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History

Mile Markers: (from Sayre, PA)

Auburn 85.3

Throop 88.8

Weedsport 94.7

 

Lehigh Valley operations from Weedsport south to Auburn lasted to 1961 – a bridge was built by the state to allow it to cross the New York State Thruway, and interchange with the NYC, but it was removed in 1982. The Thruway opened through Weedsport in 1954.

 

To my knowledge, only a few photos of the LV railroad in Weedsport exist from this time period. There is a photo of the depot from 1973 in the Bednar Facilities book, and two others I've seen of the LV overpass (West Shore) by East Street on the southern side of town. Most of the information I've gathered has been from the Denny Randall articles and the subsequent leads they produced.

The USGenWeb project has also been an invaluable source of historical information about Cayuga county.

Several important notes about local businesses that affect this project:

 

- the milk station, originally R.S. Stevens and Co., then was operated by the Dairymen's League Co-op, burned down in 1930. Have chosen to keep it in the model.

 

- the two early maps I have disagree on the existance of a turntable; the 1904 version shows there being one, so am going with that. It makes better sense to me than to run engines up to Cato to turn them.

- Well, there was a turntable in Weedsport, after all! There is a part of it behind the Old Brutus Historical Society building.

 

- Tudor and Jones operated a warehouse handling farm equipment on the turn track.

 

- on the same track, C.C. Adams & Son owned a warehouse which originally handled hay - Adams maintained a thriving equine business in Auburn - it was later used for storing grain and coal.

 

- F. S. Tryon operated an Ice House on the depot track.

 

Diesel power in Auburn

Bridge L361A

October 2016

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