Hi, I am new to this forum thanks in part to this topic. I used to live in Trumansburg from my birth in 1952, till I left in 1970. My parents owned a farm in Halseyville, NY and I am very familiar with the Penn - Sodus RR. Actually, the line formed the back west border of our farm with Taughanock creek forming the north border. Our farm was located on the corner of NYS 96 and Halseyville - Enfield Road. Below is a picture of our old farm showing the northwest corner. Note the white line represents the rail bed - at the north end of that line is the rail abutment for the trestle that was never built over Taughanock Creek. Built in 1873, the abutment was still there at the time of this writing.
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7132/7461 ... 89d2_b.jpg
The road in the north east corner is Rabbit Run -- this is just below the Trumansburg Fair Grounds. I don't know if a map showing the proposed route has been shown ---
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8143/7461 ... 057e_b.jpg
Here is a link to my FLIKR set showing the trestle ----
http://www.flickr.com/photos/14024074@N ... 330744582/
At one time (1945 - 98), the 212 acre farm belonged to Robert Dean and Camille Murphey my dad and mom. It is my recent understanding that the rail-bed and abutment are severely overgrown making it now nearly impossible to be seen from the farm, and as you can judge from the pictures it is almost impossible to be seen from the creek bed.
George Murphey --
"Down by the station, early in the morning. See the puffer bellies all in a row. Hear the station master shoutin', "ALL ABOARD"! Huff, puff, toot, toot ------- off we go.