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| Title: |
New look for BUME |
| Description: |
CP power started to show up on D&H trains on July 26, when an acid train ran from Montreal to Baltimore. Before long, it was showing up on the Tier as well, as we see with this BUME going east along NY 17C. |
| Photo Date: |
8/7/1990 Upload Date: 1/22/2016 2:51:56 AM |
| Location: |
Campville, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
CP 5686(SD40-2) CP 5677(SD40-2) CP 5670(SD40-2) |
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823 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Standing out |
| Description: |
The late afternoon sun has come around and lights up the bright red of the CP units on BUME as they approach the NY 17C overpass. |
| Photo Date: |
8/7/1990 Upload Date: 1/22/2016 2:55:36 AM |
| Location: |
Endicott, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CP 5686(SD40-2) CP 5677(SD40-2) CP 5670(SD40-2) |
| Views: |
820 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Going to the yard |
| Description: |
Where NYSW would run the MEBU and BUME trains up the Buffalo Runner into Bevier St for a crew change most of the time, CPs practice was to run them into East Binghamton to be worked and repowered. We see BUME passing BD on its way to the yard to be switched. This was a practice CP followed its entire time running the D&H. |
| Photo Date: |
8/28/1990 Upload Date: 1/27/2016 1:57:16 AM |
| Location: |
Binghamton, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
CP 5677(SD40-2) CP 5683(SD40-2) |
| Views: |
670 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Erie relic |
| Description: |
MEBU and 46 cars pass the water tank base at Addison. Eries last steam was in 1953, but in 1990, the concrete base is still standing, a testimony to its builders. In 2015, when I was last by there, it was still standing. |
| Photo Date: |
9/8/1990 Upload Date: 1/28/2016 3:28:29 AM |
| Location: |
Addison, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CP 5670(SD40-2) CP 5677(SD40-2) |
| Views: |
494 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
MEBU rocks |
| Description: |
MEBU with 46 cars behind a pair of CP units rolls past one of the many rock wall along the Canisteo valley near Cameron Mills |
| Photo Date: |
9/8/1990 Upload Date: 2/3/2016 4:04:16 AM |
| Location: |
Cameron Mills, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CP 5670(SD40-2) CP 5677(SD40-2) |
| Views: |
507 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
New look |
| Description: |
A pair of CP SD40-2s roll MEBU west under the NY 427 overpass at Chemung, the late afternoon sun lighting up the red diesels. Just like the Erie and EL who ran this line for many years, there's a high and wide right behind the power. |
| Photo Date: |
9/8/1990 Upload Date: 1/27/2016 1:42:31 AM |
| Location: |
Chemung, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Station,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CP 5670(SD40-2) CP 5677(SD40-2) |
| Views: |
713 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Red units through the blades |
| Description: |
MEBU rolls through the classic signals at Tioga Center, the newest power to pass through this portal, as the faithful record the event. |
| Photo Date: |
9/8/1990 Upload Date: 1/27/2016 1:47:57 AM |
| Location: |
Tioga Center, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CP 5670(SD40-2) CP 5677(SD40-2) |
| Views: |
696 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Wide ride |
| Description: |
MEBU rolls east of Waverly, where EL had a center siding. Conrail removed it early on in their ownership of the Tier, but never realigned the tracks. There was an identical situation at Canaseraga, west of Hornell, where there was also once a center siding. |
| Photo Date: |
9/8/1990 Upload Date: 1/27/2016 1:51:36 AM |
| Location: |
Waverly, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CP 5670(SD40-2) CP 5677(SD40-2) |
| Views: |
632 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
CP power in the Canisteo valley |
| Description: |
CP has not yet resymbolled the trains, so this is still an MEBU rolling past the rocks of the Canisteo valley. |
| Photo Date: |
9/8/1990 Upload Date: 1/8/2012 10:21:28 PM |
| Location: |
Rathbone, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CP 5670(SD40-2) CP 5677(SD40-2) |
| Views: |
810 Comments: 5 |
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| Title: |
Lots of changes |
| Description: |
Actually, one big one. The area along the fence line to the left of oncoming MEBU was approximately where the DLW main line ran prior to 1959. Consolidation of facilities with the Erie that year eliminated it. The line would regain its right of way a few miles to the west at Gibson, near NY 414. Now its a cow pasture. The Southern Tier Line itself will change yet again in a few years. Conrail will single track this segment, eliminating the small bridge here in favor of a set of corrugated metal culverts. How things change... |
