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Re: (erielack) Meat / BD Tower
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Here's a snippet of the Sanborn map from a 1918 set revised current to 1952.
I believe BD is in the right center of the map between the DL&W and Erie mains
just above and to the left of the S&U switch. Sorry for the quality of the
map, I couldn't even read the date from this map page.
I have also attached the interesting part of the 1901 Bird's Eye View of
Binghamton and the Sturtevant-Larrabee ad from the LOC collection at
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/pmhtml/panmap.html (Click New York then click
United States--New York (State)--Binghamton. [1901])
Henry
On Sun, 8 Jan 2006, Russell Hallock wrote:
> 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
> ----- Oiginal Message -----
> 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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