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My guess would be that it was a standard baggage car - a certainly looks like one. Having a doodle bug pull a baggage car or a combination baggage-mail car was standard practice for many railroads. Some of the bigger ones, like the Erie 5000-series could haul one of those and a half-a-dozen milk car...

With regard to these being mixed trains, I should have added that I had seen one in the flesh. It was at the Rochester depot, I think in 1939. It was after 5pm and a truck had just arrived with either some express of LCL, I would guess. Don't know when it finally left. I don't know how many cars it ...

I'm not sure just when the gas-electrics came off the Rochester branch but it was before 1938. The last few years it was a mixed train. I'd have to look it up but as I recall, it left Rochester around 5pm and got to Olean around midnight or so. Its counter part left Olean about midnight and was sche...

The Bergen Tunnel is just out of Jersey City. It was originally double track. On top of it is the Bergen Archways, an open cut with four tracks. This was part of the Erie main line. I don't know how much of this is still in operation. When the archways were built, they left in rock arches every now ...

With regard to motive power used on the Elmira branch, in the mid 1950's, the only steam engines I remember seeing on the north end from Stanley to Sodus Point were 2-10-0's. Even the way freight had one. Ted

Yes, that is correct. The open air depot and surrounding tracks were taken up fairly soon but much of the trackage between there and the junction for the Hemlock spur was still there in 1940 -for whatever reason. I remember walking the track as a kid. Ted

On an earlier post on this thread, I mentioned that most of the track between Hemlock Lake and the junction with the spur into Hemlock was still in place as late as 1940. Some of it had trees growing out of it. I can't imagine that it's still there. Does anyone know when the trackage was removed? Ted

I think the Lehigh Valley built that connector to the Peanut when the Peanut was abandoned. With regard to the two tracks off the main line, if memory serves me, the LV had a wye at Honeoye Falls on the east side of the main. Ted

The original Hemlock Lake branch of the Lehigh Valley ran straight down to the lake. A couple of miles north of the lake, a spur ran off to the hamlet of Hemlock. This looks to be about where the map has it but as far as I know, it never went farther east than the mill on Route 15A. It certainly did...

With regard to the Finger Lakes train with two engines: The last time I saw a Finger Lakes freight in Auburn (2009), it had over 40 cars - more, I suspect than the Auburn line had in its later years. Ted

I don't have the date but sometime in the 1880's or 1890's, Mrs. Pullman was a patient at the Jackson Sanitorium in Dansville, NY for an extended time. Mr. Pullman visited her many times while she was there, parking his private car on a siding next to the Lackawanna Depot in Dansville. When she left...

I just found the answer to my question in Bill Gordon's book. Apparently it was a quote from a newspaper clipping or maybe a notice the railroad would put in its depots. "After Friday, September 30, 1927, the Erie Railroad will discontinue all Passenger Service on the Attica Branch between Avon...

Does anyone know when the last mixed train ran on the Attica branch of the Erie? Ted

Correct me if I am wrong,but, didn't the RL&B start at Lockport where it connected with the International Railway Company from Buffalo? (Before it was the International Railway, it was the Buffalo and Lockport which had some sort of arrangement with the Erie between those two points. Either they...

With regard to the three tracks in your photo: Until the early 1930's, that part of the West Shore was double track. When it was single tracked, the NYC also made a change in traffic patterns and nearly everything after that was westbound trains of empties - headed for Gardenville, I believe. Ted