The Only way there is Freight Train access to Staten Island is also a World's Biggest Vertical Lift Bridge Raised ↓ Lowered ↓
This is interesting stuff @ZosoRailway . Here's a larger map done sometime during the road's ownership by the B&O. I put an arrow at the location of the giant Arthur Kill lift bridge. From what I read, passenger trains currently run between St. George and Tottenville. The SIRT interchanged with the LV, Rahway Valley and CNJ in the same area. The CNJ interchange was made at Cranford Jct. as seen at the extreme left edge of the map, protected by Excee (XC) Tower. I shot this almost 40 years ago in March 1983. It was demolished in the early 1990s.
Shame they demolished that. Yes Subway like Cars on a electric Third Rail operate between St. George and Tottenville 24/7-365. In bad snow or ice they Use these Engines
Clifton station (Staten Island Railway) The Clifton station is a Staten Island Railway station in the neighborhood of Clifton, Staten Island, New York. This station was the original terminal of the Staten Island Railway from 1860 until 1886. The station was known as Vanderbilt's Landing, and was used as a transfer point for passengers going to Manhattan via ferries to South Ferry.
Arthur Kill Vertical Lift Bridge On October 4, 2007, New York Container Terminal, which operates Howland Hook, announced the opening of on-dock rail service called ExpressRail via the bridge, with regular service by Conrail (CRCX), CSX and Norfolk Southern railroads. In 2013, Covanta Energy signed a contract with the New York City Sanitation Department to barge containers of solid waste from transfer stations in Queens and Manhattan to New York Container Terminal where they will be transferred to rail cars for shipment to Covanta waste to energy plants. Arthur Kill is an important ship channel. The bridge is normally kept in the raised position (open to shipping), lowering to allow the passage of trains. As of 2018, U.S. Coast Guard regulations limit lowering the bridge to two 15-minute periods per day, with advance warning and restrictions on lowering during high tide. Conrail, which services Staten Island with one train a day, has stated that they do not see this limitation affecting current rail traffic levels, but it could become a problem if traffic increases significantly
From your intense knowledge of this topic, I am guessing that you intend to recreate some or all of this rail action into Z scale either from a specific era in the past or modern. If so, I see alot of 3D fabrication and/or scratch building in your future. Will enjoy your progress through photos, especially the lift bridge. Thanks for sharing with us! Tim
Alright, who's gonna' be the first to kitbash those MTA locos?! The trucks look like the ones off of AZL's switcher, then use a GP38 shell with the SD45's flared radiators?
You've probably seen the thread @ZosoRailway , but @John Bartolotto 's Z Scale Long Island is exceptional and close by your SIRT. There's a TrainBoard thread on it at https://www.trainboard.com/highball/index.php?threads/long-island-rail-road-in-z-scale.51392/
Saw this in the Background of a Mobile game I sometimes play EMERGENCY HQ (upper left corner) A Switcher with two Boxcars If there was a mobile game I would recommend It would be Train and railyard simulator ↓ 3dinteger ~ ♪ • ZosoRailway • ♪ ~
Is this thread drifting quite far away from 1:220 z scale modeling? May i suggest that this should be moved to some of the other forum categories that fits the 1:1 and sim topic?
