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5/4/2024
 
 
 
 
 
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Pigs west
Title:  Pigs west
Description:  A westbound Conrail van train readies to leave Harrisburg ramp on the ex Pennsy. It will soon be on the Rockville bridge and headed over the Middle Division
Photo Date:  9/2/1998  Upload Date: 3/15/2014 1:46:30 AM
Location:  Harrisburg, PA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  CR 5637(SD60I) CR 5575(SD60I)
Views:  395   Comments: 0
Yes its really April
Title:  Yes its really April
Description:  April in the Tier just means it doesnt snow quite so much. Heres TV 202 with 96 platforms rolling into Endicott in a wintry scene.
Photo Date:  4/8/1995  Upload Date: 8/17/2014 3:30:54 AM
Location:  Endicott, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Winter,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  CR 6773(SD50) CR 6115(C40-8W) CR 5576(SD60I)
Views:  388   Comments: 0
Coming...
Title:  Coming...
Description:  TV 203K arrives at Dewitt, where it will cut off its train and go in for a pick up.
Photo Date:  3/18/1995  Upload Date: 8/26/2014 3:06:38 AM
Location:  Syracuse (Dewitt), NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Station,Action
Locomotives:  CR 6745(SD50) CR 5579(SD60I)
Views:  317   Comments: 0
...and going
Title:  ...and going
Description:  TV 203K has made its pick up and is now ready to head west.
Photo Date:  3/18/1995  Upload Date: 8/26/2014 3:11:15 AM
Location:  Syracuse (Dewitt), NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Station,Action
Locomotives:  CR 6745(SD50) CR 5579(SD60I)
Views:  286   Comments: 0
TV 13
Title:  TV 13
Description:  TV 13s power has cut off the train and is going into the yard for a pick up.
Photo Date:  3/18/1995  Upload Date: 8/26/2014 2:55:30 AM
Location:  Syracuse (Dewitt), NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  CR 5583(SD60I) CR 6226(C40-8W) CR 6834(SD50)
Views:  420   Comments: 0
TV 261
Title:  TV 261
Description:  Conrail was an intermodal leader in the east, and ran quite a few Trailvan trains, such as this TV 261 passing the 1957 Syracuse station in Dewitt with 145 stack platforms and 10 COFC
Photo Date:  10/18/1995  Upload Date: 8/7/2014 2:46:18 PM
Location:  Syracuse (Dewitt), NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Station,Action
Locomotives:  CR 5594(SD60I) CR 6745(SD50)
Views:  263   Comments: 0
CR 5594 broadside
Title:  CR 5594 broadside
Description:  Heres one for the modelers, a broadside view of a Conrail SD60I, seen at Dewitt yard leading TV 261
Photo Date:  10/18/1995  Upload Date: 8/7/2014 2:50:14 PM
Location:  Syracuse (Dewitt), NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  CR 5594(SD60I)
Views:  225   Comments: 0
TV 261 meets TV 204
Title:  TV 261 meets TV 204
Description:  Sometimes trains working Dewitt took a while to get out on the road, as Conrail had a lot of traffic. Here TV 261 waits as TV 204 rolls east. It will also hold for TVLA and ML 403
Photo Date:  10/18/1995  Upload Date: 8/10/2014 3:05:57 AM
Location:  Syracuse (Dewitt), NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Action
Locomotives:  CR 5594(SD60I) CR 6745(SD50)
Views:  282   Comments: 0
ML 403 passes
Title:  ML 403 passes
Description:  TV 261 is still waiting to get back on the main with his 145 stack platforms and 10 COFC as ML 403 passes the station with 96 auto racks
Photo Date:  10/18/1995  Upload Date: 8/10/2014 3:10:33 AM
Location:  Syracuse (Dewitt), NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Action
Locomotives:  CR 5624(SD60I) CR 6799(SD50) CR 6745(SD50) CR 5594(SD60I)
Views:  415   Comments: 3
TVLA passes
Title:  TVLA passes
Description:  TV 261 cant get a break, now TVLA is passing.
