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| Title: |
Pulling it out |
| Description: |
An unidentified westbound with a set of four motor power pulls 59 cars of mixed freight from the west end of Dewitt. |
| Photo Date: |
4/24/1993 Upload Date: 1/31/2018 5:09:14 AM |
| Location: |
Syracuse, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Yard,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CR 3329(GP40-2) CR 3396(GP40-2) CR 8147(GP38-2) |
| Views: |
625 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Taking gas |
| Description: |
Actually, taking empties, judging by the lack of a buffer car. WAEL39 works at Owego, picking up empty LNG cars from the Tioga Central. |
| Photo Date: |
6/21/1990 Upload Date: 1/10/2016 4:26:52 AM |
| Location: |
Owego, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
CR 8148(GP38-2) |
| Views: |
235 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
ENSE rolling in |
| Description: |
ENSE1 rolls 125 cars across the Lehigh River and will shortly be working the Allentown Yard before heading across Jersey and up the Hudson. |
| Photo Date: |
7/31/1993 Upload Date: 1/19/2015 3:30:26 AM |
| Location: |
Allentown, PA |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Bridge,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CR 6632(C36-7) CR 1927(B23-7) CR 8152(GP38-2) |
| Views: |
522 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
Unlikely meet |
| Description: |
WABH 11 with its usual GP 38-2 meets an unlikely unit working the NYSW ayrd, an O&W NW 2. This one was repainted as a "heritage" unit to honor the NYO&W, which had abandoned completely in March 1957. |
| Photo Date: |
10/16/1993 Upload Date: 1/9/2015 3:44:54 AM |
| Location: |
Binghamton, NY |
| Author: |
Too Beckett |
| Categories: |
Yard,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CR 8152(GP38-2) NYOW 116(NW2) |
| Views: |
610 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Eastbound containers |
| Description: |
In the 80s it was not uncommon to see high priority trains behind a motley assortment of medium horsepower units. Conrail would routinely send out van trains with such power, as they did here with a set of 4 axle units, including two still painted for Penn Central. The millenium unit leads. |
| Photo Date: |
7/26/1983 Upload Date: 11/22/2013 1:55:24 AM |
| Location: |
Bound Brook, NJ |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
CR 2000(B23-7) CR 8153(GP38-2) CR 7894(GP38) CR 7866(GP38) |
| Views: |
939 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
Coal on the River Line |
| Description: |
The River Line, the ex NYC West Shore, was known during Conrail years as a freight and intermodal conduit. There was some coal traffic on the line, for an Orange-Rockland power plant at Roseton. One of those trains, UAM 4, is rolling though North Bergen behind a set of power only CR would put on a coal train. |
| Photo Date: |
1/28/1988 Upload Date: 7/4/2015 4:01:23 AM |
| Location: |
North Bergen, NJ |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Yard,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CR 1940(B23-7) CR 6916(U23C) CR 3268(GP40) CR 8165(GP38-2) |
| Views: |
689 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
First SD60 |
| Description: |
Conrails first production SD60 leads 67 cars of OIBU past the former Erie station. Its 6840 thru 6842 were EMD demonstrators. |
| Photo Date: |
9/24/1993 Upload Date: 9/21/2012 6:22:17 PM |
| Location: |
Owego, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Station,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CR 6843(SD60) CR 6432(SD40-2) CR 8171(GP38-2) |
| Views: |
801 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Local with GP 38 |
| Description: |
The power on WEEL39 could be any four axle, usually a B23-7 or GP 38, though GP 40s were known to show up, and even at this late date, even an occasional U23B. Today we get a GP 38-2. |
| Photo Date: |
4/13/1990 Upload Date: 1/3/2016 2:39:51 AM |
| Location: |
Owego, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CR 8176(GP38-2) |
| Views: |
273 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Crew changed and rolling |
| Description: |
TV 26 has changed crews at Binghamton and now rolls past BD out of a setting sun with 3 COFC and 29 racks. |
| Photo Date: |
8/19/1992 Upload Date: 1/31/2015 2:01:48 AM |
| Location: |
Binghamton, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
CR 8177(GP38-2) CR 3359(GP40-2) CSX 6806(GP40) |
| Views: |
469 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
TV 26 into the night |
| Description: |
