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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:  661   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:  842   Comments: 0
Rolling hard
Title:  Rolling hard
Description:  Actually, this is one of the slower parts of the Transcon across the Texas panhandle. There is a hilly segment near Canadian, where the line crosses the Canadian River and its valley, making for some hard pulls. This 89 platform eastbound looks like it will make the grade.
Photo Date:  3/15/2009  Upload Date: 8/25/2016 3:51:42 AM
Location:  Canadian, TX
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 7207(ES44DC) CN 2562(C44-9W) NS 2502(SD70) NS 7523(ES40DC)
Views:  745   Comments: 0
Off into the range
Title:  Off into the range
Description:  An eastbound stack train rolls away from the camera as it moves out into the range country of the Texas panhandle.
Photo Date:  3/15/2009  Upload Date: 8/25/2016 3:54:09 AM
Location:  Canadian, TX
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  UP 7207(AC44CW) CN 2562(C44-9W) NS 2502(SD70) NS 7523(ES44DC)
Views:  720   Comments: 0
87T at Conklin yard
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:  1353   Comments: 0
Heading north
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:  1234   Comments: 0
13T
Title:  13T
Description:  13T rolls east on single track where there was once two tracks and a semaphore. Three ex CR units, two "heritage" units before heritage units were cool, lead 51 cars
Photo Date:  2/9/2004  Upload Date: 1/19/2013 2:52:30 AM
Location:  Waverly, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Winter,Action
Locomotives:  NS 8328(C40-8W) NS 2507(SD70) NS 8308(C40-8)
Views:  1101   Comments: 0
Peeking through the weeds
Title:  Peeking through the weeds
Description:  13T approaches Endicott, seen through the overgrowth near the NY 17C overpass. Todays leader is a BNSF GE, with four NS units, to make sure they make Allentown with their 31 cars. This train was usually a good bet for something unusual.
Photo Date:  6/9/2006  Upload Date: 6/22/2016 4:46:26 AM
Location:  Endicott, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Signal,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 4765(C44-9W) NS 2519(SD70) NS 9074(C40-9W) NS 8564(C39-8) NS 2510(SD70)
Views:  1110   Comments: 1
Still kicking
Title:  Still kicking
Description:  An ex CR C40-8 still in blue leads this 29 car 12T along North St in Endicott on a snowy day.
Photo Date:  1/15/2003  Upload Date: 2/10/2017 3:07:57 AM
Location:  Endicott, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Winter,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  NS 8301(C40-8) NS 2512(SD70) NS 9030(C40-9W)
Views:  908   Comments: 3
Big 12T
Title:  Big 12T
Description:  A four unit set of six axles leads 95 cars of 12T under the Apalachin-Campville connector.
Photo Date:  7/23/2003  Upload Date: 2/18/2017 4:58:10 AM
Location:  Campville, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  NS 2515(SD70) NS 2518(SD70) NS 9640(C40-9W) NS 9002(C40-9W)
Views:  1261   Comments: 0
Undecorated
Title:  Undecorated
Description:  Athearn didn't know what they were starting when they offered their locomotive models unpainted as well as in typical road names. The prototype railroads got in on the act too. Here in a scene where life imitates art, a new NS SD70M-2 in primer leads 412 south out of Binghamton. It will get painted at either Altoona or Chattanooga as it comes in for service.
Photo Date:  1/27/2005  Upload Date: 11/25/2012 3:05:26 AM
Location:  Conklin, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories: 
Locomotives:  NS 2633(SD70M) NS 2515(SD70) NS 9156(C40-9W)
Views:  1399   Comments: 1
13T
Title:  13T
Description:  13T rolls east at Waverly behind a typical mix of power, which today includes a GP 50, and a whopping 17 cars.