Photo Date:  10/18/1995  Upload Date: 8/10/2014 3:13:32 AM
Location:  Syracuse (Dewitt), NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Action
Locomotives:  CR 6777(SD50) CR 5641(SD60I) CR 6745(SD50) CR 5594(SD60I) CR 5628(SD60I)
Views:  505   Comments: 1
BRSE7X
Title:  BRSE7X
Description:  A merchandise train that originated off the Belt Railway of Chicago passes Dewitt and TV 261 on its way to Selkirk. This was one of the few freights in the parade of intermodal trains that day.
Photo Date:  10/18/1995  Upload Date: 8/7/2014 3:13:18 PM
Location:  Syracuse (Dewitt), NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Action
Locomotives:  CR 6828(SD50) CR 5594(SD60I)
Views:  296   Comments: 0
Heading straight on for you
Title:  Heading straight on for you
Description:  TV 202 rolls right under my spot on the NY 17C bridge. The new bridge has a chain link fence that can be worked around, but its not as good as the old bridge, which had no fence. It also had no shoulder....
Photo Date:  6/17/1995  Upload Date: 8/16/2014 2:15:12 AM
Location:  Endicott, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  CR 6175(C40-8W) CR 5598(SD60I) CR 3355(GP40-2)
Views:  449   Comments: 3
Late sun ML 440
Title:  Late sun ML 440
Description:  ML 440 rolls toward the NY 17C overpass with 108 racks as the sun fades
Photo Date:  6/17/1995  Upload Date: 8/16/2014 2:12:47 AM
Location:  Endicott, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  CR 5599(SD60I) LMS 711(C40-8W) CR 6767(SD50)
Views:  428   Comments: 0
Stacks east
Title:  Stacks east
Description:  An eastbound stack train rolls through CP 293 behind an SD60I and an ex LMS unit now owned by Conrail
Photo Date:  8/27/1996  Upload Date: 5/5/2014 4:23:06 AM
Location:  SYRACUSE (CP293), NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CR 5601(SD60I) CR 745(C40-8W)
Views:  411   Comments: 0
Westbound stacks
Title:  Westbound stacks
Description:  A mixed pair of units leads a TV 201 west at CP 293, with the Syracuse skyline in the background.
Photo Date:  8/1/1997  Upload Date: 3/24/2014 1:42:00 AM
Location:  SYRACUSE (CP293), NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  CR 6216(C40-8W) CR 5602(SD60I)
Views:  294   Comments: 1
Splitting the signals
Title:  Splitting the signals
Description:  A westbound intermodal train hammers past the signals at Memphis.
Photo Date:  6/22/1997  Upload Date: 3/30/2014 5:19:17 AM
Location:  Memphis, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  CR 5604(SD60I)
Views:  186   Comments: 0
TV 204
Title:  TV 204
Description:  TV 204 was an eastbound APL train, once a regular on the Southern Tier, now shifted to the Chicago and River Lines since the tunnel under West Point was enlarged. Here it is passing Dewitt with 105 platforms
Photo Date:  10/18/1995  Upload Date: 8/7/2014 2:54:15 PM
Location:  Syracuse (Dewitt), NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Station,Action
Locomotives:  CR 5606(SD60I) CR 3395(GP40-2) CR 5645(SD60I)
Views:  386   Comments: 1
ML 440
Title:  ML 440
Description:  Shortly after TV 202 passed, we see why it was on track 1: ML 440 rolls in with 79 auto racks, dropping the semaphore to horizontal.
Photo Date:  5/21/1995  Upload Date: 8/16/2014 2:11:14 AM
Location:  Endicott, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  CR 5608(SD60I) CR 5552(SD60M) CR 6852(SD60)
Views:  389   Comments: 1
Old relic
Title:  Old relic
Description:  There were a number of Erie semaphores east of Waverly on the Tier even after some improvements. This one would last into NS. In June 1995 it was passed by a UNE train runnng wrong main.
Photo Date:  6/29/1995  Upload Date: 8/14/2014 3:47:34 AM
Location:  Waverly, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  CR 6240(C40-8W) CR 5609(SD60I)
Views:  234   Comments: 0
Past the blade
Title:  Past the blade
Description:  A UNE enpty coal train from Johnson City rolls wrong main past the Erie semaphore at Barton with 91 cars.
Photo Date:  6/29/1995  Upload Date: 8/14/2014 3:49:02 AM
Location:  Barton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  CR 6240(C40-8W) CR 5609(SD60I)
Views:  285   Comments: 2
Rolling along the interstate
Title:  Rolling along the interstate
Description:  A "hold up the camera and pray" shot along I 90 on the east side of Cleveland.
