Point-no-Point
Something about the name of this location is just cool and fun to say. Despite a bit if looking though, I've not been able to find out the history of why it is called this, so if anyone knows please share. Anyway, this was a lucky grab shot during my recent impromptu Friday afternoon North Jersey tour.
Conrail shared assets local train SK-13 (doing leftover work from M-F job OI-14) with a lone CSXT GP40-2 is on Conrail Shared Assests Passaic and Harsimus Line at MP 3.4 as they cross the Point-No-Point movable bridge over the Passaic River crossing from Newark into Kearny. The 770 foot long double track bridge with a 270 ft camelback thru truss swing span was built in 1901 by the Pennsylvania Railroad as part of its Pennsylvania cut-off project and is slated for replacement in the coming years: jerseydigs.com/point-no-point-railroad-bridge-between-new...
They are heading to the Waldo Running track to drop flats loaded with empty trash containers that will later be pulled down the Central Avenue Industrial Track to the NJRC loading facility down at Kearny Point. This view rather terrifyingly was taken looking down from the shoulder of the adjacent high New Jersey Turnpike/Interstate 95 bridge. Unfortunately, my palpable fear shooting in such a precarious location led me to not be able to change my lense and compose the wider shot I would have liked. Unfortunately I cut off the right bank of the bridge and would have liked to include all of the brick 1917 Essex Generating station that is only partially visible. Rounding out the iconic Jersey scene in the background is visvable a portion of the 3.5 mile long General Casimir Pulaski Skyway opened in 1932 as the last part of the Route 1 Extension, one of the first controlled-access highways in the United States, to provide a connection to the Holland Tunnel.
Newark, New Jersey
Friday October 2, 2020
Point-no-Point
Something about the name of this location is just cool and fun to say. Despite a bit if looking though, I've not been able to find out the history of why it is called this, so if anyone knows please share. Anyway, this was a lucky grab shot during my recent impromptu Friday afternoon North Jersey tour.
Conrail shared assets local train SK-13 (doing leftover work from M-F job OI-14) with a lone CSXT GP40-2 is on Conrail Shared Assests Passaic and Harsimus Line at MP 3.4 as they cross the Point-No-Point movable bridge over the Passaic River crossing from Newark into Kearny. The 770 foot long double track bridge with a 270 ft camelback thru truss swing span was built in 1901 by the Pennsylvania Railroad as part of its Pennsylvania cut-off project and is slated for replacement in the coming years: jerseydigs.com/point-no-point-railroad-bridge-between-new...
They are heading to the Waldo Running track to drop flats loaded with empty trash containers that will later be pulled down the Central Avenue Industrial Track to the NJRC loading facility down at Kearny Point. This view rather terrifyingly was taken looking down from the shoulder of the adjacent high New Jersey Turnpike/Interstate 95 bridge. Unfortunately, my palpable fear shooting in such a precarious location led me to not be able to change my lense and compose the wider shot I would have liked. Unfortunately I cut off the right bank of the bridge and would have liked to include all of the brick 1917 Essex Generating station that is only partially visible. Rounding out the iconic Jersey scene in the background is visvable a portion of the 3.5 mile long General Casimir Pulaski Skyway opened in 1932 as the last part of the Route 1 Extension, one of the first controlled-access highways in the United States, to provide a connection to the Holland Tunnel.
Newark, New Jersey
Friday October 2, 2020