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6/13/2025
 
 
 
 
 
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Short train rolling
Title:  Short train rolling
Description:  40T, behind an unusual set of NS power, has 24 cars rolling south at Stillwater Rd, underway to Enola.
Photo Date:  2/17/2004  Upload Date: 5/22/2017 5:07:57 AM
Location:  Conklin, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Winter,Action
Locomotives:  NS 6167(SD40-2) NS 5185(GP38-2)
Views:  618   Comments: 0
NS shows
Title:  NS shows
Description:  NS ran two merchandise trains to CN at Montreal, 31T north and 30T south. This is 30T rolling through BX on its way to East Binghamton, where it will get a new crew to take it on to Enola. It could show any time, though afternoons were common. Sometimes if NS didnt have a rested crew, it would get stowed on track 4 at Binghamton til one was ready. Today's power is notable in that the leader is an ex CR SD 70 that was slated to go to NS when it was purchased. The second unit is one of the NW low nose SD40-2's acquired in the late 70's, and anomaly for NW, which had always specified high short hoods and long hood forward operation.
Photo Date:  11/14/2005  Upload Date: 9/2/2017 4:59:58 AM
Location:  Binghamton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  NS 2501(SD70) NS 6172(SD40-2)
Views:  761   Comments: 0
930
Title:  930
Description:  CP 930 was also NS 30T, which runs from CP-St Luc in Montreal to Enola, with run through NS power. Here we see it southbound passing the old Binghamton Agway as it approaches the diamond at BD and Conklin yard. It will change crews here and continue south via Scranton and Sunbury.
Photo Date:  11/14/2005  Upload Date: 6/23/2012 2:54:45 AM
Location:  Binghamton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  NS 2501(SD70) NS 6172(SD40-2)
Views:  961   Comments: 0
ABBU with NS power
Title:  ABBU with NS power
Description:  ABBU, an empty grain move from the Port of Albany to the NS at Buffalo, rolls through Silver Springs just after New Years. Once on NS, it will run the old NKP to Bellevue OH. This was a lucky shot. I was driving home from Buffalo, coming through town and decided to check the signals. This guy showed up just as I reached the crossing. Some days you win.
Photo Date:  1/3/1988  Upload Date: 6/20/2015 4:26:06 AM
Location:  Silver Springs, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Winter,Action
Locomotives:  SOU 3513(B30-7A) NS 6178(SD40-2)
Views:  744   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:  986   Comments: 0
13T with a veteran
Title:  13T with a veteran
Description:  13T approaches the NY 17C bridge with a widecab and an ex NS SD40-2.
Photo Date:  3/17/2006  Upload Date: 11/4/2012 1:12:12 AM
Location:  Endicott, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  NS 9668(C40-9W) NS 6186(SD40-2)
Views:  823   Comments: 0
Buy US Savings Bonds
Title:  Buy US Savings Bonds
Description:  Conrail had a couple of units painted to encourage purchase of US Savings Bonds. One of them leads ML 440 as seen from the overpass at Hunt, just east of the Portage Bridge. The signal alongside the train was a semaphore til a couple of years earlier; up til then there were a pair of them here. When track 2 was lifted, the signal was replaced with a Type G cluster signal. The roadbed of former track 2 has been graded and ballasted to make a maintenance road.
Photo Date:  10/8/1994  Upload Date: 8/28/2014 3:42:39 AM
Location:  Hunt, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  CR 6726(SD50) CR 5069(B40-8) NS 6189(SD40-2)
Views:  1079   Comments: 2
Coal action
Title:  Coal action
Description:  What else would one expect on NS but coal?? It was actually not a big part of the traffic mix on this ex Southern part of the system, but it did show up, such as this train headed for Pot Yard pasing the Alexandria station late in the day.
Photo Date:  8/29/1994  Upload Date: 8/31/2014 3:38:06 AM
Location:  Alexandria, VA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Action
Locomotives:  NS 6198(SD40-2) NS 3981(B23-7)
Views:  616   Comments: 0
Ford empties
Title:  Ford empties
Description:  Train AFOB ran from the auto ramp at Ayer Mass through onto NS, forwarding mostly auto racks to Bellevue Oh, where they were sent to various midwestern assembly plants. Here it is sitting on the Buffalo Runner next to the old D&H station, waiting for a new crew to head to Buffalo and a ride on the ex NKP. NS power was typical, and usually ran through to Ayer.
Photo Date:  10/10/1987  Upload Date: 5/30/2015 4:15:11 AM
Location:  Binghamton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Station,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  NS 6206(SD40-2) SOU 3199(SD40) NS 8046(C30-7)
Views:  933   Comments: 0


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