RussNelson wrote:Could you take a look at OpenStreetMap and tell me if I have all the tracks in HF depicted correctly?
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It looks like the LV had two spurs in HF. One on the north between and paralleling Norton and Monroe, and one on the south, which connected with the Peanut. You can see on both the ortho and topo maps the appearance of a wye leg off the north spur connecting to the LV. Are those the only tracks, apart from the main lines of the LV and Peanut? The 1904 topo map shows a trolley line coming in from Lima, and a set of yard tracks south of the Peanut and east of Carriage St.
This post is only 7 years late. I think there was one more LV spur. If you go to the USGS Topo map viewerhttps://ngmdb.usgs.gov/topoview/viewer/#15/42.9569/-77.5959" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
they have maps from different dates all in one place. Very handy.
The 1934 map does not yet have the LV/ex-NYC connection since the NYC is still in, and the spur to the LV station between Norton and Monroe you mention is there. But there is also a long LV spur on the north edge of town, north of and sort of parallel to what is today Maplewood Ave, going down close to the river, crossing North Main St.
In the 1951 map, the long spur north of Maplewood Ave is abandoned (dotted line), the NYC is gone, and the LV /ex-NYC connection is in as you described.
EDIT: Sanborn maps from 1927 show a paper mill (American Pulp Corp) at the end of the northern spur, on the river, with a mill race going to it, presumably from above the falls.