Does anyone have a guess as to where this photo was taken?
Somewhere between Buffalo and Cleveland, winter of 56/57. When Al Perlman joined the NYC in 1954, the Central was still mostly a 4 track property. Up to then, the NYC had only dabbled with CTC in two locations, one involving the T&OC property in 1927 and the other involving the Big Four between Terre Haute IN and Pana IL in 1952 (2MT to 1MT reduction there). With Perlman now at the helm, the NYC did its first 4MT to 2MT CTC program in summer 1956 between Buffalo and Cleveland. They started along the lakeshore probably for two reasons - the CTC equipment in the field would be tested by lake effect snows and if it survived and remained operable there, it would work anywhere on the NYC system on a large scale. Also, NYC had the CASO between Niagara Falls and Detroit to serve as an easy diversion overflow relief valve if the CTC field equipment had somehow been lacking in endurance. The photo is probably winter 56/57 since the CTC is in but the deactivated outer mains are still intact and have not been lifted yet. Photo appears to look east, with grape fields on the left and the Nickel Plate on the right.
Somewhere between Buffalo and Cleveland, winter of 56/57. When Al Perlman joined the NYC in 1954, the Central was still mostly a 4 track property. Up to then, the NYC had only dabbled with CTC in two locations, one involving the T&OC property in 1927 and the other involving the Big Four between Terre Haute IN and Pana IL in 1952 (2MT to 1MT reduction there). With Perlman now at the helm, the NYC did its first 4MT to 2MT CTC program in summer 1956 between Buffalo and Cleveland. They started along the lakeshore probably for two reasons - the CTC equipment in the field would be tested by lake effect snows and if it survived and remained operable there, it would work anywhere on the NYC system on a large scale. Also, NYC had the CASO between Niagara Falls and Detroit to serve as an easy diversion overflow relief valve if the CTC field equipment had somehow been lacking in endurance. The photo is probably winter 56/57 since the CTC is in but the deactivated outer mains are still intact and have not been lifted yet. Photo appears to look east, with grape fields on the left and the Nickel Plate on the right.