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purplezep wrote:I was there last fall, it's off of Foul Rift Road near Belvidere. The foundation is still there yet, as well as some L&HR inactive track. You'll see some telegraph poles on the side of Foul Rift Road, then there's a few openings in the brush where you can either walk or take a mountain bike while heading back towards Belvidere. I believe the town name is also Foul Rift, but if you run a mapquest for Belvidere it will pull up Foul Rift Road. You'll be right near the Martins Creek Power Plant which is still served coal by the Bel-Del division of the PRR. I saw a 50 hopper train there in the winter and talked to the conductor. If you keep heading towards Belvidere, you will encounter a few cars left behind on inactive track, and eventually run into the Mansfield Street Station, which Amerigas now owns. You'll also see where the L&HR was double tracked, both tracks exist yet but are inactiveThanks for the info. I need to get there. This past winter, I was in the Brainards area and took some pictures there. There are a few concrete structures near the track. What they were I have no idea.
purplezep wrote:Track is still active over the trestle, wouldn't want to get caught there when a train is coming! I think it runs 1X/month. The bridge I'm thinking of runs over the Delaware to the power plant to deliver coal. Brainards did have a freight stop, that may have been remains of what you saw. The train I saw in the winter stopped right near the switchoff to transfer the cars from the main (Bel-Del) to the trestle to Martin's Creek.Contact me using this forum's e-mail option and I'll help you with uploading your pictures.
Still haven't figured out how to attach pictures to the replies!
David wrote:Ken--Mike and I checked out the G Tower foundation last summer. That was my third visit. Park at the old Mansfield Station and walk the L&HR line under a road bridge that you might have crossed over before you parked (Mansfield Ave). It is a little less then a mile of track to walk . It comes close to the tower foundation by the Bel-Del. As you walk the L&HR line, be on the look out for the 72 mile marker. It was the last milage marker on the old L&HR. Mike and I have a picture of it. Not a bad walk----David,
GOLDEN-ARM wrote:Anyone got pix of those "left behind" cars? Where are they, and what reporting marks, if any? Thanks,Are you referring to those two Conrail cars left in Belvidere?
David wrote:The cars are two gondolas in Conrail paint. Mike checked them out and found out that they are offically labled as "missing" or "lost". They are still filled with ties and junk from the ROW.It's still kind of funny how they left them behind. I can hear someone in accounting scratching their heads back then.