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Tom Beckett's Collection
 
5/2/2024
 
 
 
 
 
Owner: New York Susquehanna & Western
Model:Alco C420Built As:LI 221 (C420)
Serial Number:3384-01Order No:21208
Frame Number:3384-01Built:7/1964
Notes:ex LIRR #221
Other locos with this serial:  NYSW 2002(C420) LI 221(C420) NYSW 2010(C420) NYSW 260(C420) BSOR 2010(C420) VAMD 202(C420)
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Getting it together
Title:  Getting it together
Description:  NYSW 2010 puts its train together at the Binghamton yard, getting ready for a trip up the Utica side.
Photo Date:  9/11/1988  Upload Date: 9/1/2015 4:45:54 AM
Location:  Binghamton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  NYSW 2010(C420)
Views:  596   Comments: 0
Power at the house
Title:  Power at the house
Description:  Ex LIRR, now NYSW C 420 2010 sits at the enginehouse with a colleague of much greater seniority. The 2010 was still active; 238 was on death row.
Photo Date:  9/12/1988  Upload Date: 8/30/2015 2:01:20 AM
Location:  Binghamton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  NYSW 2010(C420) NYSW 238(RS1)
Views:  557   Comments: 1
Alco north
Title:  Alco north
Description:  C 420 2010 rolls north at Pooleville. It had come north from Binghamton with a BH 1 crew, then traded crews, rolling on to Utica with the UT 1 crew.
Photo Date:  9/25/1988  Upload Date: 9/9/2015 3:19:31 AM
Location:  Earlville, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  NYSW 2010(C420)
Views:  544   Comments: 0
Working the mill
Title:  Working the mill
Description:  UT 1 works the Chenango Valley Pet Food mill, and will swap cars here with BH 1, up from Binghamton. Looking at this line now(2015) its hard to believe there was once enough traffic here in the post EL era to run two jobs.
Photo Date:  9/25/1988  Upload Date: 9/9/2015 3:22:23 AM
Location:  Sherburne, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  NYSW 2010(C420)
Views:  564   Comments: 0
C 420 on local
Title:  C 420 on local
Description:  Former LIRR C 420 2010 works on a Utical side local at Sherburne.
Photo Date:  10/2/1988  Upload Date: 5/28/2011 11:50:38 PM
Location:  Sherburne, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  NYSW 2010(C420)
Views:  1058   Comments: 1
Alco headed north
Title:  Alco headed north
Description:  C 420 2010 is working BH 1, heading north past the Agway mill as it makes for the Utica side. At the time, that was where the business was, and got a train almost daily. The Syracuse side got a train twice a week.
Photo Date:  10/2/1988  Upload Date: 9/7/2015 3:16:53 AM
Location:  Binghamton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  NYSW 2010(C420)
Views:  500   Comments: 0
NYSW oddities
Title:  NYSW oddities
Description:  NYSW 2010, a former LIRR C 420 equipped with a steam generator-note the high short hood-and ancient RS 1 238 sit at the Binghamton engine shop. The C 420 has neen renumbered since the last time I photographed it three years prior. It was 260, now a horsepower based 2010.
Photo Date:  10/15/1988  Upload Date: 5/28/2011 11:47:03 PM
Location:  Binghamton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  NYSW 2010(C420) NYSW 238(RS1)
Views:  1028   Comments: 1
Odd couple
Title:  Odd couple
Description:  It was unusual to see these two units together, especially since 120 spent most of its time in Jersey. I caught them together at the Binghamton shop. An RS 3 and SD 45 are peeking out from behind these two. The variety then was amazing.
Photo Date:  10/29/1988  Upload Date: 9/9/2015 3:08:08 AM
Location:  Binghamton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  NYSW 2010(C420) NYSW 120(SW9)
Views:  635   Comments: 0
Rolling north
Title:  Rolling north
Description:  Sunday afternoon was often a good time to catch BH 1 on the Utica Branch, and this one is no different. C 420 2010 rolls through the south end of Bevier St on its way to the branch.
