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| Title: |
Coal train |
| Description: |
Coal trains to AES Milliken Station north of Ithaca on the ex LV followed Conrails pattern in the NS era, running off the Southern Tier at Waverly onto the connection the the ex LV at Sayre, running the power around the train, then going north. Here we see a train that has just had the power cut off to change ends. Note the number boards on the lead unit, an ex LMS lease unit, with their CNJ typeface. |
| Photo Date: |
7/11/2004 Upload Date: 1/6/2013 4:11:25 AM |
| Location: |
Sayre, PA |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Roster,Yard |
| Locomotives: |
NS 8465(C40-8W) NS 9186(C40-9W) NS 2581(SD70M) |
| Views: |
980 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
13T on the Chenango |
| Description: |
13T was usually a pretty reliable afternoon arrival at Binghamton. Here it crosses the Chenango River behind a typical pair of diesels. |
| Photo Date: |
9/30/2003 Upload Date: 2/24/2013 3:46:44 AM |
| Location: |
Binghamton, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Bridge,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 2582(SD70M) NS 9504(C40-9W) |
| Views: |
451 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
H 88 |
| Description: |
H88 rolls west along a still icy Susquehanna River |
| Photo Date: |
3/10/2001 Upload Date: 12/26/2013 12:56:03 AM |
| Location: |
Campville, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Winter,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 2584(SD70M) NS 6645(SD60) |
| Views: |
695 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: |
481 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: |
855 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: |
746 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Ready to work |
| Description: |
The conductor is on deck as 31T slows for its Gang Mills work. Interesting power mix today. |
| Photo Date: |
6/20/2004 Upload Date: 11/13/2017 4:59:22 AM |
| Location: |
Gang Mills, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Yard,Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CN 5373(SD40-2) CN 5546(SD60F) CN 2656(C44-9W) NS 2588(SD70M) |
| Views: |
512 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
Catching the sun |
| Description: |
169 rolls south at Depot Hill Rd in Port Crane, its SD70M-2's catching the last rays of sun on this fall day. |
| Photo Date: |
10/28/2003 Upload Date: 6/12/2016 5:30:21 AM |
| Location: |
Port Crane, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 2601(SD70M) NS 2616(SD70M) |
| Views: |
375 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Catching the sun |
| Description: |
and hopefully not the detector. 169 rolls south past the Port Crane detector at MP 607, only a few miles left to run off to Binghamton and the NS. |
| Photo Date: |
10/28/2003 Upload Date: 1/12/2018 5:34:09 AM |
| Location: |
Port Crane, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 2601(SD70M) NS 2616(SD70M) |
| Views: |
317 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Dark power on a dark day |
| Description: |
A pair of NS units leads train 938-NS 206-across the high bridge over Wylie Creek. |
| Photo Date: |
11/25/2003 Upload Date: 4/8/2017 3:58:46 AM |
| Location: |
Harpursville, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Bridge,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 2605(SD70M) NS 8439(C40-8W) |
| Views: |
404 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
Winter on Belden Hill |
| Description: |
Winter is still officially a month away, but the scene on Belden Hill says otherwise. An over night showfall makes for Christmas card scenery as 168 rolls north at Moottown Rd with 98 cars. |
| Photo Date: |
11/25/2003 Upload Date: 4/8/2017 4:11:09 AM |
| Location: |
Tunnel, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Winter,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 2605(SD70M) NS 8439(C40-8W) |
| Views: |
451 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Climbing into the snow |
| Description: |
Train 168 rolls north at Depot Hill Rd as it gains elevation for Belden Hill. There was a dusting at Binghamton; now theres a bit more snow here at Port Crane. It will be absolutely wintry at the tunnel. |
| Photo Date: |
11/25/2003 Upload Date: 4/8/2017 4:18:42 AM |
| Location: |
Tunnel, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Winter,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 2605(SD70M) NS 8439(C40-8W) |
| Views: |
426 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Rolling north |
| Description: |
NS 2605 leads train 168 under the signal at Afton as it heads for a connection with the B&M at Mohawk, and the end of its run at Kenwood yard in Albany. |
| Photo Date: |
11/25/2003 Upload Date: 2/24/2013 3:09:13 AM |
| Location: |
Afton, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Winter,Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 2605(SD70M) NS 8439(C40-8W) |
| Views: |
501 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Black and white |
| Description: |
Well, not really, the ex CR unit and some containers break it up, but thats most of the color on this gloomy winter day as 168 heads north at Depot Hill Rd |
| Photo Date: |
11/25/2003 Upload Date: 2/24/2013 3:11:11 AM |
