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Re: (erielack) Mainline passing sidings on the Susquehanna Div. (was: Local traffic in Endicott and Johnson City

Center passing sidings were favored by the Harriman roads (UP, SP). You save 
on track at the cost of adding two switches. I have a few questions about 
those on EL. Were most of them removed after passenger service ended? At 
that point, overtake meets were much reduced, so was the practice changed to 
having the faster train runaround via the wrong main? Part 2 of the Green 
Frog EL video has a segment covering a portion of the S Tier area where the 
mains are widely seperated. Is this the location you referred to, Pat (near 
Addison)? Finally, concerning the center siding at Sterlington: Why was it 
used to pick up and set off autoracks for nearby Mahwah? Did it extend north 
from Hillburn?

Paul B


From: pat.moore_@_att.net
Subject: (erielack) Mainline passing sidings on the Susquehanna Div. (was: 
Local traffic in Endicott and Johnson City

Chuck...

> There was a wesbound passing siding at Campville and an
> eastbound one just east of Owego. Both had PRR type signals
> to tell trains to either take the siding or call the
> despatcher. Both were removed by 1970 but were often used in
> passenger train days.

Were these "middle" passing sidings?

I ask because the Erie had a third track that ran west from Addison NY to a 
location known by the locals as "Derby Switch".  I'm assuming the middle 
track was the passing siding, because by the time I can remember (about 1970 
onward), the middle track west of Addison was gone.  That left behind a 
stretch where the eastbound and westbound mains were separated by a fair 
distance.  I wondered if that was done anywhere else besides the main 
between Corning and Hornell.

- - -pat moore

From: jdent1_@_optonline.net
Subject: Re: (erielack) August calendar photos

The location is Sterlington, just west (north) of Hillburn.  The middle 
track is Sterlington siding, where many a Ford autorack was dropped off and 
picked up.

Jim Dent
Oakland, NJ
 


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