by scottychaos
I finally took a drive over to Himrod Junction on Friday!
I have driven down route 14 between Geneva and Watkins Glen only several billion times in my life, but never made the short jog over to the junction..but I finally did on Friday, and I have a few questions!
(No trains at the junction when I was there.
(Himrod junction is along the west side of Seneca Lake, in central NY.
originally a junction of the PRR and NYC)
1. does anyone know what that huge abandoned industrial complex was?
the one with with big concrete towers?
2. Why did the NYC bother to climb so far up above Seneca lake?
They climb up the hill from "lake level" at Geneva, up to the junction high above the lake, then back downhill to "lake level" again at Watkins Glen..
why didnt they just stay along the lake shore and not have any grades?
I cant imagine the junction with the PRR was *that* important that it made the grades worthwhile..and besides, there were plently of other places not far away that the PRR Elmira branch interchanged with the NYC..
so the reason they climbed the hill cant be because of the junction alone..doesent seem worth it..
3. Does NS still come up to the junction from Corning?
Is that Finger Lakes RR's main connection to the "outside world"?
or do they mainly interchange with CSX out near Syracuse?
or both? (NS and CSX)
thanks,
Scot
I have driven down route 14 between Geneva and Watkins Glen only several billion times in my life, but never made the short jog over to the junction..but I finally did on Friday, and I have a few questions!
(No trains at the junction when I was there.
(Himrod junction is along the west side of Seneca Lake, in central NY.
originally a junction of the PRR and NYC)
1. does anyone know what that huge abandoned industrial complex was?
the one with with big concrete towers?
2. Why did the NYC bother to climb so far up above Seneca lake?
They climb up the hill from "lake level" at Geneva, up to the junction high above the lake, then back downhill to "lake level" again at Watkins Glen..
why didnt they just stay along the lake shore and not have any grades?
I cant imagine the junction with the PRR was *that* important that it made the grades worthwhile..and besides, there were plently of other places not far away that the PRR Elmira branch interchanged with the NYC..
so the reason they climbed the hill cant be because of the junction alone..doesent seem worth it..
3. Does NS still come up to the junction from Corning?
Is that Finger Lakes RR's main connection to the "outside world"?
or do they mainly interchange with CSX out near Syracuse?
or both? (NS and CSX)
thanks,
Scot