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| Title: |
Wider view |
| Description: |
The 168 we saw in the other view of this train is now closing in on the Depot Hill Rd crossing, allowing a more open side angle view of the power and train. |
| Photo Date: |
6/4/2003 Upload Date: 3/7/2017 4:46:29 AM |
| Location: |
Port Crane, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 6704(SD60) NS 9585(C40-9W) |
| Views: |
749 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Pulling the hill |
| Description: |
Train 268 rolls north behind the usual pair of GEs at Hancock Road, about to go into one of the stiffest parts of the grade to Belden tunnel. |
| Photo Date: |
1/22/2002 Upload Date: 1/1/2018 5:12:07 AM |
| Location: |
Sanitaria Springs, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Winter,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 9594(C40-9W) |
| Views: |
421 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
Over the Tennessee |
| Description: |
A westbound 109 platform stack train headed for the Memphis District crosses the Tennessee River. |
| Photo Date: |
9/18/2018 Upload Date: 10/16/2018 5:36:02 AM |
| Location: |
Bridgeport, AL |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Bridge,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 9594(C40-9W) NS 9689(C40-9W) NS 9839(C40-9W) |
| Views: |
302 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
Through the gate |
| Description: |
The westbound NS stack seen through the gate on the walkway that now occupies the old railroad bridge. The train is coming off the new bridge that replaced the one Im standing on in 1998. |
| Photo Date: |
9/18/2018 Upload Date: 10/16/2018 5:37:48 AM |
| Location: |
Bridgeport, AL |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 9594(C40-9W) NS 9689(C40-9W) NS 9839(C40-9W) |
| Views: |
267 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
By the River Club |
| Description: |
168 rolls past the River Club parking lot. |
| Photo Date: |
5/17/2002 Upload Date: 9/29/2013 4:11:04 AM |
| Location: |
Afton, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 9605(C40-9W) NS 8400(C40-8W) |
| Views: |
713 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Sunlit |
| Description: |
205 rolls around the sweeping curve and into the afternoon sun at MP 231 with train 205s 34 stack platforms. The JB Hunt box behind he power in this photo is in a way prophetic. Within a year, I'd be working for them in dispatch in Lowell Ark, giving up the wilds of upstate NY for one of the more up and coming parts of the country. I've been out of NY ten years, and I'm not looking back. |
| Photo Date: |
6/19/2006 Upload Date: 6/22/2016 4:51:33 AM |
| Location: |
Campville, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 9610(C40-9W) NS 9644(C40-9W) |
| Views: |
792 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Blasting for Buffalo |
| Description: |
NS 205 rolls into the afternoon sun at Miller Beach Rd in Owego, getting all of the 50 MPH speed limit as it heads for Buffalo and a change for a Nickel Plate crew. |
| Photo Date: |
6/19/2006 Upload Date: 6/22/2016 5:01:40 AM |
| Location: |
Owego, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 9610(C40-9W) NS 9644(C40-9W) |
| Views: |
706 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Into the twilight |
| Description: |
NS 205 catches the last rays of sun on one of the longest days of the year as it makes its way to Buffalo with a sizeable block of JB Hunt containers. |
| Photo Date: |
6/19/2006 Upload Date: 10/21/2012 2:49:15 AM |
| Location: |
Owego, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Signal,Track,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 9610(C40-9W) NS 9644(C40-9W) |
| Views: |
920 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
H1G |
| Description: |
NS alphabet soup local H1G arrives at Binghamton with a widecab GE and former Southern SD40-2. That's 205 behind it, heading out of town. |
| Photo Date: |
2/26/2004 Upload Date: 1/19/2013 2:59:31 AM |
| Location: |
Binghamton, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Bridge,Winter,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 9623(C40-9W) NS 3297(SD40-2) |
| Views: |
1078 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
13T |
| Description: |
13T rolls through Endicott headed for Binghamton. |
| Photo Date: |
8/28/2001 Upload Date: 12/15/2013 2:56:05 AM |
| Location: |
Endicott, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 9655(C40-9W) NS 8408(C40-8W) |
| Views: |
1142 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Tiptoe through the tulips |
| Description: |
Or, as is more typical of New York state in the summer, the Queen Annes lace. Train 169 picks its way slowly through Oneonta where there was once a lot more trackage and a lot less flowers, as it makes its way down to OG and the single track south. |
| Photo Date: |
7/31/2005 Upload Date: 9/1/2017 1:05:26 AM |
| Location: |
Oneonta, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 9659(C40-9W) NS 6725(SD60I) |
| Views: |
664 Comments: 0 |
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| 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: |