| Photo Date: |
9/18/1990 Upload Date: 1/28/2016 3:40:12 AM |
| Location: |
Big Flats, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CP 5670(SD40-2) CP 5677(SD40-2) |
| Views: |
638 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Today I beat him |
| Description: |
I didnt do the shot here at Wellsburg often, mostly because I could not race down NY 427 from Chemung fast enough, or, alternately, on NY 17 to the Lowman crossover, which was a mile from the tracks, to beat a train here after shooting it at Chemung. The dimensional load behind the power has restricted the trains speed, so today I get lucky, and we have MEBU rolling into the afternoon sun. |
| Photo Date: |
9/18/1990 Upload Date: 1/28/2016 3:43:09 AM |
| Location: |
Wellsburg, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CP 5670(SD40-2) CP 5677(SD40-2) |
| Views: |
654 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
New symbol |
| Description: |
Same train. RPPY became train 556 under CPs regime, as nearly all trains had numbers, as opposed to the former Conrail style alpha codes instituted by Guilford. We see 556 rolling across the Southern Tier at BD, 25 cars in tow behind its two units. |
| Photo Date: |
12/9/1990 Upload Date: 2/3/2016 3:03:20 AM |
| Location: |
Binghamton, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CP 5684(SD40-2) CP 5677(SD40-2) |
| Views: |
686 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
555 arrives |
| Description: |
Train 555, the former PYRP from Potomac Yard in Alexandria VA to Rouses Point, crosses Terrace Drive at the south end of E Binghamton as the faithful record the event. |
| Photo Date: |
2/24/1991 Upload Date: 4/10/2015 3:48:08 AM |
| Location: |
Binghamton, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Yard,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CP 5677(SD40-2) CP 5690(SD40-2) CSX 8383(SD40-2) NS 6137(SD40-2) |
| Views: |
956 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Matched power |
| Description: |
A matched set of CP SDs roll train 310 into East Binghamton in the gloom of an April day. The "Dual Flag" scheme is still a year in the future. |
| Photo Date: |
4/6/1991 Upload Date: 3/12/2015 3:11:36 PM |
| Location: |
Binghamton, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CP 5677(SD40-2) CP 5689(SD40-2) CP 5697(SD40-2) |
| Views: |
515 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Night grain |
| Description: |
Train 390 sits at the north end of Bevier St waiting for a crew on a spring evening. |
| Photo Date: |
4/13/1991 Upload Date: 3/13/2015 2:31:33 AM |
| Location: |
Binghamton, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Night,Yard,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CP 5677(SD40-2) SOO 787(SD40-2) SOO 6406(SD40A) SOO 6601(SD40-2) |
| Views: |
868 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Big 555 at Hop |
| Description: |
A big 555 rolls north at Hop Bottom, today with 108 cars behind its four up front, and two more behind. |
| Photo Date: |
7/7/1991 Upload Date: 2/22/2015 4:50:32 AM |
| Location: |
Hop Bottom, PA |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 8579(C39-8) GATX 2007(SD40-2) CP 5677(SD40-2) NS 4154(GP38AC) |
| Views: |
804 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
SLN 4 and a cloud |
| Description: |
A late afternoon cloud catches the sunset as Sea Land train SLN 4 rolls east past BD and into the night behind a pair of SD 40-2s. Todays train has 45 stack platforms, 6 COFC and 4 freight. |
| Photo Date: |
4/22/1992 Upload Date: 2/16/2015 3:34:56 AM |
| Location: |
Binghamton, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CP 5677(SD40-2) GATX 7377(SD40-2) |
| Views: |
283 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Waiting on a new crew |
| Description: |
SLN 4, just arrived at Binghamton as CP train 254, will get a new crew here and roll on toward Little Ferry. CP power running through was standard practice. Todays train has 45 stack platforms, 6 COFC and 4 freight for Jersey. |
| Photo Date: |
4/22/1992 Upload Date: 2/13/2015 3:51:23 AM |
| Location: |
Binghamton, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Yard,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CP 5677(SD40-2) GATX 7377(SD40-2) |
| Views: |
323 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
SLN 4 meets phosphates |
| Description: |
SLN 4 starts its trip east as usual, but whats that poking out of the D&H?? Waiting in the wings is a 751 train with a trio of CSX GEs. Hell go north after the NYSW train clears the plant. |
| Photo Date: |
4/22/1992 Upload Date: 2/16/2015 3:37:57 AM |
| Location: |
Binghamton, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
CP 5677(SD40-2) CP 5692(SD40-2) CSX 7089(C30-7) CSX 7088(C30-7) CSX 7076(C30-7) |
| Views: |
546 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Waiting on a crew |
| Description: |
