Steam Elevator at Weehawken

Steam Elevator at Weehawken

WHC174

Black and white photograph(1895) of the great elevator from the book, The Hackensack Water Company 1869 - 1969 by Adrian Leiby and Nancy Wichman. The caption reads: Steam elevator at Weehawken which lowered passenger-laden trolleys and other vehicles to 42nd Street Ferry at foot of Palisades, c 1895. In fact, the elevator lowered and raised passengers only, on large elevator cars, not trolleys. At the top, passengers transferred to trains which took them to Eldorado or on to the Guttenberg Racetrack. Published in 1969 by the Bergen County Historical Society.

1895

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WHC174

Pershing Road at Boulevard East,Weehawken, NJ [40.7774849,-74.0137953]