by nessman
This picture was taken sometime before 2011. Last Google Earth image of the approach was 2005, last Google Earth image of the abutment was 2011. Between 2005 and 2011 - foliage obscured the approach.
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lvrr325 wrote:Penn Central and possibly Conrail and OMID served a bit of West Shore in Newark via a connecting ramp which is still visible as a line in the trees curving down to the visible bit of WS right of way.I don't know when the last traffic on that segment of the West Shore was handled. When OMID took over the segment in 1982 they had the potential for serving Caves Lumber, plus anything else that may have come along, but efforts to get business just didn't work out.