Fw: (erielack) Salt Mine, Mount Morris discussion

["David Green" <"davandli_@_ptdprolog.net">]

- ----- Original Message -----
From: "David Monte Verde" <"dmvgvt_@_earthlink.net">
To: "David Green" <"davandli_@_ptdprolog.net">
Sent: Monday, June 05, 2000 10:45 PM
Subject: Re: (erielack) Salt Mine, Mount Morris discussion


> Dave, please forward this to the list, the DL between Mt Morris and the
> D&MtM connection at Groveland is still there to support the $5.4m rehab of
> the D&MtM that the state invested, however the D&MtM and the DL between
has
> not been used in a couple years. The Foster Wheeler cars  you saw are
> captive cars they move around with mobile cranes.  Regards David MV @MP
318
> (DL&W)
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Green" <"davandli_@_ptdprolog.net">
> To: "ELHS Mailing List" <"erielack_@_internexus.net">
> Sent: Monday, June 05, 2000 18:45
> Subject: (erielack) Salt Mine, Mount Morris discussion
>
>
> > Listers:
> >
> >     Someone suggested the DL&W may have been torn up south (RR east) of
> > Mount Morris to provide the rail for the new salt mine spur.  This may
be
> > true, but I tend to doubt it because I observed rail cars at Foster
> Wheeler
> > Corp., in Dansville, as of 6/3/00.
> >
> >     To help answer another question on what is left of the Lackawanna in
> > this area - the rails are gone from Wayland, NY to Groveland Station,
NY.
> > Most of the ROW is still intact.  By this I mean there are not many
> places,
> > if any, where someone has built on it or it has been plowed under.  Some
> > highway overpasses have been removed and filled in.  The  bridges on the
> > line have been removed.  By the way it looks I wouldn't be surprised if
> the
> > ROW is still intact as far as ownership is concerned (maybe a county
IDA).
> >
> >     IMHO this abandoned section will never be revived.
> >
> > - D. Green, ELHS #1366
> >
> >
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