Shamrock Ave. Ft. Worth, TX

[Mike Kieran]

There are railroads with ridiculously sharp curves. The Bush Terminal Railroad/ New York Dock Railway/ New York Cross Harbor Railroad/ New York New Jersey Railroad has/had a turn on 2nd Avenue and 41st Street in Brooklyn that would probably translate into a 15 inch radius in HO. The curve was so sharp that it actually cut through a corner of a building. One of the problems that the railroad had was people parking their cars in the curve. The railroad crews would have to wait for the owner to move their car. Not so easy when you have about 20 industrial loft buildings averaging 10 floors each. Hitting the horn on the locomotive didn't always produce quick results.