Re: (erielack) Re: Fw: DL&W Depot Johnson City, NY 1965

["Schuyler G Larrabee" <sgl2_@_ix.netcom.com>]

Guys, where is this photo available?  It's not on the Archive page. . .

SGL
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Subject: RE: (erielack) Re: Fw: DL&W Depot Johnson City, NY 1965


The candy factory was Fair Play Caramels, which was right at Willow Steet
where it crosses the tracks. The building is still there, but hasn't been
used in over ten years. The power plant is NYSEG Goudy Station, not Niagara
Mohawk. It is now owned by a company called AES, and receives coal by rail,
getting several trainloads per week. NS switches the plant-no joke-with
C40-9s and occasionally SD 60s, or even SD 70s. NS did some serious tie and
surfacing work Christmas week a year ago, and the line is in beter shape
than it had been in years, but it still ain't 70 MPH main line. National
Pipe and Plastic in Vestal is still rail served, and the line extends to a
point just east of Old Vestal Road, where the overpass is still in place. I
don't know if the tracks extend as far as Broome Bituminous, which is just
before the bridge, and I've never seen them get or ship anything by rail.
The west end of the spur, from African Rd to Bridge Street is now a walking
trail.

Tom B

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Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 10:06:53 EDT
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Subject: (erielack) Re: Fw: DL&W Depot Johnson City, NY 1965


Doug,
             Neat foto of the DL&W Johnson City station. If memory serves
me
correctly, the station was on the East side of the tracks so this view
would
be looking West toward Vestal. In the early 60s, there was a roustabout
called the 'over the river' job that worked Johnson City, the power plant,
and on to Vestal. We'd leave the Conklin DL&W yard in the afternoon with 15
or 20 cars & a GP9 or maybe an Alco switcher and run the former DL&W
mainline
past West BD where the ERIE & DL&W lines parted company. At that point,
we'd
begin switching industries - maybe sometihing for EJ shoe Co. then on to
the
Johnson City station area where there was a small cluster of industries -
one
of them sticks in my mind, a manufacturer of caramels. Cars for him were
known as the 'candy man cars', thence to the power plant near the DL&W
bridge
over the Susquehanna river, always good for a few hopper cars although the
Company lost that business due to poor service (in an 'economy' measure,
the
yardmaster cutoff a yard job and had us switch the yard for hours -
sometimes
the full shift - and the coal didn't get to the powerplant when they needed
it. Niagra Mohawk decided to TRUCK the coal in so they wouldn't have to
shut
down. Whatever money this saved the RR, it lost them another customer. Hey,
10 cars here, 10 cars there & now you have a whole train you've eliminated.
      As an official told me,'We have to be cost effective'. They were and
now there's no more Erie-Lackawanna.
Regards,
Walter E. Smith

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