This is a great example of "what photo do I use when I don't have anything else". Actually there is a sort of redeeming quality to it. It does depict the state of economic affairs within the Lackawanna at this time. Fireproof, almost indestructable buildings shuttered with the area around them used for storage. At one time a train order office, the semaphores were taken away a long time ago. Lackawanna was trying to get in the black with piggyback, but there was just too much regulation to permit that. Pheobe really needed a partner at Buffalo, either NKP or Wabash would have been nice. Ed Montgomery - -----Original Message----- From: Tupaczewski, Paul R (Paul) [mailto:paultup_@_alcatel-lucent.com] Sent: Monday, April 30, 2007 1:48 PM To: EL Mail List 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 The Erie Lackawanna Mailing List Sponsored by the ELH&TS http://www.elhts.org To Unsubscribe: http://lists.elhts.org/erielackunsub.html The Erie Lackawanna Mailing List Sponsored by the ELH&TS http://www.elhts.org To Unsubscribe: http://lists.elhts.org/erielackunsub.html ------------------------------
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