838 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Pole line |
| Description: |
12T rolls 55 cars west down the long tangent coming into Endwell, following the long pole line that still carries communication and signal for the Tier. It will be gone in a few years when NS single tracks west of Johnson. |
| Photo Date: |
11/2/2004 Upload Date: 5/18/2017 3:46:12 AM |
| Location: |
Endwell, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 9678(C40-9W) MRL 317(SD45-2) |
| Views: |
788 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Oddballs run through |
| Description: |
12T and 13T got some interesting power, and today is no exception. A Montana Rail Link SD 45 is the trailing unit on todays train at Owego. |
| Photo Date: |
11/2/2004 Upload Date: 5/18/2017 3:53:25 AM |
| Location: |
Owego, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 9678(C40-9W) MRL 317(SD45-2) |
| Views: |
710 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
12T with a mix |
| Description: |
Of the NS trains that run the Tier, 12T seems to have the greatest power variety. I have seen BNSF, UP Wisconsin Central, MRL, IC , SOO and various lease units on the train. Today ranks right up there, with a UP unit leading, and a FURX ex BNSF unit trailing. We see the train at Chemung, where it is interesting to note how the foliage has grown over the years. Look at some of the shots in my albums taken in the early 90s, when there was hardly a tree here. Now you cant see around the curve to the old Erie station. |
| Photo Date: |
8/17/2006 Upload Date: 10/21/2012 2:54:38 AM |
| Location: |
Chemung, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
UP 8393(SD70ACe) NS 9695(C40-9W) FURX 7291(SD40-2) |
| Views: |
964 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Yard 1 |
| Description: |
A pair of geeps in a scene they will never recreate on the road, work 164s train at the East Binghamton yard. Two units, two schemes-nothing much has changed on the D&H!! Train 412 rolls to the south end behind NS power, at left. |
| Photo Date: |
11/15/2004 Upload Date: 5/23/2017 4:05:33 AM |
| Location: |
Binghamton, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Yard,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CP 1564(GP9u) CP 1545(GP9u) NS 9706(C40-9W) |
| Views: |
926 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Heres why |
| Description: |
This is the view looking the other direction at Terrace Dr shows why 12T was being held out. Its a madhouse in there!! Now that Yard 1 has cleared up, 12T progresses up the runner to a crew change and move on. |
| Photo Date: |
11/15/2004 Upload Date: 5/23/2017 4:13:21 AM |
| Location: |
Binghamton, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Yard,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CP 1564(GP9u) CP 1545(GP9u) NS 3442(SD40-2) NS 8345(C40-8W) NS 9706(C40-9W) |
| Views: |
1275 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
412 |
| Description: |
412 south of Binghamton gets NS power en route to Enola and eventually Linwood NC. Here we see it passing the station site at Hop Bottom. |
| Photo Date: |
3/26/2002 Upload Date: 10/6/2013 10:07:18 PM |
| Location: |
Hop Bottom, PA |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 9708(C40-9W) NS 8730(C40-8) NS 2546(SD70) |
| Views: |
1343 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Down the stretch |
| Description: |
12T rolls west along the mile of tangent between MP 231 and 232, its 51 cars at track speed. |
| Photo Date: |
12/8/2005 Upload Date: 9/4/2017 3:14:18 AM |
| Location: |
Campville, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 6567(SD60) NS 9734(C40-9W) |
| Views: |
748 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
On Nanticike Creek |
| Description: |
12T rolls across the short bridge over Nanticoke Creek as it heads out of Endicott and on to Owego. |
| Photo Date: |
12/8/2005 Upload Date: 9/4/2017 3:15:27 AM |
| Location: |
Endicott, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Bridge,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 6567(SD60) NS 9734(C40-9W) |
| Views: |
809 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Winter gloom |
| Description: |
The Southern Tier is known for its cloudy days, especially in winter. Here's 12T approaching Goodrich Settlement Rd west of Owego on one of them. You could still see C39-8's then, this train has two of them. |
| Photo Date: |
3/17/2006 Upload Date: 11/4/2012 1:14:26 AM |
| Location: |
Owego, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 9735(C40-9W) NS 8617(C39-8) NS 8685(C39-8E) |
| Views: |
1100 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
87T at Conklin yard |
| Description: |
NS 87T, a coal train symbol used only sporadically, as most coal trains coming into Binghamton going to the CP came via the Tier, approaches the north end of Conklin yard behind a mix of NS and CP units. |
| Photo Date: |
8/25/2002 Upload Date: 9/22/2013 3:52:52 AM |
| Location: |
Binghamton, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Yard,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 9738(C40-9W) NS 2503(SD70) NS 2588(SD70M) CP 5989(SD40-2) CP 5934(SD40-2) |
| Views: |
1565 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Heading north |
