{"id":3697,"date":"2012-03-15T17:59:04","date_gmt":"2012-03-15T21:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/?p=3697"},"modified":"2012-03-22T14:35:14","modified_gmt":"2012-03-22T18:35:14","slug":"the-ides-of-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/?p=3697","title":{"rendered":"The Ides of March?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thursday, March 15, 2012<\/span><\/p>\n

Beware? \u00a0I think not. \u00a0Yesterday, on a beautiful warm spring-like day, we drove north to Port Jervis, New York to take care of some family matters. \u00a0We chose to drive along the slower non-highway roads of Route 6 and Route 17. \u00a0We crossed the Hudson River via the Bear Mountain Bridge and drove through scenic Harriman State Park. \u00a0The weather has been so warm and lovely this winter that although it feels like spring, the leafless trees reminded us that it’s still winter.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Engine of the Erie Railway<\/span><\/p>\n

The sky was a bright cloudless blue and the temperature was tickling 70 degrees, as we drove through former farmlands. \u00a0Port Jervis is a tired small city which looks like it had seen better days in the not-too distant past. \u00a0It is located in a valley along the Delaware River across the Pennsylvania border. \u00a0A small bridge connects the two states.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Largest Working Railroad Turntable<\/span><\/p>\n

Port Jervis was actually a “port” on the Delaware and Hudson Canal when the waterway opened in 1828 to transport coal from northeastern Pennsylvania to New York and New England. \u00a0The city grew and continued to prosper when new railroad lines were opened from 1835 through the middle of the 1900s. Port Jervis was known as a “railroad town”. \u00a0All the famous eastern railroads, The New York & Erie Railroad, the Ontario & Western Railway, and The Erie-Lackawanna, made stops at the Port Jervis railroad station.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The New York & Greenwood Lake Railway<\/span><\/p>\n

Before we left Port Jervis, we drove through several side streets to admire the old Victorian houses. \u00a0Then we followed the brown signs to the “Railroad Turntable”. \u00a0This was the “largest working electric turntable in the United States”. \u00a0According to a sign, the original roundhouse burned down many years ago. \u00a0I took a few photos with my cell phone and we walked along the old railroad tracks to get a closer look at the railroad cars. \u00a0They seemed to be in the process of restoration and we talked about what riding the rails must have been like a hundred years ago.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The Dining Car<\/span><\/p>\n

A commuter train into New York City is all that’s left of the railroad legacy of Port Jervis. \u00a0The city seems to be weathering the current recession and very slowly adapting to the 21st Century. \u00a0Life is all about “change”: physical, emotional, financial, practical, developmental, and geographic changes. \u00a0I suppose cities, like people, have to change in order to be viable. How we adjust to the innumerable changes during our lives is determined by our ability to adapt and our personal resiliency. \u00a0Our feelings of success and happiness are direct outcomes of our ability to adjust to changes.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Passenger Car<\/span><\/p>\n

The Ides of March? \u00a0Named after the Roman God, Mars, March is a time for change. \u00a0It marks the end of winter and the beginning of a new season and more changes. \u00a0Are we ready? \u00a0Beware….<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thursday, March 15, 2012 Beware? \u00a0I think not. \u00a0Yesterday, on a beautiful warm spring-like day, we drove north to Port Jervis, New York to take care of some family matters. \u00a0We chose to drive along the slower non-highway roads of Route 6 and Route 17. \u00a0We crossed the Hudson River via the Bear Mountain Bridge […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3697"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3732,"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3697\/revisions\/3732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}