Re: (erielack) Freight Loading Platform

[dcw_rr <dcw_rr_@_verizon.net>]

OK, just wondering if I have this right
left to right, I see:
dark dashed line -fence line/property line
two light lines that intersect - unknown
medium line- track paralleling siding (wouldn't that be another siding?)
platform
medium line - siding
two dark lines - double track main?
dark dashed line - fence line/property line
No. 8, No. 7, etc. - are those telegraph poles?

Is it possible the platform simply served as a bridge between two sets 
of boxcars for transferring LCL?
At first I thought maybe unloading farm machinery from flat cars, but 5' 
is much too narrow for that.
- -Art P, LI NY

>Subject: (erielack) Freight Loading Platform
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>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.
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>  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". 
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