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Re: (erielack) Campville (NY) station

I am quite sure that the Campville station was just west of Depot St or 
toward the top of the satellite photo.

I am sure that the Tioga County Historical Society will have an old map that 
shows Campville in detail.

Used to live about 1/2 mile from Campville and spent a lot of time down 
there by the tracks. There used to be both eastbound and west bound passing 
sidings there...eastbound was long gone but the westbound lasted well into 
the EL years. It had one of those position light type train order signals at 
the east end that told trains to take the siding.

Chuck Y
Boulder CO
- ----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jon Scaptura" <jscaptura_@_stny.rr.com>
To: "EL Mail List" <erielack_@_lists.elhts.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2007 8:14 PM
Subject: Re: (erielack) Campville (NY) station


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> I'm trying to picture where the station was located in Campville. I'm
> assuming it was on Depot Street, but I can't tell from the satellite view
> (see the attached image). There is a concrete telephone booth near where
> Depot Street meets the tracks. Where was the station in relation to Depot
> Street?
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> Jon
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Chuck Yungkurth" <raildata_@_comcast.net>
> To: "Jon Scaptura" <jscaptura_@_stny.rr.com>; "EL Mail List"
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> Sent: Saturday, June 30, 2007 9:01 PM
> Subject: Re: (erielack) Campville (NY) station
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>> Camplville was an important shipping point for livestock back around 
>> 1880,
>> which accounts for the substantial station. There were extensive stock
>> pens there. Livestock was driven up from Northern Pennsylvania and loaded
>> on the Erie at Campville. There was a bridge across the Susquehanna back
>> then. It may be that when the DL&W extension to Buffalo the picked up 
>> some
>> of that business.
>>
>> The photo you saw is probably from the Smithsonian Collection. I beleive
>> that after the "Next Stop Will Be" books were printed the glass plate 
>> negs
>> went there.
>>
>> At any rate, the Tioga County Historical used a photo of the Campville
>> Station in a local histry they printed and the copy came from the
>> Smithsonian.  Bill Caloroso in Nichols can fill you in on the details and
>> probably can get you a copy. His phone number is 607-699-3172.
>>
>> In any case, the Tioga County Hist Soc will have a photo you can examine.
>>
>>
>>
>> Chuck Yungkurth
>> Boulder CO
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