Avon, New York
Avon, New York was the junction of the Erie Railroad's Avon Branch (Avon-Attica), Corning Branch (Avon to Corning), and Mount Morris Branch (Rochester to Mount Morris). The 1924 map below shows the location of the station to the west of Rochester Street and north of West Main. The Erie also had a small yard in the same area.
From 1907 to 1934 the Mount Morris Branch from Rochester to Mount Morris through Avon was electrified using an 11,000 volt alternating current power supply.
The 1908 photo below shows the Erie station and yard in Avon.
The photos below from the Library of Congress show the passenger station and freight house as the appeared in 1972. The passenger station still stands, as shown in the color photo from 2001 at the bottom of the page.
References
- Boucher, Jack. 1971-1972. Photos from the Historic American Engineering Record, Library of Congress. Found at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/hhh.ny1185 and http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/hhh.ny1189.
- Gordon, William Reed. 1965. Erie Railroad Rochester Division. Self published.
- Woolever, Charles. "Existing Railroad Stations In New York." http://ny.existingstations.com/