New York State Railroad Map!

Wow. They put abandoned lines on the map.

Cannot believe Tonawanda Valley & Cuba is on there along with the Bradford, Eldred & Cuba.

Are the abandoned lines shown on the map available in a format so they can be imported as a layer into a GIS viewer like ArcGIS Explorer? Or even a KMZ file that could be loaded into Google Earth?

For better or worse, I'm duplicating their effort by putting every railbed that's ever existed into http://OpenStreetMap.org. You can download an extract of the map in Garmin format and put it on your GPS receiver. Or you can just look at the map at that URL. Or if you have a smartphone, you can download the MapQuest app and choose the OpenStreetMap layer.

If you want to do interesting things, I can show you how to extract features from OpenStreetMap, like anything with railroad=abandoned and bridge=yes which will show you every abandoned RR bridge in all of New York State. There are over three hundred!

Here we go again!!! The 2012 edition of the NY State Rail Map has been released at:

https://www.dot.ny.gov/divisions/operat ... ?nd=nysdot

Changes include substitution of the Saratoga & North Creek for the Upper Hudson River Railway, the opening of the Brookhaven Rail terminal by US Rail NY (not that you can actually see it at this scale!!!) and a few other minor edits.

Enjoy

Ray

I note it even shows the old New York & Oswego Midland Auburn Branch from Norwich to Cortland up over Crumb Hill. Service ended in 1879 and tracks were torn up in Spring of 1882.

And the 3ft. gage Central Valley Railroad shows up (the short spur coming off the NYS&W Utica line north of Chenango Forks). That line only lasted a few years back in the 1870's.

I'm curious about the fragment south of Binghamton. I've seen it listed as the "Binghamton & State Line" and "Binghamton, Pennsylvania & Southern". Where did it connect in Binghamton? Where did it terminate in PA? Are there any visible remains?

Cactus Jack wrote:I note it even shows the old New York & Oswego Midland Auburn Branch from Norwich to Cortland up over Crumb Hill. Service ended in 1879 and tracks were torn up in Spring of 1882.

Right here: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/39823447

And the 3ft. gage Central Valley Railroad shows up (the short spur coming off the NYS&W Utica line north of Chenango Forks). That line only lasted a few years back in the 1870's.

And here: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/47062503

I just took a peek at the website and I immediately checked out the Buffalo and Cohocton ROW in Clarence. It is shown and the dotted line stops pretty much where the tall antenna is which is at the east end of the quary at Harris Hill and Wehrle. This antenna can be seen from the NYS Thruway if you're driving through town.

Neat.

SteelRail wrote:I'm curious about the fragment south of Binghamton. I've seen it listed as the "Binghamton & State Line" and "Binghamton, Pennsylvania & Southern". Where did it connect in Binghamton? Where did it terminate in PA? Are there any visible remains?

That's the French Grade: http://russnelson.com/unfinished-railro ... rnElectric

The 2013 edition of the map is now available at https://www.dot.ny.gov/divisions/operat ... %20Map.pdf

The significant changes this year include activation of the Saratoga & North Creek to Tahawus and the change in control of the Hudson Line between Poughkeepsie & Schenectady from CSX to Amtrak.

Also, for the first time, NYSDOT has made the rail GIS data used to create the map available to the public for unrestricted download. See http://gis.ny.gov/gisdata/inventories/m ... tionID=539

Enjoy...

Ray

nyswray wrote:Also, for the first time, NYSDOT has made the rail GIS data used to create the map available to the public for unrestricted download. See http://gis.ny.gov/gisdata/inventories/m ... tionID=539

YAY!!

New 2024 edition now available. Previous editions since 2010: 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2016, 2019, 2023.