Photo Date:  3/20/1999  Upload Date: 3/4/2014 1:00:04 AM
Location:  Cleveland, OH
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CR 5615(SD60I) CR 6623(C36-7)
Views:  346   Comments: 1
Westbound
Title:  Westbound
Description:  Another westbound Trailvan passes the Dewitt station with 62 trailer flats.
Photo Date:  10/18/1995  Upload Date: 8/7/2014 2:56:42 PM
Location:  Syracuse (Dewitt), NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Action
Locomotives:  CR 5618(SD60I) CR 6083(C40-8W)
Views:  227   Comments: 1
Westbound stacks
Title:  Westbound stacks
Description:  A westbound stack train rolls into Cleveland with a typical mix of Conrail power and a healthy number of JB Hunt boxes.
Photo Date:  6/21/1996  Upload Date: 2/27/2012 12:29:47 AM
Location:  Cleveland, OH
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CR 5621(SD60I) CR 5034(B36-7) CR 6142(C40-8W)
Views:  441   Comments: 0
Autos
Title:  Autos
Description:  Conrail, in addition to the extensive Trailvan network, also ran a comprehensive set of automotive trains. This is one of the empties, ML 403, is heading from New Jersey to the Detroit area with 96 empty racks.
Photo Date:  10/18/1995  Upload Date: 8/7/2014 2:59:25 PM
Location:  Syracuse (Dewitt), NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Action
Locomotives:  CR 5624(SD60I) CR 6799(SD50)
Views:  222   Comments: 1
Hot train
Title:  Hot train
Description:  One of the hottest trains on the system was TVLA, a through connection to Santa Fe that became their 198 train to Los Angeles. Together, CR and ATSF combined for a transit of apporximately 76 hours coast to coast. This one is a big train, 91 trailer flats for the Santa Fe. Check out the Saab in the parking lot.
Photo Date:  10/18/1995  Upload Date: 8/7/2014 3:05:47 PM
Location:  Syracuse (Dewitt), NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Action
Locomotives:  CR 6777(SD50) CR 5641(SD60I) CR 5628(SD60I)
Views:  373   Comments: 0
Rack train heads for Selkirk
Title:  Rack train heads for Selkirk
Description:  An eastbound auto rack train has cleared Syracuse and rolls for Selkirk yard
Photo Date:  3/6/1996  Upload Date: 5/15/2014 3:14:58 PM
Location:  Kirkville, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CR 5642(SD60I) CR 6073(C40-8W)
Views:  366   Comments: 0
Westbound on the east side
Title:  Westbound on the east side
Description:  I was amking a pick up on the east side of Cleveland one day. The shipper was on the Cleveland Line, so I got a pretty good show. Heres one of the performers
Photo Date:  6/21/1996  Upload Date: 5/8/2014 3:31:51 AM
Location:  Cleveland, OH
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CR 5654(SD60I) CR 6008(C39-8)
Views:  372   Comments: 1
QD action
Title:  QD action
Description:  205 gets ready to go west while the power from H01 watches from the yard.
Photo Date:  3/10/2002  Upload Date: 10/13/2013 4:04:55 AM
Location:  Binghamton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  NS 9452(C40-9W) NS 6722(SD60I) NS 9374(C40-9W)
Views:  742   Comments: 0
Tiptoe through the tulips
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:  291   Comments: 0
205
Title:  205
Description:  NS 205 gets started across the Chenango River en route to Buffalo. The Derby Knitting Mill, to the right of the train, burned to the ground in 2011
Photo Date:  1/6/2002  Upload Date: 10/18/2013 1:50:13 AM
Location:  Binghamton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Bridge,Winter,Action
Locomotives:  NS 9452(C40-9W) NS 6732(SD60I)
Views:  608   Comments: 0
268
Title:  268
Description:  268 rolls north behind an ex CR unit, back when heritage units were ones that had just not been repainted.
