"Delaware & Hudson" in Buffalo?

[salminkarkku]

Did the D&H ever have any tracks or depot of its own in Buffalo? If you look at

http://www.erie.gov/atlases/buff_94/vol ... _2_44.html

which is from a superb 1894 atlas of the city showing all sorts of railroad detail, you'll see a spur off the Erie running alongside Buffalo Creek to some sort of yard labeled "Delaware & Hudson Canal".

Perhaps they owned the land, but leased it to some other company.

(I put this post on the NY page as well.)

[Tadman]

The D&H canal was a corporate predecessor to D&H railway, but I was not aware it went to Buffalo.

[LCJ]

No mention of Buffalo in this history:

http://www.canalmuseum.org/history.htm

[Matt Langworthy]

The D&H didn't have direct access to Buffalo until it gained trackage rights under Conrail. Its engines wandered into Buffalo during the '60s and early '70s due to power pools with both LV and EL/Dereco, but there was no official D&H facility in Buffalo prior to 1976.

[march hare]

Remember that the D&H was a coal company as well as a canal and railroad.

As late as the 1990's there was a huge coal silo structure in Southport (near Elmira) with a huge D&H emblem on it, right next to the Erie tracks, in a town never served by the D&H

I'd venture a guess that you're looking at what was a large anthracite heating coal facility.

[RailKevin]

The D&H site on St. Clair street is a large grain silo complex (not sure when it was constructed--it does not appear on this 1894 map).

Edit: Added Live Maps url.

http://www.bing.com/maps/default.aspx?v ... &encType=1