After having run from Meadville to Jamestown and now returning west, we find ourselves back at the halfway point on the Erie Railroad. By the time ME-1 arrives at Meadville, it will be nearly a 12-hour day for the crew. It was already over 12 hours for the photographers but we didn't mind.

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Eastbound train ME-1, the "Slingshot" of the Western New York & Pennsylvania Railroad is at Cambridge Springs, PA. This one-time resort town of 2,500 marks the halfway point of the Erie Railroad's route betwen Chicago and Jersey City, NJ.

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Hiram Cory, who owned this land in 1861, sold a portion of the Atlantic and Great Western railroad and his name was bestowed, albeit misspelled, to make Corry, PA.
Both the former Erie and Pennsylvania routes are still active in this town of 6,500. Here, the westbound "Slingshot" of operator Western New York and Pennsylvania railroad is on former Erie iron and crossing the former PRR which came from Renovo via Warren.

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East of Corry, the westbound Slingshot passes along the southern boundary of Benson Swamp, home of a 1,038 -acre Pennsylvania state game land.

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The Slingshot continues west over the former Erie mainline. Between Corry and Mill Village the line passes through farmland reminiscent of the Erie's route across northern Indiana. In fact, only a few days after this scene was made, the field was harvested.

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