Re: (erielack) Erie in Upstate New York

["Bill K." <pontiac_@_dreamscape.com>]

If you know where to look you can sometimes find an NYS&W unit parked at an
industry on the south side of the city, and of course their loco shop and so
forth is right next to the mainline a ways west of Union Station.  (This is
as far as hte branch came, about 3/4 mile south of the Thruway). It's
opposite a public housing development - not a nice neighborhood - but the
brick building to this day reads Erie Lackawanna RR on it.  NYS&W moved
their interchange to Syracuse, so most traffic is power in and out of their
shop - as far as I know most of the industries on that end are pretty quiet,
with exception of the one on the south side always has 3 or 4 boxcars around
it and crews seem to outlaw there, thus the power I've seen.   There's some
other industry further south; an Agway or two and some other things, but
this side is the quieter of the two.   I keep hearing rumors they would like
to stop operating above Sherburne or another intermediate point, and turn it
over to someone else - but I don't know that there is any real base to them.
It would be nice though if they could manage something to give it to MA&N or
the Adarondack RR and get rights for trains to cross CSX easily.


- ----- Original Message -----
From: "Schuyler G Larrabee" <sgl2_@_ix.netcom.com>
To: "Ken" <lackawanna_@_iname.com>; "erielack" <erielack@lists.railfan.net>
Sent: Sunday, July 08, 2001 10:01 PM
Subject: Re: (erielack) Erie in Upstate New York


> Ken B. tells us:
> > Just got back from a trip to Cooperstown, NY.  I stayed in Little Falls,
> > which is east of Utica.  Having taken the Thruway from Buffalo, I passed
> > Utica.
>
> and asked:
>
> > Is the Erie Utica Branch still around in the Thruway area?  Or does
> > the Thruway cross its right-of-way?
>
> Ken, that was the DL&W branch that went to Utica, the "U" part of the
> Lackawanna S&U branch.  It's operated by NYS&W these days, complete with
> street running on Schuyler Street (How is it that I can remember that
> name???  8^)   ) in Utica.  It doesn't cross the Thruway ROW as it didn't
> cross the NYC in town, at least as far as I know.  I don't know how much
> traffic there is on that line these days, can anybody comment on that?
>
> Ken further asked:
>
> > While driving in Buffalo, I spotted a yard to the right of the Thruway
> > (west or south).  Far in the distance was an open drawbridge.  I recall
a
> > Trains article about Buffalo some years ago which, I recall, said that
the
> > bridge was, I think, the old Lackawanna main.  Did I remember correctly?
>
> But I can't help there.
>
> Schuyler Larrabee
>

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