Re: (erielack) Ashland RR (EL in Mansfield OH) & Bison comment

[Will <"alcoman_@_net.bluemoon.net">]

Bill

Dont know about the Mansfield-Ashland stuff....

But the line you are referring to that parallels the I-90...it was the
LV...the PRR and the LV ran side by side right around the area of the
Lackawanna Toll plaza in West Seneca....the PRR Buffalo line came in at an
angle and the LV "joined" it at this point.  As you continued West on I90
you also passed under the Buffalo & Pittsburgh (former B&O Buffalo
Division)...the Thruway Authority in their infinite wisdom even has a sign
on the overpass that says "B&O RR" and just west of that you went over the
Buffalo Southern RR (which uses the Erie's Buffalo and
Southwestern--required list content)

Regards


On Sun, 24 Sep 2000, Bill K. wrote:

>Couple things -
>
>    Anyone know what kind of engines the operator of the Mansfield-Ashland
>(OH) segment of the EL runs?  I spotted a chopnose early Geep (7 or 9)
>sitting at where their former Chessie track connects to the ex-CR main; said
>unit was in fresh looking black with orange frame stripe and nose stripes,
>4-digit (5600 series?) number but no lettering apparent on the hood.   Based
>on the colors I wondered if the W&LE had overhauled the engine; paint looked
>shiny and recent if not fresh.  It was hard to see from US30 at 55 mph but I
>did click off a shot with the camera, which I will post if it comes out.
>
>It was also nice to pass over Bison on the Thruway and see most of the
>tracks loaded with cars, a train working and engines visible in both
>directions -
>
>As a side note there once was an elevated (on an embankment) rail line
>paralelling a section of the thruway west of the Bison overpass, along the
>free segment south (highway West) of downtown Buffalo.  It's been abandoned
>long enough most of the bridges have been removed with exception of one over
>a river.   I don't think this was EL, I'm wondering if it was the LV or PRR
>belt line that circled down SW, eventually curving back northward into Tifft
>(I think the PRR connected to the South Buffalo; maps I remember show the
>two dead parallel to each other).  I don't have an old enough map handy that
>shows the Thruway and rail lines both -  (since this is undoubtedly not EL,
>might reply off-list on this one).
>
>
>Bill K.
>
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