Re: (erielack) Freight Loading Platform

["Paul Brezicki" <doctorpb_@_bellsouth.net>]

Mike,

The platform appears to be about 5' wide and approx 6 carlengths. Obviously there's a ramp on at least one end, and an access road that continues between the tracks and crosses over the spur somewhere off the chart. It's designed for boxcar loading or unloading of freight that can be exposed to the elements. However it appears to be too narrow for vehicles, and is not suitable for LCL which would use a covered platform alongside a freighthouse. It is an uncommon design. What sort of industries and warehouses existed in the Silver Creek area?

Paul B

From: Mike Spinelli <idrsspin_@_yahoo.com>
Subject: (erielack) Freight Loading Platform

In my ongoing research of Silver Creek, Ohio (and it's associated branches), I came across this track chart. Never mind where I found them. I won't mention where I got them, but a lot of people are wrong about their present location.
   
  The segment shown here http://www.or4c.com/pix/SilverCreek.jpg is where the Silver Creek Branch once connected with the mainline, with the station in between the main and the branch. That's all gone by now, but if you look there is a track running off of and paralleling the WB siding. And between that track and the siding, there is a "freight loading platform". 
   
  What would that have been used for? LCL from Baughman Station (down the branch)? If it were a team track platform, it would be north of the track, not in between them. Would it have been covered? 
   
  I've never seen this platform (or the track) mentioned, or shown on any charts before. I'm curious what it was used for.


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