| Description: |
87T, now with a CP symbol that I dont recall, comes through former BX as it heads north and eventually onto the B&M at Mechanicville. |
| Photo Date: |
8/25/2002 Upload Date: 9/22/2013 4:04:53 AM |
| Location: |
Binghamton, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Yard,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 9738(C40-9W) NS 2503(SD70) NS 2588(SD70M) CP 5934(SD40-2) CP 5989(SD40-2) |
| Views: |
1457 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Along North St |
| Description: |
A westbound empty coal train rolls west along North St in Endicott, past an old Erie searchlight signal, and just east of the site of the Erie station. An ex CR unit leads the way on this gloomy day. |
| Photo Date: |
4/20/2004 Upload Date: 5/8/2017 2:56:57 AM |
| Location: |
Endicott, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 6748(SD60I) NS 9738(C40-9W) |
| Views: |
796 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Some general freight |
| Description: |
The CSX ex NYC main hosts a lot of intermodal, but also some merchandise, such as this 65 car westbound with a colorful mix of power. |
| Photo Date: |
5/12/2004 Upload Date: 6/3/2017 4:53:22 AM |
| Location: |
Utica, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
CSX 705(SD70MAC) NS 9750(C40-9W) HLCX 7182(SD40-2) |
| Views: |
885 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Harvest time |
| Description: |
The corn is tall and golden, ready for the harvesters as we watch 205 roll west into a late afternoon sun with 93 cars of stacks and pigs. |
| Photo Date: |
9/30/2003 Upload Date: 1/12/2018 5:05:37 AM |
| Location: |
Owego, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 9753(C40-9W) NS 8382(C40-8W) |
| Views: |
711 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Big power for a local |
| Description: |
NS was not shy about putting top of the line power on locals and switch jobs. Where CR was using GP 38s and B23s on their locals, and later GP 40s, NS almost always had C40-8s assigned. It was fun watching a six axle GE working the Agway mill on somewhat shaky rail, or down the Vestal Spur, though they did ultimately do some serious track rehab on it around 2003. Here we have a pair of six axles on H 88, a turn job from Gang Mills to Binghamton, with mostly NYSW interchange. The leader is one of the thousand C40's on NS, but the trailing unit is an almost new SD70M-2, a unit youd more typically expect on 206. |
| Photo Date: |
3/6/2006 Upload Date: 9/16/2016 1:33:31 AM |
| Location: |
Endicott, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Winter,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 9759(C40-9W) NS 2701(SD70M-2) |
| Views: |
713 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Late afternoon local |
| Description: |
H 88 rolls past the signal at MP 221 near Hayes Av with the usual big power. Today a UP unit is along, a situation that was becoming less and less unusual on what was essentially a long distance transfer run. |
| Photo Date: |
12/5/2004 Upload Date: 10/6/2017 4:33:21 AM |
| Location: |
Endicott, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 9794(C40-9W) |
| Views: |
500 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Undecorated units |
| Description: |
Athearn was noted for making most of the models it offered in an undecorated version, so modelers who preferred to paint their own, or wanted to paint a scheme not offered "out of the box" could do so. Who knew the idea would catch on in real life?? NS took delivery of a large number of C40-8Ws in primer, putting them into service immediately, then painting them at Altoona or Chattanooga later. A pair of them are working the NYSEG plant at Dresden on the ex NYC Corning Secondary, getting ready to pull the empties, which will go to Buffalo, then eventually to the Brownsville PA area for reload. |
| Photo Date: |
5/4/2003 Upload Date: 3/9/2017 4:06:01 AM |
| Location: |
Dresden, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 9809(C40-9W) NS 9808(C40-9W) |
| Views: |
826 Comments: 4 |
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| Title: |
I miss October in NY |
| Description: |
I moved to Arkansas the year after I took this, where the fall colors are, to put it mildly, lackluster. There are few things I miss about living in NY; the color that could erupt in the fall is one of them. We see empty coal train 527 coming around the curve at MP 231 behind a power set that is colorful in its own right. |
| Photo Date: |
10/21/2005 Upload Date: 9/1/2017 1:22:33 AM |
| Location: |
Campville, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 9808(C40-9W) UP 5214(SD70M) NS 8787(C40-9) |
| Views: |
991 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Empties out of the woods |
| Description: |
Train 527, 92 empty coal hoppers heading for Buffalo, comes out of the stand of trees just east of Hiawatha Road in Owego. |
| Photo Date: |
10/21/2005 Upload Date: 9/1/2017 1:25:34 AM |
| Location: |
Owego, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 9808(C40-9W) UP 5214(SD70M) NS 8787(C40-9) |
| Views: |
933 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
New cars for Jersey |
| Description: |