| Location: |
Port Crane, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Winter,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 2605(SD70M) NS 8439(C40-8W) |
| Views: |
510 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Special train |
| Description: |
Binghamton was host to 2004s TRANSCAER meeting, a training event where first responders are trained in railroad practices and hazmat response. NS ran an office car train to the event, seen here on the ex DLW side while attendees are at the event. We didnt rate the F units, but we did get a pair of really clean SDs. The Siemens Exider train sits in the yard in the background. |
| Photo Date: |
6/30/2004 Upload Date: 6/5/2017 5:17:16 AM |
| Location: |
Binghamton, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Roster,Yard,Station |
| Locomotives: |
NS 2607(SD70M) NS 2616(SD70M) |
| Views: |
385 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
UP under a big sky |
| Description: |
Not the Montana big sky, but Oklahoma. Two trains under some big clouds are on the ex MKT. |
| Photo Date: |
8/1/2008 Upload Date: 8/8/2016 3:53:57 AM |
| Location: |
McAlester, OK |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
UP 7711(AC45CCTE) UP 4945(SD70M) NS 2613(SD70M) UP 8411(SD70ACe) |
| Views: |
398 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Crossing the Rock |
| Description: |
A northbound UP train on the ex MKT approaches the diamond for the one time Rock Island Choctaw Route, now the Arkansas & Oklahoma, seen in the foreground. AOK runs the line from here to a connection with the KCS at Howe. They subsequently acquired most of the right of way from here to Seminole and OKC. I'd love to see an MKT switcher squealing around that connecting track with a cut for the Rock, or a Rock GP 7 doing the same for the Katy. |
| Photo Date: |
8/1/2008 Upload Date: 8/8/2016 3:56:48 AM |
| Location: |
McAlester, OK |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
UP 7711(AC45CCTE) UP 4945(SD70M) NS 2613(SD70M) UP 8411(SD70ACe) |
| Views: |
388 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
13T undecorated |
| Description: |
NS was taking delivery of new power in the early years of the 2000 decade. Rather than have the builders paint it, they would take delivery "undecorated" and paint the units as they came through the shops in Altoona and Chattanooga. This resulted in quite a few units running around in primer for several months. Here a pair of them leads 13T at the old DLW station. |
| Photo Date: |
6/17/2003 Upload Date: 8/4/2013 3:31:32 AM |
| Location: |
Binghamton, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 2619(SD70M) NS 2618(SD70M) |
| Views: |
606 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Coal train on the move |
| Description: |
A New England bound coal train, symbolled 532 on NS, with the typical run through NS power is heading onto the Buffalo Runner and making for the hill. |
| Photo Date: |
1/12/2006 Upload Date: 11/4/2012 3:23:14 AM |
| Location: |
Binghamton, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 9403(C40-9W) NS 9682(C40-9W) NS 2622(SD70M) |
| Views: |
485 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Still Southern |
| Description: |
NS has been replacing the old signals on its various lines with new PTC compatible signals, but there are places where the old ones remain. One such place is Bremen GA, on the old Southern line to Birmingham. I had gone there to catch the Crescent, but it did not show by dark. Amazing how a train can lose so much time so quickly. |
| Photo Date: |
9/15/2018 Upload Date: 10/14/2018 5:11:13 AM |
| Location: |
Bremen, GA |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 2630(SD70M) UP 2742(ES44AC-H) |
| Views: |
245 Comments: 2 |
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| 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: |
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| Locomotives: |
NS 2633(SD70M) NS 2515(SD70) NS 9156(C40-9W) |
| Views: |
977 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
H 88 in the corn |
| Description: |
H 88 rolls through the corn at Miller Beach Rd, making a late afternoon dash for Gang Mills |
| Photo Date: |
6/29/2005 Upload Date: 9/1/2017 1:15:16 AM |
| Location: |
Owego, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 2635(SD70M) NS 2648(SD70M) |
| Views: |
367 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Flowery river running |
| Description: |
H 88 along the Susquehanna River between Campville and Owego. The hillside there has a variety of flowers, often making for a pretty scene, though the trees have by this time grown up so much that river views are a challenge in the summer. Its still a pretty spot. The power is not unusual, except that it was more typically GE's. To my 1970's mind, locals usually got smaller power, mostly 4 axle, though in today's world, there isn't much of that left. Today we have a pair of the newest and best first tier power on a job that essentially runs NYSW and CP interchange to Binghamton from Gang Mills. |
| Photo Date: |
6/29/2005 Upload Date: 9/1/2017 1:18:58 AM |
| Location: |
Campville, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 2635(SD70M) NS 2648(SD70M) |
| Views: |
367 Comments: 1 |
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