This post is in reference to a query about the Penn Yan Branch that was posted in the PRR forum: The NYC Penn Yan Branch, Dresden-Penn Yan, NY was constructed in the bed of the old Crooked Lake Canal which paralleled Keuka Lake Outlet, the canal having been abandoned in 1877. The branch left the Fall Brook line just south of the Dresden station. The terminus of the branch was at the steam boat dock on the south bank of Keuka Lake Outlet where the outlet left the lake. The NYC Penn Yan station was compass east of the boat dock, across the street from Birkett Mills. The PRR Elmira branch crossed over the branch and Keuka Lake Outlet on a open deck steel girder bridge several hundred feet south of the PRR station. The first train operated over the branch on August 3, 1884. Passenger service was dropped in 1953. The branch was abandoned, I believe, in the 1960s. The tracks were still extant as late as 1969.l