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Reference to "Limon" should have read "Lima".

In the few years prior to the end of operations, the use of portable CB radios by LVRR train and engine crews became somewhat popular. During the final months of the LVRR the company issued portable radios to T&E crews. I took a motion picture of the Niaraga Jct. operator handing a portable radi...

Last line of my previous post should read 31 August 1978, not 31 August 1976. RM-2 (Rochester-Manchester-2) was the eastbound return of the Manchester local turnaround freight which operated out of Manchester yard to Rochester Jct. then on to either Limon or Rochester as business demanded. This job ...

The last eastbound train to operate in western NY on 31 March 1976 was the COJ-32 (C&O/Jersey-32). This ran lite out of Niagara Falls and was delayed by a PC train on the Penn Central at Lockport Road. Stopped to pick up cars at P&L Jct. and operated to Sayre, traversing track not covered by...

First line in post of Nov. 10 should read March 31, 1976 instead of March 1, 1976. A local freight turnaround job worked out of Geneva, NY in the 1970s. The shedule for this was: Geneva-Odessa Tuesday & Wednesday, A.M. Geneva-Manchester Monday-Wednesday-Friday, A.M. Geneva-Auburn Tuesday & T...

From the late 1960s until March 1, 1976 the Lehigh Valley Railroad operated a day local freight turnaround job out of Manchester Monday-Friday. The symbol for this job was MR-1 west and RM-2 east. Operation was normally to Rochester Jct. then on to either Rochester or Limon as business dictated. The...