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From: "Joe Mayer" jmayer AT insight DOT rr DOT com
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2011 18:20:17 -0400
Subject: Re: (erielack) Changing the Gauge of the NYP&O
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OK- so the list doesn't accept pdf files. Sorry about that. Here they are
as jpg's.

Joe

> Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2011 22:32:31 -0400
> From: "Joe Mayer"
> Subject: Re: (erielack) Changing the Gauge of the NYP&O

> As I don't know that I will ever get enough info to complete an article,
> and
> since I have found no good photos, your post has convinced me to share via
> the List some of what I have been able to gather from Akron newspapers of
> the time.
>
> Based on what I have found, I wonder if this gentleman had mixed up the
> Leavittsburg-Cleveland dual gauge with that from Youngstown-Salamanca, as
> I
> was under the impression that the former was 4 rails and the latter three.
> (My Kingdom for a photo of the dual-gauged line to Cleveland.)
>
> I am attaching my information as a pdf file to keep the space to a
> minimum.
>
> In addition to this, an interesting newspaper account of the conversion
> from
> Rochester to Corning can be found at http://wnyrails.org/news/c0000026.htm
>
> Enjoy,
> Joe Mayer
> ELHS 702
> Columbus, OH


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