{"id":7691,"date":"2014-08-07T02:20:42","date_gmt":"2014-08-07T06:20:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=7691"},"modified":"2014-08-01T06:28:55","modified_gmt":"2014-08-01T10:28:55","slug":"erie-railroad-station-salamanca-july-2004","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/erie-railroad-station-salamanca-july-2004\/","title":{"rendered":"Erie Railroad Station Salamanca\u2014July 2004."},"content":{"rendered":"

Remembering the Historic Building.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

On a pleasant summer day ten years ago, Doug Eisele and I were following a westward Norfolk Southern empty coal train on the former Erie Railroad mainline west of Hornell, New York.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been fascinated by the old Erie route for a long time. And I\u2019ve always enjoyed exploring the line in western New York.<\/p>\n

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The former Erie Railroad station at Salamanca, New York as seen ten years ago. Photo exposed using a Nikon F3 with Fujichrome slide film.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We caught up with Mike Zollitch who was also photographing the train, and it was Mike who showed us this angle on the old Erie station at Salamanca.<\/p>\n

In its heyday, this was a hub of activity on the railroad, located at the east end of the yard. Those days were long gone by 2004, but the railroad was again open to through traffic after a hiatus of more than a dozen years.<\/p>\n

I exposed photos from several angles, but only had a few minutes before the coal empties arrived into view. As it passed we continued west looking for more angles.<\/p>\n

On July 29, 2014, a little more than ten years after I made this photo, the old Erie station was destroyed by fire. I read this sad news via Facebook in Dublin, Ireland. One more vestige of the Erie is forever gone.<\/p>\n

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