Photo Date:  10/17/2003  Upload Date: 2/24/2013 3:35:24 AM
Location:  Waverly, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  NS 2516(SD70) NS 2560(SD70) NS 6518(SD60) NS 7068(GP50)
Views:  1159   Comments: 0
268 gets underway
Title:  268 gets underway
Description:  268 behind a pair of NS units starts from the Buffalo Runner, and will soon be at CPF 611 and on its way to Kenwood
Photo Date:  4/21/2002  Upload Date: 10/6/2013 11:05:35 PM
Location:  Binghamton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  NS 2522(SD70) NS 9352(C40-9W)
Views:  787   Comments: 0
Local power
Title:  Local power
Description:  Where Conrail always used 4 motor units for its WABH11 local, NS used 6 axle units on the counterpart to that train, H 01. Typically that would be a GE, but sometimes it was other power. This weeks choice is a standard cab SD70, seen along Court St at BD.
Photo Date:  8/16/2002  Upload Date: 9/22/2013 2:58:38 AM
Location:  Binghamton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  NS 2530(SD70)
Views:  541   Comments: 0
Taylor pick up
Title:  Taylor pick up
Description:  The power from 205 has picked up its CP connection from Taylor yard near Scranton and is now returnng to its train to head west to Buffalo.
Photo Date:  2/22/2002  Upload Date: 10/6/2013 4:48:44 AM
Location:  Binghamton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  NS 9147(C40-9W) NS 2538(SD70)
Views:  899   Comments: 0
269 snowy bridge scene
Title:  269 snowy bridge scene
Description:  269 crosses the stone arch bridge over NY 7 on a snowy day.
Photo Date:  12/9/2001  Upload Date: 10/27/2013 1:59:57 AM
Location:  Sanitaria Springs, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Bridge,Winter,Action
Locomotives:  NS 8944(C40-9W) NS 2546(SD70)
Views:  792   Comments: 0
412
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:  1106   Comments: 0
Covered with flowers
Title:  Covered with flowers
Description:  The daisies are in bloom, must be June as 205 rolls past MP 231 approaching Owego.
Photo Date:  6/19/2001  Upload Date: 12/15/2013 2:31:42 AM
Location:  Campville, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  NS 9099(C40-9W) NS 2548(SD70)
Views:  927   Comments: 2
205 west
Title:  205 west
Description:  205 is about to pass under the US 220 bridge at the west end of Waverly. This shot gives a view of how things changed there in the previous decade. The train is on the original #1 track. The roadbed for track 2 is visible as the overgrown section to the right of the train, then as a tail track for the Leprino Foods siding. Part of their former siding is seen in the bushes to the far right. The red building at far left is approximately the site of the Erie station, which was demolished by a 1967 derailment. The connection to the ex Lehigh Valley is about where the overpass is in the distance.
Photo Date:  6/19/2001  Upload Date: 12/15/2013 2:38:59 AM
Location:  Waverly, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  NS 9099(C40-9W) NS 2548(SD70)
Views:  907   Comments: 1
205
Title:  205
Description:  205 passes the rock cut at Wellsburg, about 7 miles east of Elmira. The shale rock formation on the right is typical of the area.
Photo Date:  7/24/2001  Upload Date: 12/15/2013 2:41:39 AM
Location:  Wellsburg, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  NS 9099(C40-9W) NS 2548(SD70)
Views:  829   Comments: 0
Under the lights
Title:  Under the lights
Description:  I spent an afternoon at Dalton GA, where NS crosses CSX. Ip was a fairly busy day, and the sun actually came out for a while. During that stretch, I caught this southbound freight behind a standard cab SD 70 rolling 46 cars under the signalu for the diamond, which is just to the north.
Photo Date:  9/17/2018  Upload Date: 10/14/2018 5:02:18 AM
Location:  Dalton, GA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Signal,Action
Locomotives:  NS 2551(SD70) NS 7650(ES40DC)
Views:  247   Comments: 2
Local meets a big train
Title:  Local meets a big train
Description:  D 22 is in the siding at Afton as 8858 rolls past with 90 or so cars for New England.
