Re: (erielack) Salamanca

["Elaine and John Redden" <ejredden_@_frontiernet.net>]

Schuyler,

After reading the description, I knew that I had seen that image somewhere.

Mark Fischer's website on Western New York Railroads has two versions of
this photo posted.  The following is the URL for the hi-res version of the
image:
http://wnyrails.railfan.net/images/erie_sal_turntable_1971.jpg
Beware that it's 1.7MB, so it could take a while on a dial-up connection.

In the center-left portion of the image, is a Bantam crane loading a DL&W
side-dumper (appears to be DL&W 97075?) with debris.
I can't see any definitive evidence of a fire, in the ruins.  But, there's
lots of
really interesting detail in there. . .Perhaps the Bantam performed
the demolition as well?

Mark lists the date of the image as 1971.

(I hadn't realized that they were already removing roofwalks by '71.  I
thought
that that came several years later).

Regards,

John R.

- ----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Schuyler Larrabee" <schuyler.larrabee_@_verizon.net>
To: "'Elaine and John Redden'" <ejredden_@_frontiernet.net>;
<erielack_@_Lists.Railfan.net>
Sent: Monday, January 16, 2006 8:42 PM
Subject: RE: (erielack) Salamanca


> If you look at the various posts about "Cool DL&W stuff" and subsequent
posts to the ERIE pages, as
> in:
>
> http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pp/hhhtml/hhTitles107.html
>
> And scroll down to
> Erie Railway, Salamanca Turntable, Atlantic Street, Salamanca, Cattaraugus
County, NY
> there is a photo entitled
> "Aerial view of Turntable and Roundhouse ruins."
>
> The url for that is:
>
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=pphhphoto&fileName=ny/ny0400/ny0488/photos/browse.db&act
>
ion=browse&recNum=0&title2=Erie%20Railway,%20Salamanca%20Turntable,%20Atlant
ic%20Street,%20Salamanca
>
,%20Cattaraugus%20County,%20NY&displayType=1&itemLink=S?pp/hh:@field(TITLE+@
od1(Erie+Railway,+Salama
> nca+Turntable,+Atlantic+Street,+Salamanca,+Cattaraugus+County,+NY))
>
> But you probably need to go in from the first url.
>
> One would think that these photos should have dates shown.
>
> SGL
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Elaine and John Redden [mailto:ejredden_@_frontiernet.net]
> > Sent: Monday, January 16, 2006 6:54 PM
> > To: erielack_@_Lists.Railfan.net
> > Cc: Schuyler Larrabee
> > Subject: Re: (erielack) Salamanca
> >
> > I don't know the exact date of the Salamanca roundhouse's
> > demise.  However, I can narrow it down a bit.  I have a slide
> > from circa 1958 that shows several of the Bradford Division
> > Baldwins inside.  And I know that the building was gone by
> > about 1975, but I'm not really sure when it was removed. . .
> >
> > Are you certain that it burned down?  I had never heard that
> > story. . .
> >
> > John R.
> >
>
>


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