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| Title: |
Down the hill |
| Description: |
The XBP empty coal train to the Buffalo & Pittsburgh at Salamanca rolls downgrade just west of Andover. |
| Photo Date: |
3/24/1990 Upload Date: 12/31/2015 4:48:04 AM |
| Location: |
Andover, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CR 6032(C40-8) CR 6749(SD50) |
| Views: |
420 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Down on the farm |
| Description: |
A close up view of the XBP train passing the silos of a dairy farm at Scio on the Erie main. |
| Photo Date: |
3/24/1990 Upload Date: 12/31/2015 4:48:57 AM |
| Location: |
Scio, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CR 6032(C40-8) CR 6749(SD50) |
| Views: |
375 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Great spot |
| Description: |
This was the only shot I ever got of a train here. I was not far enough ahead of him to get a good tele shot, but still managed a decent photo, though the lead unit is partly obscured. An XBP empty coal train rolls past a farm at Andover. |
| Photo Date: |
3/24/1990 Upload Date: 12/29/2015 2:46:43 AM |
| Location: |
Andover, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CR 6032(C40-8) CR 6749(SD50) |
| Views: |
446 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Hi-low |
| Description: |
Erie seemed to be unable to settle on a single type of hardward for their signals. They had searchlights, tri light clusters, traffic light types, and of course the many semaphores that were still in service at the date of this photo. Another twist was this high and low pair at Belmont, seen with an XBP coal train. |
| Photo Date: |
3/24/1990 Upload Date: 12/29/2015 2:51:11 AM |
| Location: |
Belmont, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CR 6032(C40-8) CR 6749(SD50) |
| Views: |
468 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Used to be busy here |
| Description: |
A Conrail XBP empty coal train on the Meadville Line, once ELs Mahoning Division 4th sub, crosses the ex Pennsy Buffalo Line, also a Conrail operation, at the location of X tower. Now, the tower is long gone, and its CP Olean. At one time, this was a busy place, with several dozen train per day, most of them EL. There will be half a dozen moves here today, maybe. |
| Photo Date: |
3/24/1990 Upload Date: 12/29/2015 2:56:09 AM |
| Location: |
Olean, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
CR 6032(C40-8) CR 6749(SD50) |
| Views: |
798 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Once busy, now a memory |
| Description: |
An XBP coal train passes Cuba Jct, once a much busier place than it is at the date of this photo. The train is on the Meadville Line, going from single track to double for the 11 miles into Olean. There were eastbound and westbound sidings here in Erie days. The empty roadbed to the left was the Erie/EL River Line, which followed the Genesee River to NT tower, near Hunt, where it joined the Buffalo Sub. It crossed the river near Belfast on one of Eries massive steel bridges. A busy route when it was EL-it was the preferred route for most frieghts, since it had a much better gradient than the main line through Wellsville-it was abandoned almost immediately after Conrail startup. They dynamited the bridge in the early 80s. Of note, and not visible in this photo, the PRR also had a branch to Rochester that left the Buffalo Line at Olean, and passed under the River Line just east of here, taking a river level route up through Letchworth Park. |
| Photo Date: |
3/24/1990 Upload Date: 12/29/2015 3:39:13 AM |
| Location: |
Cuba, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CR 6032(C40-8) CR 6749(SD50) |
| Views: |
728 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
View from the road |
| Description: |
I took this from the shoulder of NY 17, which follows the Meadville Line for much of the way from Belmont to Olean. Too bad they didnt run more trains here, the line has some really scenic spots. |
| Photo Date: |
3/24/1990 Upload Date: 12/29/2015 3:50:43 AM |
| Location: |
Friendship, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CR 6032(C40-8) CR 6749(SD50) |
| Views: |
491 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Taking a medium clear |
| Description: |
An XWB empty coal train rolls slowly past the EL Hornell station as it prepares to cross over from 1 to 2, then onto the Meadville Line, which it will take to Youngstown. |
