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| Title: |
Head end from the dutch door |
| Description: |
One of the things I miss most about riding trains from the era up to about the mid 80s was riding the dutch door. Now the practically wont let you in the vestibules to cross between cars. This is a view of the front of the train as we rode through the Utah desert. |
| Photo Date: |
8/22/1982 Upload Date: 8/21/2011 8:11:50 PM |
| Location: |
Thompson, UT |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
RollingStock,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
DRGW 3116(GP40-2) () |
| Views: |
714 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
We enter a tunnel |
| Description: |
There are 29 tunnels between the big one-Moffatt-and Denver. Here the train enters one of them. |
| Photo Date: |
8/22/1982 Upload Date: 8/21/2011 8:21:31 PM |
| Location: |
Bond, CO |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,RollingStock,Tunnel,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
DRGW 3116(GP40-2) () |
| Views: |
593 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Meet with a westbound |
| Description: |
If I recall, we met three westbounds that day. This was one of them, seen from a dome |
| Photo Date: |
8/22/1982 Upload Date: 8/21/2011 8:12:56 PM |
| Location: |
Helper, UT |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
DRGW 3125(GP40-2) |
| Views: |
545 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
TV 2 on the water |
| Description: |
TV 2 starts its 66 trailer flats across Rockville Bridge seen from the boat launch. |
| Photo Date: |
4/22/1988 Upload Date: 7/10/2015 2:41:56 PM |
| Location: |
Rockville Bridge, PA |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Bridge,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CR 3357(GP40-2) CR 3276(GP40-2) CR 5048(B36-7) |
| Views: |
676 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
OIBU and an Erie signal |
| Description: |
OIBU rolls west at Hiawatha Rd, passing an Erie signal that still has its Erie number plate, almost 15 years after EL disappeared. |
| Photo Date: |
7/7/1990 Upload Date: 1/11/2016 3:43:31 AM |
| Location: |
Owego, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CR 3276(GP40-2) CR 3361(GP40-2) CR 3280(GP40-2) |
| Views: |
744 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
SETO |
| Description: |
I caught what appears to be a SETO at a crossing in Guilderland Center. It had 22 COFC and 66 freight, mostly hi cube cars. |
| Photo Date: |
9/11/1992 Upload Date: 2/4/2015 12:53:18 AM |
| Location: |
Guilderland Center, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
CR 3355(GP40-2) CR 3276(GP40-2) |
| Views: |
621 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Big train, lots of power |
| Description: |
ALEN1 sits on the Lehigh Canal bridge waiting to head west with six units to roll its 148 cars and 10328 tons to Enola. CR 3276 is in fresh CR Quality paint. |
| Photo Date: |
7/31/1993 Upload Date: 1/19/2015 3:26:25 AM |
| Location: |
Allentown, PA |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Bridge,Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CR 3276(GP40-2) CR 5548(SD60M) CR 3376(GP40-2) CR 3333(GP40-2) CR 6597(C30-7A) CR 1963(B23-7) |
| Views: |
1323 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
Fenced off |
| Description: |
The railroad museum at North East PA is fenced off from the Conrail and NS mains for good reason-up to 100 trains a day. One of them, a Conrail stack train, passes the old NYC station. |
| Photo Date: |
7/18/1992 Upload Date: 2/5/2015 2:34:37 AM |
| Location: |
North East, PA |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CR 3345(GP40-2) CR 3278(GP40-2) CR 6626(C36-7) |
| Views: |
726 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
Coal west |
| Description: |
An empty UNE coal prain heads back to the mines of western PA, lit up by the late day sun at MP 231 on the ex Erie. A smattering of fall color is making an early arrival on this late September day. |
| Photo Date: |
9/23/1995 Upload Date: 8/10/2014 2:18:12 AM |
| Location: |
Campville, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CR 3278(GP40-2) CR 6522(SD40-2) |
| Views: |
608 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Old style |
| Description: |
In todays world of sterile rights of way-pole lines gone, new signals, etc, the Tier was a throwback. As a backwater of a large system, it did not get the attention of the ex Pennsy, or the NYC, and for most of Conrail's existence, except for the power and rolling stock, looked almost exactly like the EL. One such scene is near MP 320 in Adrian, where we see OIEL rolling along the poles-the wires were still active-and theres even a semaphore in the distance. |
