Amazing how times change

Back until the 1960s, New York harbor was served by a myriad of freight and passenger railroads. Of course back then, they were the same thing, every freight hauler ran passenger trains.  In the harbor everyone of the roads also had fleets of tugboats, lighters, ferries and barges of all types. 

Then, manufacturing bases moved, charges were regulated, railroads began to merge, go bankrupt, and merge again.

The fleets were no longer needed, the multitudes of carriers was consolidating, no reason to interchange by water when the same railroad now controlled all the tracks...so what was once an everyday event was gone.

Large commodities come in by freight railroad giants, and smaller loads arrive by truck and interstate highway.