an 891 train waits on the Buffalo Runner for a new crew to take it west to Buffalo on the Tier. Appropriately, the train sits next to the old D&H station. The second unit is noteworthy: it was one of the EMD 645 test beds back in the 60's, from the program that developed the prime mover that eventually was used in several thousand EMD locomotives over the next 15 years. |
| Photo Date: |
5/9/1992 Upload Date: 2/10/2015 3:07:30 AM |
| Location: |
Binghamton, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Action |
| Locomotives: |
GATX 2009(SD40-2) PLMX 3041(SD40X) CP 5677(SD40-2) GATX 2004(SD40-2) |
| Views: |
661 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
MP 216 |
| Description: |
I like to put railroad lineside items in my photos; mileposts are always a good prop. MP 216 is on the Tier where in Johnson City, down off a back street. Almost all the mileposts on the Tier are the ex Erie concrete markers that show JC on them, signifying Jersey City. NS has replaced many in the process of single tracking the line. Here is 891 rolling 86 empties west. |
| Photo Date: |
6/22/1992 Upload Date: 2/7/2015 3:37:49 AM |
| Location: |
Johnson City, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CP 5677(SD40-2) GATX 2002(SD40-2) |
| Views: |
320 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Straight away coal |
| Description: |
One of the great things about unit trains is that the uniformity of the consist makes a good photo, such as this 891 approaching Owego, stretched out into the distance. |
| Photo Date: |
6/22/1992 Upload Date: 2/7/2015 3:39:56 AM |
| Location: |
Owego, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CP 5677(SD40-2) GATX 2002(SD40-2) |
| Views: |
273 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Short 270 |
| Description: |
A 270 with 6 TOFC and 31 freight rolls past the crossing at Kinney Rd in Campville on a Tuesday morning. |
| Photo Date: |
7/14/1992 Upload Date: 2/2/2015 2:48:55 AM |
| Location: |
Campville, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CP 5689(SD40-2) CP 5677(SD40-2) |
| Views: |
304 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Coal north |
| Description: |
CP for a while handled some New England coal trains with its own power in D&H hoppers. One such train, an 890, is coming around the corner on the Buffalo Runner into Bevier St yard as it starts its trip up Belden Hill. Power was typical for that traffic. |
| Photo Date: |
11/9/1992 Upload Date: 1/29/2015 3:36:00 AM |
| Location: |
Binghamton, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Yard,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CP 5677(SD40-2) GATX 2006(SD40-2) GATX 2000(SD40-2) GATX 7359(SD40-2) |
| Views: |
557 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
167 |
| Description: |
167 rolls west behind an A-B-A set of SD40s, the middle unit is one of CPs kitbashed B units modified from an NS SD40-2. |
| Photo Date: |
11/18/2001 Upload Date: 10/26/2013 3:26:48 AM |
| Location: |
Owego, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CP 5577(SD40-2) CP 5475(SD40-2) CP 5677(SD40-2) |
| Views: |
983 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Dog food run |
| Description: |
167 passes the Hagen Pet Food plant in Waverly. |
| Photo Date: |
11/18/2001 Upload Date: 10/26/2013 3:29:10 AM |
| Location: |
Waverly, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
CP 5577(SD40-2) CP 5475(SD40-2) CP 5677(SD40-2) |
| Views: |
1049 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
253 with a pair of widecabs |
| Description: |
Both of CPs components are represented here with wide cab units. One of SOOs 5 SD60Ms leads a barn as 253 heads for the northend crossovers. |
| Photo Date: |
12/31/2001 Upload Date: 10/13/2013 4:37:37 AM |
| Location: |
Binghamton, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Yard,Action |
| Locomotives: |
SOO 6059(SD60M) CP 9018(SD40-2F) CP 5665(SD40-2) CP 5677(SD40-2) |
| Views: |
719 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Different angle |
| Description: |
Most of the time, when you see shots of train on this bridge, its straight on from down below. I tried something different today, shooting from the far side of the road that goes up the hill here. It narrows the field of view, but its still a good shot. CP 413 is todays quarry. |
| Photo Date: |
11/10/2003 Upload Date: 6/16/2016 4:37:36 AM |
| Location: |
Harpursville, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Bridge,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CP 5680(SD40-2) CP 5879(SD40-2) CP 5677(SD40-2) |
| Views: |
338 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Just a little more |
| Description: |
CP 413 tugs its 58 cars uphill to Belden tunnel, which is just another thousand feet ahead, then its downhill into Afton. |
| Photo Date: |
11/10/2003 Upload Date: 6/16/2016 4:40:12 AM |
| Location: |
Tunnel, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CP 5680(SD40-2) CP 5879(SD40-2) CP 5677(SD40-2) |
| Views: |
358 Comments: 0 |
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