Photo ID - Location?

This is a real photo postcard. No label. I'm thinking LV east side of Cayuga Lake. I thought for a second Niagara Gorge but there are no overhead wires/poles. Not sure if there is double track along the east side of Cayuga. Seems like light rail too.

I had it in my NY folder so I'm going with NY for now.

Any ideas? Thanks.

I can't be of any help, but that's an amazing accumulation of ice!

That definitely looks like some awfully light rail. I'm thinking it could be interurban but not sure where it could be.

No tie plates, fairly rough cut ties, and light rail - maybe very old? Doesn’t really strike me as Cayuga lake in appearance (at least not the parts I’ve been to) but if it’s really old the landscape may have been significantly different anyway.

The tracks might be the temporary construction site type. They remind me of the Rochester subway construction photos showing tracks for steam shovels and gondolas.

EDIT: Now that I think about it, the photo could still be the Gorge Route during its construction phase. No power poles/lines would have been put in place until after the excavation was complete.

RailKevin wrote: EDIT: Now that I think about it, the photo could still be the Gorge Route during its construction phase. No power poles/lines would have been put in place until after the excavation was complete.

That does seem worth considering. Does the overall route seem to fit? The right hand bend, and apparently a left hand one farther in the distance?

Are there possibly houses in the back left of the photo along the route? That would negate the gorge, I think.

The route did have a few station stops with structures. I am looking for construction photos but so far no luck.

Here is a Gorge Route photo that shows a right bend followed by a left. The OP photo has white stuff in the water, which could be ice or rapids. I'm not suggesting the locations are the same, but it adds a little bit of plausibility.

http://www.nflibrary.ca/nfplindex/show. ... 101372&b=1

I'm thinking it's the gorge. I looked at the postcard under magnification and the white stuff in the back is more fallen ice, not buildings.

Not the Niagara River Gorge Route in my opinion, the cliff/hill/raised land in the distance (where the tracks are guessed to swing left and the small white buildings are), is too low of an angle. It just doesn't seem straight-down cliff enough too me.

The water doesn't seem rapid enough either. Looks like a placid shoreline. The photo in the link posted above from the Niagara Falls Canada Library, the rapids are right at the shore..

Could it be somewhere on the southern tier along the river?

Just a guess

In the real photo postcard I have, when you look with the magnifying glass, the river has a lot of large chunks of ice in it and I think that that hides the rapids to some degree

I'm going with the Niagara Gorge. There have been several damaging ice bridges and the stack of ice on the ROW would support the following:

http://www.niagarafrontier.com/icebridge.html

Poles may not be there due to the removal of them by moving ice: Educated guess.
Double track pic:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niagara_G ... (1913).jpg