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| Title: |
Setting out |
| Description: |
WAIT 2, the Ithaca Branch local, sets out some coal hoppers consigned to the Cornell power plant at Ithaca yard. The rest of the train will go up to Cargill. |
| Photo Date: |
8/13/1988 Upload Date: 9/2/2015 3:59:04 AM |
| Location: |
Ithaca, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Yard,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CR 6327(SD40) CR 6640(C36-7) CR 6465(SD40-2) |
| Views: |
470 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Scenic LV |
| Description: |
The LV stayed pretty much intact east of Sayre PA, though between there and Allentown there was not much traffic after Conrail started. West of there, much of the railroad was pulled up, except for a few sections here and there. Probably the most important was what became the Ithaca Branch under Conrail, the line from Sayre up through Van Etten Jct, then on to ithaca. It served a NYSEG generating station at Milliken, and an adjacent Cargill salt mine, as well as some local customers in Ithaca. Sometimes cars for the uplake customers would be combined, which is what we see here. WAIT 2 rolls north with a salt block head out, with about 90 coal hoppers behind. It will tie up traffic in Ithaca for 20 minutes when it rolls through town. |
| Photo Date: |
8/13/1988 Upload Date: 9/2/2015 4:17:27 AM |
| Location: |
West Danby, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CR 6327(SD40) CR 6640(C36-7) CR 6465(SD40-2) |
| Views: |
570 Comments: 4 |
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| Title: |
Last of the Lehigh |
| Description: |
The LV west of Van Etten Jct was abandoned almost wholesale shortly after CR start up-just too many routes to Buffalo-and really, the line west of Allentown was largely a ghost line, with just a few locals at Coxton, and one train each way daily covering what remained of the line as far as Sayre. One segment west of Sayre that stayed active was the line to Ithaca, which hosted several coal trains each week to the NYSEG generating station at Ludlowville, and to a Cargill salt mine. The salt was occasionally combined with the coal, but often not, and ran as WAIT2 west of Sayre. Here we see the WAIT2 near Van Etten, en route to the Cargill mine. |
| Photo Date: |
8/13/1988 Upload Date: 8/28/2015 3:30:20 AM |
| Location: |
Van Etten, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CR 6327(SD40) CR 6640(C36-7) |
| Views: |
521 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Blasting past the station |
| Description: |
OIEL met BUOI at Canisteo, and I opted for following the eastbound, which we see here passing the old Erie station. Still think I should have stayed with OIEL. Getting it running west of Hornell was a real find. |
| Photo Date: |
12/9/1989 Upload Date: 12/15/2015 2:43:19 AM |
| Location: |
Canisteo, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Winter,Station,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CR 6585(C30-7A) CR 6327(SD40) CR 6310(SD40) CR 6765(SD50) |
| Views: |
465 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
On the river |
| Description: |
BUOI rolls along the Canisteo near Rathbone, so close to the river that you could troll for trout. |
| Photo Date: |
12/9/1989 Upload Date: 12/15/2015 2:45:03 AM |
| Location: |
Rathbone, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Winter,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CR 6585(C30-7A) CR 6327(SD40) CR 6310(SD40) CR 6765(SD50) |
| Views: |
366 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
SV 6 |
| Description: |
SV 6 rolls past the station as it has no work here, and will continue on to Boston with its 77 cars. |
| Photo Date: |
9/2/1994 Upload Date: 8/29/2014 4:00:52 AM |
| Location: |
Syracuse (Dewitt), NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Yard,Station,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CR 6854(SD60) CR 6327(SD40) CR 6703(SD50) |
| Views: |
387 Comments: 0 |
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