Re: (erielack) Meat / BD Tower

[Charles_Walsh_@_Berlex.com]

Tom,

I'm curious how much of the Vestal Spur remains intact west of the station?
I understand part of it from Vestal east has been made into a trail.

Chuck



                                                                                                                                  
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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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