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RE: (erielack) Steamtown Images--August 31, 2013 (C3236 thru C3240)
By the way, the Cayuga breaker was reduced in size in 1906 by ... of all things ...
a tornado!
http://thetimes-tribune.com/news/nepa-no-stranger-to-devastating-tornadoes-1.205314
> From: Dlw1el2_@_aol.com
> Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2013 22:59:06 -0400
> Subject: Re: (erielack) Steamtown Images--August 31, 2013 (C3236 thru C3240)
> To: erielack_@_lists.railfan.net
>
>
> Good find Don. Looks like the Cayuga Breaker has been reduced in size
> between the 1905 photo and the 1916 photo. Also confirms that from Cayuga
> east, two tracks were signaled eastward and only track one was signaled
> west ward, that being from Bridge 60 to Cayuga.
>
> Thanks
> Bob Bahrs
>
>
> In a message dated 8/31/2013 8:41:52 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> donaldliotta_@_gmail.com writes:
>
> C3237-C3240 are all definitely Cayuga Breaker and the Von Storch shaft
> area just south of Cayuga near Theodore St. Evidence this shot of Cayuga:
> http://www.northernfield.info/Collieries/Cayuga/C%201905%20breaker%20-%20Ste
> amtown%20NHS-B0006.jpg
>
> It appears Taber's old road mile post for Cayuga (149) in the DL&W 20th
> Century Vol 2 book is incorrect. Based on these photos, Cayuga is somewhere
> around 147.
>
> Don Liotta
>
> > Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2013 05:01:54 -0400
> > Subject: (erielack) Steamtown Images--August 31, 2013 (C3236 thru C3240)
> > From: pat_mcknight_@_nps.gov
> > To: erielack_@_lists.railfan.net
> >
> >
> > NOTE: This message had contained at least one image attachment.
> > To view or download the image(s), click on or cut and paste the
> > following URL into your web browser:
> >
> >
> > http://lists.railfan.net/listthumb.cgi?erielack-08-31-13
> >
> > C3236.jpg (image/jpeg, 2852x2307 988156 bytes, BF: 6.66 ppb)
> > C3237.jpg (image/jpeg, 2872x2268 781065 bytes, BF: 8.34 ppb)
> > C3238.jpg (image/jpeg, 2852x2312 837622 bytes, BF: 7.87 ppb)
> > C3239.jpg (image/jpeg, 2876x2288 714957 bytes, BF: 9.20 ppb)
> > C3240.jpg (image/jpeg, 2848x2288 532924 bytes, BF: 12.23 ppb)
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > Please find attached the following negatives:
> >
> > C3236--Retaining wall and fence--[1916.02.24]
> > C3237--Looking up hill with shanty and Hopper car DL&W 72711--Signal
> bridge
> > and breaker in background--[1916.02.24]
> > C3238--Shanty and Hopper car DL&W 72711--Signal bridge and breaker in
> > background--[1916.02.24]
> > C3239--Shanty and Hopper car DL&W 72711--[1916.02.24]
> > C3240--ROW with overhead bridge in background--Breaker in
> > background--Shanty in foreground--[1916.02.24]
>
>
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