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See the attached picture and merged Valuation Map. Hope this helps.

The 1917 Valuation charts show a "joint operation" freight house inside the NE quadrant of the junction. A tiny passenger station (similar in size to Harbor, Jacksonburgh, Mindenville and Glenmont, among others) was right at the junction in the SE quadrant, with plank platforms to service ...

Concur with all that was said above. Track schematic based on 1917 Valuation Maps is attached: Note that the station was at one time called "Downing" after the family that donated land for the station. The attached drawing is consistent with the postcard often listed on eBay. I know of no ...

From the 1908 Official Railway Guide:

A few stations, e.g., Jacksonburg east of Mohawk, may have been closed by 1908.

1952 aerial from Historic Aerials shows a spur off the main and parallel on the south side of Rd 113 continuing to the rear of the subject facility.

As regarding the Rome, NY NYC Freight House: I stopped by Rome Plumbing and Heating Supply (located on the sight of the subject freight house) today and inquired of the man behind the counter (and owner) of the lineage of the building. Mr. O’Brien is the son of the purchaser of the original station ...

Sadly, though I have been looking, too, for quite a while, there is nothing that I have come across that covers that part of the West Shore. Even postcards (eBay, Worthpoint, etc.) and aerial photos are scarce to non-existent. Don't forget about the Broad St. spur, too. Valuation maps and Sanborn Ma...

I was recently able to view NYC Valuation Survey photos (negatives) at the Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of American History, donated in 1986 by the Grand Trunk Western Railroad Company, relevant to this topic. In 2018, J. D'Addario and V. Broussard Simmons authored an index/guide to the ...

I believe the location is at/near N42.966870, W74.950122. The trestle seems well represented on the 1945, 1954 & 1970 topo maps shown at http://www.HistoricAerials.com" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; even though the rails were long gone by then.

- West Shore 4Ever

I did a little digging and located an Annual Report of the Board of Railroad Commissioners of the State of New York for 1906 Vol 1, pg. 124-125 that sheds some light on this thread. Prior to 1906 the West Shore passenger station in Utica was located on Hammond St., near South St., in what today is k...

I should have checked. They made bricks, not cement, with the stone dust.
From the 1918 Sanborn Map:

Hikeable? Legal? Probably, but save your time for other treks. There are no bridges, just a weed-filled cut. Putts Hill Rd is now fill as is the Thruway overpass. A better spend of your time is the bike path on the WS RoW (technically a rail-trail?) down at Little Falls: serious rock cuts, rough ash...

Great find! The two overpasses are likely just west of where the the Thruway (I-90) crosses the WS RoW east of Mohawk. This would be near N43.014636, W-74.981505. The WS is in a cut at this location. Milepost 216. The near bridge is for Putts Hill Road. The far bridge is an earlier alignment of Putt...

Russ is pretty inclusive in his comments. The LF&D is now over 50 years since its abandonment, but the RoW is easily traced using GoogleMaps. A lot of it is through farm field or woods, not always detectable from the road. Late fall or early spring is best for exploring due to foliage. A 20th ce...

I found a definitive vintage view of the Fultonville freight depot at
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