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RE: (erielack) EL working the Buffalo DL&W Terminal area in 1971



Just looked at Virtual Earth image of the site and wish I hadn't.  So much
lost.  Excellent photos Henry, thank you for sharing.  Its too bad the
station itself didn't survive.  When was the last train again?

Joshua
http://www.joshuakblay.com

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Sent: Monday, February 05, 2007 3:04 PM
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Subject: (erielack) EL working the Buffalo DL&W Terminal area in 1971

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I was browsing the Library of Congress Historic American Engineering Record
(let's just say it was a Monday morning detour, again!) and took the time to
download some of the 20 MB TIFF files of Buffalo's DL&W Terminal for closer
examination. I have attached an interesting crop of one of those photos, it
is
and aerial photo from 1971. This aerial photo is interesting for several
reasons:

It shows DL&W Terminal still intact with the Bush trainsheds
It shows the interesting street level trackage arrangement
It shows the end of the elevated line next to the terminal
It shows the track ramp down from the elevated RoW
It shows an EL transfer caboose and train parked under the elevated line
It shows an EL GP7 on the spur to the old DL&W freight house
It shows a Buffalo Creek yard across the Buffalo River with a BCK S2

I have also attached a 1925 Sanborn map of this area showing the DL&W
freight
house and track arrangement, which is supposedly updated to 1951. It looks
like this would make a great switching layout for someone with limited
space.

On an adjacent Sanborn page, I found a spur to Buffalo Memorial Auditorium.
It
terminates under an area labeled "TRANSFER VAULTS" adjacent to the
sub-basement boiler room. It's logical that the Aud would have gotten coal
through the DL&W, but it had never occured to me before.

Does anyone know when rail service to this immediate area was discontinued?
Did it happen at all under Conrail? Does anyone know when the elevated City
Branch rails and bridges from the old "passenger main" were all ripped out
from Abbott Rd Yard to the Terminal? I think it was in the early to
mid-80's,
but I don't have any documentation for that.

The LOC HAER Terminal photos are available at
http://www.railfan.net/short/?507
(like a tiny URL shortener because the LOC site has ridiculously long URLs
which don't work unless you know how to to remove the temp session ID part)

Henry

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