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Nice photos, thanks! As a former resident of the area, now 30+ years removed, I appreciate being able to keep up with what's transpiring in the area where I "cut my teeth" railfanning in the 1960's. BTW-Welcome to Railroad.Net.

Here's a Youtube video of the train coming from the east (Falconer) and passing under the Washington Street bridge as it pulls up to the station in Jamestown: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hyps88kPT3I Otto, You're correct, there is no need for access to the track level at present. However, there ha...

Take a look at this page, particularly numbers 22943 and 130583-do either of these look like they could be the cars you're inquiring about? http://southern.railfan.net/images/archive/southern/freight/wood/wood.html In the 1950's and 1960's, the Southern had a number of innovative, experimental freig...

It's been about a year and a half since this thread was just updated, but I managed to stumble across another one this morning. Looking through a book titled Lost Trolleys of Queens and Long Island by Stephen L. Meyers (An Arcadia book), in Chapter 5 "The South Shore Lines and a Surprise" ...

Thanks for the response John. I've referred to the site often. It's a valuable resource to me-especially the portions pertaining to Chautauqua and Cattaragus counties. Please keep us updated, I look forward to the site's return. Art

Yes Dave, that much is apparent. However the site had gone down once before and then was restarted again about the time that Mr. Stewart made his announcement in January of 2011. I'd been using the site, looking up some information on the DAV&P within the last two months and then it just disappe...

So what happened to the site? It just seems to have disappeared in the last month or two. Anyone know?

Thanks for the extensive history, I appreciate your sharing this information.

Gino, I for one would appreciate any further input that you could provide.

The link I posted 7 years ago has changed-here's the new link. Again, there are links to a number of now dated photos of the 643 at the bottom of the page.

http://www.steamlocomotive.com/texas/?page=ble

Chris-Here's a link to a discussion in the Conrail forum on this topic that you may find of interest. Two of my favorite lines, the New York Central's DAV&P line from Dunkirk, NY to Warren, PA and the Erie Lackawanna branch in Tioga County, PA that I was just beginning to discover met their demi...

From the Jamestown (NY) Post-Journal, July 28, 2012 comes this reminder from the "In Years Past" portion of the Community section: Fifty Years Ago ■A gleaming steam engine and the two bright orange platform coaches it pulled 15 miles along their Western New York route, marked the bold re-e...

There has been a long running thread, with photos, on this line at another website that some of you who haven't already seen it may find of interest.

http://forums.railfan.net/forums.cgi?bo ... 1299634448

There was a rather infamous incident that occurred on the PennCentral in the early 1970's that involved a mail car traveling from Philadelphia, PA to Birmingham, AL being set out in Perryville, MD due to mechanical problems and then being "forgotten" for over 2 years. I was able to find a ...

The Morgantown power plant can receive coal by barge. there is a tug at the power plant right now, so perhaps there is a coal barge as well. Marinetraffic.com I had occasion to talk to my neighbor this afternoon. He's a mechanical engineer at the Morgantown plant. Two items of interest: 1. The tug ...