Hi everyone, my name is Paul and I live in the suburbs of New York City. I have been interested in trains and railroads since about 6 or 7 years of age when my father took me to work with him on the job. He was a clerk who handled track assignments and kept track of the boxcars for the Pennsylvania Railroad in their yard on the west side of Manhattan. A small switch engine would cross 12th avenue with about 8 cars at a time pulling them off cars floats that crossed the Hudson River. I currently have a 3 x 5 foot layout in N gauge in the basement which I hope to expand as time allows. Respectfully Paul C.
Welcome Paul and glad to have you with us! Feel free to post some photos of your layout if you wish. You've probably seen them, but Morning Sun books has published two books that may interest you -- New York Harbor Railroads In Color Volumes 1 and 2.
Welcome to Trainboard, Paul, from a native New Yorker. Haven't been back there for many years, though.
Hi Paul, welcome, happy to have you aboard. I may have watched some of your father's work from my father's sixth floor office window at the corner of 11th and West St. Dad would take me to his office every so often in the late 1940's and early 1950's because I loved to watch trains. I'd sit for hours watching switchers working the ferry docks, going along West St., and running up and down the High Line. The most exciting time was watching the Pennsy, Erie, and Central steam ferries working back and forth across the River. I thought the walking beams that connected the engines to the propeller shafts were neat.
