Having read Richard F. Palmer's excellent "The Day They Changed the Gauge" in the new Diamond, I will venture an educated, and no doubt controversial guess, on the unidentified location in the photo on page 8. Based on the information that Loco #2, the Col. Wells, was transferred to the Cayuga Division (old Cayuga & Susquehanna between Owego and Ithaca, NY) in Sept. of 1878, I believe the photo is taken on the East end (South bank) of the Susquehanna River bridge at Owego, NY. The staggered trusses and the curved abutment were hallmarks of this curved truss bridge that brought the C&S across the river to junction with the DL&W mainline just West of the Owego depot. The bridge in the photo is the lighter, earlier bridge. Rusty Recordon 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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