Meanwhile Upriver April 2013

Click here for an ice post from two years and two months ago, featuring the very same tug–Kimberly Poling–with a slightly different paint job.  Know this bridge?

Here’s a closer up shot of the tug/barge.   Our destination is the top of the cliff on the far side.  Know the name?

Here’s looking north from below the bridge.  Freight travels on the west side of the Hudson, although this particular CSX train

happened to be pulling this unit . . . CSX SWAT.  Click on the blue info link at the lower left of that link . . . it is what it sounds like.

The east side of the river has AmTrak and commuter passenger lines and

here a New York Naval Militia vessel.

By the time we’re ready to start the serious climb, Kimberly is about ready to make the right turn around the base of Dunderberg Mountain.

Here’s our destination, Anthony’s Nose, as seen with a long lens.

And as seen from the top looking west and

looking south.  By the time, we got up there, Kimberly was already beyond Croton Point.   Here’s a previous tugster post from Croton Point.  The land directly across the river from the base of the flagpole is Iona Island.

and approaching Tappan Zee Bridge, not visible.

All fotos by Will Van Dorp.

Here’s a tugster post from 2.5 years ago showing the Bear Mountain Bridge–the bridge featured here and located about 40 miles north of the Battery— from underneath. . .  scroll through.  Climb Anthony’s Nose soon . . . before the leaves happen.