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| Author: | nedsn3 [ Sun Aug 15, 2021 2:17 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Lowville and Beaver River RR New York |
I stopped yesterday while driving by Lowville NY. It had been 50 years since I'd last seen it and then the area around the turntable and engine house was neatly mowed, etc. Now it's all overgrown and clearly not being used. The old engine house door is open and junk thrown around inside. A small Russell plow sits nearby, along with a very junky passenger car, and an ex- L&NW and Conrail boxcar being used for storage. The turntable is intact but overgrown. There is what obviously is a fairly new cinder block engine house but its boarded up and locked. Does anybody know what the story is with this? I was pleased and surprised how prosperous the area seems to be. |
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| Author: | nedsn3 [ Sun Aug 15, 2021 8:52 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Lowville and Beaver River RR New York |
From google earth it looks like the shay is still at the end of the line in Croghan, NY. |
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| Author: | eze240 [ Mon Aug 16, 2021 7:43 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Lowville and Beaver River RR New York |
There's a guy working on doing something there.... Covid is has slowed things down alot.... The other engine house should hold a 44 tonner and a combine car.... Once things get back to normal, I think his plan is to start a new operation there.... |
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| Author: | nedsn3 [ Mon Aug 16, 2021 8:25 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Lowville and Beaver River RR New York |
Hope so. Interestingly the door of the Russell plow had been forced open but had not been vandalized inside. Inside of the plow, the engine house, all seems intact. |
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| Author: | Alexander D. Mitchell IV [ Mon Aug 16, 2021 10:28 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Lowville and Beaver River RR New York |
The RR (and/or its partners/patrons) acquired one of three well-maintained GE 45-tonners from the AC&F plant in Milton, Pa. last year. That's probably hiding in the enginehouse. |
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| Author: | nedsn3 [ Mon Aug 16, 2021 6:04 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Lowville and Beaver River RR New York |
The ex- ACF unit looks good and is sitting in the open in Lowville. Not boarded up. A 44-tonner lettered for LBR is sitting boarded up in Carthage also in the open on the track into a locked building that looks suspiciously like an engine house. A huge relatively new (1978) ex CR Jordan spreader is sitting behind it. Both obviously are being maintained. A CSX GP-38 just came down when I was there and delivered three tank cars to Slack Chemical Company in south Carthage. The picked up 3 others that must have been previously emptied and had been sitting in front of the station. So part of the track is still in service. Other than that the Carthage to Newton Falls line (not LBR) is reportedly out of service. The shay I reported yesterday in Croghan by the the restored station is no longer around. An ex-Army flatcar that once had carried passengers in the open (deck now totally rotted) and a McHugh Brothers differntial dump (probably abandoned since it does not have roller bearings) sit at the end-of-track at Croghan. The Black River bridge is apparently out-of-service due to visible settling (I'm a civil engineer so have some credibility here) of one of its piers. Wheel stops prevent any movement across State St. An interesting day driving through pretty country. |
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| Author: | nedsn3 [ Mon Aug 16, 2021 6:05 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Lowville and Beaver River RR New York |
I did not visit the turntable supposedly still at Croghan. |
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| Author: | PMC [ Mon Aug 16, 2021 7:28 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Lowville and Beaver River RR New York |
https://www.nny360.com/news/lewiscounty ... rkC5sb2x8Q |
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| Author: | nedsn3 [ Mon Aug 16, 2021 8:55 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Lowville and Beaver River RR New York |
Interesting, hope it works. The locomotive has not moved. He'll need to brush cut and spray the ROW as it's heavily overgrown. I don't think the passenger car will be usable- it's junk. The ex-Army flat car possibly could be re-decked and used. It's an interesting railroad and I enjoyed driving around to see what I could. I'll try to post some pics. |
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