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In the 1950s the Lehigh Valley RR served American Can and a Market Basket warehouse complex via a spur that came off the MT near the passenger depot. This crossed Geneseee Street and then turned north to the warehouse complex. There was another spur referred to as the "tobaggan" that left ...

Except for the Cuba Cutoff which was demolished after ConRail including the huge trestles at Belmont and Fillmore.

This may well still be called the Owego & Harford. Operates tourist trains to Newark Valley and freight service to North Harford. Prior to this it was the Tioga Central which lost the operating rights in the 1990s. The line is a portion of the ex-Lehigh Valley Auburn branch and is owned by the T...

The LV ROW was no doubt elevated in order to maintain as level as possible a gradient on the approaches to the NYC Auburn Branch overpass.

National Guard troop trains were operated by the Lehigh Valley RR. in the 1950s. These would come up from New Jersey via the MT to Sayre then over the Auburn branch to Auburn, NY where they would be turned over to the NYC and forwarded to Camp Drum. Power would be Alco RS2/3 or FA units.

The line was abandoned at the behest of the city of Colorado Springs so that only one rather than two rail lines traversed the city on a north/south axis.

The site where the R&E bridge over the Lehigh Valley MT was located is approximately .5 miles west of the NY Route 251 crossing. In the 1970s the R&E abutments were plainly visible. However, the last time I visited the site in 1992 heavy poplar tree and brush growth had all but obscured the ...

It would not have been possible to detour a NYC Hudson or even a LVRR Pacific passenger engine the full length of the SL&S Branch account tonnage restrictions on the wood trestle in Dushore.

Haven't been in Ft. Drum since the late 1970s, but at that time there was a direct connection to ConRail, previously Penn Central and before that New York Central. In the 1950s many northeastern National Guard units arrived at the fort via troop train for annual field training. Am sure, but not posi...

Reference relics along the old Rochester & Eastern Rapid Railway: On a hike of the R&E r/o/w in April, 1974 the following was noted: Between Victor and the Lehigh Valley RR overpass site: Several downed concrete catenary poles, some with insulators still intact. At the LVRR overpass site: Co...

Have heard that there are still car parts in Flint Creek down the embankment at the Orleans wreck site. Reference the West Shore: walked a short piece of it just east of Newark in the late 1960s. It was midwinter so the foliage wasn't a problem. Was surprised to find a searchlight signal head laying...

Reference the above post pertaining to the R&E bridge. Time elapsed should be 31 years and not 34 years for crying out loud.

In the spring of 1974 there was a short intact bridge with steel stringers and concrete abutments on the old R&E R Rwy. between Fishers and Bushnells Basin. Took a photograph of it when I hiked the R&E Victor to just east of Bushnells Basin. This may well now be history given development in ...

O-6-0: You are correct and I stand corrected. In the late 1960s, just east of a place called Hathaways on the old Rochester & Eastern Rapid Railway electric interurban was a short steel bridge over Beards Creek. In those days the R&E r/o/w passed through a cow pasture at this location and at...

The Canandaigua Outlet bridge on the old LVRR at Manchester is partially abandoned in that the rails on the track 2 side were salvaged several years ago. Ontario Central continues to utilize the track 1 side.