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(erielack) Buffalo DL&W Terminal in 1971



At 05:33 06.02.2007, you wrote:
>Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2007 15:04:10 -0500 (EST)
>From: "J. Henry Priebe Jr." <root_@_bluemoon.net>
>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:
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>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


Thank Henry.  I spent too much time at Central Terminal from 1968-1973 and 
neglected the other wonderful rail spots in town.  Did you see the old NFT 
bus in the photo?  That's when it was NFT the private company.

Dale



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