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Re: (erielack) May calendar photo

Not having this year's calendar to look at, is it a view from the tracks 
side (looking south) or from the station side (looking north)?  There was/is 
a lumber facility south of the station.

The highway is still NY17 through here. It's not yet up to interstate 
standards, but will become I86 within a few years.

I have a print of the Apalachin station, undated, but apparently not in use. 
There is double track, and a paved crossing, but the weeds around the 
station are quite high. The only marking on the back of the photo is a 
handwritten DL509, so I don't know who I bought it from. Anyone know who's 
catalog notation that is? Cal's Classics maybe?

Jon Scaptura
Endicott, NY




- ----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tupaczewski, Paul R (Paul)" <paultup_@_alcatel-lucent.com>
To: "EL Mail List" <erielack_@_lists.elhts.org>
Sent: Monday, April 30, 2007 1:47 PM
Subject: (erielack) May calendar photo


> Turning the EL calendar over...
>
> This month's image is a little "blah" - it's the DL&W Apalachin, NY
> station taken in 1959, not too long after the last passenger trains
> stopped using it. This is the station that's still sitting there, right
> next to NY State 17 (or whatever Interstate highway number it is now).
> No trains in this image, and sadly, since this appears to be a mid-day
> shot, there is no sun to highlight the station walls (everything below
> the roofline is in very dark shadow).
>
> The details in the photo sre pretty interesting, though - the lumber in
> the background (was there a lumberyard here?) and the industrial
> building at the right. And the reinforced grade crossing in the
> foreground is a nice - and seemingly modern-looking - touch.
>
> The DL&W track standards around here are still pretty high, even at this
> late date.
>
> - Paul
>



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