| This photo shows part of where this line was mashed together by E-L. To the left, where that copse of trees is, would have been where the UC&B would have passed through and met the track to the right. There was a diamond here where the NYO&W/UC&B crossed the West Shore, which is the straight track, back and forth. This was all kind of cleaned up and simplified by Penn Central, who yanked up the majority of the West Shore and the diamond and installed the switch, and E-L, who dumped the NYO&W line from the now-gone Canal Street Yard to here and added the switch from the Utica Branch to the West Shore. E-L granted trackage rights for Penn Central to run up their Utica Branch and head over to service the New York Mills Industrial. The crew is going to throw the switch and head up the old NYO&W to go access the New Hartford Industrial. |