Re: (erielack) Meat / BD Tower

["Russell Hallock" <rhallock_@_frontiernet.net>]

The Sanborn Insurance maps have great detail of facilities like these.  The 
New York Public Library map library has very good coverage.  I recall 
looking at these years ago and recall something like what was described, but 
never made any copies.
   I also have a copy of a panoramic view map of Binghamton from 1901. In 
the wye are the "Binghamton Oil Refining Co." and what might be a partial 
roundhouse.  The location of the East Bing. yard at that time was only the 
home of the "Binghamton Beet Sugar Co."
  Also on it are advertisements from various businesses.  One of them is 
"The Sturtevant-Larrabee Co., Carriage and Sleigh Builders, Binghamton, NY" 
with a small picture of their factory, with RR tracks going along side it.
  RH
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From: "Schuyler Larrabee" <schuyler.larrabee_@_verizon.net>
To: <RAILDATA_@_aol.com>; <erielack@lists.railfan.net>
Sent: Sunday, January 08, 2006 9:21 PM
Subject: RE: (erielack) Meat / BD Tower


>
> Chuckj Yungkurth wrote:
>> Maybe SGL can shed more light on the towers since he is a
>> native of the area and my recollections only go back to '53.
>> We wasted all our time and film on roster shots locos and
>> wedge views of trains in those days and never paid much
>> attention to facilities, much to our regret!
>
> Chuck, I can't do much more than confirm what you've written in your post 
> which ended with the above
> quote.  I have a delicate drawing which shows the DL&W roundhouse in the 
> middle of the wye.  When I
> first got this is really rattled my cage, as I couldn't believe it, but my 
> dad confirmed that it was
> once there.  He, however, couldn't remember when it might have been torn 
> down/moved.  Clearly, the
> date of the construction of East Binghamton (is 1929 correct; that's my 
> recollection) would be a
> good place to start.  If so, my dad would have been 13 at that time, so 
> not noticing wouldn't be
> surprising.  As for me, I was all of >five< years old when you moved to 
> Binghamton, Chuck.  My
> parents wouldn't let me leave the house by myself, let alone with the 
> camera, even though at that
> age I was fascinated by trains.  How unreasonable!
>
> SGL
>
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