| Photo Date: |
12/9/1989 Upload Date: 12/14/2015 3:12:15 AM |
| Location: |
Adrian, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CR 3332(GP40-2) CR 3197(GP40) CR 3280(GP40-2) |
| Views: |
773 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Good chase |
| Description: |
OIEL was a hard train to get. Sometimes it ran before dawn in the Tier, so photo ops were limited. Another inhibiting factor was that it would often yard at Gang Mills, and a crew would not be called until much later in the day. I was fortunate on this cold(10 degrees) Saturday morning to catch it just as the light got good, and chase to Gang Mills. Here it is passing the semaphore at MP 259. |
| Photo Date: |
12/9/1989 Upload Date: 12/3/2015 3:23:56 AM |
| Location: |
Chemung, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CR 3332(GP40-2) CR 3197(GP40) CR 3280(GP40-2) |
| Views: |
822 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
Cold water |
| Description: |
OIEL rolls along the frozen Canisteo River. |
| Photo Date: |
12/9/1989 Upload Date: 12/15/2015 2:38:47 AM |
| Location: |
Cameron Mills, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Winter,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CR 3332(GP40-2) CR 3197(GP40) CR 3280(GP40-2) |
| Views: |
711 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
Down the valley |
| Description: |
OIEL approaches the signal at MP 325, one of a variety of styles on the Erie, which seemed to be schizophrenic when it came to signal specs. There were these "traffic light" types, targets, and semaphores. The train is leaving the Canisteo valley behind, and will shortly be in Hornell, where it will go west on the ex Erie main to Olean and Jamestown. Still kicking myself for not chasing it there, instead of following the more mundane BUOI east. |
| Photo Date: |
12/9/1989 Upload Date: 12/14/2015 3:15:06 AM |
| Location: |
Canisteo, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CR 3332(GP40-2) CR 3197(GP40) CR 3280(GP40-2) |
| Views: |
739 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
Crossing the Chemung |
| Description: |
OIEL and a block of tanks roll across the deck bridge over the Chemung River in downtown Elmira on a cold December morning. |
| Photo Date: |
12/9/1989 Upload Date: 12/15/2015 2:26:06 AM |
| Location: |
Elmira, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Bridge,Winter,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CR 3332(GP40-2) CR 3197(GP40) CR 3280(GP40-2) |
| Views: |
724 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Tight space |
| Description: |
OIEL rolls along the narrow right of way between the cliff, road, and river. The tight proximity of all these features made the Canisteo a photographic dream. |
| Photo Date: |
12/9/1989 Upload Date: 12/15/2015 2:41:09 AM |
| Location: |
Rathbone, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Winter,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CR 3332(GP40-2) CR 3197(GP40) CR 3280(GP40-2) |
| Views: |
727 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Tanks!! |
| Description: |
OIEL going away at Waverly, showing the tanks on six wheel truck DODX flats head out. |
| Photo Date: |
12/9/1989 Upload Date: 12/15/2015 2:27:27 AM |
| Location: |
Waverly, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CR 3332(GP40-2) CR 3197(GP40) CR 3280(GP40-2) |
| Views: |
1124 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Downtown |
| Description: |
OIEL rolls past the model railroad set up in downtown Waverly. This is one of the best in town scenes anywhere. |
| Photo Date: |
12/9/1989 Upload Date: 12/15/2015 2:28:44 AM |
| Location: |
Waverly, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
CR 3332(GP40-2) CR 3197(GP40) CR 3280(GP40-2) |
| Views: |
779 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
TV 12 |
| Description: |
One of the other primary van trains was TV 12, here seen late in the afternoon apporaching Rockville Bridge at Marysville. The train would later go to an ex NYC routing via Syracuse. |
| Photo Date: |
7/14/1991 Upload Date: 3/3/2015 3:23:55 AM |
| Location: |
Marysville, PA |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
CR 3280(GP40-2) CR 3370(GP40-2) CR 3335(GP40-2) |
| Views: |
745 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Down the main |
| Description: |
WABH 11 rolls down the DLW main, now reaching west BD-see the signal above the engine-where it will get onto the remaining part of the DLW main to get back to downtown Binghamton. The empties will either be picked up by OIBU or OIEL, or if there is a whole train(90 cars) and a UNG coming, that power will turn with them. |