Photo Date:  1/9/2002  Upload Date: 10/21/2013 11:58:33 PM
Location:  Bainbridge, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  NS 6732(SD60I) NS 9542(C40-9W)
Views:  438   Comments: 0
268
Title:  268
Description:  268 rolls past the freight house at Unadilla
Photo Date:  1/9/2002  Upload Date: 10/22/2013 12:00:26 AM
Location:  Unadilla, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  NS 6732(SD60I) NS 9452(C40-9W)
Views:  421   Comments: 1
12T
Title:  12T
Description:  12T usually got out of Binghamton early in the day, and if you had time, you could chase it a long way. Here we see it at Cameron along the Canisteo River with 77 cars and a "heritage" unit leading.
Photo Date:  8/24/2003  Upload Date: 3/1/2013 1:00:45 AM
Location:  Cameron, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  NS 6732(SD60I) NS 8839(C40-9)
Views:  503   Comments: 1
Leaving the valley
Title:  Leaving the valley
Description:  12T comes out of the Canisteo valley at Carson, two miles east of the Village of Canisteo. Note how the weeds are taking over the empty space where track 1 once sat, 10 years after it was lifted.
Photo Date:  8/24/2003  Upload Date: 3/1/2013 1:04:02 AM
Location:  Canisteo, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  NS 6732(SD60I) NS 8839(C40-9)
Views:  487   Comments: 0
Blue going west
Title:  Blue going west
Description:  12T, led by and ex CR SD 60M, rolls west at the crossing where River Road goes back to the north side of the tracks. Ill wait for 77 cars before resuming the chase. Ill beat him to Carson, seven miles up.
Photo Date:  8/24/2003  Upload Date: 4/10/2017 4:59:18 AM
Location:  West Cameron, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  NS 6732(SD60I) NS 8839(C40-9)
Views:  316   Comments: 0
Milliken coal
Title:  Milliken coal
Description:  The coal trains to NYSEGs Milliken Station, north of Ithaca, though there were usually three up and down in any given week, ran on an irregular basis, and could show at any time, so it was always a treat to find one. This 125 car train bound for the power plant is northbound behind a leader that is familiar with the territory as it rolls through West Danby on the ex LV.
Photo Date:  9/21/2003  Upload Date: 10/12/2017 5:49:23 AM
Location:  West Danby, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  NS 8318(C40-8W) NS 9098(C40-9W) NS 6736(SD60I) NS 9401(C40-9W)
Views:  592   Comments: 1
Interesting power for 206
Title:  Interesting power for 206
Description:  Train 206 usually got a pair of GEs, once in a while an EMD, almost always C40s with an occasional SD 60 or 70. Today there must have been a problem, as one of the local service SD40 rebuilds is leading the train off the Chenango River bridge, seen from Water St.
Photo Date:  1/14/2003  Upload Date: 9/28/2016 4:01:07 AM
Location:  Binghamton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Bridge,Winter,Action
Locomotives:  NS 3414(SD40-2) NS 6743(SD60I) NS 9579(C40-9W)
Views:  477   Comments: 0
Conrail leader
Title:  Conrail leader
Description:  Occasionally, 205 would get ex CR power still in blue. It looked good in the snow, as it did when Conrail ran the trains here. Today ex CR SD 60I 6745 noses out past the QD sign as it waits for a new crew to go west.
Photo Date:  1/27/2004  Upload Date: 6/22/2016 3:48:01 AM
Location:  Binghamton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Winter,Yard,Action
Locomotives:  NS 6745(SD60I)
Views:  214   Comments: 1
Along North St
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:  317   Comments: 1
12T on the DL side
Title:  12T on the DL side
Description:  A short(17 car) train 12T behind among other things, a pair of ex CR units, waits for a crew at Binghamton late in the day. This photo gives a good overview of the changes that have taken place in the DL&W station area over the years, and some things that have not changed as well. The train sits on the Johnson Running track, once track 1 on the DLW main, and designated Track 3 by EL. To the right, track DL4, once EL track 4 and originally DLWs eastbound main track 2, now is lifted over the Chenango River. West of the Susquehanna, the line is a walking trail through Vestal, and forms most of the right of way for NY 17 west to Elmira. At lower right, the station platforms are still in place, though deteriorating. The shed over the set out tracks is also still in place, though those tracks, which once served to hold set out sleepers and mail/express, and in later years equipment owned by the Susquehanna Valley RHS, are now "land locked", the switches to the main tracks removed during the construction of the baseball stadium, which is seen at right of the train. The stadium where the AA Binghamton Mets play, is on the site of the DLW freight house, and saw its first game in April 1992. To the right of the set out tracks is the stack for the station power house. The power house sits to the left of the stack, partly obscured by foliage. Partly visible at the right edge of the photo is a steel tower that was one of the original Marconi installations, now an engineering landmark. To the left of the train, the brick building and vehicles beyond it sit on the site of the Erie freighthouse, torn down several years earlier.
