Re: (erielack) NYC & DLW former interchange

[William Shultz <wshultz1_@_twcny.rr.com>]

Russell,

You are correct for the EL days, but I was attempting to show the track 
arrangement from before the merger.

Regards,

Will Shultz

Russell Hallock wrote:

>Just a clarification about the NY Central in Corning:  I think it was after 
>Hurricane Agnes in 1972 that the NYC was eliminated as shown on your map 
>(grey line).  After that, it connected with EL at GLASS tower in the north 
>part of Corning and went on EL to the vicinity of Gang Mills where a new 
>bridge over the river was put in to regain NYC rails down into Pennsylvania 
>(the Pine Creek gorge route over which the Erie had trackage rights to 
>connect with the Reading near Williamsport).  Some of the track was left on 
>the south side of the river to reach glass factories.  An excursion in Oct. 
>1987 covered most of these lines.
>RH
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