Auburn Branch Photo Album

North Lansing, NY The Beardsley's Gulf Trestle, at North Lansing, NY, was opened on September 17, 1872. It was 480 feet long, stood 74 feet high, and took 250,000 feet of lumber to construct it. Built of green timbers, usually fresh-cut hemlock, these trestles required constant maintenance to cope with dry-rot. In 1882 the Ithaca, Auburn & Western, which purchased the "Western Extension" from the Midland, replaced this trestle with and iron bridge. Still later, a third railroad, the Ithaca-Auburn Shortline, built a fill accross the gulf.