Re: The Erie Canal Village in Rome, NY

The Village's official website:
[www.eriecanalvillage.net]
includes a small aerial photograph of the park.
In this photo, you can clearly see the canal and a bridge over it. That bridge is the entry bridge described in the Buffalo News article. The parking area is below the bridge; you can make out some of the parking area at the bottom left of the photograph.
Just above the bridge, there is a line paralleling the canal. That is the Village's 2-ft railroad. If I remember correctly, the left-most building, above the railroad track, is the railroad station.
The train departs the station (on the left side of the photograph), then runs under the bridge and to the right of the photograph. After leaving the area shown in the photograph, the train then curves off into the woods, and enters a balloon track. The train traverses the balloon track, reverses direction, comes back into the picture "frame", passes under the bridge, passes the station, and leaves the picture "frame". Somewhere to the left of the photo, the train enters another balloon track, reverses direction, and comes back to the station.
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Chris Webster
[www.speakeasy.org]