That would fit the profile on the topo map of the area just right. The only thing that the map doesn't convey is that those tracks are hanging on the side of a cliff...
Here is a google maps view of the New Hyatt House hotel and how the lower floor is angled to accommodate the track directly south. You can see the track coming into the area from the northwest, at the left. https://goo.gl/maps/YzBQVdCVdNQJBZKT9 And here is the block to the southeast of the above image and it shows the older buildings (the ones left, anyway) and the track running through before it crosses Broadway Avenue, https://goo.gl/maps/6oZvfvEcSt1RyMkGA Doug
That kind of alignment still exists, in some cases, when the tracks have been pulled up 80 years ago. In Ste-Thérèse, there are still vestiges of the former CP St-Eustache spur in some arrangements of streets and property limits. Two adjacent lots near Ste-Thérèse station have their common edges lined up exactly where that line straightened off after branching out from the main just west of the station. A short distance westward, in line with St-Eustache, part of Napoleon street has a bend in it, and from there to the end of the street, its exactly following the old track alignment. Even further west, from Grande-Allée boulevard west, highway 640 also follows the old right of way, up to 25th avenue in St-Eustache, where the tracks went straight on while 640 turns a bit to the right going westward. From there, there's no more trace of the old spur because of heavy developments of housing and businesses. CP abandoned and tore up the track back in the 1940s.
UP 3058(SD70AH) leading the southbound coal empty CP 852 at Samoa, IA. CP Marquette Subdivision February 15, 2023 Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
That LV streamliner is surely a beautiful thing! Another pumpkin powered grain train heading east to reload, And a string of DIT SD70MAC's,
7411 is an ex-Reading engine, transferred to the D&H after the Conrail merger. The D&H crews referred to the Reading crews as "the Dutch". In return, the Reading personnel called the D&H people "Dumb & Hungries".
With a block of autoracks on the headpin, a westbound waits for a crew in the old GN yard in Minot, ND at sunrise.
The 7411 later became CSX 4302 and found itself working in Florida. The unit trailing the 4302 in the following video, is CSX 4309, which is another ex-RDG, ex-D&H GP39-2.
Yesterday and today at Ringoes, NJ. Post card is dated 1910 and my picture 2017. Ringoes was first served by rail when the Flemington Branch of the Belvidere Delaware RR was completed in 1854. In 1871, the PRR bought the "Bel-Del" and in 1970, the Black River & Western bought the branch from the PC. The BR&W still operates a portion of the line today.
