Re: (erielack) Meat / BD Tower

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

A few additions/corrections, if I may:

BD is located along Court St.

The overhead highways at Liberty St is NY 363.

The locations where the S&U Branches crossed the D&H was BX. It has been 
reconfigured in recent(the last 20 or so) years so that it is no longer a 
diamond, but a set of crossovers, which allows trains from the D&H simpler 
access to the former Erie Main, as well as CP trains going to/from the East 
Binghamton yard access to the D&H. The DL line going north has been stub 
ended at Bevier St as the result of a bridge project in the early 90's, with 
access to the S&U lines gained via the D&H, leaving D&H just north of Bevier 
St, and reaching the DL alignment at Old State Rd.

Tom B
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Subject: (erielack) Meat / BD Tower

> As far as I know, the orginal BD tower in Binghamton was located between 
> the
> Erei tracks and Front St, across the trackf from the later BD cabin. There 
> is
> a phto of a wreck published in an Erie book that occurred at BD and it 
> shows
> the tower there.
> As I recall, the cabin BD was built when the DL&W and Erie started sharing
> trackage between Binghamton and Big Flats. The crossovers and junction at 
> "West
> BD"n Johnson City was built then. Also the track that allowed trains from 
> East
> Binghamton to cross over and get on the old Erie main without having to go 
> up
> the DL&W tracks past the passenger station. They never did put in a track 
> to
> allow passenger trains coming from Port Jervis to cross over on to the 
> old DL&
> W tracks to reach the DL passenger station, resulting in a very awkrad
> backing to an fro to PJ trains to reach the DL passenger station.
>
> West BD and the CTC panel for Chenago Forks were conrtolled from the BD
> cabin. Spent many hours in the cabin with Charlie Waskovitch along with 
> Del Porta
> the EL cop shooting the breeze.
>
> Orginally there ere three towers in Binghamton. BD as discussed (which I
> think was an Erie but don't really know), Then Liberty St. which would be 
> just
> about where  Route 17C crosses the yard now. It handled trains leaving the 
> DL
> pass stub tracks and going  to Syracuse and Utica. And a D&H tower  where 
> the DL&
> W Syracuse & Utica branch crossed the D&H. Before E. Binghamton Yard was 
> built
> about 1923 the DL&W roundhouse was in the center of the wye fromed by 
> these
> three towers and there must ahve been a lot of traffic crossing the Erie 
> main.

> Chuck Yungkurth
> Boulder CO 



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