(erielack) Re: Bison comments

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In a message dated 09/26/2000 6:01:19 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
"erielack-owner_@_internexus.net" writes:

<< Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2000 02:15:51 -0400
 From: "Bill K." <"pontiac_@_dreamscape.com">
 Subject: (erielack) Ashland RR (EL in Mansfield OH) & Bison comment
 
 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.
 >>
The embankment along I-90 south of the old Bison Yard was the LV connection 
to Tifft Yard.  It tied into the LV east-west main at Tifft Junction which 
was immediately south of Bison.

The place where the PRR and LV were parallel to each other was at the south 
end of this connecting track, where it curved westward away from the Thruway. 
 Actually I think at one time the NYC had a parallel line in this area too, 
to its Gardenville yard in Cheektowaga/Lancaster.  Hope this bit of trivia 
helps.

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