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Length. 11,584 miles (18,643 km) (1926) The New York Central Railroad ( reporting mark NYC) was a railroad primarily operating in the Great Lakes and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. The railroad primarily connected greater New York and Boston in the east with Chicago and St. Louis in the Midwest, along with the intermediate cities of ...
The New York City Department of Sanitation is the largest sanitation department in the world, with 7,201 uniformed sanitation workers and supervisors, 2,041 civilian workers, 2,230 general collection trucks, 275 specialized collection trucks, 450 street sweepers, 365 snowplows, 298 front end loaders, and 2,360 support vehicles.
Currently a station on New Jersey Transit's Hudson-Bergen Light Rail. [ 6] East 33rd Street. 1865–1866 [ 7] Currently a station on New Jersey Transit's Hudson-Bergen Light Rail. [ 6] The original station was sold in January 1961 to a private developer. [ 8] East 22nd Street.
The New York Central Railroad (NYC) called the 4-8-2 type of steam locomotive the Mohawk type. It was known as the Mountain type on other roads, but the New York Central did not see the name as fitting on its famous Water Level Route. Instead, it picked the name of one of those rivers its rails followed, the Mohawk River, to name its newest ...
Type. Railroad. The National New York Central Railroad Museum ( reporting mark NNYX) [1] is a railroad museum located in Elkhart, Indiana dedicated to the preservation of the New York Central Railroad (NYC). The museum includes several outdoor equipment displays, indoor model railroads, artifacts from the NYC and other railroad related exhibits ...
Length. 123.1 miles (198.1 km) [1] The Central New York Railroad ( reporting mark CNYK) is a shortline railroad operating local freight service along ex- Southern Tier Line trackage (ex- Erie Railroad / Erie Lackawanna Railway mainline trackage) in New York and Pennsylvania. The line begins at Port Jervis, following the Delaware River to ...
Mercury was the name used by the New York Central Railroad for a family of daytime streamliner passenger trains operating between midwestern cities. The Mercury train sets were designed by the noted industrial designer Henry Dreyfuss, and are considered a prime example of Streamline Moderne design. The success of the Mercury led to Dreyfuss ...
On static display, based in Chicago, Illinois. New York Central and Hudson River Railroad No. 999 is a 4-4-0 “American” type steam locomotive built for the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad in 1893, which was intended to haul the road's Empire State Express train service. It was built for high speed and is allegedly the first steam ...