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From: Roger Clare roger DOT clare AT gmail DOT com
Date: Tue, 03 Mar 2015 05:09:00 -0400
Subject: Re: (erielack) Steamtown Images--February 25, 2015 (C0571 thru C0575)
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I found this aerial from 1938, and drew a sight line on it, which I now
think is too northerly by about 20 degrees.
At this time (1938) the Delaware branch is gone, though you can still
trace the roadbed. My current idea is that the buildings in the right
in C0574 are those on the south bank of Paulins Kill in the aerial, and
the mouth of the Kill is just out of the picture on the right.
However, I still can't find where the ice house got to.
The 1936 topo shows the Delaware branch, but is no help at all on
buildings, at least to me.

Roger Clare




On 3/3/2015 3:35 PM, fred heilich wrote:
> The NYS&W crossed the power lake at Columbia on the Paulins Kill about where I-80 crosses the lake today and went thru a cut behind the dam into Columbia, The only siding in Columbia was in front of the station for a coal company in town. The Delaware Branch (old Blairstown Railway) split from the main about where the culvert under I-80 is today and was on the other side of the power dam and lake and then ran on a blasted cliff to Delaware. There was no siding from Warrington until the branch reached Delaware. There are no signs of the dam or electric plant on the Kill which dumped into the Delaware where this picture was taken. There were two dams built at the mouth of the Kill. The one was built in 1903 and failed in a flood and then another that was built several hundred feet behind it with the electric plant around 1906. The failed dam and the newer dam and electric plant are still there and the plant is still generating. The 1918 Val Map shows gives no notes on t!
> rackage being removed not does a 1906 railroad engineer's notebook show a siding.
> Fred Heilich
>



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