by pumpers
Statkowski wrote:From Cherry Tree, Pa., the NYC had trackage rights "southward" over the PRR's Susquehanna Extension Branch to Spangler in order to access its "east-west" Cambria County Railroad. And, from Wigton Junction, the NYC again had trackage rights eastward to Patton, where it had an isolated branch off of the Patton No. 3 Branch. From Patton northward, the NYC had trackage rights to Mahaffey Junction, and from there ran "northward" to Clearfield and points east.I was using Google to learn about the NYC in Pennsylvania coal country and found this post. I have been looking at old topo maps to trace this out, and think I found the NYC Cambria County RR and Wigton Jct (the jct. being where the NYC heading east ends when it hits a PRR branch coming west from Patton, right near a mine.) But I am not sure where the Patton No. 3 branch is (going to Patton No 3 mine?), and don't see anything else labelled NYC as the "isolated branch" off Patton No. 3 branch. My Steam Powered Video book of old RR maps has a close up of the Patton area, but what is labelled as Patton 2 and Patton 3 mine, and Patton 2 Jct and Patton 3 Jct don't seem to make sense.
Statkowski, do you know of any map showing any of this?
JS