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From: "Dan Syrcher" sst703 -AT- verizon -DOT- net
Date: Thu Aug 9 11:05:35 2007
Subject: This photo is at Letchworth State Park in NY on the former ERIE RR. Much discussion has been made about the condition and future of this Genesee River crossing. Photo taken in October of 2006. We are standing on the west side of the gorge.
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From: "Dan Syrcher" sst703 -AT- verizon -DOT- net
Date: Thu Aug 9 10:55:54 2007
Subject: While cross country skiing in Janaury 2005, I took some photos of this BR&P bridge in Springville,NY. It was a tough bridge to photograph. Blocked by trees as you'll see in the next picture. The upper deck is covered with snow, I was tempted to ski accross it. But with not being able to see the deck and verify its condition, I didn't cross.
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From: "Dan Syrcher" sst703 -AT- verizon -DOT- net
Date: Thu Aug 9 10:49:37 2007
Subject: This photo was taken January 2005 of the BR&P crossing at Springville,NY. This was a difficult bridge to photograph because it is blocked by trees everywhere as you can see. This is the best side view I could get with the sun lighting it up. I'm standing on the golf course.
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From: "Dan Syrcher" sst703 -AT- verizon -DOT- net
Date: Thu Aug 9 10:38:20 2007
Subject: For years I've been boating up the Buffalo River to check out rail traffic going across the river. It is a fasinating place to watch. I've always noticed that the River crossing bridge was either missing nuts or about to. After the MSP bridge collapse and a recent run up the river, I was more aware of the bridges condition and took some photos. This is an upclose photo of one plate/joint that has missing nuts. There are others sections on this bridge in similar condition.
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From: "Dan Syrcher" sst703 -AT- verizon -DOT- net
Date: Thu Aug 9 10:30:57 2007
Subject: This is a wider view underneath the Buffalo River crossing. You can see two plates that are either missing nuts or they are spun half-way off. We are looking south. CP Draw is to our right [west].
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From: "Dan Syrcher" sst703 -AT- verizon -DOT- net
Date: Thu Aug 9 10:26:46 2007
Subject: Not getting an ideal upclose look, it was difficult to tell how long this cross bar has been broken, not being able to see how much corrosion exists on the broken area.
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From: "Dan Syrcher" sst703 -AT- verizon -DOT- net
Date: Sun Aug 5 11:46:03 2007
Subject: This photo was taken from the ROW while standing over the tunnel. We are looking north.
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From: "Dan Syrcher" sst703 -AT- verizon -DOT- net
Date: Sun Aug 5 11:44:06 2007
Subject: After realizing we could not get the car up the hill any further, we decided to temporarily abandon the car and walk up the remainder of the hill and check out the tunnel. It was snowing heavily that day.
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From: "Dan Syrcher" sst703 -AT- verizon -DOT- net
Date: Sun Aug 5 11:34:49 2007
Subject: A remaining tunnel of the BR&P east of Arcade and north of Farmerville Station. You'll notice that there are no car tracks going into the tunnel. That's because there is a solid layer of ice under the snow and we are stuck on a steep hill. It took a long half hour to back down the hill and not end up in the deep ditches on each side.

This was in January of 2004.
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From: "Dan Syrcher" sst703 -AT- verizon -DOT- net
Date: Thu May 3 13:33:40 2007
Subject: This is another view of the Ethanol plant looking more northerly. Again the freight house of the Central terminal can be made out just barely in the upper right and just below the wing strut. It was a beautiful day for flying!
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From: "Dan Syrcher" sst703 -AT- verizon -DOT- net
Date: Thu May 3 13:27:20 2007
Subject: This is a look from above at the location of the new Ethanol Plant in Buffalo. The central cluster of elevators is where it will be. I don't know for certain which elevators will be used.

