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5/1/2025
 
 
 
 
 
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More beach balls
Title:  More beach balls
Description:  Metro North used this red/blue/xilver scheme on its FL 9s, known as the beach ball due to the way the stripes appeared on the nose of the units. Two of them head out of Grand Central through Woodlawn.
Photo Date:  5/26/1987  Upload Date: 5/2/2015 1:57:52 AM
Location:  Woodlawn, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  MNCR 222(P32AC-DM) MNCR 2011(FL9)
Views:  762   Comments: 1
Heritage
Title:  Heritage
Description:  When Connecticut DOT funded the purchase of power to put into Metro Norths pool, it opted to honor the states New Haven heritage by painting its new GEs in the 1950s McGinnis scheme. It looks good on these engines, and it is well adapted to the lines of the new power.
Photo Date:  8/10/2003  Upload Date: 6/9/2016 4:20:17 AM
Location:  Tarrytown, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  MNCR 229(P32AC-DM)
Views:  556   Comments: 0
Amtrak 703
Title:  Amtrak 703
Description:  Amtrak 703 leads a westbound at Cranesville NY, seen from the NY State Barge Canal Lock 10.
Photo Date:  5/26/2002  Upload Date: 9/21/2013 3:45:36 AM
Location:  Cranesville, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 703(P32AC-DM)
Views:  401   Comments: 0
Westbound at Willis
Title:  Westbound at Willis
Description:  A westbound Empire Service train leaves Syracuse behind as it rolls through CP 293 behind a NY only P32DM
Photo Date:  7/19/1999  Upload Date: 3/2/2014 11:57:45 PM
Location:  SYRACUSE (CP293), NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Signal,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 705(P32AC-DM)
Views:  453   Comments: 0
Amtrak and MN meet
Title:  Amtrak and MN meet
Description:  A Penn Station bound Amtrak train rolls into Poughkeepsie, reflecting in the just arrived Metro North train from Grand Central.
Photo Date:  9/26/1999  Upload Date: 12/17/2015 4:05:02 AM
Location:  Poughkeepsie, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 705(P32AC-DM)
Views:  513   Comments: 0
Eastbound in the snow
Title:  Eastbound in the snow
Description:  Amtrak 705 leads 5 cars of train 282 toward Syracuse in a winter wonderland.
Photo Date:  2/6/2005  Upload Date: 11/19/2012 12:57:14 AM
Location:  Weedsport, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Winter,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 705(P32AC-DM)
Views:  555   Comments: 0
Niagara bound
Title:  Niagara bound
Description:  This westbound approaches the overpass at Weedsport. I didnt get a train number, but judging by the time of day, its likely the Maple Leaf.
Photo Date:  4/2/2006  Upload Date: 5/22/2018 5:16:13 AM
Location:  Weedsport, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 706(P32AC-DM)
Views:  405   Comments: 0
Amtrak 707 west
Title:  Amtrak 707 west
Description:  Amtrak 707 leads train 287 toward Buffalo in familiar surroundings for upstate NY in Frebruary.
Photo Date:  2/6/2005  Upload Date: 11/19/2012 12:59:00 AM
Location:  Weedsport, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Winter,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 707(P32AC-DM)
Views:  458   Comments: 1
Empire train
Title:  Empire train
Description:  One of the Empire Service trains appraches Willis Av on its way to Niagara Falls
Photo Date:  8/3/2000  Upload Date: 1/23/2014 1:43:38 AM
Location:  Syracuse, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Signal,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 708(P32AC-DM)
Views:  496   Comments: 0
GE past an old Central tower
Title:  GE past an old Central tower
Description:  Train 281 passes Signal Station 30(the number on the side of the tower) just east of Utica station as it slows for its stop there. It will be in Niagara Falls in about five hours. Note the MA&N plow at far left.
Photo Date:  5/12/2004  Upload Date: 6/1/2017 3:55:14 AM
Location:  Utica, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 708(P32AC-DM)
Views:  369   Comments: 0
Headed for Niagara
Title:  Headed for Niagara
Description:  Amtrak train 287 will shortly be at the new transportaion center near Carousel Mall on its way to Niagar Falls. Here it passes CP 285 just west of Dewitt yard.
Photo Date:  5/19/2004  Upload Date: 1/6/2013 2:54:20 AM
Location:  Syracuse, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Signal,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 708(P32AC-DM)
Views:  461   Comments: 0
Amtrak 711
Title:  Amtrak 711
Description:  Amtrak 711 leads 5 cars of train 286 east at Weedsport
Photo Date:  7/29/2004  Upload Date: 12/7/2012 1:24:55 AM
Location:  Weedsport, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 711(P32AC-DM)
Views:  546   Comments: 0
Empire service train
Title:  Empire service train
Description:  Eastbound Empire Service train 284 rolls into Weedsport en route to its next stop in Syracuse
Photo Date:  4/2/2006  Upload Date: 11/4/2012 12:38:16 AM
Location:  Weedsport, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 717(P32AC-DM)
Views:  428   Comments: 0


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