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| Title: |
Making him wait |
| Description: |
Conrail was not shy about making the D&H wait on the Tier, but occasionally practicality and common sense won out. Today is one of those days, as BUME rolls 49 cars through West BD on track 2, headed for East Binghamton, while an XCL empty coal train cools its heels on the former DLW, having come out track 3 from downtown with 35 hoppers for Clearfield PA. That's the Vestal Spur in the lower right corner, the remaining portion of what was the DLW's 70 MPH main line. It now runs a few miles out to Vestal to serve the few remaining local customers. |
| Photo Date: |
11/12/1990 Upload Date: 1/31/2016 2:44:36 AM |
| Location: |
Binghamton, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CR 6027(C40-8) CR 6638(C36-7) CP 5670(SD40-2) PLM 3019(SD40-2) CP 5682(SD40-2) |
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804 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Underway |
| Description: |
The XCL train starts west, having gotten the board now that CP has cleared. It will be a gloomy trip to Gang Mills, as the typical Southern Tier gloom is hanging low. That lumpy track at right is the Vestal Spur. When NS got the line in the 1999 split, it started running C40-9's on that line-like it did everywhere else. By 2002, it bit the bullet and spent a bunch of money on ties and resurfacing, which it sorely needed after years of Conrail running heavy coal trains on it to the NYSEG power plant several times a week, but doing virtually no maintenance. The light building at far right is the NY State office building, affectionately known as the "SOB". It had a fire in the basement in 1981, and was unoccupied for 15 years while the PCB's released from electrical equipment were cleaned up. It was the poster child for government efficiency in NY. |
| Photo Date: |
11/12/1990 Upload Date: 1/31/2016 2:47:27 AM |
| Location: |
Binghamton, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CR 6027(C40-8) CR 6638(C36-7) |
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304 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Empty racks |
| Description: |
The train that forwarded empty auto racks west on the Tier was ML 401, seen here in the gloom approaching Miller Beach Rd in Owego with 91 cars. |
| Photo Date: |
11/5/1994 Upload Date: 8/28/2014 3:37:22 AM |
| Location: |
Owego, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CR 5024(B36-7) CR 6638(C36-7) CR 6043(C40-8) |
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406 Comments: 0 |
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