| Photo Date: |
3/24/1990 Upload Date: 12/29/2015 4:29:49 AM |
| Location: |
Hornell, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CR 6032(C40-8) CR 6749(SD50) |
| Views: |
464 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
Used to be X tower |
| Description: |
The tower actually stood across the EL, in the northwest quadrant of the crossing, a half mile west of the Olean station. CR tore it down early in its existence when they were working furiously to downgrade the former EL lines. It really wasnt needed after the CR startup anyway, since traffic here declined from several dozen trains/day to a handful on both lines. It almost could have been made an automatic interlocking. So a once elegant towers work is now done by a guy a couple hundred miles away, and a metal box. Ah, progress!! |
| Photo Date: |
3/24/1990 Upload Date: 12/29/2015 3:11:59 AM |
| Location: |
Olean, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
CR 6032(C40-8) CR 6749(SD50) |
| Views: |
624 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Scio silo |
| Description: |
The westbound empty coal train rolls past a couple of silos in the dreary late winter farmland. |
| Photo Date: |
3/24/1990 Upload Date: 12/29/2015 3:17:45 AM |
| Location: |
Scio, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CR 6032(C40-8) CR 6749(SD50) |
| Views: |
436 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Winter fields |
| Description: |
OIBU rolls west seen across the fallow fields of late winter. |
| Photo Date: |
4/12/1990 Upload Date: 1/3/2016 2:29:46 AM |
| Location: |
Wellsburg, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CR 6749(SD50) CR 6741(SD50) CR 6641(C36-7) |
| Views: |
543 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Roll on |
| Description: |
OIBU rolls under the NY 427 overpass. It will continue to work Elmira and Gang Mills, Ill head home from here. |
| Photo Date: |
4/12/1990 Upload Date: 1/3/2016 2:32:30 AM |
| Location: |
Chemung, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CR 6749(SD50) CR 6741(SD50) CR 6641(C36-7) |
| Views: |
588 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
Rolling and holding |
| Description: |
BUME rolls east as a Conrail train holds on the Lehigh Running Track in the distance at right. Hell come onto the Tier for a ride to Gang Mills once BUME clears. |
| Photo Date: |
8/20/1990 Upload Date: 1/27/2016 2:29:51 AM |
| Location: |
Waverly, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
DH 7407(GP39-2) DH 7418(GP39-2) CP 5670(SD40-2) CR 6749(SD50) |
| Views: |
737 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
First section |
| Description: |
The first section of BUSE rolls 148 cars past CP 285 and by Dewitt as it heads for Selkirk under the watchful eye of my 3 1/2 year old son. |
| Photo Date: |
4/24/1993 Upload Date: 1/27/2015 3:47:43 AM |
| Location: |
Syracuse (Dewitt), NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Yard,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CR 5516(SD60M) CR 6749(SD50) |
| Views: |
481 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
SPSE |
| Description: |
SPSE rolls past the clock tower in downtown Chatham. |
| Photo Date: |
1/23/1994 Upload Date: 1/7/2015 2:50:41 AM |
| Location: |
Chatham, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Winter,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CR 6749(SD50) CR 6558(C30-7A) CR 6562(C30-7A) |
| Views: |
497 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Meet at the station |
| Description: |
SPSE behind CR 6749 waits as TV 6 blasts through the Pittsfield Amtrak station and under downtown |
| Photo Date: |
1/23/1994 Upload Date: 1/7/2015 3:01:32 AM |
| Location: |
Pittsfield, MA |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Winter,Station,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CR 6749(SD50) CR 6558(C30-7A) CR 6562(C30-7A) CR 6591(C30-7A) |
| Views: |
568 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Waiting |
| Description: |
SPSE waits for TV 6 at the Amtrak station with its train stretched out under North St. |
| Photo Date: |
1/23/1994 Upload Date: 1/7/2015 3:03:23 AM |
| Location: |
Pittsfield, MA |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Winter,Station,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CR 6749(SD50) CR 6558(C30-7A) CR 6562(C30-7A) |
| Views: |
426 Comments: 0 |
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