I was hiking yesterday thru the Nia Falls Penn-Central/Amtrak yard and could not find any evidence of electic operation such as catanary poles. Was I in the wrong yard?
Niagara Junction was absorbed into Conrail on April 1, 1976. The catenary came down a few years later and some of the steeplecabs went to Grand Central Terminal to replace the last S-motors. It’s quite possible that there aren’t too many large reminders of electric operation since a lot of years have passed. Since Niagara Junction was an industrial/terminal operation, it’s also possible that a lot of the switch jobs that were based there were transferred to other yards and the yard itself was taken up.
I must have been in the wrong yard. The Penn Central yard is on Lockport road and shares space with Amtrak. Where is Niagara Juntion?
Lower left and center right.
http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=43.083934,-79.0135&spn=0.016361,0.037937&t=h&om=0
What were you doing in the yard ?
The ATV and mountain bike trail runs next to it
You’re heading back to Cleveland for fall ?
Foote yard was gradually removed from 1978-1990. It runs almost parallell to I-190 from Lockport Rd to Porter Ave. The employees of the NJRR were very proud of their jobs and the work they did. The need for Foote yard ended with the electrification. It is sorely missed, since the CSX GP38-2s can’t snake their way around some of the tight curves along the NJ, and the SW1001s cannot pull like the NJ’s center cab GEs. In the Conrail era, SW 1500s proved inadequate compared to the center cab electrics, too. CSX tried MP15s in all three variations and all were found wanting on many counts!
The Nigara Juntion Trolley moters are in New Jersey on Philly-camdem PATCO line as a work train on 3rd rail
namaimo---- Do we know each other somehow? have we met?