RussNelson

He looks like the kind of guy who knows he belongs in jail, and just couldn't wait to be arrested.

There's a whole Wikipedia page for the Preemption Line, but I wanted to point out locally relevant parts of it. In short, the western part of New York was promised to different colonies by different English kings. The preemption line was created to resolve those conflicts. Basically, New York was given the right to govern west of the line (and thus tax in perpetuity), while Massachusetts was given the right to sell land west of the line. Absent from this discussion (of course) were the Indians who had claims both east and west and treaties to back them up. But let's not get into that ball of worms. Locally, the Preemption Line starts at the NY/PA border at mile stone 92 (there are mile stones every mile along the NY/PA border plus (in theory) mile stones at major road crossings.) on the east side of Widger Hill Road. It is also the border between Chemung County and Steuben County. It next raises its head on NY-352 west of South Corning Road, still the border, but on this road there is a monument noting the presence of the Preemption Line. It continues to be the county border between Chemung County and Schuyler County until it changes to the border between Dix and Orange in Schuyler County and it coincident with Locust Lane. Then it jumps westward almost a mile to become Preemption Road. Wait. Westward? I thought this was a north-south line? Well, yes, that was the plan, but the first Preemption Line was incorrectly surveyed. It started at MP92, but went slightly west of the correct location. You can find evidence of it by Preemption Line roads west of the true Preemption Line. Or, it's the border between Reading and Tyrone in Schuyler County. You can keep tracing it north from there, but we're out of the Twin Tiers area of interest. The true preemption line is the eastern edge of the City of Geneva and continues as borders up to Sodus Point.

The system map page is sublime.

The curved trolley tracks have been "preserved" in memory by the curved arrangement of the bricks that make up the road.

Yep, that's when all the tracks were at grade. They were raised in the 1930's. Note the switchman's tower on the right hand side, next to the car. There's one like it in Utica and another in Norwich. Those are the only two remaining ones in NY that I know of.

The Elmira trolley system had a powerhouse at Lake and East 14th Street. Here: https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/823031725 . You can tell it's a trolley powerhouse because of the round portholes for the high voltage wires to exit the building. These were either fired ceramic or glass, which were good insulators.

The Democrats seem genuinely surprised by how badly Biden did. It wasn't just his words, but his appearance. And in the end, Trump walked off the stage, while Biden had to be escorted by his wife to ensure that he didn't get lost. Frankly, I was surprised that he made it to the podium at the beginning. I guess the drugs wore off over the course of the evening.

Impossible to exactly duplicate the older photo because of the building to my right. Maybe if you worked there and got inside the fence.

Did they get bought out by the Army Corps of Engineers? Oh, and there's this: https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/13033624

There's also one at the other end of the platforms, on Lake Street. https://www.google.com/maps/@42.0996821,-76.8044483,3a,39.4y,267.93h,86.5t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sPOnmnTVqAb5S8e8f5QlH3w!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?coh=205409&entry=ttu Plus one in the middle at the station itself. You can see an opening at ground level, and where there used to be an opening on the platform above.

The DL&W station was demolished decades ago, but you can still see its driveway on the right, and some bits of its foundation. The bathroom tiles are the white bits.

On Washington Street under the Lackawanna Trail bridge, there is this notch in the west bridge abutment. Hmmm.... What's directly overhead? Could it be the DL&W platforms? Yep! This must be a bricked-up entrance to stairs that went to the platform in-between the tracks, circled in yellow. Notice how it's narrower than the platform? Must be the top of the stairs. Washington Street: https://www.google.com/maps/@42.1009557,-76.8072318,3a,75y,121.62h,86.11t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sk90Dm5ZjCXa6esd8wR_vSQ!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fpanoid%3Dk90Dm5ZjCXa6esd8wR_vSQ%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D65.9408%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i16384!8i8192?coh=205409&entry=ttu

Yeah! Those piers! I think the waterway just south of that is the prism of the Junction Canal.

The Democrats want to prevent the Republicans from destroying our democracy, and they're going to prevent you from voting for the Republican by any means necessary, even by throwing the Republican candidate in jail on Trumped-up charges.

Vote for RFKJr, then.