TV 26 rolls away toward Jersey into the darkness. Todays train has a visitor from CSX trailing, not common on this train. |
| Photo Date: |
8/19/1992 Upload Date: 1/31/2015 2:06:07 AM |
| Location: |
Binghamton, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
CR 8177(GP38-2) CR 3359(GP40-2) CSX 6806(GP40) |
| Views: |
461 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Tier local |
| Description: |
I went out to Owego to sit and wait for the action. Conrail local WEEL39 showed up, did its work, and headed back to Elmira. The partial building visible at far right is the ex Erie station. |
| Photo Date: |
8/5/1986 Upload Date: 12/5/2014 4:10:53 AM |
| Location: |
Owego, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
CR 8182(GP38-2) |
| Views: |
736 Comments: 3 |
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| Title: |
Landlord and tenant |
| Description: |
The eastbound D&H BUEB meets Conrail WAEL39 as the Conrail train heads back to Elmira to finish its day. The former Erie station is at right, |
| Photo Date: |
8/5/1986 Upload Date: 12/5/2014 4:16:58 AM |
| Location: |
Owego, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CR 8182(GP38-2) DH 456(C424) BM 323(GP40) BM 191(U33B) |
| Views: |
1184 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
West in the gloom |
| Description: |
Another cloudy day, another OIBU. This one is at QD, working west into the rain. Note the different number boards on the power. The DLW station tower and steel frame Marconi tower are visible above the engines. |
| Photo Date: |
3/15/1990 Upload Date: 1/3/2016 1:57:34 AM |
| Location: |
Binghamton, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
CR 3340(GP40-2) CR 8184(GP38-2) |
| Views: |
453 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Typical local |
| Description: |
Conrail had over 600 GP 38s of various configurations, and they were seen everywhere, even on the GE heavy Albany Division. This one is rolling through the Utica station with a short train. |
| Photo Date: |
7/1/1986 Upload Date: 12/2/2014 4:08:19 AM |
| Location: |
Utica, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CR 8185(GP38-2) |
| Views: |
397 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Transfer run |
| Description: |
A transfer from Harrisburg to Enola yard crosses the Rockville bridge. |
| Photo Date: |
8/30/1994 Upload Date: 6/23/2012 2:13:28 AM |
| Location: |
Marysville, PA |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Bridge,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CR 8185(GP38-2) CR 7571(GP10) CR 7562(GP10) |
| Views: |
598 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Hiding out in Hillburn |
| Description: |
BUOI is working the Hillburn yard, just west of Suffern on the former Erie, just 31 miles from Jersey City. The third unit, 6640 shares a number with an ex BN F45 on the NYSW. I saw both within a couple of weeks of each other. Never caught them at the same time, though. |
| Photo Date: |
10/17/1987 Upload Date: 5/31/2015 3:43:15 AM |
| Location: |
Hillburn, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CR 6813(SD50) CR 6487(SD40-2) CR 6640(C36-7) CR 8193(GP38-2) CR 6443(SD40-2) |
| Views: |
1039 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Fulton local |
| Description: |
WAFU12, a turn job from Fulton, arrives at the yard to swap cars before returning home. The GP 38's were unusual. Most trains and almost all locals got B23-7's in this area. |
| Photo Date: |
9/2/1994 Upload Date: 8/29/2014 4:03:27 AM |
| Location: |
Syracuse (Dewitt), NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Yard,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CR 7906(GP38) CR 8193(GP38-2) |
| Views: |
515 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Selkirk bound |
| Description: |
TOSE rolls 122 cars under the bridge at state line, and will pass into New York in a half mile. |
| Photo Date: |
6/27/1987 Upload Date: 5/14/2015 3:20:37 PM |
| Location: |
North East, PA |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CR 6296(SD40) CR 6373(SD40-2) CR 8194(GP38-2) |
| Views: |
950 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Eastbound past the park |
| Description: |
An eastbound drifts downhill toward Altoona past the park at the curve. Conrail often mixed in 4 axle power on many trains, even on heavy grades. Odd as it sounds, seeing a GP 38 in the Alleghenies was not that uncommon. Check out the Reading hoppers, many of which lasted well into the 90's in coal service. |
| Photo Date: |
9/27/1984 Upload Date: 7/2/2014 1:31:26 PM |
| Location: |
Horseshoe Curve, PA |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CR 6607(C30-7) CR 8214(GP38-2) |
