Monday, January 29, 2024

Batavia, NY: DL&W/NYC Roundhouse and Bridges

Bridges: (Satellite, only the northern one is left.)
Roundhouse: (Satellite)

DL&W = Depew, Lancaster & Western Railroad

The blue building is the roundhouse.
Street View, Aug 2019

Street View, Jul 2022

Memories of Batavia,Ny posted
The one on the right, looks like an erector set bridge, if you zoom in, you can see people on the tracks. The Greg B collection
Monica Irwin: Where?
Michael Dow: Monica Irwin Batavia over the tondawa looking.from route 98. Only one of the bridges
is still there
Mantonia Medina shared

Dennis DeBruler answered Monica's question
 https://www.google.com/maps/@42.9949026,-78.1913541,155m/data=!3m1!1e3?entry=ttu
As a bonus, I found a roundhouse.

1950 Batavia South Quad @ 24,000

The roundhouse has just two stalls so it uses a turnout instead of a turntable.
Satellite

ChrisMarie Nielsen-Hess posted
Old city map of my hometown on the left showing the engine house and on the right as it sits today.

Tim Ingerson posted
Seen this in Gvt's Batavia yard, question to anyone. Was this building a former round house if so if there's any pictures I'd love to see.
Scot Lawrence: Yes, it was a roundhouse, with a turntable, and during the steam era it was directly alongside the NYC 4-track mainline right through the middle of Batavia. NYC re-routed the mainline out of the center of town in the 1950's, which is the line currently used by CSX. DLWR moved in to the roundhouse in 2008, and they held a public open house April 17, 2009! 🙂 my photos from 4/17/2009:

Chris Ketch commented on Tim's post
Here's one I've found.

Chris Ketch commented on Tim's post

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