View west from cab of Job 20, Lehigh Valley and PRR truss bridges in view

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View west from cab of Job 20, Lehigh Valley and PRR truss bridges in view

Infrastructure

The caboose of Job 20, standing next to tower D on track 3, was the vantage point for this shot. The middle siding and tracks 4, 1, and 2 are to the left, and the weed-covered track heading up on the fill at the right is a connection which crosses over the main line to join the Gardenville branch (a corner of the bridge can be seen to the left of the boxcar in Job 20's train). One transfer run daily, B-8 runs out of Gardenville to Seneca and Buffalo yards over this rather elaborate connection. Beyond the connection track is a yard of the South Buffalo Railway which handles NYC interchange cars, and in the distance is a small part (albeit a large building) of Bethlehem's Lackawanna works. The two paralleling bridges crossing the NYC here are those of the Lehigh Valley and Pennsylvania, carrying tracks of both roads to interchange points with the South Buffalo, and carrying the LV's also to its Tifft Street yard.

Jeremy Taylor

Jeremy Taylor

2-1/4x3-1/4 neg

8/1953

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Tower D, Buffalo, NY

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