| Views: |
685 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Local |
| Description: |
There were a few locals that worked the West Shore, with varying starting points-some Newburgh, some North Bergen. This one has a lone GP 38 and a short train passing the bird sanctuary at Iona Island |
| Photo Date: |
4/1/1986 Upload Date: 11/17/2014 3:40:36 AM |
| Location: |
Iona Island, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CR 8218(GP38-2) |
| Views: |
344 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
PC company car |
| Description: |
A company boxcar, lettered for PC, is head out on this southbound local at Iona Island on Conrail's tenth anniversary. |
| Photo Date: |
4/1/1986 Upload Date: 11/17/2014 3:48:50 AM |
| Location: |
Iona Island (Rocklan, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,RollingStock,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CR 8218(GP38-2) |
| Views: |
709 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Work train |
| Description: |
Conrail seemed to always be doing work on the River Line, which usually meant not a lot of action during the day. Today will be another work day, so I headed over to the Southern Tier Line, which turned out to be a good move. Not only did I get a pair of RDCs on the scoot, but SLN 4 behind a pair of C 420s and an SD 45. |
| Photo Date: |
7/22/1986 Upload Date: 12/3/2014 4:06:57 AM |
| Location: |
Bear Mountain, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
CR 8220(GP38-2) |
| Views: |
459 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Lots of clutter |
| Description: |
The area around Cass St had a lot going on. We see OIEL about to take the switch from track 2 on the Southern Tier to the Meadville Line. There are signals on the Tier, one of them a dwarf on track 1, as well as the signal protecting Cass St for trains coming off the Meadville Line, along with the poles for power and the signals. Cass St tower, long closed, is the concrete block structure to the right of the train. |
| Photo Date: |
3/24/1990 Upload Date: 12/31/2015 5:42:24 AM |
| Location: |
Hornell, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CR 8224(GP38-2) CR 1927(B23-7) CR 1945(B23-7) |
| Views: |
643 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Taking the Meadville Line |
| Description: |
OIEL, the through road train on the Meadville Line, diverges off the Southern Tier at Cass St in Hornell, heading for Olean and Jamestown. This train would go into the yard at Olean and wait for a new crew. When OIEL made a crew change point, you never knew when it would roll next. There were relatively few crews on this part of the line, and the train was not high priority. We'd get lucky, and chase the coal train also in this album. OIEL would come to life again later in the day, and we'd see it passing Salamanca while we were at the museum there. |
| Photo Date: |
3/24/1990 Upload Date: 12/29/2015 3:53:19 AM |
| Location: |
Hornell, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CR 8224(GP38-2) CR 1927(B23-7) CR 1945(B23-7) |
| Views: |
727 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
A view from the bridge |
| Description: |
OIEL is pumping up air at Jamestown, seen from the NY 394 overpass that crossed the tracks and the Chadakoin River. |
| Photo Date: |
3/24/1990 Upload Date: 12/29/2015 3:57:11 AM |
| Location: |
Jamestown, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CR 8224(GP38-2) CR 1927(B23-7) CR 1945(B23-7) |
| Views: |
828 Comments: 3 |
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| Title: |
Along the bank |
| Description: |
OIEL from the bank of the Chadakoin River, a different view than from above. Picture this with an EL GP35 on each end of the consist, bracketing a pair of U25B's. |
| Photo Date: |
3/24/1990 Upload Date: 12/29/2015 4:01:14 AM |
| Location: |
Jamestown, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CR 8224(GP38-2) CR 1927(B23-7) CR 1945(B23-7) |
| Views: |
695 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
On into Pennsylvania |
| Description: |
After OIEL left Jamestown, we followed west, a bit of a challenge since there are no good roads that follow the tracks. We caught up near Niobe Jct, where the Columbus & Erie, a low grade line built in the early 20th century, split from the main. This is the last point on the Erie in NY state. Wed have chased to Corry, but the light was about gone-and we had a 220 mile ride home. |
| Photo Date: |
3/24/1990 Upload Date: 12/29/2015 4:05:49 AM |
| Location: |
Watts Flats, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
CR 8224(GP38-2) CR 1927(B23-7) CR 1945(B23-7) |
