Re: (rshsdepot) Lower New York City stations

["Steven Delibert" <stevdel_@_prodigy.net>]

    I have some stuff at home regarding horse-drawn boxcars on the Bowery
into the 1880's, but I don't have the exact dates; and a NYC&HR circular
announcing closing of the Centre St  (freight) station, I think 1889.
    Although NYC&HR and NY&H through passenger trains terminated at GCT
after it was built, there continued to be horsecars - later trolleys -
running down the same tracks below GCT, I think still under the NY&H
franchise.  The distinctions between horsecars as local transit and
horsecars as part of through trains that happened to be on city streets seem
pretty fuzzy in most of  what I read - I'm not sure how much that's because
they were fuzzy in fact at the time, and how much because of the writers not
being railroaders or railfans.
    Steve Delibert
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Subject: Re: (rshsdepot) Lower New York City stations


> Yep, and after the 1st Grand Central was built, the New York Central &
Hudson
> River RR and the NY& Harlem RR terminated there, but the New York & New
> Haven RR continued to run its trains south to City Hall drawn by horses.
The NY
> & NH RR's tracks passed through an opening in the South facade and
continued
> down 4th Avenue. I'm not sure when they stopped that service.
>

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