Photo Date:  5/16/2004  Upload Date: 6/7/2017 4:52:49 AM
Location:  Afton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  NS 9224(C40-9W) NS 8988(C40-9W) NS 8403(C40-8W) NS 2554(SD70) CP 8230(GP9u) CP 8227(GP9u)
Views:  1372   Comments: 0
Coal by the plant
Title:  Coal by the plant
Description:  An 8858 coal train rolls north past the Jennison generating station, now closed, but once a D&H customer.
Photo Date:  5/16/2004  Upload Date: 6/7/2017 4:49:14 AM
Location:  Bainbridge, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  NS 9224(C40-9W) NS 8988(C40-9W) NS 8403(C40-8W) NS 2554(SD70)
Views:  1107   Comments: 0
Wide view
Title:  Wide view
Description:  The view from NY 7 just south of where it passes over the D&H is especially panoramic. We see 8858 rolling north, the Jennison plant now in the distance.
Photo Date:  5/16/2004  Upload Date: 6/7/2017 4:57:05 AM
Location:  Bainbridge, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  NS 9224(C40-9W) NS 8988(C40-9W) NS 8403(C40-8W) NS 2554(SD70)
Views:  1187   Comments: 0
Into the shadows
Title:  Into the shadows
Description:  I chased the coal train to Otego, where I caught it off the I 88 access at exit 12. The sun was getting low, and I was dodging shadows, just able to get one more shot of the northbound.
Photo Date:  5/16/2004  Upload Date: 6/7/2017 5:00:11 AM
Location:  Otego, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  NS 9224(C40-9W) NS 8988(C40-9W) NS 2554(SD70) NS 8403(C40-8W)
Views:  1074   Comments: 0
Holding the main
Title:  Holding the main
Description:  Empty coal train 8859 holds the main as it rolls through CPF 648. An unusual pair of UP GEs lead four NS units.
Photo Date:  12/5/2004  Upload Date: 10/6/2017 3:19:13 AM
Location:  Hop Bottom, PA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  UP 7262(AC44CW) UP 5980(AC44CWCTE) NS 2554(SD70) NS 8959(C40-9W) NS 8789(C40-9) NS 9889(C40-9W)
Views:  1301   Comments: 0
On high
Title:  On high
Description:  Not as high as it will be in a few minutes, though. Train 8859 rolls across Martins Creek Viaduct behind a pair of UP and four NS units. It will be on Tunkhannock in about ten minutes.
Photo Date:  12/5/2004  Upload Date: 10/6/2017 3:58:46 AM
Location:  Kingsley, PA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Bridge,Action
Locomotives:  UP 7262(AC44CW) UP 5980(AC44CWCTE) NS 2554(SD70) NS 8959(C40-9W) NS 8789(C40-9) NS 9889(C40-9W)
Views:  1239   Comments: 0
Not so summery
Title:  Not so summery
Description:  Empty coal train 8859 skirts a snowy field at Summersville, between Hallstead and New Milford.
Photo Date:  12/5/2004  Upload Date: 10/6/2017 4:06:27 AM
Location:  Summersville, PA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Winter,Action
Locomotives:  UP 7262(AC44CW) UP 5980(AC44CWCTE) NS 2554(SD70) NS 8959(C40-9W) NS 8789(C40-9) NS 9889(C40-9W)
Views:  1158   Comments: 0
Southbound empty coal
Title:  Southbound empty coal
Description:  From time to time, NS would send coal to the D&H via Harrisburg. On CP these would be symbolled 8858 north and 8859 south, with varying symbols on NS, though Ive seen 87T and 88T used. Here we see one of the 8859 trains crossing "baby Tunkhannock" more properly known as Martins Creek Viaduct south of Kingsley PA, with a pair of UP leaders.