Photo Date:  11/27/1988  Upload Date: 9/14/2015 4:08:12 AM
Location:  Binghamton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  NYSW 2010(C420)
Views:  424   Comments: 0
Pulling them out
Title:  Pulling them out
Description:  NYSW 2010 working the yard, pulls out its cars from Conrail. It will be making its train up for a run north on the Utica Branch.
Photo Date:  12/5/1988  Upload Date: 9/23/2015 3:31:37 AM
Location:  Binghamton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  NYSW 2010(C420)
Views:  419   Comments: 0
In a puff of smoke
Title:  In a puff of smoke
Description:  BH 1 has left some cars on the siding south of Chenango Forks, and now heads north to work its way to Norwich and Sherburne. The track at right is the Syracuse Branch, which joins the Utica Branch here.
Photo Date:  1/8/1989  Upload Date: 9/23/2015 3:40:22 AM
Location:  Chenango Forks, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  NYSW 2010(C420)
Views:  489   Comments: 0
Over the bridge
Title:  Over the bridge
Description:  BH 1 behind C 420 2010 rolls across the Chenango River as it makes its way north, today taking a trip up the Syracuse side, a lucky catch, since they went up there usually two days/week. At the time, the Utica Branch was a daily event, and much easier to find a train there.
Photo Date:  1/29/1989  Upload Date: 9/25/2015 3:35:52 AM
Location:  Chenango Bridge, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Bridge,Action
Locomotives:  NYSW 2010(C420)
Views:  433   Comments: 0
Rural scene
Title:  Rural scene
Description:  There will be lots of these on the branch, as it is quite rural, except for Cortland. BH 1 passes a field of cut down corn as it approaches the crossing at Itaska.
Photo Date:  1/29/1989  Upload Date: 9/25/2015 3:39:30 AM
Location:  Itaska, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  NYSW 2010(C420)
Views:  397   Comments: 0
Red Mills, gray day
Title:  Red Mills, gray day
Description:  The clouds have started to thicken as BH 1 rolls past the landmark Killawog Red Mills as the light starts to fade, making the train blur a little as it passes.
Photo Date:  1/29/1989  Upload Date: 9/25/2015 3:46:03 AM
Location:  Killawog, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  NYSW 2010(C420)
Views:  551   Comments: 0
Farm scene
Title:  Farm scene
Description:  BH 1 passes a dairy farm just north of Lisle.
Photo Date:  1/29/1989  Upload Date: 9/25/2015 3:48:54 AM
Location:  Lisle, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  NYSW 2010(C420)
Views:  473   Comments: 0
Starting out
Title:  Starting out
Description:  BH 1 has just left Binghamton and is crossing Old State Road on the first leg of its trip to the Syracuse Branch.
Photo Date:  1/29/1989  Upload Date: 9/25/2015 3:54:51 AM
Location:  Binghamton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  NYSW 2010(C420)
Views:  487   Comments: 1
Crossing US 11
Title:  Crossing US 11
Description:  BH 1 approaches the US 11 crossing south of Whitney Point. Its a good location, even now its an open shot.
Photo Date:  1/29/1989  Upload Date: 9/25/2015 3:57:18 AM
Location:  Whitney Point, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  NYSW 2010(C420)
Views:  359   Comments: 0
Yard power
Title:  Yard power
Description:  A C420 and RS 3 cool it at the Binghamton yard. The car to the left of 2010 is NYSW 509-the "Popemobile" theater car, its big rear window covered over while not in service.
Photo Date:  3/12/1989  Upload Date: 9/30/2015 4:26:21 AM
Location:  Binghamton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  NYSW 104(RS3) NYSW 2010(C420)
Views:  368   Comments: 0
Doing what Alcos do
Title:  Doing what Alcos do
Description:  SU 100 gets under way at Coles after OIBU has cleared, accelerating under a cloud of smoke as Alcos were known to do. This one was originally an EL unit, and is on familiar turf. Remember Camel billboards??
Photo Date:  4/6/1989  Upload Date: 10/1/2015 2:55:52 AM
Location:  Binghamton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  DH 74(C424) NYSW 2010(C420)
Views:  489   Comments: 0
Alcos on the Delaware Division
Title:  Alcos on the Delaware Division
Description:  SU 100 rolls past the industrial park in Kirkwood as it heads down the Delaware Division for Jersey. NYSW would run trains with solid Alco consists, though now that there were a lot of stack trains, SU 99 and SU 100 were becoming uncommon, so spectacles such as this were hard to find. Check out the CP box cars in the script lettering.
