LVRR Fair Haven Yard & Transhipment Docks (Fair Haven, New York)

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Built and graded by the Southern Central Railroad in 1871 and later owned and operated by the Lehigh Valley Railroad through 1937 as the terminus of the Auburn Branch. LVRR financed the construction of a 1500ft long and 30ft high coal dumper trestle completed in 1878 which was built to transship anthracite coal onto freighters supplying Canadian ports, as well as the building of a grain elevator completed in 1879 to transship grain and wood chips. In the winter season, empty railcars were loaded with ice harvested from Little Sodus Bay.

The LVRR eventually abandoned the yard, trestle and grain elevator in 1937 as the transshipment business dried up, after which the structures were torn down. The railyard was torn up in the early 1940s for scrap metal and the land was eventually turned over to private ownership.

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