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From: "McKnight, Richard" pat_mcknight AT nps DOT gov
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2014 12:23:55 -0400
Subject: Re: (erielack) Steamtown Images--August 28, 2014 (C4996 thru C5000) IDs
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The DL&W called it the Pleasant Street Viaduct. Please find attached one
of an eight drawing set of blueprints.

Pat McKnight


On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 12:03 PM, tturley wrote:

> Must have been a name change or error. 1925 Sanborn has it as Burrstone Rd
> as it still is today.
>
> On Aug 28, 2014, at 11:21 AM, Robert Bahrs wrote:
>
> >
> > Val Maps show the bridge as Pleasant St in 1918.
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 11:15 AM, tturley wrote:
> >
> >> Just a small correction, 4997-5000 are at the Burrstone Rd bridge,
> further
> >> east of the bridge Burrstone Rd splits into the Parkway and Pleasant.
> >> Charles
> >>
> >> On Aug 28, 2014, at 10:27 AM, Robert Bahrs wrote:
> >>
> >>>
> >>> C4996 Looks east towards the distant bridge, that was in yesterdays
> >>> photo's. This the Boonton Line in Jersey City. The Erie passenger
> line
> >>> can be seen off to the left.
> >>> C4997-C5000 Are at the Pleasant St overhead bridge in Utica, NY.
> >> Sections
> >>> of the Chenango Canal and a lock can be seen here as well as the O&W
> >>> Roundhouse in the back ground.
> >>> C4997 & C500 Look in a generally RR north direction. C4998 & C4999
> >> Look
> >>> in a general RR south direction.
> >>>
> >>> Bob Bahrs
> >>>
> >>> Here is what Utica Br expert Doug Elliston forwarded via a friend of
> his
> >>> this morning.
> >>>
> >>> C4997 - C5000
> >>>
> >>> Are as Utica Jack denotes - Pleasant Street Overpass at Canal Branch
> just
> >>> south of Utica with O&W Roundhouse showing on the west side of the DL&W
> >>> Tracks. The lock would be from the Chenango Canal which the railroad
> will
> >>> eventually cross in another mile or so south on its' way to New
> Hartford.
> >>> This location (O&W Roundhouse Area) is just to the south of where the
> >>> Scheidlemann Food Warehouse was built in Erie Lackawanna days. Today,
> >> the
> >>> area where the DL&W tracks are located is the 4 lane Route 12
> "Arterial"
> >>> and remains of the canal prism in this area are still faintly visible
> to
> >>> the east of the Arterial. When the arterial was built ca. 1963, the
> DL&W
> >>> (EL) was relocated onto the O&W right of way to give room for the
> >> Arterial
> >>> project.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 5:45 AM, McKnight, Richard <
> pat_mcknight@nps.gov
> >>>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>>
> >>>> 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-08-28-14
> >>>>
> >>>> C4996.jpg (image/jpeg, 2942x2307 806151 bytes, BF: 8.42 ppb)
> >>>> C4997.jpg (image/jpeg, 2942x2307 1570968 bytes, BF: 4.32 ppb)
> >>>> C4998.jpg (image/jpeg, 2942x2307 1423119 bytes, BF: 4.77 ppb)
> >>>> C4999.jpg (image/jpeg, 2942x2307 1214261 bytes, BF: 5.59 ppb)
> >>>> C5000.jpg (image/jpeg, 2942x2307 1155628 bytes, BF: 5.87 ppb)
> >>>>
> >>>> Please find attached images for your review. It is my hope that
> getting
> >>>> this information out that these images exist will benefit everyone
> and I
> >>>> appreciate being able to use this list as one of the ways to both
> >>>> distribute the images, but also receive feedback and additional
> >> information
> >>>> on them.
> >>>>
> >>>> C4996--Unknown location--Overall view of girder bridge--Signal bridge
> in
> >>>> distance [1918.xx.xx]
> >>>> C4997--Unknown location--Abandoned canal, lock and highway bridge
> >>>> [1918.xx.xx]
> >>>> C4998--Unknown location--Abandoned canal, lock and highway bridge
> >>>> [1918.xx.xx]
> >>>> C4999--Unknown location--Abandoned canal [1918.xx.xx]
> >>>> C5000--Unknown location--Abandoned canal [1918.xx.xx]
> >>>>
> >>>> --
> >>>> Patrick McKnight
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>>
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