Photo Date:  4/6/1989  Upload Date: 10/1/2015 2:58:34 AM
Location:  Kirkwood, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  DH 74(C424) NYSW 2010(C420)
Views:  413   Comments: 1
Pulling through
Title:  Pulling through
Description:  BH 1 with a pair of Alcos pulls through town as it sets up to switch Rubbermaid and a couple of sidings near the station.
Photo Date:  4/7/1989  Upload Date: 10/1/2015 3:09:20 AM
Location:  Cortland, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  NYSW 2010(C420) NYSW 3000(C430)
Views:  320   Comments: 1
Easing back
Title:  Easing back
Description:  BH 1 gets ready to go into Rubbermaid, pulling a couple of cars back to go into the plant. The tower of the DLW station is at right.
Photo Date:  4/7/1989  Upload Date: 10/1/2015 3:10:39 AM
Location:  Cortland, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Action
Locomotives:  NYSW 2010(C420) NYSW 3000(C430)
Views:  289   Comments: 0
Working the plant
Title:  Working the plant
Description:  Rubbermaid was a big customer for NYSW, and they would spend some time switching loads and empties here. Rubbermaid received plastic pellets to make all the various products produced here.
Photo Date:  4/7/1989  Upload Date: 10/1/2015 3:13:18 AM
Location:  Cortland, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  NYSW 2010(C420) NYSW 3000(C430)
Views:  315   Comments: 1
Alco profiles
Title:  Alco profiles
Description:  A pair of Alcos from two generations sit in the NYSW yard under a big sky.
Photo Date:  4/8/1989  Upload Date: 10/2/2015 3:48:10 AM
Location:  Binghamton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  NYSW 104(RS3) NYSW 2010(C420)
Views:  404   Comments: 0
Heading out with an Alco leader
Title:  Heading out with an Alco leader
Description:  The NYSW was still using a couple of Alcos in local service. The C430 fleet was down to two units, but C 420 2010 kept on. Here it is leading a pair of EMDs past the Binghamton Agway as it heads up the Utica Branch on BH 1.
Photo Date:  8/3/1989  Upload Date: 11/3/2015 3:15:11 AM
Location:  Binghamton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Signal,Action
Locomotives:  NYSW 2010(C420) NYSW 1800(GP18) NYSW 2012(GP38)
Views:  707   Comments: 0
Blue, for now
Title:  Blue, for now
Description:  MEBU rolls through Bevier St behind D&H 7314, and ex LV unit that is blue for the moment. As the years pass, the engine will show more and more of its original paint, so that it will eventually look like its former self.
Photo Date:  8/10/1989  Upload Date: 11/17/2015 4:30:42 AM
Location:  Binghamton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  DH 7314(GP38-2) DH 7324(GP38-2) DH 386(GP39-2) NYSW 2010(C420)
Views:  428   Comments: 0
Pair of 45s and something odd
Title:  Pair of 45s and something odd
Description:  The pusher set on this PYRP has a pair of SD 45s, not uncommon for the time. The odd unit is against the train, NYSWs remaining C 420, which did not typically work in this type service.
Photo Date:  8/17/1989  Upload Date: 11/19/2015 4:07:55 AM
Location:  Port Dickinson, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  NYSW 3630(SD45) NYSW 3614(SD45) NYSW 2010(C420)
Views:  485   Comments: 1
Getting ready to go
Title:  Getting ready to go
Description:  NYSW 2010 on BH 1 works at Binghamton, putting its train together for a trip up the Syracuse side.
Photo Date:  8/20/1989  Upload Date: 11/25/2015 2:44:07 AM
Location:  Binghamton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  NYSW 2010(C420)
Views:  170   Comments: 0
Both roads working
Title:  Both roads working
Description:  BUOI is working Binghamton as BH 1 works hoppers on the siding east of the shop.