| Views: |
603 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Mostly CR power |
| Description: |
An eastbound rolls into Syracuse past Blue Circle Cement behind the new flag and a couple of the old guard, one of which has already been renumbered. |
| Photo Date: |
10/2/1999 Upload Date: 3/4/2014 1:31:15 AM |
| Location: |
Syracuse CP293, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
CSX 8212(SD40-2) CSX 8664(SD50) CR 8238(GP38-2) |
| Views: |
648 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Binghamton yard |
| Description: |
This view from Chenango St shows the layout of the yards in downtown Binghamton. At one time, this was all Erie, then EL. After CR sold the Syracuse and Utica lines to NYSW, they got the north side of the yard, at left where 2012 is working a cut of hoppers. Conrail uses the part closer to the ex EL main, at right. You can see the CR power for WABH 11 in their yard. The former D&H station, unoccupied at this time, will in another 16 years become the NYSW base of operations here. The Buffalo Runner runs alongside it. |
| Photo Date: |
8/27/1989 Upload Date: 11/19/2015 3:48:51 AM |
| Location: |
Binghamton, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Yard,Station,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NYSW 2012(GP38) CR 8258(GP38-2) |
| Views: |
632 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Four motors east |
| Description: |
Mostly-the trailing unit is an SD 40-2. Conrail was not shy about running four axle power on big trains, though here on the ex NYC it was a common thing for a long time. Still, its quite a contrast to todays world of six axle power on everything. This 115 car DNDA was eastbound at Dewitt. |
| Photo Date: |
7/15/1988 Upload Date: 8/26/2015 2:53:13 AM |
| Location: |
Syracuse (Dewitt), NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CR 8263(GP38-2) CR 3373(GP40-2) CR 6462(SD40-2) CR 7689(GP38) |
| Views: |
747 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
MC local |
| Description: |
I was checking out the EJ&E near Dyer Ind, and came upon this Conail local working the ex Michigan Central line that runs parallel. There was not much trafic on it at the time, and I think its abandoned now. |
| Photo Date: |
6/20/1987 Upload Date: 5/6/2015 4:25:23 AM |
| Location: |
Dyer, IN |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
CR 8271(GP38-2) |
| Views: |
541 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
BUOI on Portage Bridge |
| Description: |
BUOI crosses the Genesee River on the Portage Bridge, built in 1875 by the Erie. It is slated to be replaced by NS in the next several years. |
| Photo Date: |
5/8/1993 Upload Date: 2/27/2012 1:17:27 AM |
| Location: |
Portageville, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Bridge,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CR 6102(C40-8W) CR 8271(GP38-2) CR 6718(SD50) |
| Views: |
958 Comments: 3 |
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| Title: |
BUOI and bare poles |
| Description: |
BUOI-8 approaches Hunt Hollow Rd with 130 cars as it makes its way east past a pair of signal poles that until recently sported semaphores. Track 2 at left is now out of service and will be removed over the summer. |
| Photo Date: |
5/8/1993 Upload Date: 1/26/2015 2:31:09 AM |
| Location: |
Hunt, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CR 6102(C40-8W) CR 8271(GP38-2) CR 6718(SD50) CR 6281(SD40) |
| Views: |
899 Comments: 3 |
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| Title: |
Back to Virginia |
| Description: |
ENRO departs Enola with the same power it came in with on ROEN. It was not in the yard long, just enough time to drop its inbound cars, then get its 103 car outbound train and get out of town. We see it on the flyover approach to Rockville. |
| Photo Date: |
5/18/1987 Upload Date: 4/26/2015 4:45:48 AM |
| Location: |
Enola, PA |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Yard,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CR 8276(GP38-2) NS 1360(GP40) CR 8278(GP38-2) |
| Views: |
709 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
ROEN approaching |
| Description: |
ROEN is on its last lap as it makes its way across Rockville Bridge. It will shortly be arriving at Enola with its 65 cars. |
| Photo Date: |
5/18/1987 Upload Date: 4/25/2015 4:29:39 AM |
| Location: |
Rockville Bridge, PA |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Bridge,Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CR 8278(GP38-2) NS 1360(GP40) CR 8276(GP38-2) |
| Views: |
544 Comments: 0 |
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