Photo Date:  6/30/2004  Upload Date: 1/6/2013 4:06:59 AM
Location:  Binghamton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Station
Locomotives:  NS 6750(SD60I) NS 5294(GP38-2) NS 8789(C40-9)
Views:  1048   Comments: 1
Local working
Title:  Local working
Description:  H 12 with a pair of six axles stops next to the former LV station at Sayre, waiting for the word to shove a cut of cars into GE railcar. The banner next to the station says it will be opening soon-yet another restaurant in the old station.
Photo Date:  7/1/2004  Upload Date: 6/5/2017 5:30:38 AM
Location:  Sayre, PA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Action
Locomotives:  NS 6750(SD60I) NS 8743(C40-8)
Views:  354   Comments: 0
CP salt train
Title:  CP salt train
Description:  CP train 628, salt empties returning to a mine along Seneca Lake, sits next to the former D&H station in Binghamton NY.
Photo Date:  1/30/2005  Upload Date: 2/27/2011 2:28:13 AM
Location:  Binghamton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Winter,Station,Action
Locomotives:  UP 4514(SD70M) NS 9211(C40-9W) NS 6754(SD60I)
Views:  696   Comments: 0
205 shows its face
Title:  205 shows its face
Description:  205, today led by a BNSF unit, peeks out from under the Lester Av bridge in Johnson City, catching the last rays of sun as it waits for the conductor to come up after closing up at QD.
Photo Date:  7/9/2005  Upload Date: 11/25/2012 4:43:35 AM
Location:  Johnson City, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 885(C40-8W) NS 6758(SD60I)
Views:  358   Comments: 0
Mixed power
Title:  Mixed power
Description:  An ex CR unit trails a CSX GE on a westbound van train.
Photo Date:  9/10/2000  Upload Date: 1/28/2014 1:04:27 AM
Location:  SYRACUSE (CP293), NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Signal,Action
Locomotives:  CSX 5005(AC60CW) CSX 8737(SD60I)
Views:  522   Comments: 1
Westbound stacks and a western visitor
Title:  Westbound stacks and a western visitor
Description:  An 85 platform stack train rolls west with a pair of UP units trailing an ex CR SD60I.
Photo Date:  5/12/2004  Upload Date: 10/29/2017 5:15:45 AM
Location:  Utica, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CSX 8738(SD60I) UP 9037(C40-8) UP 9058(C40-8)
Views:  441   Comments: 0
Q 626
Title:  Q 626
Description:  Q 626 at Weedsport behind a mixed bag of power, including a western visitor.
Photo Date:  7/29/2004  Upload Date: 12/9/2012 2:21:04 AM
Location:  Weedsport, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  CSX 8745(SD60I) UP 9383(C40-8W) CSX 8866(SD40-2)
Views:  524   Comments: 0
Old Reliable
Title:  Old Reliable
Description:  I was able to get out to see the action on Georgias W&A line, now part of CSX, during a family visit. They were playing the part of the L&N, rolling three trains past me in the two hours I was there. This southbound merchandise train was the first to show, with 73 cars rolling past the Marietta station.
Photo Date:  3/23/2017  Upload Date: 4/2/2017 4:20:01 AM
Location:  Marietta, GA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Action
Locomotives:  CSX 8750(SD60I) CSX 8662(SD50-3) CSX 975(ES44AC-H)
Views:  99   Comments: 1
Q 271 heads north
Title:  Q 271 heads north
Description:  Q 271 eases past the signals protecting the switch at Chenango Forks as it starts up the Syracuse branch.
Photo Date:  7/19/2002  Upload Date: 2/26/2012 3:51:38 AM
Location:  Chenango Forks, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  CSX 8755(SD60I) CSX 7865(C40-8W)
Views:  648   Comments: 1


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