Cha, cha, cha Changes
Today's print scan was photographed a couple of hundred feet south of yesterday's posting six years later. NYS&W has gained control of the Utica Branch. If you look at the background, you'll see a much different building at the East Main street crossing in Norwich, NY. Victory Markets/Great American Food stores had purchased the property and built a cold storage warehouse for perishables, refrigerated, and frozen foods. Alco RS-3 #104 has just finished spreading ballast at a new track off the main to serve the facility. The track would never see any deliveries that I know of and this train would be the only one I ever photographed on the track. Today that distro center is long gone along with the food chain after filing bankruptcy a few years after this photo,(accept for some independent stores), and ironically the whole area there is now a Top's Supermarket plaza.
Cha, cha, cha Changes
Today's print scan was photographed a couple of hundred feet south of yesterday's posting six years later. NYS&W has gained control of the Utica Branch. If you look at the background, you'll see a much different building at the East Main street crossing in Norwich, NY. Victory Markets/Great American Food stores had purchased the property and built a cold storage warehouse for perishables, refrigerated, and frozen foods. Alco RS-3 #104 has just finished spreading ballast at a new track off the main to serve the facility. The track would never see any deliveries that I know of and this train would be the only one I ever photographed on the track. Today that distro center is long gone along with the food chain after filing bankruptcy a few years after this photo,(accept for some independent stores), and ironically the whole area there is now a Top's Supermarket plaza.