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| Title: |
Connection |
| Description: |
The connection to the upper Harlem trains was moved from Brewster to a new station at Brewster North, but the hand off continued as it had for years. An FL 9 powered train would come up from Grand Central, passengers for the Dover Plains run would make an across the platform change to an RDC. |
| Photo Date: |
4/16/1982 Upload Date: 3/3/2013 4:02:41 AM |
| Location: |
Brewster North , NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Signal,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
MNCR 5020(FL9) MNCR 19(RDC1) |
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1218 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Making the connection |
| Description: |
MN 19 meets its Grand Central connection at Brewster |
| Photo Date: |
4/16/1982 Upload Date: 3/3/2013 4:09:37 AM |
| Location: |
Brewster, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
MNCR 5020(FL9) MNCR 19(RDC1) |
| Views: |
958 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
B&M 1825 |
| Description: |
The January 1984 "Budd and Branch" fantrip made its last stop in Waterbury Conn, where the B&M had taken over freight operations from Conrail. They showed the flag with this GP 9, seen with MN FL 9 5034, power for the fantrip |
| Photo Date: |
1/21/1984 Upload Date: 12/1/2013 1:11:20 AM |
| Location: |
Waterbury, CT |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Roster,Yard,Station |
| Locomotives: |
BM 1825(GP9) MNCR 5034(FL9) |
| Views: |
1101 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Budd and Branch |
| Description: |
In January 1984, Metro North ran a trip called "Budd and Branch" which was to cover all the ex New Haven branches served by MN. Danbury and Waterbury were not a big deal, they were done by RDCs and FL 9s every day. Here we see the trip at New Canaan, which almost never saw diesel powered trains. BTW, the RDCs apparently were balky that day, and the trip ran with a pair of coaches sandwiched between a pair of FL 9s. |
| Photo Date: |
1/21/1984 Upload Date: 11/28/2013 1:34:57 AM |
| Location: |
New Canaan, CT |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Winter,Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
MNCR 5034(FL9) |
| Views: |
850 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Face to face |
| Description: |
The power for the Budd and Branch fantrip rits nose to nose with power for one of Mondays trains. |
| Photo Date: |
1/21/1984 Upload Date: 12/1/2013 2:09:56 AM |
| Location: |
Danbury, CT |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Winter,Station,Passenger |
| Locomotives: |
MNCR 5034(FL9) MNCR 497(E8A) |
| Views: |
1381 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Fantrip meets Local |
| Description: |
The Budd and Branch trip sits next to the local power for the B&M j`b working the Waterbury Branch |
| Photo Date: |
1/21/1984 Upload Date: 12/1/2013 2:27:08 AM |
| Location: |
Waterbury, CT |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Winter,Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
MNCR 5034(FL9) BM 1825(GP9) |
| Views: |
1221 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
FL 9 |
| Description: |
The Danbury Branch was FL 9 heaven in those days, though some of them were worse for wear, such as 5037 seen at the engine house |
| Photo Date: |
7/4/1981 Upload Date: 6/26/2014 1:28:21 PM |
| Location: |
Danbury, CT |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Roster,Yard |
| Locomotives: |
MNCR 5037(FL9) |
| Views: |
633 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
MTA 5044 |
| Description: |
MTA FL 9 5044 at Hawthorne on the Harlem Line. Date approximate |
| Photo Date: |
9/4/1980 Upload Date: 1/23/2011 11:04:28 PM |
| Location: |
Hawthorne, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
MNCR 5044(FL9) |
| Views: |
1064 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Ready to roll south |
| Description: |
The Budd and Branch trip ran with a pair of FL 9s and two coaches in pull-pull configuration. The train is ready to go south on the Danbury Branch behind FL 9 504 |
| Photo Date: |
1/21/1984 Upload Date: 12/1/2013 2:11:38 AM |
| Location: |
Danbury, CT |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Winter,Station,Passenger |
| Locomotives: |
MNCR 5045(FL9) |
| Views: |
764 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Classic pose, unusual place |
| Description: |
One of the FL 9s on the Budd and Branch trip sits at New Canaan, where diesels rarely went in revenue service. |
| Photo Date: |
1/21/1984 Upload Date: 12/1/2013 2:19:28 AM |
| Location: |
New Canaan, CT |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Roster |
| Locomotives: |
MNCR 5045(FL9) |
| Views: |
674 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
On the Danbury Branch |
| Description: |
MN 5045 sits at a photo stop on the MN Budd and Branch trip. Steam heat was still the standard, note the leaking steam pipe under the FL 9. Also of note is a New Haven hallmark, the Hancock air whistle, mounted atop the cab between the windshields. |
| Photo Date: |
1/21/1984 Upload Date: 12/1/2013 2:17:41 AM |
| Location: |
Branchville, CT |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Winter,Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
MNCR 5045(FL9) |
| Views: |
801 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Not exactly an RDC |
| Description: |
The idea behind the title of MNs "Budd and Branch" trip was that it would run with a pair of RDCs on the ex New Haven branches served by MN. As I recall(30!years later) there was a mechanical issue with the Budd cars, and a pull-pull train powered by FL 9s was run. The cars were an ex Amtrak coach and this SEPTA ex Reading car. |
| Photo Date: |
1/21/1984 Upload Date: 12/1/2013 2:14:54 AM |
| Location: |
Branchville, CT |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
RollingStock,Winter,Station,Passenger |
| Locomotives: |
MNCR 5045(FL9) |
| Views: |
819 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Beach ball |
| Description: |
A Metro North FL 9 in the red/silver/blue "beach ball" scheme waits for Mondays run to Grand Central. |
| Photo Date: |
1/21/1984 Upload Date: 12/1/2013 2:05:10 AM |
| Location: |
Danbury, CT |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Winter,Station,Passenger |
| Locomotives: |
MNCR 5048(FL9) |
| Views: |
637 Comments: 1 |
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