Re: (erielack) Elmira, NY more infomation

["SMK181_@_aol.com"]

A little more about Elmira, NY, Adtranz is not serviced by former DL&W tracks,
there is access from the Yard at Elmira, but only comes as far a 14th St. in
Elmira Heights.
 Adtranz has the rest from 14th Street up about 1/4 mile where the track ends.
This section is Adtranz electrified test track, The main factory can't be
accessed by this track by any trains from the yard.  
In order for trains to access the main factory, they must come up the Conrail
( fromer Erie) Tracks to a siding just south of the Horseheads Town Line,
where they back down on a siding that splits into two tracks one that services
a cardboard box manufacture, and the other that continues on and then again
splits into 2 different tracks, one that goes directly into the factory and
the other that goes onto a loading ramp for flatbed trucks, this is used to
take completed railcars out of the factory and load onto flatbed trucks, as no
trains have serviced the Adtranz factory for several years.  Adtranz found it
to be more cost effective to ship the completed railcars by road instead of
train.

Now if you were to continue up the Conrail Mainline to Horseheads you would
find another siding (former PRR tracks)  that runs behind Horseheads High
School, about 1500 feet up from the school on the track is Nutrena Foods (
Small dog food processer) they have a siding in which to unload products that
come in on rail. grain etc....   Then is the old PRR station, if you continue
north you will come to the Holding point, (Horseheads Industrial Center)
However, the tracks in the Holding point are former Lehigh Valley tracks, now
owned by the Holding point, however they are serviced by Conrail.     Conrail
runs about 5- 15 cars into the Holding point and Nutrena Foods a week. this
happens about 2 times a week. 

If you were to keep going on the Conrail Mainline about a half-mile  you would
again come to  some sidings that serviced the former A&P Food Processing
Plant, now a mostly vacant warehouse, however there are several companies that
store products in the warehouse, and just last week I saw Conrail place 3
Burlington Northern Boxcars in there, Why?? I am not sure, i didn't think
anyone was receiving shipments by rail in the warehouse.  After the old A&P
the mainline tracks continue to Big Flats, Gibson, Corning, and Gang Mills and
so on....  

Shawn Karney
Resident of Horseheads
Member  Cornell Railway Historical Soc.

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