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Kind of reminds me of the guy who rode 5 or 6 or 10 miles to North Tonawanda on hot, muggy summer days in 1970 to watch the action on the PC and E-L Niagara Falls branches, Dock Line, Tonawanda Island, etc. Lots of ex-NYC E units, E-L GP-7s on the Falls run and the Lehigh Valley snowbirds on NE-1 an...

The bridge was officially called "Portage Viaduct" by the Erie Railroad... How about "New Portage Viaduct"?

National Grid has to make upgrades to a number of substations to replace old transformers, circuit breakers etc. due to aging components. This might be part of that effort. Also may be changes due to shutdown of the Huntley and Dunkirk coal-fired generating stations.

I've read that CSX has been insisting on a very wide separation in such cases -- no 15-feet-between-track-centers for CSX. I looked through the last DEIS published on the High Speed Rail study to see what exactly "high speed" meant. Basically the existing ROW can be used up to 90 MPH max ...

From what I have read on-line, the gusset plates will be painted to match the rest of the structural steel and should start when the weather finally warms up.

I looked at my 1970s track chart and the description and location appear accurate. The train is pulling into Dye siding, presumably to meet a Binghamton-bound train.

We've nailed down the location but not the original ownership of the building, and I can't add much to that discussion. It was served by the railroad at one time and there was a siding that went into the buildind. Some additional details about it can be gleaned here: http://railroad.net/forums/viewt...

Otto Vondrak wrote:I think the most amazing thing is that this thread is four pages long.

Not familiar with that situation...

The sign I have is made of .040 inch aluminum and I don't think it is porcelain enamel. I say that because my impression of porcelain enamel is that it is very brittle, which this paint is not. And, I know it's aluminum because I checked with a magnet. Diameter is about 55 inches, too big to fit int...

It may be the white blob in the center of this image: https://goo.gl/maps/zaNsVbxNAFn" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; It doesn't look like there is any easy access to that specific area... if you go to the foot of N 6th St and cross over to the main line you will need your &...

Did it look like this?


(NOW - this sign has been in my possession since the early 1970s and is going to either the Salamanca museum or the PA museum in Altoona, depending on my finding out who to contact at these organizations and actually wants it.)

Has anybody seen an overhead shot of the scene before all the cleanup started? I'm curious whether there is a slump on the north side, or if there is a notch cut through the whole embankment. The latter scenario would suggest the body of water was south of the embankment and ate through the whole t...

I simply noted that while crews were engaged in the recovery of railcars, other crews were going to town clearing the downstream treed-in area along the "brook". Other photos showed excavators in the water working to keep the channel clear. During reconstruction they never went down far e...

The 1965 E-L track chart copy I have is barely legible but it does show something in the vicinity... At MP 390.67 there is what I think reads " 5 x 5' 11 St Arch" which I take to be stone arch... or is it steel reinforced concrete arch? The East Main crossing is MP 391.03 so per the track ...