Re: (erielack) Erie/DL&W Main in NYS

["Tom Beckett" <tabeckett_@_stny.rr.com>]

I'll have to check that out next time I'm down that way. I hadn't noticed
that-or maybe I've seen it so many times it's just part of the wallpaper!!
Maybe I need to get on the local road to Lounsberry occasionally.

I know there's an old underpass along NY 17C(old 17) which allowed the
farmer to get to his land between the LV Auburn Branch-the line that used to
parallel the Erie from Sayre to Owego-and the road. It's kind of treed in at
this point, but you can still see it, as it's close to the road. Same
situation: the embankment, once high enough to require an underpass for
access to the isolated land, has been plowed away-it's usually a corn
field-so that the concrete structure stands tall in the field.

Tom B
- ----- Original Message -----
From: "Schuyler G Larrabee" <sgl2_@_ix.netcom.com>
To: "Tom Beckett" <tabeckett_@_stny.rr.com>; <ELRRco@aol.com>;
<erielack_@_lists.railfan.net>
Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2002 10:49 PM
Subject: Re: (erielack) Erie/DL&W Main in NYS


> An excellent review, Tom.  The only thing I can add is that, I believe
east
> of Nichols, there's a remnant in a farmer's field, on the north side of
the
> highway, between the river and the highway, which includes a bit of
elevated
> fiil, and a concrete bridge, in the middle of an otherwise flat field.  I
> think it was David Monte Verde (who's probably travelled this section of
17
> more than the rest of us put together) said that he's noticed the farmer's
> been mining this fill for years, and the bridge is the last thing left.
>
> SGL

------------------------------

End of EL List Daily V3 #619
****************************