Re: (erielack) Lumber receivers in Bath NY

[pat.moore_@_att.net]

WDB...
 
Thanks for the info!
 
I was never able to find out the actual name of that lumber company next to MJ Ward.
I seem to recall seeing it active into the Conrail years, but not nearly as active as Babcock,
which always had rail cars.
 
Sadly, I was not able to squeeze the Longwell switch into my model railroad.  I only
had room for Ward, Babcock, and Agway in my Bath module.
 
- -pat moore
 

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 From: "Wdburt1_@_aol.com" <Wdburt1@aol.com>
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Sent: Sunday, September 1, 2013 7:55 AM
Subject: (erielack) Lumber receivers in Bath NY
  


Longwell Lumber, which still exists in Bath, was served by a sidetrack  
located about a half block east of the Cameron Street xing.  Older B&H  
employees (now retired) still referred to it as the Longwell switch  in the 1990s.  
I am not sure if it was active in the Conrail  years.

The track from which this sidetrack diverged was the B&H main prior to  
1936.  It paralleled the Erie Rochester Division main track on the north  side. 
When the Erie sold the B&H to local investors in 1936 it  retained the B&H 
main where it paralleled the Erie and with  it, Longwell, Babcock, and 
other patrons.  B&H continued to  use its former main to reach the Erie station 
at Cameron Street, where cars were  interchanged between the two railroads.

WDB

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