ERIE 4-6-2 #2922

Name	Type	Comments	Date

Mike Woodruff	General	I'm about 99% sure this is at Wellsville, NY; the Erie didn't go to Wellsville, OH. The buildings with the peaked roof and cupola behind the tender can still be seen across from the former Erie depot in Wellsville, NY on Google Street View.	8/8/2020 6:32:31 PM

Tom Beckett	General	Wellsville is on the Erie Main Line between Hornell and Olean. Passenger trains ran here since the towns were all on this line. Most of the freights by this time used the Buffalo Division to NT tower near Hunt, then the River Line to CB Jct, just west of Cuba NY. The River Line was built around 1908 to alleviate running heavy trains over the Main Line, which had some stiff grades in this segment, including going over Tip Top near Andover, the highest point on the railroad. It's a pretty place, too bad there are very few trains on it nowadays. And the River Line, which had its own problems due to a swampy subgrade, was abandoned almost immediately by Conrail at startup. Its prominent feature was the Genessee River viaduct near Belfast, one of the three great steel bridges on the Erie, at around 3000 feet in length. It was dynamited around 1980. The footings were still across the valley in 2004.	8/10/2020 5:42:52 AM

ERIE 4-6-2 #2922 - Erie RR
Erie 4-6-2 #2922 rests for a moment while the fireman fills the tender with water.Thanks to Mike Woodruff (see comment below) for identifying Wellsville, NY rather than Wellsville, OH, for this location. Thanks Mike for your help! Built by Baldwin in June of 1919, this magnificent machine served the Erie system until being sold for scrap in August of 1950. Specs - serial #51931, K-5 class, 79" drivers, 200 psi boiler pressure, 75x28" cylinders, engine weight of 306,000 lb, tractive effort of 43,925 lb. J.R. Quinn photo
Date: 4/1/1941	Location: Wellsville, NY Map	Views: 303	Collection Of: Gary Everhart
Locomotives: ERIE 2922(4-6-2)			Author: Gary Everhart

Picture Categories: Roster		This picture is part of album: Erie 4-6-2 Pacifics

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