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| Title: |
SLN 5 arriving |
| Description: |
SLN 5 arrives at BD behind a new B 40 and a pair of old EMDs. One is an ex BN unit on the NYSW roster, the middle unit is an NW SD 40, already 20 years old. The train at right is a transfer from Bevier St over to East Binghamton. |
| Photo Date: |
9/2/1989 Upload Date: 11/19/2015 4:20:42 AM |
| Location: |
Binghamton, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NYSW 4044(B40-8) NS 1630(SD40-2) NYSW 6515(SD45) |
| Views: |
1129 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
HAN stacks |
| Description: |
An eastbound Hanjin train, to become HAN 2 when it reaches the D&H at Buffalo with its 55 stack platforms, has cleared the single track down 19th St at Erie and resumes its high speed trip to Buffalo on the old Nickel Plate. High hood 1630 was formerly an NW unit. |
| Photo Date: |
8/11/1990 Upload Date: 1/22/2016 2:42:21 AM |
| Location: |
Fairview, PA |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 1630(SD40-2) |
| Views: |
787 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Quad 5 |
| Description: |
CP 5555 rolls 258 eastbound past the signal and MP 224 at west Endicott |
| Photo Date: |
11/7/1997 Upload Date: 3/17/2014 1:30:29 AM |
| Location: |
Endicott, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CP 5555(SD40) NS 1630(SD40-2) NS 1610(SD40) |
| Views: |
1025 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Westbound over the river |
| Description: |
A westbound behind a couple of classics crosses the Rockville bridge on its way toward Pittsburgh. |
| Photo Date: |
6/2/2002 Upload Date: 10/6/2013 1:39:53 AM |
| Location: |
Marysville, PA |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Bridge,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 3396(SD40-2) NS 1635(SD40-2) NS 9321(C40-9W) |
| Views: |
1017 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Interesting power |
| Description: |
A mix of power including one of the ATSF SD45Bs roll west next to I 40. |
| Photo Date: |
4/21/1997 Upload Date: 4/27/2014 2:27:26 AM |
| Location: |
Winslow, AZ |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
ATSF 685(C44-9W) ATSF 5511(SD45-2B) NS 1640(SD40-2) |
| Views: |
1582 Comments: 3 |
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| Title: |
Waiting to get in |
| Description: |
Lack of yard space sometimes made it necessary for trains to be parked outside the yard. This BFOA is on Conrail track 3 waiting for space in the yard. A yard crew will come out and get it when theres room. NS power was typical. |
| Photo Date: |
10/17/1987 Upload Date: 6/9/2015 1:22:18 PM |
| Location: |
Binghamton, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 1643(SD40-2) NW 6127(SD40-2) NW 1753(SD45) NW 1720(SD45) NW 1712(SD45) |
| Views: |
1215 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
OIBU in the gloom |
| Description: |
Heavy overcast is not unusual in the Tier, but the trains run anyway, so I was out shooting pictures. Today OIBU has a pair of NS units trailing its GP 40, showing that NYSW doesnt have a monopoly on the Thoroughbreds. The ex Erie freighthouse is peeking out from under the Chenango St overpass. |
| Photo Date: |
12/18/1988 Upload Date: 9/14/2015 4:45:42 AM |
| Location: |
Binghamton, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Yard,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CR 3263(GP40) NS 1647(SD40-2) NW 8073(C30-7) |
| Views: |
995 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Deepwater local |
| Description: |
Virginian had a line that went to Deepwater, on the Kanawha River, to interchange wtih the NYC. During a trip to chase C&O 614 in January of 1985, I lucked onto this run on the line. It was around 0730, really too early for much light there, but I took the shots I could. |
| Photo Date: |
1/28/1985 Upload Date: 9/24/2014 11:21:35 AM |
| Location: |
Eccles, WV |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Winter,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 1648(SD40-2) NW 6132(SD40-2) |
| Views: |
843 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Interesting stuff |
| Description: |