Photo Date:  6/20/2005  Upload Date: 11/25/2012 3:48:36 AM
Location:  Kingsley, PA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Bridge,Action
Locomotives:  UP 7262(AC44CW) UP 5980(AC44CWCTE) NS 2554(SD70) NS 8959(C40-9W) NS 8789(C40-9) NS 9889(C40-9W)
Views:  1278   Comments: 0
Rolling past the vineyards
Title:  Rolling past the vineyards
Description:  A westbound train crosses into Pennsylvania, rolling through the vineyards that are common along Lake Erie.
Photo Date:  11/21/2000  Upload Date: 1/14/2014 1:54:15 AM
Location:  North East, PA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  NS 9031(C40-9W) NS 9274(C40-9W) NS 2568(SD70)
Views:  930   Comments: 0
Southbound
Title:  Southbound
Description:  A southbound train is holed up short of the farm crossing at Afton waiting on a recrew. Quite the power mix. One oddity of the CR split was the chance to see Conrail power on the D&H, almost unheard of prior to that time.
Photo Date:  7/1/1999  Upload Date: 3/3/2014 1:37:13 AM
Location:  Afton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  NS 2569(SD70) NS 8634(C39-8) SOO 6037(SD60) CP 5633(SD40-2)
Views:  1068   Comments: 1
Late 205
Title:  Late 205
Description:  A late running previous days 205 heads west across the Chenango River
Photo Date:  2/26/2004  Upload Date: 1/19/2013 2:30:50 AM
Location:  Binghamton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Bridge,Winter,Action
Locomotives:  NS 2571(SD70) NS 8318(C40-8W)
Views:  804   Comments: 0
Into the sun
Title:  Into the sun
Description:  Train 205 rolls around the big curve at MP 231 and into the setting sun with 112 cars.
Photo Date:  8/2/2004  Upload Date: 11/5/2017 3:05:52 AM
Location:  Campville, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  NS 9541(C40-9W) NS 2573(SD70)
Views:  558   Comments: 1
Coming at you
Title:  Coming at you
Description:  Train 205 rolls west into the sun at Miller Beach Rd.
Photo Date:  8/9/2004  Upload Date: 11/5/2017 3:12:49 AM
Location:  Owego, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  NS 9541(C40-9W) NS 2573(SD70)
Views:  657   Comments: 0
931
Title:  931
Description:  931, NS 31T,(had been rerouted to Montreal, and now was using the D&H north of Binghamton. Here we see it in the classic high bridge shot at Harpursville.
Photo Date:  11/25/2005  Upload Date: 1/11/2014 3:01:53 AM
Location:  Harpursville, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Bridge,Action
Locomotives:  NS 2575(SD70) CN 5354(SD40-2W)
Views:  570   Comments: 0
Buffalo bound
Title:  Buffalo bound
Description:  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)
Views:  1288   Comments: 2
Unusual power
Title:  Unusual power
Description:  Its typical to see the home road power on its own trains, but on this train, 41T, thats more of an anomaly than common occurrence. 41T is a run through with CN that almost always gets CN power. The southbound edition, 40T, must have gotten into Enola too late to turn the power for 41T, or there was another problem somewhere, resulting in a set of NS power on the train today, seen at QD yard for a crew change. An added surprise is the CR painted straight SD 70.
Photo Date:  11/4/2003  Upload Date: 6/16/2016 4:08:33 AM
Location:  Binghamton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  NS 9427(C40-9W) NS 9003(C40-9W) NS 2580(SD70)
Views:  759   Comments: 0
Full set
Title:  Full set
Description:  The full set of power on todays 41T, an uncommon all NS consist. More unusual is the CR straight SD 70 that trails. Those units were bought with the CR split in mind, and numbered into the NS numbering plan, hence no "patch" on the numbers, making for a pure looking unit.
Photo Date:  11/4/2003  Upload Date: 1/12/2018 4:45:54 AM
Location:  Binghamton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  NS 9427(C40-9W) NS 9003(C40-9W) NS 2580(SD70)
Views:  731   Comments: 0
Wintry scene
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:  846   Comments: 0

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