| Photo Date: |
2/21/1989 Upload Date: 10/2/2015 1:44:35 AM |
| Location: |
Binghamton, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
CR 3281(GP40-2) |
| Views: |
483 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Coal empties on the Vestal Spur |
| Description: |
By the 1980s there was little traffic on the Vestal Spur, except for National Pipe and Plastic, which was the last customer on the Vestal side of the river; and NYSEG's Goudy Station in Johnson City. Here WABH 11 is pulling empties past the abandoned factories of Johnson City. This was once the 70 MPH DL&W main line. |
| Photo Date: |
3/14/1989 Upload Date: 1/8/2012 2:16:53 AM |
| Location: |
Johnson City, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
CR 3281(GP40-2) |
| Views: |
1118 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
Off the Corning Secondary |
| Description: |
The Southern Tier picnic train comes off the Corning Secondary onto the Southern Tier, rolling behind the yard office and shop off the 1951 connection to the Erie. This was part of the line relocation that took the tracks out of downtown Corning, where they ran in the street. The NYC line ran on the Erie to what is now CP Corning, under the NY 414 overpass, where the ex NYC line splits to head north along Seneca Lake, connecting with what is now the CSX Chicago Line at Lyons. The GP 40 will pull the train through CP W Glass onto the Corning Secondary, clear the signal at North Glass, and cut off. It will go back to Gang Mills, the passenger train, now with the Es in the lead, will head east on the Tier. |
| Photo Date: |
8/26/1989 Upload Date: 11/22/2015 2:54:55 AM |
| Location: |
Gang Mills, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Yard,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CR 3281(GP40-2) |
| Views: |
507 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Headed home behind a blue unit |
| Description: |
GP 40 3281 was added at Gang Mills to create a pull-pull train, since there was noplace to turn the power at Hammond Dam. It is leading the return trip along Hammond Lake, seen from PA 287 |
| Photo Date: |
8/26/1989 Upload Date: 11/22/2015 3:29:01 AM |
| Location: |
Wellsboro, PA |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CR 3281(GP40-2) |
| Views: |
820 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Through the corn |
| Description: |
The picnic goers are getting a good look at the primary crop of the Tier, acre upon acre of corn, as they return home following the Southern Tier picnic. |
| Photo Date: |
8/26/1989 Upload Date: 11/22/2015 2:56:37 AM |
| Location: |
Presho, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CR 3281(GP40-2) |
| Views: |
444 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Picnic train help |
| Description: |
The Southern Tier picnic train got a unit on the rear at Gang Mills to assist with the return trip on the Corning Secondary, since there was no place to turn the power at Hammond Lake. This GP 40 did the honors, sharing the job with a pair of E 8s on the head end. |
| Photo Date: |
8/26/1989 Upload Date: 11/20/2015 3:00:53 AM |
| Location: |
Tioga, PA |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CR 3281(GP40-2) |
| Views: |
611 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Coming home |
| Description: |
CR 3281 leads the picnic train near Tioga PA on the return to Corning, where it will cut off. |
| Photo Date: |
8/26/1989 Upload Date: 11/20/2015 3:02:22 AM |
| Location: |
Tioga, PA |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CR 3281(GP40-2) |
| Views: |
460 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Fall on the Delaware |
| Description: |
TV 203 rolls west a short way out of Hancock as the last colors of fall hang on in the valley. Four axle power was common on stack trains in those days. |
| Photo Date: |
10/14/1989 Upload Date: 12/4/2015 3:11:02 AM |
| Location: |
Hancock, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CR 5070(B40-8) CR 5087(B40-8) CR 3282(GP40-2) CR 3360(GP40-2) |
| Views: |
719 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Switching the industrial park |
| Description: |
Conrail WABH 11 switches at Kirkwood Industrial Park on the former EL east of Binghamton. It has just pulled an empty out of American Pipe. |
| Photo Date: |
10/14/1991 Upload Date: 5/29/2011 3:24:59 AM |
| Location: |
Kirkwood, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Bridge,Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CR 3282(GP40-2) |
| Views: |
