by WShore4Ever
My first post!
After lurking and hoping for someone else to ask I've decided to go public.
I am trying to locate information regarding the subject railroad. Having grown up in the Ft. Plain area, I clearly remember seeing remnants of the ROW (cuts, fills, bridge abutments, etc), but I have never found any pictures or significant published text on this line. I believe that construction started near the end of the 19th century or early 20th century? I have no evidence that it got to the rails-on-ties stage, much less engines or rolling stock.
Close examination of NYS aerial imagery from http://www1.nysgis.state.ny.us clearly shows the ROW in numerous areas. The line apparently would have entered Richfield Springs on the ROW shown north of that town on the USGS topographic map and referenced by Russ Nelson in his Jun 27, 2006 post to the “Cooperstown Area Info” thread under this forum:
Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2006 9:15 am
Post subject: Cooperstown area info
Sorry, no, I meant the Southern New York Railway. I couldn't remember any of its multidudinous names; not even one. Noel came to my rescue, bless him.
Is this siding / branch line off the SNY real or does it come from the fevered imagination of the people at the USGS? http://mapper.acme.com/?ll=42.86673,-74 ... %20-74.972
The book Old Mohawk-Turnpike Book, published by Knox Gelatine Co. in 1921, contains the text, “Various railroad projects, connecting the Susquehanna headwaters with the Mohawk valley at Fort Plain, have failed to materialize in the century prior to 1921. One company constructed a considerable part of the roadbed necessary.” I haven’t had the time to dig through newspaper records in Montgomery County.
Does anybody out there have any info?
Thanks, Long live the West Shore!
After lurking and hoping for someone else to ask I've decided to go public.
I am trying to locate information regarding the subject railroad. Having grown up in the Ft. Plain area, I clearly remember seeing remnants of the ROW (cuts, fills, bridge abutments, etc), but I have never found any pictures or significant published text on this line. I believe that construction started near the end of the 19th century or early 20th century? I have no evidence that it got to the rails-on-ties stage, much less engines or rolling stock.
Close examination of NYS aerial imagery from http://www1.nysgis.state.ny.us clearly shows the ROW in numerous areas. The line apparently would have entered Richfield Springs on the ROW shown north of that town on the USGS topographic map and referenced by Russ Nelson in his Jun 27, 2006 post to the “Cooperstown Area Info” thread under this forum:
Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2006 9:15 am
Post subject: Cooperstown area info
Sorry, no, I meant the Southern New York Railway. I couldn't remember any of its multidudinous names; not even one. Noel came to my rescue, bless him.
Is this siding / branch line off the SNY real or does it come from the fevered imagination of the people at the USGS? http://mapper.acme.com/?ll=42.86673,-74 ... %20-74.972
The book Old Mohawk-Turnpike Book, published by Knox Gelatine Co. in 1921, contains the text, “Various railroad projects, connecting the Susquehanna headwaters with the Mohawk valley at Fort Plain, have failed to materialize in the century prior to 1921. One company constructed a considerable part of the roadbed necessary.” I haven’t had the time to dig through newspaper records in Montgomery County.
Does anybody out there have any info?
Thanks, Long live the West Shore!