by gearhead
Does anyone have timetables for this and know anything
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gearhead wrote:Does anyone have timetables for this and know anythingThe sections of the Lehigh Valley as well as Erie Lackawanna and in fact any railroad line or portion of a line that was not turned over to Conrail remained with the original railroad's estate. They were free then to lease it out to another operator, sell it to another operator, tear the track up and sell the property or in short to do whatever they saw fit to do with it. I don't think any operations took place over the sections that were not taken by Conrail as they did not own this trackage and had no rights to operate on it, not even for a day. They did operate over certain lines where outside money (mostly state in this case) came in to play and a contract was made with Conrail to operate said trackage. Many of these deals were of a relatively short term. In short, a lot of track got very rusty fast.
TB Diamond wrote: Not all of the line segments I listed still exist as mentioned erronously in the post above:Not going to argue, but I will point out the paragraph right before the one you claim to be in error states the same damned thing, that the Geneva-Shortsville segment came out when the ramp was built at Shortsville in 1978-79. Almost everything else, with exception of overlooking the removal of the Lima branch, I can pull up posts to back up what I said right off this forum.
Geneva Jct.-Geneva abandoned summer, 1978 and torn up.
The segment at Rochester Jct. abandoned in the early 1980s and torn up.
The Caledonia Industrial Track (ex-LVRR MT) Spring St.-Caledonia abandoned in 1983. The remainder P&L Jct-Spring St. remains for the most part but has been realigned at the west end.
TB Diamond wrote:Believe I forgot to mention that a short segment of the Auburn branch and a short segment of the Aurora Secondary Track remains in use by FGLK within the City of Auburn.
"Lima branch" officially known as Rochester South branch by ConRail. Rochester Jct.-Lima, 6.0 miles, abandoned 22 March 1983. You will find that in another post, as well.
Scrapping of the rails RJ-Lima commenced on 11 April 1984.
Should one look far enough back in the posts they will note that the LVRR main was abandoned Geneva to where the ramp was constructed off the ex-NYC Auburn branch up to the ex-LVRR main near Shortsville only after the connection in Victor was constructed between the ex-NYC Auburn branch and the formr LVRR main L/1977-M/1978.