by BR&P
This morning I drove around Canandaigua with an old NYC man. OK, that's redundant, there are no young ones, but this fellow is in his 90's. Anyway, he pointed out a few items of interest which I thought I'd post here, just so they are recorded for posterity. No common theme, just random.
1. Coming into town from the east, in the area of the East Avenue crossing, there was at least 1 track between the NYC and the PRR, but he thinks it was several. They were long tracks, often used when the PRR had large cuts of cars to be delivered to NYC. This location was known as "The Farm", at one time there was a large barn in the vicinity. Satellite pic here: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Canan ... 77.2816984" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
2. On the north side of the track, west of the Lisk Manufacturing plant but before the Ontario Street crossing, there is a large block building. At present it is painted white, or close to it. FGLK has a track for unloading plastic cars which goes along the side of it, but there is a large overhead door and he said at one time they could spot several boxcars inside. The building was known as "The hay barn" and that's just what it was for - locally grown hay was loaded out for destinations in Kentucky for the horse farms down there. He claims there was something in the soil around here that provided nutrients that hay closer to the destination didn't have. Whether or not that's so, they DID ship hay out. https://www.google.com/maps/place/Canan ... 77.2816984" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
3. There was a coal dealer on the south side (timetable direction of the line was east-west) just west of the West Avenue underpass. This place had a trestle which was quite flimsy, so several old wooden reefers were kept there. Not sure if they were kept on the coal dealer's lead, or a siding next to it, but they were used as idlers or reachers so the engine did not have to go on the trestle. It's hard to think of a railroad today doing that for a customer - they would just refuse service until the trestle was fixed. Anyway, that was about here: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Canan ... 77.2816984" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
4. He does not recall that Canandaigua was ever the home terminal for a job. On a given day a train may have tied up there and subsequently started out, but he does not remember there ever being a "Canandaigua Yard Job" or anything which was a regular job out of there. Work was done by RJ-2 and other jobs out of Rochester.
1. Coming into town from the east, in the area of the East Avenue crossing, there was at least 1 track between the NYC and the PRR, but he thinks it was several. They were long tracks, often used when the PRR had large cuts of cars to be delivered to NYC. This location was known as "The Farm", at one time there was a large barn in the vicinity. Satellite pic here: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Canan ... 77.2816984" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
2. On the north side of the track, west of the Lisk Manufacturing plant but before the Ontario Street crossing, there is a large block building. At present it is painted white, or close to it. FGLK has a track for unloading plastic cars which goes along the side of it, but there is a large overhead door and he said at one time they could spot several boxcars inside. The building was known as "The hay barn" and that's just what it was for - locally grown hay was loaded out for destinations in Kentucky for the horse farms down there. He claims there was something in the soil around here that provided nutrients that hay closer to the destination didn't have. Whether or not that's so, they DID ship hay out. https://www.google.com/maps/place/Canan ... 77.2816984" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
3. There was a coal dealer on the south side (timetable direction of the line was east-west) just west of the West Avenue underpass. This place had a trestle which was quite flimsy, so several old wooden reefers were kept there. Not sure if they were kept on the coal dealer's lead, or a siding next to it, but they were used as idlers or reachers so the engine did not have to go on the trestle. It's hard to think of a railroad today doing that for a customer - they would just refuse service until the trestle was fixed. Anyway, that was about here: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Canan ... 77.2816984" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
4. He does not recall that Canandaigua was ever the home terminal for a job. On a given day a train may have tied up there and subsequently started out, but he does not remember there ever being a "Canandaigua Yard Job" or anything which was a regular job out of there. Work was done by RJ-2 and other jobs out of Rochester.
