Happy New Year!!
Steamtown has the following folder on this subject:
Box 37, Folder 32--LVRR--Presidents Files: 1401.10--Freight Traffic Matters
(1927-1939)
Summary of contents: documents regarding efforts to gain freight
customers; includes correspondence regarding competition with Delaware,
Lackawanna and Western Railroad for freight to Brooklyn, NY; includes
memorandum regarding LVRR strategy in response to increased stock ownership
of various Eastern railroads by other railroads; includes documents
regarding schedules of freight trains for traffic to New England via
Delaware and Hudson Company and Boston and Maine Railroad; includes
correspondence regarding proposal to give Delaware and Hudson Co. trackage
rights on LVRR between Owego, NY and Sayre, PA; includes documents
regarding expense control efforts; includes correspondence regarding steam
locomotive grates and stokers; includes correspondence regarding supply of
freight cars for cement and other traffic
Special thanks to Richmond Bates, a volunteer who comes to Steamtown once a
week, who processed this folder and wrote the summary.
In addition we have a ton of files on the Ithaca Branch. I just processed
a box yesterday that had three large folders on the DL&W abandonment of the
branch.
Patrick McKnight
Historian/Archivist
Steamtown NHS
570-340-5193
We need history, not to tell us what happened or to explain the past, but
to make the past alive so that it can explain us and make a future
possible.-Alan Bloom
"Jon Scaptura"
<jscaptura_@_stny.r To: "EL Mail List" <erielack@lists.elhts.org>
r.com> cc: (bcc: Pat McKnight/STEA/NPS)
Subject: Re: (erielack) Re: LV-D&H Trains
01/03/2008 06:19
AM EST
Please respond to
"Jon Scaptura"
The LV and DL&W had parallel tracks alongside Rte 38. The former LV track
remains today, but you can see where the DL&W trackage was.
Jon Scaptura
Endicott, NY
- ----- Original Message -----
From: "Rick Barnes" <rbarnes803_@_verizon.net>
To: "EL Mail List" <erielack_@_lists.elhts.org>
Cc: "EL Mailing List" <erielack_@_lists.railfan.net>
Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2008 9:26 PM
Subject: Re: (erielack) Re: LV-D&H Trains
> Paul Dickier wrote:
> R. Barnes wrote:
>
> Everyone forgets that the DLW crossed the Susquehanna River @ west end of
> Owego, crossing the longest curved RR bridge in the US, if not the
> longest if not the world. This trackage would cross the ERIE main line.
> The crossing was west of North Ave. and the station. Now the question is,
> the track from where the LV and DLW met in Owego, and going north about 2
> miles, was LV track with DLW having trackage rights, or was it DLW with
LV
> trackage rights. Just south of the road that went to Candor and Ithaca
the
> two roads would separate. . Richard
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