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5/20/2024
 
 
 
 
 
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Slugging it out
Title:  Slugging it out
Description:  An SD 40 and slug cut down from an FM Trainmaster work at Lamberts Point coal yard.
Photo Date:  5/9/1985  Upload Date: 10/1/2014 1:53:36 AM
Location:  Lamberts Point, VA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  NS 1584(SD40) NW 9918(RP-F6Y)
Views:  552   Comments: 0
Southern connection
Title:  Southern connection
Description:  Train 555, the former PYRP, rolls north at Nicholson. Three NS units trail the GATX leaser, typical for this train south of Binghamton, with 101 cars. The train will be worked at Binghamton, and CP power will take it to St Luc.
Photo Date:  9/14/1991  Upload Date: 2/21/2015 3:52:53 AM
Location:  Nicholson, PA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  GATX 2004(SD40-2) NS 1589(SD40) NS 7035(GP50) NS 6105(SD40-2)
Views:  720   Comments: 0
Fords east
Title:  Fords east
Description:  BFOA, the Bellevue OH-Ayer Mass train run with NS that delivered Ford finished autos to the ramp there is seen passing through Canaseraga. The Erie built some interesting right of way, including here, where the eastbound track is higher than the westbound. BFOA starts into the higher segment as it leaves the east end of town.
Photo Date:  6/18/1987  Upload Date: 5/4/2015 1:32:38 AM
Location:  Canaseraga, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  NS 8052(C30-7) NS 1604(SD40) DH 651(U33C)
Views:  668   Comments: 0
Fords in the field
Title:  Fords in the field
Description:  Run through train BFOA rolls 94 cars through the farmland near Garwoods as it makes its way to Binghamton and on to New England.
Photo Date:  6/18/1987  Upload Date: 5/4/2015 1:34:53 AM
Location:  Garwoods, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  NS 8052(C30-7) NS 1604(SD40) DH 651(U33C)
Views:  563   Comments: 0
Drag race
Title:  Drag race
Description:  Not quite. Though it is good to see trains on the Erie and DLW sides at the same time. WABH 11 is on the Erie, heading to Kirkwood, while Guilfords BFOA heads for East Binghamton yard on the ex DLW.
Photo Date:  5/15/1987  Upload Date: 4/24/2015 2:30:33 AM
Location:  Binghamton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CR 8211(GP38-2) NS 3268(SD40-2) NS 1609(SD40)
Views:  558   Comments: 3
BFOA covers the bases
Title:  BFOA covers the bases
Description:  BFOA rolls past BD with a pair of NS units from both components. The leader is ex Southern, the trailing unit is ex NW. This was a run through train to Ayer Mass from Bellevue OH carrying primarily Fords to the ramp at Ayer. CRs WABH 11 is at right.
Photo Date:  5/15/1987  Upload Date: 4/24/2015 3:02:06 AM
Location:  Binghamton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Signal,Action
Locomotives:  NS 3268(SD40-2) NS 1609(SD40)
Views:  371   Comments: 0
Over the river and into town
Title:  Over the river and into town
Description:  Guilford BFOA rolls across the Chenango River on the ex DLW as it goes downtown on its way to E Binghamton yard with 67 cars.
Photo Date:  5/15/1987  Upload Date: 4/24/2015 2:57:47 AM
Location:  Binghamton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Bridge,Action
Locomotives:  NS 3268(SD40-2) NS 1609(SD40)
Views:  265   Comments: 0
Coal meets cars
Title:  Coal meets cars
Description:  Conrails empty coal train meets BFOA on the Chenango River bridges. The CR train is on the former Erie, while BFOA is rolling toward E Binghamton yard on the ex DLW.
Photo Date:  5/15/1987  Upload Date: 4/24/2015 2:50:56 AM
Location:  Binghamton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Bridge,Action
Locomotives:  CR 1966(B23-7) CR 6617(C32-8) NS 3268(SD40-2) NS 1609(SD40)
Views:  659   Comments: 1
Quad 5
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:  581   Comments: 0
H 11 at historic station
Title:  H 11 at historic station
Description:  H 11 sits at the ex LV station in Sayre PA, once a busy division point on the Lehigh Valley, now just a backwater of a large system. The station has ahd several incarnations as a restaurant over the years. Most, even the good ones, dont seem to make it. Today's train has a varied menu, however, with a former NW short hood SD40-2, and an ex Southern hi hood SD40.
Photo Date:  6/1/2002  Upload Date: 9/22/2013 3:06:03 AM
Location:  Sayre, PA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Action
Locomotives:  NS 6158(SD40-2) NS 3180(SD40)
Views:  601   Comments: 0
Southbound grain
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:  1235   Comments: 3
Big sky
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)
Views:  408   Comments: 0
Right at home
Title:  Right at home
Description:  An ex Southern hi hood SD40 works near Charlotte, long hood forward as Southern and God intended.
Photo Date:  5/16/1996  Upload Date: 5/8/2014 2:22:28 AM
Location:  Charlotte, NC
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  NS 3196(SD40)
Views:  300   Comments: 1


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