| Having hopped off the DL&W line and onto ex-West Shore tracks, UT-1 prepares to cross French Road at road level and then pass underneath the North South Arterial Highway. In the foreground, the track headed to the left is a continuation of the old New York, West Shore & Buffalo and heads north to New York Mills, while the line to the right is NYO&W tracks and heads southwest to Ontario Ave, where it stub-ends and then the train will reverse down the old New Hartford Industrial Switch. There originally would have been a diamond here, with the NYO&W continuing off to the left, but in 1971 the EL and PC implemented an agreement whereby PC would tear out all the ex-West Shore through the city, and the multiple crossings from East Utica, and would utilize the Erie-Lackawanna Schuyler Street trackage south to the E-L/West Shore diamond and then cut over on a turnout so PC could access the New York Mills business. It also allowed Erie-Lackawanna to abandon their ex-NYO&W trackage from Canal Branch under Burrstone Bridge to the O&W/West Shore diamond past the GE French Road plant by utilizing a short distance of the West Shore. |