507 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Arriving at the park |
| Description: |
WABH 11 switched several places in the Binghamton area. Among them was the Kirkwood Industrial Park, which had American Pipe and Plastic, a lumber company, and the Kirkwood water plant. Here we see the train arriving with a car for American Pipe and the lumber yard. |
| Photo Date: |
10/25/1991 Upload Date: 2/19/2015 3:25:18 AM |
| Location: |
Kirkwood, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
CR 3282(GP40-2) |
| Views: |
352 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Working the pipe plant |
| Description: |
WABH 11 is moving cars around at American Pipe. Right now hes pulling an empty and will spot loads at their unloading device. |
| Photo Date: |
10/25/1991 Upload Date: 2/19/2015 3:32:32 AM |
| Location: |
Kirkwood, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
CR 3282(GP40-2) |
| Views: |
317 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Pulling the empty |
| Description: |
WABH 11 pulls the empty hopper out, and spots the loaded ones back in. |
| Photo Date: |
10/25/1991 Upload Date: 2/19/2015 3:36:11 AM |
| Location: |
Kirkwood, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
CR 3282(GP40-2) |
| Views: |
351 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Spotting the box |
| Description: |
The box car is now spotted at the lumber company now that American Pipe has been worked. |
| Photo Date: |
10/25/1991 Upload Date: 2/19/2015 3:38:16 AM |
| Location: |
Kirkwood, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
CR 3282(GP40-2) |
| Views: |
364 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Kilmer Building |
| Description: |
The former DLW station at Binghamton gets a lot of attention(as it should), as do the buildings on the opposite side. One other building is notable for its turn of the century architecture, the Kilmer Building. At one time, the DLW had sidings serving it, now all abandoned. We see WABH 11 working on the DLW side in front of the Kilmer Building, today with a GP 40. |
| Photo Date: |
12/15/1988 Upload Date: 9/27/2015 2:17:30 AM |
| Location: |
Binghamton, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Yard,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CR 3283(GP40-2) |
| Views: |
623 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
TV 79 |
| Description: |
One of the hotter van trains to run the Water Level Route was TV 79, which was a djrect connection to the Santa Fe at Chicago, along with TVLA. The two often ran close to each other, one almost on the others blocks. Here, TV 79 passes the old NYC 1957 station at Dewivt with 74 TOFC and 28 stacks. Even at this late date, it was not uncommon to find sets of 4 motor power on van trains. |
| Photo Date: |
3/18/1995 Upload Date: 8/26/2014 2:47:42 AM |
| Location: |
Syracuse (Dewitt), NY |
| Author: |
Tom Becqett |
| Categories: |
Station,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CR 5050(B36-7) CR 5024(B36-7) CR 3283(GP40-2) CR 3336(GP40-2) |
| Views: |
956 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Eastbound vans |
| Description: |
This shot of TV 14 train shows the 1957 built NYC station, which was the Amtrak station in use at the time. It was functional if aesthetically lacking. |
| Photo Date: |
7/14/1988 Upload Date: 8/28/2015 2:42:17 AM |
| Location: |
Syracuse (Dewitt), NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CR 3284(GP40-2) CR 3334(GP40-2) CR 3300(GP40-2) |
| Views: |
766 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
TV train |
| Description: |
A Trailvan train heads past the former West Shore station at Haverstraw en route to Selkirk and points west. |
| Photo Date: |
4/19/1985 Upload Date: 9/28/2014 4:02:22 AM |
| Location: |
Haverstraw, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CR 3296(GP40-2) CR 3220(GP40) CR 3285(GP40-2) |
| Views: |
840 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Coming in from Detroit |
| Description: |
DNBU rolls toward Buffalo with 107 cars from North Yard. In an earlier era, this train might have come across Canada on NYC subsidiary Canada Southern. Conrail sold that line several years prior to this photo, and it is no longer a through route, requiring a stateside journey for Detroit-Buffalo traffic. |
| Photo Date: |
8/11/1990 Upload Date: 1/22/2016 3:40:55 AM |
| Location: |
Wanakah, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
CR 5002(B36-7) CR 5006(B36-7) CR 3285(GP40-2) |
| Views: |
721 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
DLW side |
| Description: |
