{"id":1240,"date":"2008-05-22T16:04:17","date_gmt":"2008-05-22T21:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/?p=1240"},"modified":"2008-05-22T16:04:17","modified_gmt":"2008-05-22T21:04:17","slug":"carfloats-at-the-bronx-terminal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/?p=1240","title":{"rendered":"Carfloats at the Bronx Terminal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>More from Reading-Jersey Central Magazine 1938<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/220508l.jpg\" title=\"Circa 1938\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/220508.jpg\" title=\"220508.jpg\" alt=\"carfloats at the bronx terminal\" border=\"2\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Another interesting shot from the same magazine article as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/?p=1233\">yesterday<\/a>.  Two loaded floats sitting at the float bridge of the terminal.  Judging from all the rolling stock in this image it must have been quite a busy shift at the terminal.<\/p>\n<p>The 3rd Avenue swing bridge is visible in the upper left of the image  and just to the right of it  is the engine house for the terminal, the white building with two windows.  This building hung out over the water on piles and required the engine to drive over a turnout to access it.  By over I mean literally <em>over <\/em>it on two portable pieces of steel laid across the turnout.<\/p>\n<p>On the far right of the image is the traveling crane that spanned the first three tracks of the terminal, although not much of it is visible.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/220508xl.jpg\">Large version of this image here&#8230;..<\/a><\/p>\n<p>-T.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More from Reading-Jersey Central Magazine 1938 Another interesting shot from the same magazine article as yesterday. Two loaded floats sitting at the float bridge of the terminal. Judging from all the rolling stock in this image it must have been quite a busy shift at the terminal. The 3rd Avenue swing bridge is visible in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-front-page","category-prototype-information-the-real-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}