces" together.

The hydraulically-operated elevator cars were roughly the size of a double-truck streetcar (but wider) and very lavishly furnished inside, even though the ride up and down was just a minute or two!

"NYO"

["OTIS"]