Photo Date:  8/22/1989  Upload Date: 11/24/2015 3:12:55 AM
Location:  Binghamton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  CR 6773(SD50) NYSW 2012(GP38) DH 373(GP39-2) NYSW 2010(C420)
Views:  504   Comments: 0
Rolling back
Title:  Rolling back
Description:  A trio of units rolls through the NYSW yard as it heads to a siding east of the shop to pick up some hoppers, most likely for a trip to a quarry on the Syracuse side.
Photo Date:  8/22/1989  Upload Date: 11/25/2015 2:47:17 AM
Location:  Binghamton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  NYSW 2010(C420) DH 373(GP39-2) NYSW 2012(GP38)
Views:  513   Comments: 0
Coupling on
Title:  Coupling on
Description:  The trio of units on BH 1 has coupled to the hoppers and will get them going north in a while.
Photo Date:  8/22/1989  Upload Date: 11/25/2015 2:51:22 AM
Location:  Binghamton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  NYSW 2012(GP38) DH 373(GP39-2) NYSW 2010(C420)
Views:  420   Comments: 0
Cruddy light
Title:  Cruddy light
Description:  Poor light was not unusual in the Southern Tier-it rained a lot here-and most of us shot photos in it anyway, since you often got some interesting consists, even if it was raining. Heres one of them, a BH 1 with a C420, GP 18, and GP 38, something you could find only on the NYSW. The train is northbound at Phelps St.
Photo Date:  8/27/1989  Upload Date: 11/19/2015 3:43:40 AM
Location:  Port Dickinson, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  NYSW 2010(C420) NYSW 1800(GP18) NYSW 2012(GP38)
Views:  755   Comments: 0
Slow start
Title:  Slow start
Description:  BH 1 slowly starts away from the Binghamton yard, passing the Agway mill(note the CR box cars there. Agway received grain in box cars into the mid 90's). Once it has its train onto the branch, it will start in earnest for the siding at Kattelville, where it will drop its train of hoppers.
Photo Date:  9/7/1989  Upload Date: 11/27/2015 4:00:46 AM
Location:  Binghamton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Signal,Action
Locomotives:  NYSW 2010(C420) DH 380(GP39-2)
Views:  371   Comments: 1
Smoke screen
Title:  Smoke screen
Description:  BH 1s lead unit, an ex LIRR C420, is doing its best to hide its train as it lays down a pall of Alco smoke at Phelps St.
Photo Date:  9/7/1989  Upload Date: 11/27/2015 4:04:25 AM
Location:  Port Dickinson, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  NYSW 2010(C420) DH 380(GP39-2)
Views:  324   Comments: 1
Back home
Title:  Back home
Description:  NYSW 2010 rolls toward East Binghamton, returning from Kattelville with a cut of cars for the D&H. Here it is crossing Conrail at BD.
Photo Date:  9/7/1989  Upload Date: 11/27/2015 4:06:17 AM
Location:  Binghamton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  NYSW 2010(C420)
Views:  168   Comments: 0
It never stops
Title:  It never stops
Description:  NYSW had a way of putting together some power combinations youd never see anywhere else. Sometimes it happened in the yard, though often youd see them on the road too. This set was one only the Susie Q could come up with, at East Binghamton.
Photo Date:  10/5/1989  Upload Date: 12/4/2015 4:47:37 AM
Location:  Binghamton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  NYSW 2010(C420) NYSW 1800(GP18) NYSW 3638(F45)
Views:  318   Comments: 1
Yard work
Title:  Yard work
Description:  A close up look at the power on BH 1 as it works the Binghamton yard prior to going north on one of the branches.
Photo Date:  1/13/1990  Upload Date: 12/18/2015 5:11:45 AM
Location:  Binghamton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Winter,Yard,Action
Locomotives:  NYSW 1800(GP18) NYSW 2010(C420)
Views:  164   Comments: 0
Short and long haul
Title:  Short and long haul
Description:  BH 1 with a GP 18-C420 combo, pulls a couple of cars past an empty coal train waiting for a crew at Chenango St.
