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Silver Creek is roughly half way between Angola and Dunkirk on the Lake Shore. That pic would be either an eastbound east of town (from Hanford Rd xing) or a westbound on the north side of town (from NYC St.).

As info for those who didn't see it, local news did a piece on a current attempt to save the New Lebanon depot in Rensselaer County. Video including interior views here.

Conrail's Locotrol DP experiment was 1990-1992 (the 6050-6059 built in 1990). I ran a rather large BUOI with it from Buffalo to Gang Mills. Didn't break any knuckles (or anything else) with it, and there's a lot more roller-coaster to the Tier than the Water Level Route. The biggest problems with it...

DP was not directly about reducing in-train forces. DP was about running longer (and heavier) trains. Max train lengths before DP were approaching maximum allowable train forces, so running even longer trains required helpers to keep forces tolerable, not the other way around. DP evolved in part fro...

The more fascinating thing is why anyone would transload coal at Buffalo for Hamilton. The only places I see in Hamilton that would use the coal have easy rail service and it's only about two hours more by train from Seneca to Hamilton. The Canadians can't spare a crew to come get the train to run i...

Thanks for the GO link. The rh CR switch was located just east of Little Tuscarora Creek at the beginning of the curve about 400 feet west of Church St. You can still see the switch ties on current Google satellite photos. I don't recall if the old equilateral was still there but if it was still the...

The yard shown removed in yesterday's post is not Ohio St yard. It's the Turnpike Yard, which was a BCRR yard pre-Conrail. Ohio St yard is the one pictured at the top of the 7/29 post, and it has already lost quite a few tracks as shown in your pics. Only three of the BC-side tracks remain on the no...

To my surprise CN comes off the mainline. Initially it looked like he was going to enter the yard but turned left circumnavigating the water tower and heads towards/near Hanna Furnace. The track the CN job is heading down is the Lehigh Westbound. That's the 'back door' to Seneca yard at Tifft St.. ...

Kevin, you've practically eliminated any other possible location besides Brocton with all that. Combine that with what BR&P said - the vineyards and the nearby parallel Nickle Plate and the long tangent - and the fact that there are clearly still today vineyards to left (although the field shown...

I agree with Brocton. It's the only spot that checks all the boxes. That would be CP-47, which is still there. Sidings were from CP-47 to CP-49 until they were gradually wiped out by derailments/downsizing. Westfield was next siding location and only 9 miles west (CP-56 to CP-58) so Brocton became s...

He's on Broadway looking north at the LV. The red line is photo direction, the distance text is on the LV ROW. The first '1' is where the bridge was.

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reading again through that letter https://dcms-external.s3.amazonaws.com/DCMS_External_PROD/1602165439369/301160.pdf for request for abandonment/exemption...when a line is abadonned the white "Exempt" sign shows up on the crossing? If this is true, I was expecting to see an Exempt sign at...

Turnouts #10. Looks like the crossing frogs are #8 for the inside and #6 for the outside. Curved crossing would change the angle that much in that distance. In this case 2 deg 22' 28".

Correction - GIS shows the depot about 226' south of the road.

I managed to get over there last weekend before the foliage got too thick. Pics taken 4-22-22. Still there and still in bad shape, but it's somewhat accessible via private rail trail. It's about 100' south of Tilden Rd. https://i.imgur.com/aLY7V5r.jpg https://i.imgur.com/Je1Kqbm.jpg https://i.imgur....