(LVRR) Re: [thevalley] Fw: Lehigh Valley RR

["Bill K." <pontiac_@_dreamscape.com>]

FWIW, more than likely if the DL&W still had passenger service on their
Ithaca branch, this is how they traveled.  That line was abandoned about
1958 -


I'm on both lists, original e-mailer needs a CC on it though.


Bill K.

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From: "Wally Day" <wallhd_@_charter.net>
To: <thevalley_@_yahoogroups.com>
Cc: <lehighvalleyrr_@_lists.railfan.net>; <pontiac@dreamscape.com>
Sent: Sunday, August 14, 2005 9:27 PM
Subject: RE: [thevalley] Fw: Lehigh Valley RR


> >From Bingo to Ithaca via the LV? No, not very easily.  While it would
have
> been possible,  via a connection from the DL&W to the LV at Cortland (and
> then arriving at East Ithaca), this would have been unlikely. The other
> possibility would have been connecting (this would have required a taxi
> ride-or a long hike) from the DL&W at Waverly to the LV at Sayre, this
would
> have been even less likely.
>
>
>
> Maybe I'm missing another scenario here, but I don't think so.
>
>
>
> Wally
>
> Cornell '67
>
>
>
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> From: thevalley_@_yahoogroups.com [mailto:thevalley@yahoogroups.com] On
Behalf
> Of Bill K.
> Sent: Sunday, August 14, 2005 9:00 PM
> To: thevalley_@_yahoogroups.com
> Cc: lehighvalleyrr_@_lists.railfan.net
> Subject: [thevalley] Fw: Lehigh Valley RR
>
>
>
> Can anyone help this person out?
>
> He is not a list member, so be sure to reply directly to him as well as to
> the list -
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> Thanks
>
> Bill K.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "peter heylin" <peterheylin376_@_hotmail.com>
> To: <pontiac_@_dreamscape.com>
> Sent: Sunday, August 14, 2005 7:54 PM
> Subject: Lehigh Valley RR
>
>
> > Howdy -- I saw your listing on the internet and figured maybe you could
> > answer a question for me! Did the Lehigh Valley offer passenger service
> from
> > Binghamton to Ithaca in the early '50's?
> >
> > History -- I recently returned to Cornell for a reunion and took my
> favorite
> > professor and his wife to dinner. They are in their lete '80's. We asked
> how
> > they met. She said she came up from Vassar on the Lehigh Valley -- Route
> of
> > the Phoebe Snow. I'm a western railfan, but I know that the Lackawanna
was
> > the Route of the Phoebe Snow. I sent them a 1954 (the year they were
> > married)Lackawanna Timetable and said that she probably went to
Binghamton
> > and took a connecting bus to Ithaca -- all Lackawanna service. Either
> that,
> > or she took the Lehigh Valley all the way and was never on the
Lackawanna.
> >
> > Now I wonder -- could it be both? Could she have taken the Lackawanna to
> > Binghamton and taken the Lehigh Valley from Binghamton to Ithaca? The
> sites
> > -- including anthracite rail and many others --do not seem to post
> > timetables.
> >
> > So, do you know? Could she have taken the Leigh Valley from Binghamton
to
> > Ithaca? If there's a good site you can direct me to, that would be
great!
> > Thanks in advance!    Peter H.
> >
> >
> >
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