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Black and white photo of NYCRR locomotive, taken on February 3, 1968.

Article from The Manufacturer and Builder, November 1891. The Largest Passenger Elevators in the World. The largest elevators, for carrying passengers, in the world, have just been completed on the banks of the Hudson, near Weehawken. The high table-…

This Penn Central locomotive (type U25B) is shown at Weehawken on February 24, 1974. Photo reproduced with the kind permission of Andy Koenigsberg of RailPictures.Net.

This article from the December 2003 issue of World Tunnelling magazine describes the process of rehabilitating the West Shore Railroad Tunnel for use in the new Hudson Bergen Light Rail Project.

These photos, as well as the description below, were posted on the www.railfan.net site by 'waterlevel,' the moderator of the forum which deals with the New York Central's Marine Operations: Photographed from the Weehawken bluffs the photos were…

Painting - oil on canvas, 21 by 25 inches, circa 1917. Martin Lewis is considered one of the great chroniclers of urban life. His ability to capture adverse weather conditions and obscure light sources, coupled with a keen sense of composition and…

This document is a description of the West Shore Railroad Tunnel which runs under 48th Street from the water front. This report was prepared in 1997 by industrial archeologist Thomas Flagg for the Historic American Engineering Record. The document…

This undated clipping shows a diagram of the layout of the railroad terminal of the New York, West Shore and Buffalo Railroad at Weehawken.

Tom Flagg, who provided this image and associated information writes: This is a photo of the Erie Railroad's Weehawken waterfront terminal, facing east, dated 10-19-1956. It is from the Port of New York Authority's Public Relations files (as the…

Engraving by Martin Lewis, circa 1918. Only 15 copies of this engraving were made. The original is approximately 17 by 23 inches in size and is currently being offered for sale by The Old Print Shop in NYC (www.oldprintshop.com) for $15,000.