Wednesday, August 29, 2018

The lay of the land: Bergen Arches, eastern end

This is an abandoned trolly line just below Dickinson High School:

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If you continue walking along that path you get here:

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The trolly right of way goes through that smaller tunnel to the left. When you get a bit closer you'll see those steps at the left:

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They go up to the surface and come out at the parking lot for Dickinson HS. I took this shot standing at the top of those steps looking into the parking lot:

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That's Palisades Ave. behind the fence at the right. And this is a view into the trolly tunnel:

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Here we've gone through that tunnel and are looking down into the arches, back toward the direction we came from:

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Here we are down in the arches. We've gone through the large arch and are looking up at the smaller one, the one for the trolly line:

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Note: These photographs are over a decade old. Things have changed a bit since then, but only a bit. The basic layout remains the same.

Bonus: Truck going through the arches in May 2010:

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