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gravelyfan wrote:I'd like to introduce a new topic for discussion. For the last couple of years I've vacationed in Wildwood Crest and have started to get a sense of some of the rail history. Here are some items I've either read or been told, perhaps some here can confirm some of this:
The PRR line (which ran via North Wildwood) ran down (or alongside) New Jersey Ave (at least from the downtown station to Sunset Lake). What about in North Wildwood? Was it also along NJ Ave? And was this a rail next to road situation? I'm guessing it was, and when the tracks were removed NJ Ave was widened to four lanes?
The PRR Line through North Wildwood was it abandoned soon after the PRSL merger? I gather the portion south of downtown Wildwood remained in service until the Budd Cars arrived?
The loop at diamond Beach/Two Mile Landing area is very evident on aerial photos (have you tried Google Earth yet?). What sort of facilities were here, and where were they in relation to the loop?
Thanks!
Rich
JimBoylan wrote:I suspect that the loop South of Wildwood Crest at Cold Spring Harbor was used for turning entire trains. My April 1946 Employees' Timetable shows sevice as far as the Crest, but has the special instructions for the loop at Cold Spring Harbor.
JJMDiMunno wrote:Hey guys,
I"ve just been informed by a member of my discussion group SJRA that the curved platform that used to be next to the connection between the PRR and RDG at Oak Avenue has been bulldozed. This location is shown in the photograph below shot my Mr. Duke on our trip down that way about a year and a half ago:
http://www.prsl-rr.com/gallery/view_pho ... WilwoodSTA
Sad to see it go. All part of Wildwood's redevelopment program...I've no idea what they're gonna build there...
Mike DiMunno
gravelyfan wrote:Just back from my annual visit, I can answer Mike's question about what is being built at the former station site (if you've been to Wildwood in the last few years you probably would have guessed this anyway):
Townhouses - a whole block of them.
I drove in behind the Rite Aid, and there is one length of rail that was apparently dug up in the construction, it's sitting on the "Rite Aid" side of the new fence there. Also a small chunk of concrete was laying there, I wonder if that was part of the "curved platform".
By the way, Mike, the link to the photo you mention doesn't work anymore.
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