An overview of QD yard shows a few interesting items. In the foreground is a set of power that came off a Goudy coal train. A trio of UP units, no stranger to coal service out west, are not that common here. Behind them is an NS SD40-2, one of the early ones that had been an NW unit originally. In the background, thats not a P&W unit. NYSW acquired some ex P&W units as part of their lease fleet. Most of them wound up working on the NYSW for a time, including this one, presently dozing away the afternoon. The NYSW proper also is showing the flag, as a yellowjacket from BH 2 comes around the corner from Bevier St, seen under the bridge in the distance. |
| Photo Date: |
3/31/2004 Upload Date: 6/5/2017 5:06:52 AM |
| Location: |
Binghamton, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Yard |
| Locomotives: |
NS 9376(C40-9W) UP 6560(AC44CW) UP 6785(AC44CW) UP 6652(AC44CW) NS 1650(SD40-2) BDLX 2209(U23B) |
| Views: |
1481 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Old power |
| Description: |
A GP 40 leads OIEL west near Erwins. |
| Photo Date: |
4/1/1989 Upload Date: 10/8/2015 3:14:19 AM |
| Location: |
Erwins, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CR 3171(GP40) NS 3203(SD40-2) NS 6153(SD40-2) CR 3215(GP40) |
| Views: |
1169 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
PYRP arrives |
| Description: |
PYRP arrives at Binghamton behind a mix of CSX, NS and D&H power that typified the era. |
| Photo Date: |
7/9/1990 Upload Date: 11/27/2011 2:08:32 AM |
| Location: |
Binghamton, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Yard,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CSX 6278(GP40-2) NS 6119(SD40-2) NS 3210(SD40-2) DH 7312(GP38-2) |
| Views: |
1621 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
PYRP arrives |
| Description: |
PYRP crosses Terrace Drive and enters the East Binghamton yard. Power is typical, but today we have something different, rebuilt GP 38-2 7312, just in from M-K in Mountain Top PA. Note the railfan chase vehicle in the foreground. This was a Canadian built Chevy Celebrity for the Canadian market-the speed read in kilometers per hour, and the odometer counted kilometers. It took some adjusting to figure out how far and fast you were going. I got pretty good at multiplying everything by 5/8ths. |
| Photo Date: |
7/9/1990 Upload Date: 1/16/2016 3:12:04 AM |
| Location: |
Binghamton, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Yard,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CSX 6278(GP40-2) NS 6119(SD40-2) NS 3210(SD40-2) DH 7312(GP38-2) |
| Views: |
1220 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
New arrival |
| Description: |
Not only todays PYPR, but this rebuilt GP38-2. It looks good, and will be one of the last survivors in that scheme.!It was still wearing it in 2015, a full 25 years after it was rebuilt. |
| Photo Date: |
7/9/1990 Upload Date: 1/16/2016 3:14:12 AM |
| Location: |
Binghamton, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Yard,Action |
| Locomotives: |
DH 7312(GP38-2) NS 3210(SD40-2) NS 6119(SD40-2) CSX 6278(GP40-2) |
| Views: |
1151 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Power to the house |
| Description: |
The power of just arrived PYRP has cut off its train and is now going to the shop for servicing before going back south on tomorrows RPPY. |
| Photo Date: |
7/9/1990 Upload Date: 1/16/2016 3:16:55 AM |
| Location: |
Binghamton, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Yard,Action |
| Locomotives: |
DH 7312(GP38-2) NS 3210(SD40-2) NS 6119(SD40-2) CSX 6278(GP40-2) |
| Views: |
1133 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Whod believe it?? |
| Description: |
Power from NYSW, NS, CSX, and even New Jersey short line Rahway Valley is at the East Binghamton engine house. Ten years earlier, if you told someone you would see this set up, theyd be checking your meds. |
| Photo Date: |
7/9/1990 Upload Date: 1/16/2016 3:26:22 AM |
| Location: |
Binghamton, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Roster,Yard |
| Locomotives: |
RV 17(70Tonner) CSX 6278(GP40-2) NS 6119(SD40-2) NS 3210(SD40-2) NYSW 3632(SD45) NYSW 2010(C420) |
| Views: |
1175 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
12T and classic power |
| Description: |
