Nostalgia & History > Erie-Lackawanna Bath NY 1967

March 1967-My fifty some year old memory says there were two main lines in Bath NY-Lackawanna and Lehigh Valley??

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Great little local.
Bob

I believe it was the Lackawanna and an Erie secondary line long abandoned.

By 1967 it was the ex-Lackawanna main.  The Bath and Hammondsport came in from the north and connected on the east side of town.

CNStratford Wrote:
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> March 1967-My fifty some year old memory says
> there were two main lines in Bath NY-Lackawanna
> and Lehigh Valley??

Lackawanna main line, and the Erie Rochester branch.

Somebody either has a heavy load in the trunk of that car in shot or it's up on a jack or stand with need of repair. Nice shot by any means.  Ben

Rambler ???

ns2557 Wrote:
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> Somebody either has a heavy load in the trunk of
> that car in shot or it's up on a jack or stand
> with need of repair. Nice shot by any means.  Ben

LV95032 Wrote:
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> Rambler ???
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> ns2557 Wrote:
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> > Somebody either has a heavy load in the trunk
> of
> > that car in shot or it's up on a jack or stand
> > with need of repair. Nice shot by any means. 
> Ben

Looks like a Rambler to me.

I think the car is a fairly new Rambler American.

As to the Lackawanna mainline here, by 1967 it would have been a single track branch line between Painted Post and Wayland NY (I think)as the Erie Buffalo branch between Hornell and Buffalo had become the EL's mainline on this route.

The Lackawanna main was retained to Wayland NY while the Erie Rochester Division was largely abandoned.  However, in places  the Rochester Division was retained to serve customers.  This is one of those locations.  The Lackawanna Passenger station is just out of view to the right.  The train is on the former Erie.  Given that it is a switcher (rare on the Wayland Branch), I am thinking that you caught an extremely infrequent run over the former Erie from Bath to Savona, NY.  This line segment and the customers that it severed were wiped out by the construction of RT17 in the very early 1970's.  However, at this location the Erie survives as the Lackawanna ROW was used at Bath for RT17 (now I86/RT17) with it being tied in with the Lackawanna on the east and west sides of Bath.

Thanks for posting!

Good thread, lots of detail.

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My first car after graduating from the University of Toronto in 1964 was a Volkswagen bug.
After a couple of years, we came upon a head-on collision where the Volkswagen went up in flames killing the two young women in it.
The next week we went out and bought this Rambler.  It served us well until we went overseas to work in September 1967 at which point my brother-in-law enjoyed it for many years.