Re: (erielack) Freight Loading Platform

[Mike Spinelli <idrsspin_@_yahoo.com>]

Looking at a later track chart (1962), it does show a shorter siding coming off of the WB passing siding in that location. So, the two thick solid lines are the WB and EB mains. The thinner lines are sidings. The thick broken lines must be property lines.
   
  I've never seen anywhere that the branchlines narrow gauge (or standard gauge for that matter). About the only big commodity on the branches was coal. 
   
  I can't find anything on E.W.U.T. Co. From 1907 to 1928 there was an interurban that ran parallel to the Erie, at that point about 40' to the north. I don't know why they would transfer freight here as they interchanged in Akron at the system carbarn and freight terminal. And the platform would be between the shorter siding and the interurban line, not between the passing track and the shorter siding. Right?
   
  The eastbound siding begins approx .5 miles east of here, the EB and WB sidings actully butt together at Silver Creek tower, with a trailing point crossover in between so you could run from one siding, across both mains, and then down the other. 
   
  We're finally getting some weather that will allow some field research. Maybe that will unlock some clues.
   
  Mike Spinelli

Paul Brezicki <doctorpb_@_bellsouth.net> wrote: 
  I had initially thought the "two light lines that intersect" were two more sidings, but maybe I was mistaken; perhaps a truck could back right up to the platform. I recall some discussion a while back about a narrow gauge line in that area; did it come right into SC? If so, perhaps those are NG tracks. A platform like this would be very suitable to transload between standard and narrow gauge boxcars. Mike, I think clarifying what those lines are and identifying the "E.W.U.T. Co" will be helpful in solving this mystery. 

If the "medium line" is in fact the WB siding, that track is obviously not suitable for spotting cars, and therefore the platform could not be used for transloading. Are you sure that's what it is? Usually the EB and WB sidings are in the same location, but there isn't an EB siding.

Paul B

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




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