Wednesday, November 29, 2006




(top) At the northern end of the Charlotte Industrial track in Rochester, N.Y. is where the Genesee River dumps into Lake Ontario. This series of photos shows a CSX freight coming to what is sometimes called the "north yard". This is a 4 track storage yard for coal waiting to enter the Russell Generating plant in the town of Greece. After the train passes the lighthouse it will be on the former R.W.&O. or HOJACK line of the NYC. The old Hojack only stretches another mile or so, stopping just east of Dewey ave. before it passes under the Lake Ontario State Pkwy. Trains use the remaining section as headroom to back into the power-plant. The boxcars at the head end of the train were probably picked up from the Weyerhauser box factory on Boxart st.

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Blogger 1AdAm12 said...

Great shots of the Charlotte R.T. however the yard is called the West yard, back when the turnbridge was operational
(probably still is, just need some fuel and oil in the chevy big blobk inside the control house) there were the east yard and west yard used for storing coal hoppers for the beebee plant and russel station. Also the hojack goes over the parkway before reaching dewey ave. you can usually spot the power on the bridge as they are about to shove into russel.

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