Bill, Hi and happy 2000!! Here is a scan of a photo taken in Spring 1974 of an old PRR motor truck... What can you tell me, if anything, about this truck... It says on the back: 34th Street PRR yards", and although I recall no car float, I remember this yards, and seem to recall them separate from the NYC yards-I think this is a little park across the street from Javits Center today [most of those west side Manhattan Yards are gone, oddly virtually all that is left is the B&O car float at 28th Street with a sanitation building where those B&O yards were...] Anything you can tell me about this freight yard? Was it PRR or NYC? Was there a car float there, if PRR did it interconnect with NYC west side 30th St. yards? I have other photos of this freight yard as well... If you want to use this photo on your site, please do... I live tangentially in old PRR territory, working near "the oldest continually operated passenger station continuously operated by the same RR", but in actuality, Hewlett Depot was built in 1870 by the South Side RR, later taken over by the LIRR, which was run by the PRR the first half+ of this century {If that sounds convoluted, I still qualify for living near the oldest still operating passenger station as I once lived near the 1868 Menlo Park station on the San Francisco peninsula!} [There are PRR remnants as well-abandoned station brick work and colors on the old Rockaway Branch elevated stations, a red brick drive at the Garden City fire station once Clinton Rd. station, etc....Near my sisters house in a restaurant backyard is the original South Side station of Rockville Center, complete with it's Tuscan Red and yellow station sign from the PRR days-it was moved there after the grade eliminations between the wars] Hope you enjoy the old truck photo and can answer any of my queries about it or this old yard... Paul S. Luchter
