Depew, Lancaster and Western Railroad

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Depew, Lancaster and Western Railroad
legal form Corporation
founding 1989
Seat Batavia , New York ,United StatesUnited States
Branch Rail transport
Website http://www.gvtrail.com/depew-lancaster--western.html

The Depew, Lancaster and Western Railroad ( AAR reporting as mark: DLWR) is a Class-3 local railroad - railway company in the northwest of the State of New York . The company of Genesee Valley Transportation (GVT) operates rail freight traffic on routes with a total length of 15 km .

history

In 1988 the Erie County Industrial Development Agency was looking for a new operator to handle sporadic freight traffic on its five-kilometer-long railway line in Lancaster , an eastern suburb of Buffalo . GVT, which had previously only been a vehicle dealer, was awarded the contract and founded a subsidiary, Depew, Lancaster and Western Railroad (DLWR), which began operations on August 1, 1989. From 1989 to 1994, the DLWR also managed operations on the works railway of a grain mill in Buffalo on behalf of Conagra .

After positive experiences in Lancaster and the GVT subsidiary Mohawk, Adirondack and Northern Railroad (MHWA) founded in 1991, GVT acquired branch lines of the Conrail in Batavia and Rome in 1993 . The Genesee and Mohawk Valley Railroad (G&MV) was founded as an infrastructure operator , while the freight transport services were taken over by existing GVT companies: In Rome by the MHWA and in Batavia in August 1993 by the DLWR.

In Batavia, the DLWR also operates a facility for the protected transshipment and interim storage of goods ( Transload Warehouse ), which was significantly expanded in 2017 with financial support from the state.

The company's name and abbreviation are based on the former Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad (DLW or DL&W).

Infrastructure

The infrastructure used by the DLWR consists of spatially separated parts: In Lancaster, five kilometers of the Erie County Industrial Development Agency's route are traveled, to which about 3.2 km of trackage rights on the Norfolk Southern Railway (NS) are connected in Depew to reach the NS bison yard used for handover . The section of the county is a remnant of the former main line of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad (DL&W) to Buffalo, which widen with the merger of DL&W into the Erie Lackawanna Railroad (EL) west of Binghamton in favor of the parallel Erie Railroad route Sections in the early 1960s was abandoned. The part in Lancaster was not taken over by Conrail in 1976 with the rest of the EL, but served by Conrail on behalf of the county until April 1988.

In Batavia, 9.9 kilometers of the G&MV are used. This is essentially part of the original route of the Albany – Buffalo main line of the New York Central Railroad (NYC), which was relocated to the southern edge of Batavia between 1951 and 1957. In the urban area and west of the city remained one of four existing tracks to sidings use to. Conrail referred to this infrastructure used today by the DLWR as Lower Town Industrial Trackage . In addition, the DLWR in Batavia also operates a short remainder of the Lehigh Valley Railroad main line to Buffalo , located southeast of the NYC bypass route now operated by CSX Transportation .

traffic

The DLWR only provides freight transport. There is only sporadic freight in Lancaster. A large part of the approximately 1,100 wagons per year is thus transported in Batavia. The focus is on the transport of heat exchangers, scrap metal, paper and cellulose, fertilizer, plastic pellets and wood.

The DLWR only uses diesel locomotives from the manufacturer American Locomotive Company as locomotives .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d Edward A. Lewis: American Shortline Railway Guide . Kalmbach Publishing, 1996, ISBN 978-0-89024-290-2 , pp. 103 (English).
  2. ^ Charlie Wood: Genesee Valley Transportation . In: Railfan & Railroad Magazine . tape 36 , no. October 10 , 2017, ISSN  0163-7266 , p. 46-48 (English).
  3. ^ Rick Stouffer: Short Line Railroads Succeed Where Big Lines Failed . In: The Buffalo News . October 13, 1991 (English, full text ).
  4. ↑ Lewis mentions 1983 for the start of operations in Batavia, which, however, in the context of his own text and on the basis of other sources should read 19 9 3
  5. ↑ Batavia Transload Warehouse to expand, thanks to state funding. The Daily News, Batavia, June 10, 2016, accessed December 26, 2019 .
  6. ↑ David Monte Verde, GVT: Groveland_NY_1961-62_DL_W_Buffalo_Division.jpg. May 4, 2016, accessed on December 26, 2019 (English): "(To the DL&W route) Through freights were shifted to the Erie side December 13, 1961. (...) Wayland-Groveland and Ray-East Lancaster torn up in late 1963. "
  7. ↑ Depew Lancaster & Western Railroad on the "Greater Rochester Railfan Page". February 20, 2005, accessed on December 26, 2019 (English, with maps of the routes in Batavia).
  8. ^ Depew Lancaster & Western Railroad. Railroads of New York (RONY), 2018, accessed on December 26, 2019 (English, website of the interest group of rail freight companies in the state of New York).