Re: (erielack) Binghamton/Sayre Connections

["Chuck Yungkurth" <raildata_@_comcast.net>]

That movement where the D&H ran all the way to Waverly on the EL main was a 
short time thing. I can't recall the reason but I think the LV was repairing 
the bridge across Owego creek.

Naturally, the EL neaarly went bonkers when the D&H ran to Waverly...then 
parked the train on the westbound main, ran to Chemeng, back on the 
eastbound, attached to the train, then on down the interchange track to 
Sayre yard.  Forget how long this lasted.

The cover of the RAILFAN issue showed one of the sahrks at SAyre on the EL

I suspect the Erie was very, very happy to give the D&H trackage rights to 
Owego in return for switching charges to the Moon Feed Co. As I got it from 
local old timers, back in the '20s Moon was getting 40 to 50 cars a week 
from the Erie. They probably had one very unhappy customer (probably the 
largest in Binghamton) who was paying the switching charges. Under ICC rules 
in effect at the time on rates I doubt the Erie could absorb these switching 
charges. Giving trackage rights a gesture that cost the Erie virtually 
nothing since the D&H was not in a position to get the grain traffic from 
the west except from the Erie..or from the DL&W which was a really bad 
switching problem to get to Moon.

Last I heard Jim Lathrop the LV engineer who was on the Binghanton run was 
still alive and well in Sayre.

Also discussed the Binghamton-Sayre run in my book "The Steam Era of LV" 
which unfortunately is out of print.

Chuck Y
Boulder CO





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Subject: (erielack) Binghamton/Sayre Connections


> I believe that later, after I left the D&H in
> 1972, the D&H went to Sayre in the daytime, because I have seen photos
> of the D&H Baldwin RF-16's in Sayre by daylight.
>
>
> I was living in Binghamton when the D&H Sharks made there first trip to 
> Sayre
> and was able to chase that trip.(thanks to the tip from  ( JJ Young).
> The trip did not use the LVRR tracks between Owego and Sayre. The train 
> ran
> on the  EL  from Binghamton to Waverly.
> The Sharks were then cut off there train, and ran the EL west to Chemung, 
> NY
> and crossed over to the east bound main. They then ran back to Waverly,
> coupled to the east end of there train and pulled there train into Sayre 
> on a
> branch line ??? that ran southeast from Waverly into the Sayre  LVRR 
> yards.
>
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