A 12T rolls west at Endwell behind a trio of SD 40-2s, led by one of NSs ex Sozthern hi hood versions. |
| Photo Date: |
2/7/2004 Upload Date: 10/15/2017 4:47:41 AM |
| Location: |
Endwell, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Winter,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 3214(SD40-2) UP 2986(SD40-2) UP 7887(SD40-2) |
| Views: |
817 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
Classic power |
| Description: |
Despite having over 1000 widecab GEs on the roster, sometimes trains would show up with old units from another era. Todays 12T is one such train, with an ex Southern high hood SD leading two standard SD40-2s from UP. |
| Photo Date: |
2/9/2004 Upload Date: 1/19/2013 2:35:19 AM |
| Location: |
Binghamton, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Bridge,Winter,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 3214(SD40-2) UP 2986(SD40-2) UP 7887(SD40-2) |
| Views: |
1025 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Farmland scene |
| Description: |
12T with an ex Southern hi hood unit and a pair of UP SDs rolls west near Ellistown. The pile of lumber at left was not too many years before, a barn, which made a nice photo prop. |
| Photo Date: |
2/9/2004 Upload Date: 5/23/2017 4:45:04 AM |
| Location: |
Waverly, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Winter,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 3214(SD40-2) UP 2986(SD40-2) UP 7887(SD40-2) |
| Views: |
861 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
A trio of 40s |
| Description: |
From odd places. The leader is an ex Southern SD 40-2, still at it after all these years, and still with the high short hood that was the hallmark of Southern, and merger partner NW. The UP units were a surprise, since by this time, bigger power was standard, and many of the 40 line units were on locals or yard duty. But, 12T was an unusual train, and anything could show up. |
| Photo Date: |
2/9/2004 Upload Date: 5/23/2017 4:48:07 AM |
| Location: |
Waverly, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Winter,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 3214(SD40-2) UP 2986(SD40-2) UP 7887(SD40-2) |
| Views: |
866 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
12T in the corn |
| Description: |
12T rolls west at Hiawatha Road past a field of stubble corn. The power is notable in that one of the original NS C39's is represented, as is an ex Southern SD40-2. |
| Photo Date: |
2/11/2005 Upload Date: 11/19/2012 1:39:20 AM |
| Location: |
Owego, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Winter,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 8678(C39-8E) NS 3220(SD40-2) NS 8834(C40-9) |
| Views: |
1161 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Big sky at Big Flats |
| Description: |
NS units lead 257, a stack train that originated on the NYSW at the NY 352 overpass in Big Flats under an unsetteled sky. |
| Photo Date: |
9/1/1995 Upload Date: 8/10/2014 12:44:44 AM |
| Location: |
Big Flats, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 3508(B30-7A) NS 3224(SD40-2) |
| Views: |
724 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Bearing down |
| Description: |
Train 257 rolls hard for Corning and Buffalo where the Erie and Lackawanna once sat side by side. |
| Photo Date: |
9/1/1995 Upload Date: 8/10/2014 12:48:40 AM |
| Location: |
Big Flats, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 3508(B30-7A) NS 3224(SD40-2) |
| Views: |
733 Comments: 3 |
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| Title: |
Over the Chemung |
| Description: |
Train 257, which typically got NS power to run through to Jersey, rolls across the Chemung River |
| Photo Date: |
9/1/1995 Upload Date: 8/14/2014 3:20:11 AM |
| Location: |
Elmira, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Bridge,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 3508(B30-7A) NS 3224(SD40-2) |
| Views: |
753 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Heading south at last light |
| Description: |
13T has changed crews and is now headed through East Binghamton as it makes its way south through the yard and on toward Allentown. Quite a mix of power there for its 44 cars. |
| Photo Date: |
10/7/2003 Upload Date: 10/27/2017 5:04:09 AM |
| Location: |
