(erielack) NYC sleepers from Buffalo Central Terminal to DL&W terminal

[Dale Madison <gobills_@_ncweb.com>]

>
>From: "Michael Mang" <mnmang_@_mn.rr.com>
>Subject: RE: (erielack) NYC sleepers from Buffalo Central Terminal to DL&W 
>terminal
>
>I can speculate as follows: there is a direct connection between the
>Lackawanna and the NYC at N.Y.C.& St.L. Junction in Buffalo. I have an
>employee timetable giving local instructions that indicate when the
>semaphore signal was in an "inclined position, green light displayed at
>night," that movement could be made over the yard lead to the N.Y.C.
>interchange tracks.
>
>If we look at Henry's maps of the Buffalo area
>(http://www.railfan.net/cgi-bin/trainthumb.cgi?maps/1950usgs/) we see that
>the DL&W crossed over the Buffalo River, then over the NKP. There was a
>small yard to the south of the DL&W, then the railroad crossed over the NYC.
>That yard has connections to both the NKP and the NYC.
>
>Since those sleepers were coming from Detroit, they would have followed the
>Michigan Central through Ontario into Buffalo via the International Bridge.
>Which NYC line was followed to Central Terminal I do not know, but once
>there the NYC could bring the car out of Central terminal, down the main
>line towards Chicago, to the interchange track along the DL&W main. It is
>then about a mile and a half to the DL&W station from that point.
>
>If my speculation is correct, did a DL&W switcher wait at the interchange
>and take the car from the NYC, or did the NYC bring the car all the way into
>the DL&W station?
>
>Michael Mang

Thanks for your information Michael, and for Henry's maps.

Most trains would have turned south once across the bridge and go along the 
Niagara River, through downtown to Central Terminal.  Going around the belt 
line, the train would have been facing west - the direction it came from!

Given how hectic BCT would have been at that time, I would like to think 
the NYC switcher yanked the car off the train and took it at least so far.

How far the NYC took the car, someone else hopefully will know.  I'd guess 
to the interchange track.

Why a sleeper would make this move, I dunno.  The DL&W must've had some 
"important" traffic for Detroit.

Dale



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