Re: (erielack) Steamtown Images--August 31, 2013 (C3236 thru C3240) and........

["Chuck Yungkurth" <raildata_@_comcast.net>]

I'm pretty sure there was a wye connection at Cayuga but don't know how long 
it lasted.

Chuck Y

- ----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Don Liotta" <donaldliotta_@_gmail.com>
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Subject: RE: (erielack) Steamtown Images--August 31, 2013 (C3236 thru C3240) 
and........


>
> Regarding my question about a wye at Cayuga, I'm just trying to establish 
> that a photo I saw at some some point in time with the turntable at Cayuga 
> also had a south bound leg from the Keyser Valley Branch, which would have 
> made it a full wye. But I still haven't fond anything conclusive.
>
> Don Liotta
>
>> From: Dlw1el2_@_aol.com
>> Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2013 15:37:49 -0400
>> Subject: Re: (erielack) Steamtown Images--August 31, 2013 (C3236 thru 
>> C3240)  and........
>> To: erielack_@_lists.railfan.net
>>
>>
>> Don and Frank
>> Thanks for showing the maps.  I've been away a few days, but your maps
>> certainly proved all those photo's at Theodore St.   You nailed all  the 
>> stuff
>> at Clark Summit Don.   C3241-3243 tells us that the new  common 
>> Lackawanna
>> MP were in place by early 1916 with Mileage via the NJ Cut  OFF, but that
>> signal IDs had not yet changed on main line signals. I  suspect that it 
>> will be
>> some time before we see new signal IDs in any  photo's.
>>
>> Regarding a full wye at Cayuga Don.  What makes you think there was  one?
>> Have you seen any old maps implying that?
>>
>> Bob Bahrs
>>
>>
>>
>> In a message dated 9/2/2013 8:12:31 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
>> donaldliotta_@_gmail.com writes:
>>
>> 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
>>
>>
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