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 #1595297  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.
 #1595299  by nessman
 
Actually it looks like it was all taken down probably in 2013...

It's located just east of the Marsh Road bridge.

From Monroe County GIS...

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 #1595421  by lvrr325
 
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. It was a short distance south of the spur track that leads into Maco Shipping. You can see it on older satellite and aerial shots. It may have gone as far west as the FAA Filters plant, I think east it ended at the canal or snaked into the other side of the Maco Shipping plant.

The Auburn Road was abandoned between Victor and Pittsfield in like 1959, and Canandaigua and Victor around 1977 when the connector to the LV was built. The last stub on the Rochester side came out when the can of worms interchange of 390/490/590 was built.

As for the former PRR, it could have already been out of service on 4/1/76 between Newark and Phelps Jct.; Conrail only ran as far north as Seneca Castle on a subsidy for a year or so, although one customer at Phelps Jct. is served via a connection to the Auburn Road.
 #1595426  by TB Diamond
 
THE Auburn Road was abandoned as follows:
Victor-Pittsford, 10.4 miles, 1960.
Canandaigua-Victor, 8.5 miles, 1978.

The Sodus Bay Secondary:
Seneca Castle-Newark, 12.0 miles, was abandoned in 1973.
Hall-Seneca Castle, approved for abandonment 06-03-1979.
 #1595473  by BR&P
 
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.