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"I will guess that this was the replacement NYC station after re-alignment.. How was the station connected to the main line? " The NYCRR Station on Roosevelt St (possibly named after Teddy Roosevelt ?) was built at ground level and had at least one concrete staircase (possibly more than on...

Well, I believe (but could easily be mistaken) that the 20th Century Limited did not stop at Cleveland Union Terminal (CUT) which was electric territory from the 1920/30's until the 1950's. Instead it took a shorter route up along the shoreline of Lake Erie and stopped at an older station (pre- Clev...

Well, it looks like that thing is now just a bigger disaster waiting to happen. If I was ADM I would default on the property taxes and let the local gubermint repossess it or put it up for a tax delinquency sale. Then all the folks that want to turn it into a museum can deal with all the real world ...

"Mr. Benton, back when dignitaries traveled by train (such as President-Elect Obama during Jan '17), there was always a Pilot train ahead. Between that train and the dignitary's, the track, if not the whole railroad, was sealed." Indeed, way way back in 1942 my Pop was called to fire a Hud...

"modern control systems make it difficult to throw a switch immediately in front of or under a train" The old mechanical interlocking plants installed way back in the 1920's and 1930's would not allow you to quickly change a route through an interlocking after it was set and "clear&qu...

Very interesting map. One would assume the only reason for an engine house in tiny little South Byron would be to support helper engines. They could not possibly need an engine house to support switching all the local South Byron Industries (chuckle)... Just a bit North of there was a West Shore Bri...

I did not know there was an engine house in Byron, very interesting, maybe east of Iviston Road ? The old ROW looks wider there.

Would be interesting to look at the old maps for that area, I have not done so.

Don't have any pics to share. But that photo of Bergen has to be looking west at the NYS Rt 19 crossing. That block of brick buildings on the left (SW corner) is still mostly intact, and the tall building on the right (NW corner) was a bean processing plant\grain elevator. Some of that building is a...

"A couple additional historical notes with more impact to western NY state was the idea of big wide open roads going all across the country, and making a water system that allowed large (at that time) ocean-going vessels to go all through the Great Lakes." Indeed, the "Dwight D. Eisen...

"I take it trouble started Post WW2?" Well, it all starts back around 1820 when a guy named MacAdam, a Scot, invented a way to make sturdy roads with fine gravel and tar (also know as Asphalt)... And then, a guy named Ford came up with an assembly line to make lower cost cars and trucks......

Pretty sure that the LVRR crossed Ellicott Creek at about the spot your GPS/Loran shows (~1200 Ellicott Creek Rd.) Then made a 90 degree turn and joined up with the NYCRR "Little Peanut" just a little west of Ellicott Creek Park Rd. Then it followed approx the now existing road called &quo...

I would research public passenger train timetables from that era (1920's-1950's). If the BR&P yard office/ freight-house in Gates by the modern Rochester Airport was a passenger stop I think it would be referenced in those public timetables. Given the relative lack of folks living around there &...

That is a "hip flask" that was used by the D&H operating crews during Prohibition and the Depression. They had extra baggy overalls to cover up just such an item. Filled with bathtub gin, just what was needed to pass a few hours while waiting for a "high ball" to get back to ...

"The New York Central debuted the Empire State Express, on December 7, 1941" I hate to be a nitpicker, but I will anyway, just for historical accuracy. The ESE on the NYCRR dated to the ESE on the NYC&HRRR and was debuted in the 1880's. Originally ran NYC to Buffalo, later extended to ...

Other parts of that ROW are long gone, including the bridges over Millersport Highway and Nia Falls Blvd.

Not likely that ROW is coming back. Maybe it's being cleared for a trail or an Electric power line ?

Cheers, Kevin