Thursday, August 7, 2025

Shortsville, NY: Restaurant/NYC Depot and Lehigh Valley Museum/NYC Freight House

Depot: (Satellite
Museum/Freight House: (Satellite)


Photo, Sep 2017

The building on the left is obviously the former NYC freight house because of the spacing of the freight doors. The building on the right is the former NYC depot.
Street View, Jul 2019

At first, I was surprised that the Lehigh Valley Railroad Historical Society would be using a NYC freight house as its headquarters. But then I noticed that Shortsville is just southeast of Manchester, and Manchester was a major division point for the LV. I've already seen a railroad historical society use another railroads freight house because the price was right (IC historical society in NKP freight house in Paxton, IL).
1951/53 Clifton Springs Quad @ 24,000

The museum hosted excursion trains on the Finger Lakes Railway. But when I researched this train, I had to change the "hosts" verb to the past tense. In 2025, the railroad is using different towns.
Joseph Colasacco, Oct 2019

Not all of the locomotives are painted in LV colors.
Joseph Colasacco, Nov 2018

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