RE: (erielack) Salamanca

["Schuyler Larrabee" <schuyler.larrabee_@_verizon.net>]

Looking at Mark Fischer's web photo is pretty interesting.  I now see that it probably wasn't fire
that took down the roundhouse, but demolition.  Not much evidence of fire there.  But still, when .
. . 

Thanks John.

SGL 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Elaine and John Redden [mailto:ejredden_@_frontiernet.net] 
> Sent: Monday, January 16, 2006 9:29 PM
> To: Schuyler Larrabee; erielack_@_Lists.Railfan.net
> Subject: Re: (erielack) Salamanca
> 
> 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%20Turnt
> able,%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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