Binghamton, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 3043(GP40-2) NS 2584(SD70M) NS 4807(B40-8) NS 3238(SD40-2) |
| Views: |
998 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Visitors rolling by |
| Description: |
Train 555 rolls through Belt Line Jct behind a trio of SDs with 63 cars. |
| Photo Date: |
6/1/1991 Upload Date: 3/10/2015 5:32:32 AM |
| Location: |
Reading, PA |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CP 5682(SD40-2) NS 3258(SD40-2) CP 5697(SD40-2) |
| Views: |
1004 Comments: 7 |
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| Title: |
555 at Belt Line Jct |
| Description: |
A second view of 555 rolling north on the Reading Line at Belt Line Jct, this view showing the Reading signal there. |
| Photo Date: |
6/1/1991 Upload Date: 3/11/2015 1:05:56 PM |
| Location: |
Reading, PA |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CP 5682(SD40-2) NS 3258(SD40-2) CP 5697(SD40-2) |
| Views: |
985 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Active line and a memory |
| Description: |
We have a 13T headed east here at Tioga Center, splitting the tri lights where a pair of semaphores once stood guard. The empty space in the foreground was once the LVs Auburn Branch, abandoned on Conrail start up some 37 years earlier. |
| Photo Date: |
3/25/2003 Upload Date: 2/10/2017 3:29:08 AM |
| Location: |
Tioga Center, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 9572(C40-9W) NS 3263(SD40-2) |
| Views: |
784 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Coal train meet |
| Description: |
Centralia was busy for NS this day. A westbound coal train meets an eastbound COFC train as both work on the short stretch of track shared with IC. |
| Photo Date: |
2/21/1986 Upload Date: 11/14/2014 3:15:26 AM |
| Location: |
Centralia, IL |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 3302(SD40-2) NS 3269(SD40-2) |
| Views: |
1033 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
NS 6113 leads |
| Description: |
NS 6113 leads an RPPY south from East Binghamton yard. |
| Photo Date: |
1/6/1990 Upload Date: 11/6/2011 1:21:00 AM |
| Location: |
Binghamton, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 6113(SD40-2) NS 3269(SD40-2) NS 6116(SD40-2) NS 8072(C30-7) |
| Views: |
1153 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Getting a roll on |
| Description: |
RPPY behind a quartet of NS units rolls under NY 7 and approaches the Kirkwood bridge at the south end of Broome Corporate Park, having now cleared the south end of East Binghamton as it starts its journey to warmer climes |
| Photo Date: |
1/6/1990 Upload Date: 12/14/2015 4:46:06 AM |
| Location: |
Conklin, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 6113(SD40-2) NS 3269(SD40-2) NS 6116(SD40-2) NS 8072(C30-7) |
| Views: |
975 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
River running |
| Description: |
The ex DLW south of Binghamton had some scenic places. One was near the overpass connecting NY 7 to Kirkwood near Broome Corporate Park, where we see RPPY running along the ice choked Susquehanna. |
| Photo Date: |
1/6/1990 Upload Date: 12/20/2015 3:51:13 AM |
| Location: |
Conklin, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Winter,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 6113(SD40-2) NS 3269(SD40-2) NS 6116(SD40-2) NS 8072(C30-7) |
| Views: |
939 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Four horses |
| Description: |
A quartet of NS units leads RPPY as it gets out of the south end at Terrace Dr. |
| Photo Date: |
1/6/1990 Upload Date: 12/20/2015 3:10:15 AM |
| Location: |
Binghamton, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Winter,Yard,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 6113(SD40-2) NS 3269(SD40-2) NS 6116(SD40-2) NS 8072(C30-7) |
| Views: |
937 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Signal at Stillwater |
| Description: |
Prior to CP takeover, the double track south of Binghamton extended through Conklin, almost to the PA line. The approach signal for the end of this segment was at Stillwater Rd at the far south end of Conklin. RPPY approaches at 10 MPH, slowly making its way toward Pennsyvania. |
| Photo Date: |
1/6/1990 Upload Date: 12/20/2015 3:57:39 AM |
| Location: |