The Central Terminal can be located in the far upper left hand corner. New York Centrals elevator, Concrete Central, can be seen about middle right with the bridges crossing the Buffalo River to its left. LaFrarge is at the bottom just left of center.
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From: "Dan Syrcher" sst703 -AT- verizon -DOT- net
Date: Tue Apr 3 21:55:02 2007
Subject: This photo is looking back at Rt 219 at I-87 just east of Salamanca,NY. Focusing on the concrete abuttments next to 219.
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From: "Dan Syrcher" sst703 -AT- verizon -DOT- net
Date: Tue Apr 3 21:51:51 2007
Subject: I was flying to the south of the yards in Buffalo, NY. The altitude was 5500 feet above sealevel. The view is looking north, northwest. In the lower portion of the picture you can identify the Lehigh Valley wye that comes from the line along the NYS Thruway. You then can see the NS Bison Yard including the new section along with the ex-DL&W line exiting to the NW going over the CSX Frontier Yard to the top of the picture. The Central Terminal is to the far left but unfortunately it is just out of view. It was very bumpy flying today so I have no idea why the camera worked this time.
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From: "Dan Syrcher" sst703 -AT- verizon -DOT- net
Date: Sun Feb 18 13:16:08 2007
Subject: This photo is looking south as we fly over the Seneca Army Munitions depot. The rail cars are at the southern end.
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From: "Dan Syrcher" sst703 -AT- verizon -DOT- net
Date: Sun Feb 18 13:14:13 2007
Subject: This photo is looking north over the ammo site.
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From: "Dan Syrcher" sst703 -AT- verizon -DOT- net
Date: Thu Jan 11 12:26:23 2007
Subject: This is just Lake Chautauqua while I'm headed back home via Dunkirk. The pollution layer was so thick that even at 4500 feet at Mayville I still couldn't see Lake Erie. It's the worst I've ever seen it. And no improvement over a year later.
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From: "Dan Syrcher" sst703 -AT- verizon -DOT- net
Date: Thu Jan 11 12:21:39 2007
Subject: This picture is basically 5 miles directly opposite of the picture below. Mayville and the Lake are at the top. The small lake mentioned below is about center left. You can see the rr snaking around to the right of that "main rd" running through the center of the picture. The gorge is at the bottom of the picture.
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From: "Dan Syrcher" sst703 -AT- verizon -DOT- net
Date: Thu Jan 11 12:18:13 2007
Subject: Mayville is out of view but is bottom and to the right. The Lake is on the left out of view. We are looking in a southerly direction. You can make out the right of way at bottom center of the picture and then bends up. If you follow a straight line from there you see a small lake near the upper center of the picture.
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From: "Dan Syrcher" sst703 -AT- verizon -DOT- net
Date: Mon Jan 8 16:45:37 2007
Subject: Another view of NY&LE at Gowanda, NY from above.
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From: "Dan Syrcher" sst703 -AT- verizon -DOT- net
Date: Mon Jan 8 16:38:02 2007
Subject: Looking down over NY&LE at Gowanda, NY
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From: "Dan Syrcher" sst703 -AT- verizon -DOT- net
Date: Tue Dec 12 15:18:11 2006
Subject: The final picture of this flight is on our way back to Lancaster, NY as we crossed over the ex-WSRR. The view is southwest with Buffalo Crushed Stone sitting on the ROW.
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From: "Dan Syrcher" sst703 -AT- verizon -DOT- net
Date: Tue Dec 12 15:14:28 2006
Subject: Entering Buffalos airspace at 5500msl, the CSX Frontier yard passes to our west. The mouth of the Niagara River and Peace Bridge are in the background.
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From: "Dan Syrcher" sst703 -AT- verizon -DOT- net
Date: Tue Dec 12 15:09:25 2006
Subject: While heading north we crossed Ashford JCT just to our East at 4000 feet above ground. Our ground speed was 135mph. A great tail wind.
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From: "Dan Syrcher" sst703 -AT- verizon -DOT- net
Date: Tue Dec 12 15:05:02 2006
Subject: While the weather was reasonable for flying my friend and I decided to take a run down to Bradford, Pa for lunch. On our way back I took this photo looking north with Rt219 just below. We were at about 4000 feet above the ground.
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From: "Dan Syrcher" sst703 -AT- verizon -DOT- net
Date: Sun Dec 10 21:50:11 2006
Subject: It is with great misfortune that this picture came out lousy. They had stopped pulling on the boxcar to reposition the cranes so I wasn't paying attention. But I turned to look at it and realized it had started to fall from the bridge and immediately snapped the picture without waiting for the focus to line up. I guess it's better than nothing. It's not like I can ask them to repeat it.

So, this picture shows the car disengaged from the bridge and falling.
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