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Photographer: Anton Schwarzmueller
Taken: September 2, 2018
Caption: Trolley Grade
Additional Description: This is where the trolley tracks separated, at the north end of the Niagara Gorge. The view is northward and towards where the track switch was located, just before a bridge over a gully. The lower grade ran along and inside the gorge to Niagara Falls. The higher grade, behind the stone wall, ran to the deck of the suspension bridge, joined by the road for rubber-wheeled vehicles. The higher grade is now blocked by overgrowth and by fill from the Niagara Power Project. The lower grade has been narrowed by erosion and severed by the Project. I was able to walk it to where it had ducked under the bridge, but it is risky.
Submitted: August 11, 2020, by Anton Schwarzmueller of Wilson, New York.
Database Locator Identification Number: p534374
File Size: 9.522 Megabytes

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