WABH 11, the Binghamton local job, workr the Agway feed mill. The plant was served by a remnant of the Lackawanna S&U line. By this time, the bridges over Bevier St had been consolidated onto one overpass, high enough to clear a 13'6" trailer, so this track that was once the S&U main rack, had been cut back to allow enough room to switch the plant, with through trains going through the D&H yard, where a white ex KCS unit can be seen to the right of the last car of this train. |
| Photo Date: |
3/29/1993 Upload Date: 1/28/2015 1:57:25 AM |
| Location: |
Binghamton, NY |
| Author: |
Tnm Beckett |
| Categories: |
Winter,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CR 3286(GP40-2) |
| Views: |
401 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Street running |
| Description: |
Almost. The right of way was actually separated by a concrete curb. We see WAIT 2 working through town with one car for Cargill, much to the relief of local drivers, who are used to seeing 90 car coal trains go past at 10 MPH. This train will likely return with several dozen salt cars, a typical move. |
| Photo Date: |
7/19/1988 Upload Date: 8/31/2015 3:02:27 AM |
| Location: |
Ithaca, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
CR 3287(GP40-2) CR 3368(GP40-2) CR 6403(SD40-2) CR 6308(SD40) |
| Views: |
1171 Comments: 4 |
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| Title: |
Old first |
| Description: |
TV 200 rolls east behind three units. Two are new C40-8Ws. So what unit leads?? The aging GP 40-2. |
| Photo Date: |
6/17/1990 Upload Date: 1/11/2016 3:40:26 AM |
| Location: |
Great Bend, PA |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
CR 3287(GP40-2) CR 6066(C40-8W) CR 6085(C40-8W) |
| Views: |
531 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Elkhart bound |
| Description: |
OIEL behind a pair of 4 motors, rolls past the eastbound signal at Hiawatha Rd. OIEL was usually an early morning train here, often getting through Owego by 0800. Counterpart ELOI was combined with BUOI at Gang Mills most of the time, and ran here infrequently. |
| Photo Date: |
6/21/1990 Upload Date: 1/10/2016 3:50:33 AM |
| Location: |
Owego, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CR 3287(GP40-2) CR 3384(GP40-2) |
| Views: |
486 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Westbound to gloom |
| Description: |
OIBU rolls west at Smithboro, about MP 246 where the tracks come up to the road after going through town. |
| Photo Date: |
4/6/1990 Upload Date: 1/6/2016 3:14:37 AM |
| Location: |
Smithboro, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CR 6859(SD60) NS 6108(SD40-2) CR 3288(GP40-2) |
| Views: |
599 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Port power |
| Description: |
A four unit set of Conrail 4 axle units sits on the Chemical Coast Secondary near the Port of Newark, as seen from the Jersey Turnpike. |
| Photo Date: |
9/23/1986 Upload Date: 12/13/2014 4:22:14 AM |
| Location: |
Port Newark, NJ |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Roster,Yard |
| Locomotives: |
CR 3290(GP40-2) |
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447 Comments: 1 |
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| 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) |
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617 Comments: 1 |
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| 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) |
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1155 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Snowy stubble |
| Description: |
The snow only partly covers the stubble corn that stands as a reminder that spring is still some time off as OIBU passes on its way west. |
| Photo Date: |
2/9/1989 Upload Date: 9/21/2015 3:42:53 AM |
| Location: |
Owego, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Winter,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CR 6755(SD50) CR 3292(GP40-2) CR 3219(GP40) |
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808 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Last chance |
| Description: |
After a day of chasing NW 611 on a trip from Buffalo to Conneaut OH, we called it a day and headed home. Our last shot of the day was this TV 79, which had left North Bergen NJ that morning, now rolling though Erie on its mad dash to an ATSF connection in Chicago with 95 cars of TOFC. Halfway there!! |
| Photo Date: |
6/15/1991 Upload Date: 3/2/2015 1:32:44 AM |
| Location: |
Erie, PA |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
CR 1944(B23-7) CR 5066(B40-8) CR 3312(GP40-2) CR 3293(GP40-2) |
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959 Comments: 0 |
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