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7/29/2025
 
 
 
 
 
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Flowery scene
Title:  Flowery scene
Description:  OIBU rolls 82 cars west past a bright field of yellow on a gloomy day.
Photo Date:  6/30/1992  Upload Date: 2/2/2015 3:52:30 AM
Location:  Owego, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  CR 5040(B36-7) CR 6859(SD60)
Views:  785   Comments: 0
OIBU at Miller Beach Rd
Title:  OIBU at Miller Beach Rd
Description:  OIBU approaches the crossing at Miller Beach Rd in Owego with 22 freight and 44 auto racks in the late afternoon sun.
Photo Date:  8/26/1993  Upload Date: 2/27/2012 1:48:54 AM
Location:  Owego, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  CR 6860(SD60) CR 6637(C36-7)
Views:  859   Comments: 0
Going solo
Title:  Going solo
Description:  Trains on the Tier almost never went with one unit. There were too many grades to overcome between Buffalo and Jersey, despite a lot of river running to ease the trip. Todays BUOI has only 37 cars, so perhaps the trip wont be as much of a struggle as usual. They made it over Attica Hill, lets see how they do over Gulf Summit dnd Otisville. Perhaps that EL box car up front will bring them luck.
Photo Date:  7/11/1990  Upload Date: 1/16/2016 2:59:26 AM
Location:  Tioga Center, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  CR 6861(SD60)
Views:  470   Comments: 0
Snowy day
Title:  Snowy day
Description:  Conrails stack business had grown rapidly since it started running trains for APL nine years earlier. This TV 207X was a reflection of that growth, an extra section of a train that normally ran via the West Shore. Today there were 146 stack platforms, a typical length for these trains.
Photo Date:  3/7/1994  Upload Date: 9/22/2014 3:13:10 AM
Location:  Adrian, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Winter,Action
Locomotives:  CR 6130(C40-8W) CR 6862(SD60) CR 6171(C40-8W) CR 6206(C40-8W)
Views:  1069   Comments: 0
Down the Canisteo
Title:  Down the Canisteo
Description:  TV 207X rolls west on the most scenic part of the Tier, the Canisteo River valley. It was a great place to chase, as the road was next to the tracks almost the whole length of the valley.
Photo Date:  3/7/1994  Upload Date: 9/22/2014 3:15:12 AM
Location:  Rathbone, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Winter,Action
Locomotives:  CR 6130(C40-8W) CR 6862(SD60) CR 6171(C40-8W) CR 6206(C40-8W)
Views:  1072   Comments: 0
OIBU on the river
Title:  OIBU on the river
Description:  OIBU behind a standard cab SD 60 rolls along the Susquehanna as it makes its way to the next stop at Elmira.
Photo Date:  6/12/1991  Upload Date: 3/7/2015 3:01:15 AM
Location:  Campville, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  CR 6863(SD60) CR 6101(C40-8W)
Views:  858   Comments: 1
Gloomy westbound
Title:  Gloomy westbound
Description:  OIBU rolls past the equipment cabin at BD on a gloomy Saturday.
Photo Date:  4/6/1990  Upload Date: 1/6/2016 2:31:20 AM
Location:  Binghamton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CR 6722(SD50) CR 6865(SD60)
Views:  753   Comments: 0
Dropping the blade
Title:  Dropping the blade
Description:  I wanted to get the shot of BUOI splitting the semaphores, but a Conrail crew was working on the installation of new crossing protection. I backed off a few hundred feet, and got the blades, and the crew. The crossing here, Ayers Rd, previously had only crossbucks, and now would have gates and flashers. The semaphores would last another year. The roadway to the right of the tracks, and where the relay case is for the crossing protection, was once the LV Auburn Branch, which ran parallel to the EL from Owego to Waverly.
Photo Date:  2/25/1990  Upload Date: 12/26/2015 4:43:24 AM
Location:  Tioga Center, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  CR 6866(SD60) CR 3291(GP40-2)
Views:  827   Comments: 1
Meet next to a cornfield
Title:  Meet next to a cornfield
Description:  This was not a cornfield meet in the traditional sense-the trains passed without incident, but there was surely a cornfield in the distance as MTPL met BUOI just west of Tioga Center.
Photo Date:  2/25/1990  Upload Date: 12/26/2015 4:50:19 AM
Location:  Tioga Center, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  NYSW 4016(B40-8) NYSW 3634(SD45) NYSW 4004(B40-8) NYSW 4010(B40-8) CR 6866(SD60) CR 3291(GP40-2)
Views:  1485   Comments: 1
Cant get this now
Title:  Cant get this now
Description:  For one thing, Conrail, which replaced the Erie Lackawanna here, is itself now a long ago memory. The trees that are saplings in this photo, are now grown up, blocking the view of the half dozen or so trains that now run here each week. OIBU passes with 39 cars, and will be in Binghamton in about 30 minutes.
Photo Date:  2/9/1991  Upload Date: 12/22/2015 3:36:09 AM
Location:  Great Bend, PA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CR 6866(SD60) CR 6580(C30-7A) CR 6597(C30-7A)
Views:  1110   Comments: 0
Hayes Av hauler
Title:  Hayes Av hauler
Description:  The last of Conrails straight SDs is in charge of an eastbound ballast train crossing Hayes Av in Endicott, in the shadow of the IBM plant, which can be seen at rear.
Photo Date:  11/6/1989  Upload Date: 12/14/2015 3:41:31 AM
Location:  Endicott, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CR 6867(SD60)
Views:  677   Comments: 0
OIBU and a cornfield
Title:  OIBU and a cornfield
Description:  OIBU rolls 70 cars west past the small cornfield between!NY 17C and the tracks at Miller Beach Rd in this dark side late afternoon shot.
Photo Date:  1/16/2016  Upload Date: 1/16/2016 2:56:04 AM
Location:  Owego, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  CR 6085(C40-8W) CR 6084(C40-8W) CR 6867(SD60)
Views:  760   Comments: 0


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