Cayuga Heights Loop, uphill

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This is not the street railway, it is the abutment for the later Ithaca-Auburn Short Line on somewhat the same alignment. The street railway grade left the level of East Shore Drive (crossing) at this point. It came from across the photo to the right, from the entrance of Stewart Park.
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This is not the street railway, it is the abutment for the later Ithaca-Auburn Short Line on somewhat the same alignment. The street railway grade left the level of East Shore Drive (crossing) at this point.
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Grade heading uphill (SE) crossing Remington Rd.
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Grade heading uphill (SE) crossing Remington Rd.
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Grade heading uphill (S) towards 104 N Sunset (in background), about 1/2 way from Remington Rd.
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Grade heading uphill (S) towards 104 N Sunset; 106 N Sunset at left.
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Grade heading uphill (S) through the driveway of 104 N Sunset.
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Looking S on N Sunset from the driveway of 104; grade joins road from photographer's right rear; 1906 culvert in foreground.
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Looking S along the grade as it crosses Devon and Renwick Rds. and enters Park Mansion property; at the S end of N Sunset Drive.
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The grade running S across Park Mansion property, looking from the corner of N Sunset, Devon, and Renwick.
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A closer look at the grade running S across Park Mansion property; the end of Sunset Drive in background.
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1906 culvert over Renwick Brook, looking E from Renwick Drive just S of the corner of N. Sunset and Devon.
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Looking S on Sunset Rd. from its end at the N edge of the Park Mansion property.
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Looking S at end of Sunset Rd, grade curving sharp left into Sunet Park Rd.
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Looking NE along presumed alignment, from Sunset Pk Rd by the mailboxes towards the base of Hanshaw Rd. Grade was presumably landscaped away when house to left of photo was built.
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Looking NE on Hanshaw Rd. from its base at Cayuga Heights Rd.; alignment directly ahead and behind photographer.
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Looking N on Hanshaw Rd at the curve by 105 / 107.
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Long axis of this house on 204 Hanshaw Rd. was probably set on the abandoned grade.
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Looking E across Hanshaw Rd. from Devon, on the presumed alignment.
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Looking S along Highland Rd from the 5 corners. The terminus of the 1919-1930 "Great Northern" was on the E side of the road where the trailers are standing.
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Looking S along Highland Rd; the 1919-1930 "Great Northern" ran along the E (left) side and joined the Loop, coming up the hill from the right, somewhere on the curve in the background.
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looking S on Highland Rd between 5 corners (behind) and Iroqouis Rd. (in background). This is approximately where the loop joined Highland Rd. from the right rear of the photographer.
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Looking S on Highland Rd at the base of Iroquois Rd. (left)
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Looking E on Highland Rd, W of Kline Rd.
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Looking E on Highland Rd as it curves to the S, at Kline Rd; terminus of "Great Northern" after abandonment of Cayuga Heights loop (1908) until 1919, when the line was re-laid to the N
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Looking S on Highland Rd. from the end of The Parkway
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Loop turned sharp N (left) at this corner just into the City of Ithaca; looking S from Highland Road; Wyckoff Ave. to left; Alpha Gamma Rho fraternity in background
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Loop turned sharp E at this corner just into the City of Ithaca; looking E up Wyckoff Ave.
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Looking SE on Wyckoff Ave.
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End of Cayuga Heights loop, at Wyckof Ave. (left) looking E on Thurston Ave.; Risley Hall in background