Lehigh Valley Type 3 Station list

Looks like Gilbert is a Type 3.

Scratch Lockwood from the list, it wasn't a type 3 station


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Thank you.

Kendaia1 wrote:Scratch Lockwood from the list, it wasn't a type 3 station

Van Etten Station and Tower, 1908


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This looks larger than the other type 3 stations, don't know if it qualifies? Maybe not

Different type. 2 extra dormers per side and a dormer on the end rather than a recessed window.

I think these are going to be north of Van Etten Jct on the Buffalo line with a few branch lines having them that were built after the Buffalo line. For example, the Rochester and Hemlock lines had them but the Naples branch didn't.

The first Rochester Jct. station was a type 3 before they built the 2 story one that lasted until 1973.

Charles

Cayuta, NY LVRR Station. Now the site of a large lumber processing facility.


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Continuing west, Alpine, NY LVRR Station.


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Next station west is the Odessa, NY LVRR Station, high on the hill above the village.

1921


1910



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Thanks to Rich Jahn at the ARHS for a better explanation of station types:

"...the designation came from the architect who designed these "standard" Buffalo Division stations. There were three versions of the standard station which differed in size. The largest ones such as the one located at Batavia was a type 1, then there was a medium size which was a type 2 and the smallest and most common was the type 3."

Type 3 was also used in Noxen PA and Montrose PA.

What I've found is if a line was built prior to the Buffalo Main, it has other station types. Only if a station needed replacing (burned, etc.) would a station of the Buffalo Type possibly have been built to replace it.

That's why the stations on the old EC&N, etc don't match this type.

Charles

Next we come to Burdett, where the LV station looks like this today



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Too bad this old station couldn't be aquired... it looks like a great candidate for restoration, it looks like the roof has been kept in decent repair, although the dormers are missing. I wonder if they were removed by LV or the company that owns it now...

Travelling west up the main we come next to Hector, NY, high on the hill over Seneca Lake, in vineyard and orchard country. Here's Hector Station all handsome and new


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Now that i look at it, is Hector Station larger than the others? the roof on the ends is sloped, with dormers, unlike the others. i wonder if this is a type 2 station; it's not as big as type 1 Batavia, but seems larger than the other type 3 examples.

Rolling gradually downhill, westward along the main, the next LV station would be Caywood, NY. This is right in modern day wine country, along the Seneca Lake Wine trail.


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Scenes of this locale seem to be quite rare, this is the only view of Caywood I've seen, except a drawing that hangs on the wall in the Wagner Winery building, just above the Caywood Station site a bit. The Elevator bldg. in the background is still there, along with a few other buildings that used to line the tracks in Caywood. The scene depicts an eastbound freight, heading to Sayre

A few more miles westward down the main, after crossing the cathedral of Mill Creek Gorge, would be the LVRR Lodi Station.


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The eastbound Black Diamond passing Lodi Station

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Thanks for finding these.

Charles

you're welcome, I quite enjoy it. i was hoping someone else did too... I'm just wondering if we're breaking any forum rules, if this belongs in the LV- ahem, I mean ANTHRACITE forum. but it is all in NY State, so we're probably OK i guess