Photo Date:  1/13/1990  Upload Date: 12/18/2015 5:04:41 AM
Location:  Binghamton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Winter,Yard,Action
Locomotives:  NYSW 1800(GP18) NYSW 2010(C420) DH 386(GP39-2)
Views:  237   Comments: 0
Dark horse
Title:  Dark horse
Description:  An NS unit sits at the East Binghamton engine facility, waiting to go out on the next RPPY. It shares the lights with a D&H unit, and an NYSW Alco. Just another day on the D&H. The D&H hopper at far right is full of sand, supplying the sand towers at the fuel pad.
Photo Date:  2/15/1990  Upload Date: 12/25/2015 4:55:04 AM
Location:  Binghamton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Night,Yard
Locomotives:  NS 6183(SD40-2) DH 225(GP38-2) NYSW 2010(C420)
Views:  495   Comments: 0
Everyones home tonight
Title:  Everyones home tonight
Description:  NS 8005, D&H 225, and NYSW 2010 share the engine tracks at East Binghamton. Looks like theres room for everyone here!!
Photo Date:  2/15/1990  Upload Date: 12/25/2015 5:04:23 AM
Location:  Binghamton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Night,Yard
Locomotives:  NYSW 2010(C420) NYSW 1800(GP18) DH 225(GP38-2) NS 8005(C30-7)
Views:  428   Comments: 0
Roster view
Title:  Roster view
Description:  Recently arrived GP38-2 rebuild 7312 outside the East Binghamton shop in the company of some familiar faces.
Photo Date:  4/5/1990  Upload Date: 1/5/2016 4:15:34 AM
Location:  Binghamton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  DH 7312(GP38-2) NYSW 2010(C420)
Views:  453   Comments: 0
Clean C 420
Title:  Clean C 420
Description:  NYSW 2010 sits outside the East Binghamton shop, looking pretty clean for a working unit.
Photo Date:  4/5/1990  Upload Date: 1/5/2016 4:19:48 AM
Location:  Binghamton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  NYSW 2010(C420)
Views:  77   Comments: 0
Nicely lit
Title:  Nicely lit
Description:  Low, late afternoon winter sun lights up this NYSW SD 45 and C420 at the East Binghamton shop.
Photo Date:  4/5/1990  Upload Date: 1/5/2016 4:32:54 AM
Location:  Binghamton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  NYSW 3620(SD45) NYSW 2010(C420)
Views:  94   Comments: 0
Big deal
Title:  Big deal
Description:  There was a time when a pair of Alcos such as this was not totally unusual, though there with only 16 C430s built, they did not widely mix. By 1990, ANY Alco was a notable sighting. Here we have two of the more unusual models, a C 430, and a high hood, steam generator equipped C 420, basking in the sun at East Binghamton.
Photo Date:  7/5/1990  Upload Date: 1/16/2016 3:58:08 AM
Location:  Binghamton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  NYSW 2010(C420) NYSW 3006(C430)
Views:  242   Comments: 0
Bigfoot and the Easter bunny
Title:  Bigfoot and the Easter bunny
Description:  Binghamton for a long time had a reputation of being the place where everything eventually turned up. This was true in the NYSW era as much as it had been in the past. A lot of odd short line power showed up, since the D&H shop had capability smaller places did not, and Im sure Walter Rich saw it as a revenue opportunity. The result was that a lot of things that "could never happen," happened here. We see a case in point: an NYSW C420 coupled to a Rahway Valley 70 tonner, though at this stage, it was not so far fetched, since both roads were under the Delaware-Otsego umbrella. Still, it was not likely to happen-but there it is, like seeing the Easter bunny and bigfoot at the same time.
Photo Date:  7/9/1990  Upload Date: 1/16/2016 3:52:56 AM
Location:  Binghamton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  NYSW 2010(C420) RV 17(70Tonner)
Views:  253   Comments: 1
Whod believe it??
Title:  Whod believe it??
Description:  Power from NYSW, NS, CSX, and even New Jersey short line Rahway Valley is at the East Binghamton engine house. Ten years earlier, if you told someone you would see this set up, theyd be checking your meds.
Photo Date:  7/9/1990  Upload Date: 1/16/2016 3:26:22 AM
Location:  Binghamton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  RV 17(70Tonner) CSX 6278(GP40-2) NS 6119(SD40-2) NS 3210(SD40-2) NYSW 3632(SD45) NYSW 2010(C420)
Views:  554   Comments: 0


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