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As I was looking around I remembered the Bellona Station site where there had been a grain transloading facility at one point. I had visited there 20 years ago and noted the siding rails still visible in the ground in the residents yard , this one is a more recent screenshot. According to the tax ma...

Revisited the thread from years ago about the FLRR storing cars from Penn Yan to Bellona.(2010 ?)

I see now Finger Lakes Rail Riders on Havens Corners Rd uses the rails heading south for aways.
Question is who owns the ROW? Yates County?

As an armchair driver I’d say anything not on the level would be alot to me.

Would you have a chart showing the grades on your route??

“In anticipation of”?

Says grade was 1.6%
Is that figured ‘per mile’.?

I take it that’s a lot?

Caught an article on Trains. Com about a Canadian Pacific freight stalling on a grade in Iowa , then sliding back down the grade toward a diamond holding a BNSF freight . Number of dramatic quotes via radio by the crew but my question is :: Crew said they were ‘sliding back to the yard whether they ...

Update on the rail trail plans. Attended a public meeting the town had on the proposals and asking for public input. Presentation by their consultant indicated the initial trail to go from Main Street westerly to just north of the Curtis Museum , then comes to a screeching halt as DEC finds an Eagle...

After all these years driving that way on the 190 never gave it a thought as to where those tracks went . Well now I know - no where ! Again too bad those new warehouse businesses that parallel the ROW and the 290 couldn’t have used rail service . Looking around that area now over by the OOS Huntley...

I’ll grab some new photos A really impressive development. HUGE as the car commercials used to say. Fairly large gantry type crane structures in place now along side the siding now . Now that I can upload pics I’ll go over to my other thread later to post updates on the short rail trail developments...

Unable to post a few photos to this link.
Trying as usual via my cell.
Haven’t changed any settings

Any ideas ?
Thanks
Mark

For years I’d always caught that stack with its plume of smoke as I was on the escarpment in Clarence . Always in front of me as I came north on Transit Rd at the old Eastern Hillary Mall: 20miles? 30? And now as I drive across Niagara county in the area of Lockport and Gasport all the high tension ...

Forgot to ask - did the plant have its own dedicated switcher?

Mark

Came across ALOT of pics/videos on the tear out at Somerset. Credit for them goes to local poster “Handfull of Trains “ This is one of many he has of the Somerset RR. https://youtu.be/GNkIaDRU1TE . I didn’t realize how big the rail yard was . Some of the videos talk about 100’s of the hoppers being ...

Thinking limestone as that what the 5 arch bridge in Avon is -“ consists of five elliptical arches built of ashlar on limestone piers. “ https://i.imgur.com/wXN3azL.jpg Similar to the D & L abutments in Alexander. https://i.imgur.com/JEnz7lK.jpg A lot more around in this light tan color . Mark M...