Jon, The DL&W moved over to the Erie tracks from Binghamton to Gibbons, NY in 1959 as part of the consolidation and cost savings plan they had been discussing for several years. A couple of stretches of the DL&W main were downgraded and retained. The track to Willow Point and Vestal for one and from Sayre to Nichols for another. Word of warning: don't expect to learn accurate geography from a railroad public route map. The O&W looks like a straight line from Weehawken to Oswego on their maps, nothing could be farther from the truth. Let's call it creative cartography. All the railroads did it. Will Shultz Jon Scaptura wrote: > The Erie system map shows Waverly being west-northwest of Owego, when in > reality it is west-southwest of Owego, and > right on the NY-PA border. > > The DL&W system map puts Waverly right on the NY-PA border. > > Looking at the state line on Google Maps, the Norfolk Southern tracks > (Former DL&W alignment?) cross the state line at Rte 220, but only for a > matter of yards, not miles. It's very close. > > When the merger happened, which tracks were used by the EL in Waverly? > > Was Erie's alignment that much farther north at Waverly than the DL&W's? > > Jon > The Erie Lackawanna Mailing List Sponsored by the ELH&TS http://www.elhts.org ------------------------------
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