Hornell, NY: Erie Roundhouse, Backshops, Railyard, Museum/Freight House and Cass St. Tower

Shops: (3D Satellite)

Railyard: (Satellite)

Freight House: (Satellite)

Tower: (Satellite, my current guess based on the name of the tower and the photos is a little north of Cass Street and west of the tracks.)

Richard Clancy posted
Hornell Erie shops, Roundhouse.

Richard Clancy commented on his posting
Hornell prob 1960's

Richard Clancy posted
Erie Yards 1930s Hornell NY.
[The underpass at the bottom would be the north side of the yard. It is now an overpass. ]

Richard Clancy posted
Hornell Erie railyards 1940's
[It doesn't show a lot of the railyard. But it does show an empty gasometer.]

Update:

Richard Clancy posted

Richard Clancy posted
By the roundhouse and water tower Hornell NY (before 1900's)
[Note the water tower on the left]

Hornell Erie Depot Museum/Freight House

Wesley Burnard, Jul 2018

Cass Street Tower

Darren Reynolds posted five images with the comment:

Conrails(EX- Erie Lackawanna)

"Cass St." Tower 

Hornell, New York

Tim Shanahan shared

1

"Cass St." tower in Hornell, New York on July 27,1983

Photo by: Robert Staples

2

An Ex- Erie track and interlocking diagram for

"Cass St" tower

[It is unusual for a diagram to not mark the location of the tower.]

3

A Conrail train with Eng # 6601 passes by "Cass St." On Sept 1978

Photo by: Scott Wertans

4

The old days back in 1970 an EL freight train passes by "Cass St." tower

Photo by: Chuck Graham

5

By 1989 "Cass St." tower was closed and Boarded up..

Photo by: Jeff Gast

I'm repeating Darren's first photo to make it easier to compare with today's view below it.

Photo "1"

The hill in the background is consistent. The removal of some track doesn't surprise me. But the removal of so many buildings does surprise me. Note that the divergent route still exists.

Street View, May 2024

Since I don't see Cass Street in the foreground of Photo "1," I got an aerial photo to see how much space was between the tower and street. Cass Street is the street along part of the bottom of this photo.

Apr 16, 1952 @ 23,600; AR1UO0000020019

Because of the shadow and the square shape, I presume the tower is the building in the northwest quadrant of Cass Street and the tracks. Photo "5" is consistent with that spacing. I still don't understand why I don't see the street in Photo "1."

Photo "5"