Conklin, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Winter,Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 6113(SD40-2) NS 3269(SD40-2) NS 6116(SD40-2) NS 8072(C30-7) |
| Views: |
967 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Elegant scheme |
| Description: |
The Southern paint scheme was quite attractive, and lent an air of class to their operation. |
| Photo Date: |
9/11/1986 Upload Date: 12/10/2014 3:49:24 AM |
| Location: |
Elkton, VA |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
SOU 3193(SD40) NS 3276(SD40-2) SOU 3184(SD40) |
| Views: |
1619 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
Southern power rolls |
| Description: |
A set of Southern SD 40s rolls south through a pair of NW signals with a grain train on the NW Shenandoah Sub, showing the effects of the NS merger four years earlier. Long hood forward was standard practice on the Southern and N&W, so the leader is not running backward. |
| Photo Date: |
9/11/1986 Upload Date: 12/12/2014 2:32:27 AM |
| Location: |
Waynesboro, VA |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
SOU 3193(SD40) NS 3276(SD40-2) SOU 3184(SD40) |
| Views: |
16021 Comments: 3 |
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| Title: |
Rolling down the Blue Ridge |
| Description: |
A southbound grain train runs along the ex NW Shenandoah Division near Waynesboro. |
| Photo Date: |
9/11/1986 Upload Date: 12/10/2014 3:50:56 AM |
| Location: |
Waynesboro, VA |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
SOU 3193(SD40) NS 3276(SD40-2) SOU 3184(SD40) |
| Views: |
1313 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Southbound grain |
| Description: |
A mix of Southern and NS power leads a southbound grain train on the N&W Shenandoah Division |
| Photo Date: |
9/13/1986 Upload Date: 7/20/2011 1:51:51 AM |
| Location: |
Waynesboro, VA |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 3193(SD40) NS 3276(SD40-2) NS 3184(SD40) |
| Views: |
1708 Comments: 3 |
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| Title: |
BIBV |
| Description: |
While the NS was assimilating Conrail, it ran some trains between some unusual city pairs. One of them was a train that ran beteen Binghamton and Bellevue OH, seen here passing the Erie station in Owego. |
| Photo Date: |
11/24/2000 Upload Date: 1/14/2014 2:07:53 AM |
| Location: |
Owego, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 9292(C40-9W) NS 3282(SD40-2) NS 9477(C40-9W) |
| Views: |
1232 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Out of the sun |
| Description: |
An eastbound rolls 72 cars toward Bellevue, and is about to cross the B&O at Leipsic OH behind a pair of ex Soutiern units. |
| Photo Date: |
6/26/1987 Upload Date: 5/14/2015 1:24:22 AM |
| Location: |
Leipsic, OH |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 3322(SD40-2) NS 3284(SD40-2) |
| Views: |
907 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: |
1056 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Hanjin stacks |
| Description: |
The Hanjin train which originated on the NYSW and ran to Buffalo on the CP is now in NS hands for the leg to Chciago, running as train 275, today with 82 stack platforms and 10 COFC. Here is is at Blasdell, having just cleared GB, where the former NKP crossed the Eries Buffalo & Southwestern line to Jamestown. |
| Photo Date: |
5/27/1994 Upload Date: 9/18/2014 1:55:22 AM |
| Location: |
Blasdell, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 3528(B32-8) NS 3302(SD40-2) |
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| Title: |
Grab shot |
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My wife doesnt believe I get these. We were driving through Decatur AL on the way home from Georgia last weekend when I pulled up to a light on US72A. There was a crossing between me and the intersection. I looked over, expecting empty track on a Sunday afternoon. To my surprise, there was a train there. I took advantage of the slow speed to roll over the crossing, holding the camera up. I tripped the shutter as we went over the crossing, with this result. A pair of SDs are holding north of the crossing on an industrial track leading to the Nucor steel plant. |
| Photo Date: |
3/26/2017 Upload Date: 4/3/2017 4:34:09 AM |
