by Schooltrain
While out for a ride this afternoon, I passed through Sylvan Beach on the east end of Oneida Lake. On the way north on Route 13, I made a left turn onto Lakeshore Rd to try to stay near the lake. A short distance past that turn off, I realized I was paralleling what appeared to be an old railroad embankment running east to west right along the lake shore. The embankment was on the north side of Lakeshore Rd, but right next to it - a fair distance south from Route 49 and even further south from the NYO&W mainline ROW. Would this have been some kind of spur line run from the O&W a ways along the north shore for the summer tourist crowd back before the advent of the autombile? (BTW, the embankment is very visible on Google Maps and looks like it may have made a turn at the eastern end and could be the path of Route 13 or would be parallel to it.)