by TB Diamond
BR&P:
The engine shoving the snowplow was CR 7606. We took those photos on 10 February 1978.
Lvrr325:
I took the photo mentioned above that appeared in TRAINS magazine. Photo was taken on 16 December 1977.
Odessa-Van Etten Jct. was removed during the summer of 1978. That portion of the former Lehigh Valley MT Van Etten Jct.-Odessa Station Switch was subsidized under the NYS LDL program after 01 April 1976. The customer in Odessa was Cotton-Hanlon. ConRail referred to this track segment as the Odessa Industrial Track. It was abandoned effective 16 December 1977 per ConRail Atlantic Region Lehigh Division B.O. No. 1-71.
Odessa-Ordnance Int. was removed beginning in August, 1978 so no, it was not removed prior to Van Etten-Odessa, the removal of which commenced in the early summer of 1978.
Mike S.:
I mentioned the incident as, according to a local railfan rumor at the time, A&K tried to bring the car back from Rush to Rochester Jct. but could not move it with the Pettibone. Therefore, the ConRail local crew was talked into retrieving the car. Never heard of the rumor being confirmed, however.
The engine shoving the snowplow was CR 7606. We took those photos on 10 February 1978.
Lvrr325:
I took the photo mentioned above that appeared in TRAINS magazine. Photo was taken on 16 December 1977.
Odessa-Van Etten Jct. was removed during the summer of 1978. That portion of the former Lehigh Valley MT Van Etten Jct.-Odessa Station Switch was subsidized under the NYS LDL program after 01 April 1976. The customer in Odessa was Cotton-Hanlon. ConRail referred to this track segment as the Odessa Industrial Track. It was abandoned effective 16 December 1977 per ConRail Atlantic Region Lehigh Division B.O. No. 1-71.
Odessa-Ordnance Int. was removed beginning in August, 1978 so no, it was not removed prior to Van Etten-Odessa, the removal of which commenced in the early summer of 1978.
Mike S.:
I mentioned the incident as, according to a local railfan rumor at the time, A&K tried to bring the car back from Rush to Rochester Jct. but could not move it with the Pettibone. Therefore, the ConRail local crew was talked into retrieving the car. Never heard of the rumor being confirmed, however.
You can't go home again- Thomas Wolfe