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This line was removed in 1856 when the DL&W merged with the Erie Railroad.
John Baggerly New York 2/24/2010
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Soon after the DL&W merged with the Erie in the mid to late 50's (1956?) The DL&W tracks on the south side of the susquehanna river from between Binghamton and Vestal to Elmira were abandoned and most of that road bed was sold to the State for the building of the new 4 lane route 17 expressway finished in the early 60's. The new R17 uses a great deal of the old RR road bed. All trains were transferred to the Erie tracks in Binghamton, which are on the North side of the river and continued on those tracks to Elmira.
Al Owego, NY 2/8/2012
An interesting sidebar to the Erie and DL&W meger was that each line coninued their full schedule of passenger trains for over a year meaning that from Binghamton to Elmira they competed against themselves on the same track. This resulted in many sparsely populated passenger trains traveling through Owego at a rate of more than one an hour. In those years it was a long process of approvals to discontinue or change service.