NYCRRson wrote:
For a tiny little town Caledonia hosted a whopping 5 different railroads. I might be off by one or two, but without the salt traffic nobody would have gone out of their way to get to Caledonia.
Four Class 1 lines, plus the Genesee & Wyoming all met at Caledonia..
(technically a mile or so west of Caledonia proper..at P&L junction..although most people call it Caledonia for simplicitys sake)
the G&W also interchanged with two more class-1's on its southern end..
Making the G&W a 11-mile long shortline that directly interchanged with SIX major class-1 systems!
representing virtually the entire railroad network of the North-East:
Lehigh Valley
BR&P-B&O
Erie
New York Central
DL&W
PRR
Those 6 ancestral routes then led, after mergers, to the G&W interchanging directly with thirteen major railroads over its entire history:
LVRR
Erie
DL&W
PRR
New York Central
BR&P
B&O
Chessie System
D&H
Penn Central
EL
CSX
Conrail
that has to be some kind of record for a shortline!
maps, and more info, here:
http://gold.mylargescale.com/Scottychaos/GW/GWpage.html
Scot