The section of the Third Avenue Bridge that was within my layout perimeter was completed a long time ago. I could have left it with that, a girder bridge ending on the eastern rest pier of the swing bridge. Modeling the complex web of a truss bridge was out of reach for me. After my […]
Across from the CNJ Bronx Terminal along Third Avenue Bridge sits a large warehouse that always fascinated me. The eight story high building is a large dominating structure visible from far. Its curtain walls with large windows on all four sides make it a witness of mainstream industrial design of the first half of the
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Bruckner Boulevard (133rd Street) between Third Avenue Bridge and Lincoln Avenue with its row of houses on the NE-side is often included in photos of the CNJ Bronx Terminal. Most buildings have been around for nearly 100 years or more. As such have witnessed the peak of the industrialization in the Bronx and more specifically,
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The Third Avenue Bridge is the single largest structure on the CNJ Bronx Terminal layout. To present it adequately, I’d have to break it down into the individual pieces – access ramp, abutment, girder bridge with rest pier and swing bridge. The bridge abutment on the Bronx side of the Harlem River is the only part
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The traveling gantry crane (sometimes called the West gantry) spans across tracks 15, 16 and 17 and runs along the Harlem River bulkhead starting somewhere near the end of the transfer bridge and ending at Lincoln Avenue. Based on available plans and photos its length at the base is 24 feet, its height excluding the housing
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The Third Avenue Bridge was built between 1894 and 1898 and it replaced the Harlem Bridge that crossed Harlem River at the same location for less than 30 years. The bridge was composed of three deck sections with a steam powered swing span in the center and girders that connect the swing span with the
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Based on the plan I laid out in A Plan For the Freight House, I decided to create a wooden core of the freight house and then add an outer layer of styrene for the corrugated metal of the shell. For the core my intention was to laser cut walls with window openings from 1/16″ bass wood
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Even though we have a few publications, a number of photos and even a plan from 1955 there aren’t that many sources with hard facts about the unique circular freight house built by the Central Railroad of New Jersey in 1907 as part of their Bronx Terminal development. The best sources are the journal “The Railway Age”,
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Now that I had the Car Float the next thing to add was the Transfer Bridge that connects the car floats to the terminal. The transfer bridge I’ll model is the replacement thru truss bridge that was put in place in 1920. As its predecessor, it is made of timber and consists of three framed Howe
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