Lehigh Valley & Lyons?

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How did the LV originally access Lyons? Something over the Fall Brook RR? Wonder where their shop complex was?

From the D&C, 2-15-1895, in their section covering various county news. This was from the Wayne County section:

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Disk Palmer wrote me:

This was a corridor established in 1873. For several years Lehigh Valley passenger trains went via Ithaca to Geneva; west over the Auburn branch of the New York Central to Rochester, and then west to Buffalo. When the Fall Brook was completed between Geneva and Lyons the Lehigh Valley trains, mostly passenger, started running that way. Sparing the details, this routing terminated when the Lehigh Valley mainline was completed west in 1892. It is outlined in more detail in my book about the Black Diamond, pages 1 and 2. Also, for a couple of years what became the B.R.& P. ran a daily commuter train between Rochester & Buffalo over the Lehigh main line - two hour run, prior to its completion.