re: Scott Rail Transportation Album - Kind of cool looking!
My apologies in advance: this post is off the topic of this thread, but since the original post is about an album for train topicals, perhaps a number of railway collectors will see my question:
During the First World War, the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad ran through the village of Painted Post, in Steuben County a few miles west of Corning. I am searching, so far futilely, for a postcard picturing the train station that may have served the railroad. I did find this photograph (a reproduction) on eBay, picturing the Painted Post Erie Railroad station.
Do any of you StampoRama members know whether the Erie station would have served the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad? Or would the railroad have had its own tracks and station?
re: Scott Rail Transportation Album - Kind of cool looking!
OK, got it (answer to question regarding the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad station in Painted Post New York. It still exists, and is used as the Painted Post Museum:
The "Pagoda style" architecture was a Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad icon, used in several towns and cities, including the tiny village of Savona where I spent the first six years of my life.
Thank you for the help I know someone would have given me!
Bob
P.S. Now to locate a contemporaneous postcard. Probably not an easy task, and possibly not possible!
re: Scott Rail Transportation Album - Kind of cool looking!
I am amazed at how many stamp collectors are also rail fans. For those of you that are fans of the DL&W, like myself, there is a good group on Facebook that has tons of photos and information.
re: Scott Rail Transportation Album - Kind of cool looking!
Speaking of stamp collectors that are railfans, I would NOT call myself a full-blown railfan, but I do have a couple of intense research projects around the railroad's carriage of the mails:
- The Pomeroy & Newark in southeast PA. A ~40-mile branch line of the PRR. Its heyday was 1882-1916. PRR envisioned bypassing Philadelphia to move coal to the Delaware River at Wilmington, but the track was never built to handle much tonnage. Got interested in this one when I realized that I had lived within earshot of at least 2 grade crossings, continuously for 20 years of my life. Only, last vestiges were torn up in the early 1950s. There are remnants of a couple of bridges and stations left today.
- The Iowa Midland in eastern IA. A ~70-mile branch line of the Chicago North Western. Its heyday was early 1880s through the 1940s. I grew up with the old railbed in plain sight, and used to hunt pheasants along it, never thinking about its prominent role in local history until very recently. The eastern terminus of this one was Clinton, Iowa, on the Mississippi River, which in the day, was the largest lumber producing city in the United States.
Both of these branch lines had railway post offices (lower case), so there are covers out there waiting to be discovered. And, THAT's what excites me about this collecting area - the thrill of the hunt for rare game! I have about a dozen items carried on the P&N, and just one, so far, from the Iowa Midland. These seem very scarce, indeed. Many of the cards and covers in my collection have been posted on this discussion board.
Bob, of course I'm always on the lookout for picture postcards of the stations. A couple of the several dozen stations are so-represented, but I haven't yet collected a nice, locally postally-used card yet. And, they do get rather spendy, for the obscure ones. Many of these stations were tiny, and short-lived. Another exciting collecting challenge!
-Paul
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