Freelance 2015-1

[Mike Kieran]

.... Are you getting the layout boredom blues? ......

That is a great expression and so awfully true ....
The conflict is that I like the old brick buildings very much but I love contemporary automobiles, engines and rail cars too. The buildings I like are still existing in some places but they are usually not used by rail served business anymore.

Youtube has a clip of the NYNJ GP38-2 2200 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNgGTUbaBfc and a bunch of photos http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/locoPic...?id=191010
Looks like local Brooklyn law enforces daily engine washing. Correct weathering is a layer of gloss

I read somewhere the tracks are not totally isolated. They connect somewhere with the NYC Metro system. That is also the way the GP38-2 come in. It did not come on a barge.
This http://members.trainweb.com/bedt/indloco/nynjr.html is a nice source of information about the NYNJ

I guess the engine is still owned by GATX/GMTX and leased to NYNJ. Part of that leasing contract is some custom paint modifications to give the customer (NYNJ) a better feeling.

The tracks aren't isolated at all. There is a small 3 track double ended interchange yard with the New York & Atlantic Railway at 65th Street between 5th & 8th Avenues, then there is the main yards with the car float bridges at 65th Street and 2nd Avenue (where the old New Haven float bridges were), and then the 1st Avenue yard between 58th Street and 40th Street which was washed out with Super Storm Sandy that was used for transloading (Lumber and Pipe for Davidson Pipe) and serving the local industries. The line continued up 41st Street where it passed through the loft building on the corner of 41st Street and 2nd Avenue and then along 2nd Avenue to the interchange with the South Brooklyn Railway, a freight railroad owned by New York City Transit. The South Brooklyn Railway goes around the Costco warehouse to connect to the rest of the transit system at 39th Street and 3rd Avenue on the "D" Line.