| Location: |
Decatur, AL |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 3304(SD40-2) NS 3465(SD40-2) |
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385 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Buffalo bound |
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An eastbound train rolls under I 90 and into New York state en route to Buffalo on the old Nickel Plate. |
| Photo Date: |
11/21/2000 Upload Date: 1/14/2014 1:54:13 AM |
| Location: |
North East, PA |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 8510(C36-7) NS 3307(SD40-2) NS 2580(SD70) UP 9728(C44-9W) NS 9180(C40-9W) |
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| Title: |
Pulling from the yard |
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A westnound behind an ex NW low hood SD 40-2, followed by an ex Southern high hood unit, and a GP 50 still in Soutfern colors slowly pull out of the Ft Wayne yard and onto the westbound NKP for a run to Chicago. |
| Photo Date: |
6/26/1987 Upload Date: 5/13/2015 11:51:19 PM |
| Location: |
Fort Wayne, IN |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 6080(SD40-2) NS 3311(SD40-2) SOU 7032(GP50) |
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825 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Gaining speed |
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Thrs westbound has meft the Fort Wayne yard and is now rolling west on the ex NKP, picking up speed as it gets its 102 cars up to the allowed 60 MPH. |
| Photo Date: |
6/26/1987 Upload Date: 5/14/2015 1:10:28 AM |
| Location: |
Fort Wayne, IN |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 6080(SD40-2) NS 3311(SD40-2) SOU 7032(GP50) |
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740 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
All dressed up |
| Description: |
And going out shortly. This<ªouthern GP 50 looks sharp still in its "tuxedo" scheme, and is earning its keep. It will shortly be rolling out to Chicago with the two units behind it. |
| Photo Date: |
6/26/1987 Upload Date: 5/14/2015 1:12:24 AM |
| Location: |
Fort Wayne, IN |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Roster,Yard |
| Locomotives: |
SOU 7032(GP50) NS 3311(SD40-2) NS 6080(SD40-2) |
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783 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Big sky |
| Description: |
A pair of NS units roll east at BD with train 254X, carrying 20 stack platforms and 43 TOFC for Little Ferry. A pair of ex Southern units are doing the honors. |
| Photo Date: |
6/25/1995 Upload Date: 8/14/2014 4:03:55 AM |
| Location: |
Binghamton, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 3315(SD40-2) NS 3188(SD40) |
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750 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Clear board on 19th St |
| Description: |
HAN 1X rolls down 19th st in Erie, looking at a clear signal at the end of the street a few blocks away. It wont stop for the stop sign on the corner. |
| Photo Date: |
6/15/1991 Upload Date: 3/4/2015 4:30:50 AM |
| Location: |
Erie, PA |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 3321(SD40-2) |
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616 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Taking it to the street |
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One of the more interesting parts of the NS former Nickel Plate line was this stretch of 19th St in Erie, where the tracks ran down the middle. Im sure the residents made their peace with it, but I can imagine having a train in your front yard several times per day must have been a pest at times. Here we see HAN 1X taking a slow stroll through town with 30 platforms and 15 COFC. It would not be til 2002 that the locals would get some relief, when a connection was built to the CSX former NYC line on either end of the street running. That "89" at left is the milepost(from Buffalo), and not a house number. |
| Photo Date: |
6/15/1991 Upload Date: 3/4/2015 4:35:42 AM |
| Location: |
Erie, PA |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 3321(SD40-2) |
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728 Comments: 0 |
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