LV Elephants on the Erie

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Great pictures! I think your guess as to the location of the overhead shots is spot on. Looking at Google maps it seems that the photos were taken on the Rt 119 overhead bridge just east of Canisteo.

Thank you. Yes, it is Canisteo. The photos have been updated accordingly. The website allows you to search by location (should have done that to begin with...) and there are around 90 other shots in that same location. According to old USGS topo maps, that location is Carson and the bridge is (or was) known as Carson (or Carson's) bridge. Learn something new every day.

CP -

6 of 13 is not Dalton to Swain - it's a mile or so east of Canaseraga. Only place on the Buffalo Division the grade was separated like that - to ease the climb on the old WB track. Nice pics.

Thank you! Caption fixed.

Excellent shots! BTW, the location is photograph #11 is known as CP Cam on NS now.

any idea what train this was, what routing it was using? guessing with the auto racks it's headed for points former EL somewhere.

I have no answers to your questions. Sorry.

Looking at an April 1976 Conrail freight schedule I found online it could have been BB-12 which was scheduled to arrive at Hornell at 2:15 PM.

Or it could have been a late BS-8 (Buffalo-Sayre) which was scheduled to arrive Hornell at 6:40 AM.

There is a NJ-6 listed in some places but no schedule is shown. This is a Niagara Falls-Oak Island train, maybe carrying former LV freight, but in May 1976 it is shown as running Niagara Falls-Rochester-Geneva-Corning-Waverly-Sayre so it would have bypassed Hornell.

I wonder if it was a short train, since it seems unlikely that they would have dispatched a symbol freight from Buffalo with only two C628s. But back then they did use pushers up Attica Hill so anything is possible.

Great shots, thank you for sharing!

Charlie

CP -

Matt is right about pic 11 - White's (River) Rd, MP316.2. Utility pole is still there -has a transformer hung on it now to power CP Cam.

TrainDetainer wrote:CP -

6 of 13 is not Dalton to Swain - it's a mile or so east of Canaseraga. Only place on the Buffalo Division the grade was separated like that - to ease the climb on the old WB track. Nice pics.

Here is a modern Google streetview from highway 70, looking south, opposite Hess Rd about a mile east of Canaseraga. https://www.google.com/maps/@42.4624291 ... 64!6m1!1e1" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Looks like the westbound (northernmost) track is the remaining one, with the eastbound track up on the hill gone.

Great photos, thanks for posting. Jim S

Rather than start a new thread, I'm just going to tack onto this one. I purchased a scanner a few years back and started with 60 carousels of slides (family, work, school, vacation, railroad stuff, etc.) and now I'm down to three. Here's the latest and probably the last big group for a while.

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Have fun. Out of the bunch, this is my favorite:
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CPSmith wrote:Rather than start a new thread, I'm just going to tack onto this one. I purchased a scanner a few years back and started with 60 carousels of slides (family, work, school, vacation, railroad stuff, etc.) and now I'm down to three. Here's the latest and probably the last big group for a while.

http://rrpicturearchives.net/archiveThu ... ?id=120504" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Have fun. Out of the bunch, this is my favorite:
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Can you pinpoint exactly where this was? When did they took down the bridge?

sd80mac wrote:Can you pinpoint exactly where this was? When did they took down the bridge?

This bridge was at William Street and was the former DL&W City Branch which crossed over the far west edge of the
Erie/EL Bison Yard. This area was just east of Bailey Ave. The red dot is where it was located. On the map, the bridge
crossed from top right to lowe left. Some of the abutments are still in place today. This is just guessing, but I think this
bridge was removed in the late 1970's.

Charlie