Falling Springs, 1980s

March 29. 2013

Here is a shot of Falling Springs, right next to Coxton Yard, in the 1980s. At one time Coxton road was single lane with pull offs to allow cars to pass. In some places, there was a berm of the road to park on.

You could walk all the way up to the top of the waterfall and look out at the yard and the river.

A few years ago some kid fell almost 70 feet off the waterfall.

There was a little pool of water there and you could go in and stick your feet in, but most of the time in the summer there was not much water in it.

The photo was taken with a Kodak Disc Camera - like a 110 camera but with the franes in a disc configuration. The shots can be very grainy. But that is all that they had back then, except for 35mm.

Tidbit :

From 1991 CONRAIL Timetable : 

        ALCG 

ALLENTOWN TO CORNING 

DAILY                              DAY

ALLENTOWN              LV  2000 ET  1
PITTSTON              *AR  0100 ET  2
PITTSTON               LV  0200 ET  2
MEHOOPANY              AR  0300 ET  2
MEHOOPANY              LV  0400 ET  2
ELMIRA                 AR  0930 ET  2
ELMIRA                 LV  1030 ET  2
CORNING - NY           AR  1130 ET  2
-------------------------------------

ALLENTOWN 

TAKES CARS CLASSIFIED: 
1. ELMIRA 
2. PITTSTON
3. MEHOOPANY
4. BUFFALO - FRONTIER


PITTSON 

SET OFF BLOCK 2 FOR CONNECTION TO
WPPJ10, DAY 2 AND SUBSEQUENT TRAINS/
TAKES CARS BEHIND BLOCK 1 
CLASSIFIED : 
1. ELMIRA 
2. MEHOOPANY


MEHOOPANY  

SET OFF BLOCK 3 FOR CONNECTION TO 
WPMH10, DAY 2 AND SUBSEQUENT TRAINS.
TAKES CARS BEHIND BLOCK 2 
CLASSIFIED :
1. ELMIRA 
2. BUFFALO - FRONTIER 

ALCG (CONTD) 

PERFORMS LOCAL WORK BETWEEN 
MEHOOPANY AND ATHENS


ELMIRA 

SET OF BLOCK 1 FOR CONNECTION TO OIBU, DAY 2
AND SUBSEQUENT TRAINS. 
TAKES CARS CLASSIFED : 
2. CORNING 


CORNING

BLOCK 2 CONNECTS TO WACG07, DAY 2 
AND SUBSEQUENT TRAINS. 
BLOCK 4 CONNECTS TO OIBU, DAY 3. 


REVISED 08-29-91

Falling Springs, 1980s

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