H85 has picked up a pair of NJ Transit cars at Alstom in Hornell and is headed east to Gang Mills behind an undecorated new C40-9. |
| Photo Date: |
2/27/2005 Upload Date: 11/19/2012 1:41:37 AM |
| Location: |
Browns Crossing, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Winter,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 9818(C40-9W) |
| Views: |
553 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Six axles on the DLW |
| Description: |
Conrail restricted the Vestal Spur, the one time DLW main segment from West BD to Vestal, to four motor power. NS, on the other hand, had no problem sending heavy power down to Goudy. We see one such train returning to Binghamton. Once there, it will go south as an 888 back to the mines in western PA. |
| Photo Date: |
4/21/2005 Upload Date: 7/25/2017 3:27:11 AM |
| Location: |
Johnson City, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 9837(C40-9W) NS 8881(C40-9) BNSF 4569(C44-9W) |
| Views: |
946 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Finally moving |
| Description: |
When I arrived at Austell, this train was waiting east of the junction of the line to Rome, and the line to Birmingham. Hes been sitting here at least two hours, and now finally gets to go, passing a local hardware store as he gets his 93 stack platforms moving west. |
| Photo Date: |
9/15/2018 Upload Date: 10/15/2018 6:03:35 AM |
| Location: |
Austell, GA |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 9841(C40-9W) NS 4066(AC44C6M) |
| Views: |
473 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Peeking out |
| Description: |
A westbound stack train, waiting for a lot of action, peeks out from behind the Barnes Hardware store, holding back from a grade crossing. |
| Photo Date: |
9/15/2018 Upload Date: 10/15/2018 6:07:51 AM |
| Location: |
Austell, GA |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 9841(C40-9W) NS 4066(AC44C6M) |
| Views: |
419 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Pass the salt |
| Description: |
Train 675 was one of a pair of trains that ran salt from a mine north of Ithaca on the ex LV to the Vermont Railway at Whitehall on the D&H. The NS power ran through. This is the empty move, 675, passing Hiawatha Rd in Owego. It will go to Waverly, back down the connection to the ex LV at Sayre, then head north to the mine. |
| Photo Date: |
4/9/2006 Upload Date: 9/28/2016 4:07:21 AM |
| Location: |
Owego, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 9870(C40-9W) UP 4173(SD70M) NS 9969(C40-9W) |
| Views: |
837 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Ready to go north |
| Description: |
Train 675 is now at Sayre, and is about to head up the Ithaca Branch to Ludlowville with its 61 cars, where it will load at Cargill with rock salt for Vermont. |
| Photo Date: |
4/9/2006 Upload Date: 9/28/2016 4:09:48 AM |
| Location: |
Sayre, PA |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 9870(C40-9W) UP 4173(SD70M) NS 9969(C40-9W) |
| Views: |
863 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Waffles can wait |
| Description: |
We were heading from church over to Waffle House, which necessitated a trip across the tracks. I looked down the line as I usually do, to see this train approaching with a pair of NS units leading. This is somewhat unusual, and we dont see a lot of them here, so breakfast could wait. There were also a pair on the rear, along with a KCSM GE to get the 102 frac sand cars over the road. |
| Photo Date: |
10/8/2017 Upload Date: 10/21/2017 4:37:56 AM |
| Location: |
Siloam Springs, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 1035(SD70ACe) NS 9897(C40-9W) |
| Views: |
271 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Eastbound with NS power |
| Description: |
KCS partners with NS east of Meridian Miss, so its not uncommon to see NS power all the way to Dallas. Here an eastbound behind a pair of horses rolls toward a meet with a westbound. The leader is a former Conrail unit. |
| Photo Date: |
7/1/2012 Upload Date: 7/4/2012 8:24:37 PM |
| Location: |
Tallulah, LA |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 8443(C40-8W) NS 9911(C40-9W) |
| Views: |
374 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Wintry scene |
| Description: |
12T rolls through Endwell as seen from Watson Blvd across the pond. NS was taking delivery of new GEs from Erie in primer at the time, and painting them at Altoona or Chattanooga as they reached those shops. The result was many of them ran "undecorated" for a while til they got to a paint booth. One trails on this train. |
| Photo Date: |
12/28/2005 Upload Date: 11/11/2012 11:58:06 PM |
| Location: |
Endwell, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Winter,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 2580(SD70) NS 9940(C40-9W) |
| Views: |
970 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
533 |
| Description: |
Empty coal train 533 heads west on the Tier over the Chenango River bridge with a pair of units more familiar with coal trains in Wyoming and Nebraska. |
| Photo Date: |
11/3/2005 Upload Date: 11/12/2012 12:24:10 AM |
| Location: |
Binghamton, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Bridge,Action |
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