OBSERVER Photo by M.J. Stafford A monument dedicated to the city’s first railroad service was moved to Lake Shore Drive and Central Avenue.

Workers from Lake Shore Paving were disassembling and reinstalling Dunkirk’s monument to its first railroad service Tuesday morning.

The monument was near the intersection of Main and Fourth streets.

It got moved to a more visible location, on the corner of Lake Shore Drive and Central Avenue.

The monument commemorates the arrival of railroad service to Dunkirk in 1851.

Department of Public Works Director Randy Woodbury has wanted to move the monument for years, but various logistical problems got in the way.

Notably, the heavy stone monument is held together by delicate dowels, requiring special equipment to move it.

This morning the workers were very carefully, but fairly quickly, balancing the monument pieces on the dowels at its new site.

A backhoe with a harness on it moved the pieces from a flatbed parked aside Lake Shore Drive to the site.

By about 9:30 a.m., the top section of the monument awaited installation but the rest was in.