Where? (Erie circa-1950 pic)

[timz]

http://images.google.com/hosted/life/l? ... c3e588b223

Are those commuter cars? But this isn't commute territory, is it?

[TSTOM]

tim -

Well, those are definately Stillwells.

My guess is Hornell.

[snavely]

Are you sure it's Erie? Loco on right may be a camelback, hard to tell from the angle. Maybe CNJ?

[Matt Langworthy]

No, the locomotive on the right is definitely a standard cab, with a Vanderbilt tender. That's a pretty good sign we're looking at the Erie, rather than CNJ. The location doesn't look like Hornell to me, either. I'm guessing the picture was taken further east- perhaps Port Jervis.

[Marty Feldner]

There are no structures in Port Jervis even remotely like those- now or previously- that I'm aware of.

And if you look at the photo carefully, at full size, the engine at right clearly has the Erie diamond on the tender's coal bunker side. Not a camelback, number 218 was a C-3 class 0-8-0 switcher. And the "ERIE" spelled out on the stillwell letterboards pretty much rules out anything other than Erie.

[Roadgeek Adam]

This has to be out west quite a bit. Most terminals aren't that developed.

It could be Meadville, Marion, Kent or if I had to take a wild guess, Chicago.

Suffern is suburbia, Port Jervis was not that commercial, Susquehanna, definitely not, Hornell negatory. However, that could be Gang Mills Yard in Painted Post, with Corning surrounding it.

[dano23]

Paterson, NJ

That's Garrett Mountain in the back and the tall building is St. Joseph's Hospital.

[Roadgeek Adam]

Paterson, NJ

That's Garrett Mountain in the back and the tall building is St. Joseph's Hospital.

Ah sweet, that's the Getty Avenue Yard then. (No other yard in Paterson).