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| Title: |
Local in the street |
| Description: |
On the way up from I 90 to Mechanicville, I encountered this local switching near Waterford. |
| Photo Date: |
12/4/1984 Upload Date: 8/1/2014 3:59:20 AM |
| Location: |
Waterford, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Winter,Action |
| Locomotives: |
DH 5014(RS36) |
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409 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Backing onto its train |
| Description: |
MEC 470 has tied onto the slug set and is now headed into the yard to pick up its train |
| Photo Date: |
12/4/1984 Upload Date: 8/1/2014 3:52:10 AM |
| Location: |
Mechanicville, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Winter,Action |
| Locomotives: |
MEC 470(GP7u) BM 300(GP40-2) BM 100(Road Slug) BM 301(GP40-2) |
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649 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Vanishing road |
| Description: |
For a while, coal trains to New England got run through P&LE power. As was common, it would not always stay on the coal trains once it got to its destination. Such is the case here as a trio of U28s roll south with a merchandise train. |
| Photo Date: |
12/4/1984 Upload Date: 8/1/2014 3:57:38 AM |
| Location: |
Mechanicville, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Winter,Yard,Action |
| Locomotives: |
PLE 2815(U28B) PLE 2820(U28B) PLE 2818(U28B) |
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558 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Moving the power around |
| Description: |
The D&H hostler is moving the power for SC 3, which will depart shortly once the engines are tied together. It will be quite a consisit. These units will go out in reverse order, with former bicentennial 200 leading seven units. |
| Photo Date: |
12/18/1984 Upload Date: 9/24/2014 2:00:59 AM |
| Location: |
Mechanicville, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Winter,Yard,Action |
| Locomotives: |
MEC 286(U23B) DH 7401(GP39-2) BM 200(GP38-2) |
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642 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Southbound with P&LE U boats |
| Description: |
P&LE 2815 leads a set of U28Bs on a train headed south out of Mechanicville |
| Photo Date: |
1/15/1985 Upload Date: 11/11/2011 1:47:58 AM |
| Location: |
Mechanicville, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Winter,Action |
| Locomotives: |
PLE 2815(U28B) PLE 2810(U28B) |
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659 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
B&M power north |
| Description: |
B&M power was not uncommon on the D&H, and only became more prevalent after Guilford acquired the road, along with those of Maine Central. Here are a pair of B&M GP38-2s, former Bicentennial 200 leading, with a like pair of ex LV units from the D&H northbound at Bainbridge. Note the D&H "I Love NY" boxcar back in the train. |
| Photo Date: |
6/18/1985 Upload Date: 10/4/2014 12:59:26 AM |
| Location: |
Bainbridge, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
BM 200(GP38-2) BM 208(GP38-2) DH 7324(GP38-2) DH 7325(GP38-2) |
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720 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
GP 40s north |
| Description: |
The last new power B&M got was a group of GP40-2s in 1978. They're still pretty new in this photo; some are still in service. Here are a pair, along with an ex Conrail unit headed north at Bainbridge in last light |
| Photo Date: |
6/18/1985 Upload Date: 10/4/2014 1:08:41 AM |
| Location: |
Bainbridge, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
BM 302(GP40-2) BM 314(GP40-2) BM 323(GP40) |
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633 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Face of the future |
| Description: |
Well, the next four years anyway. A Guilford repaint-actually, an ex D&H 7600 series GP 39 that Guilford "transferred" to the B&M, leads a northbound at Bainbridge. Note the railfan chase vehicle in the foreground. |
| Photo Date: |
6/18/1985 Upload Date: 10/4/2014 1:14:46 AM |
| Location: |
Bainbridge, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
BM 357(GP39-2) BM 332(GP40) |
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458 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Work train |
| Description: |
A work train behind a solo C420 heads back to Oneonta to tie up for the day. Seen from adjacent NY 7. |
| Photo Date: |
6/18/1985 Upload Date: 10/4/2014 1:21:04 AM |
| Location: |
Otego, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
DH 412(C420) |
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251 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Getting a roll on |
| Description: |
A southbound train gets started as it approaches the signals at CPF 557(OG) on its way to Binghamton, as seen from Pony Farm Rd. |
| Photo Date: |
6/18/1985 Upload Date: 9/30/2014 2:33:01 AM |
| Location: |
Oneonta, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
DH 7419(GP39-2) DH 5022(RS36) DH 7322(GP38-2) BM 328(GP40) DH 406(C420) |
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870 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Long way home |
| Description: |
A Binghamton bound train rolls past Susquehanna as it runs the Belden tunnel detour, which took trains from Nineveh Jct to Lanesboro, then to Binghamton on CRs ex Erie main. The heritage of the leader is obvious. |
| Photo Date: |
8/20/1985 Upload Date: 10/8/2014 1:52:26 AM |
| Location: |
Susquehanna, PA |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
DH 409(C420) BM 1564(GP7) BM 314(GP40-2) MEC 225(U25B) |
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662 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Taking the connection |
| Description: |
A Mechanicville bound train takes the switch from the ex Erie at Jefferson Jct, and will roll down the connection to the D&H Penn Division, where it will reverse and head for Nineveh NY. |
| Photo Date: |
8/20/1985 Upload Date: 10/8/2014 1:54:37 AM |
| Location: |
Lanesboro, PA |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
DH 462(C424) BM 320(GP40) MEC 283(U23B) |
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614 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Approaching D&H |
| Description: |
A D&H Belden Tunnel detour train approaches Jefferson Jct, now CP Lanesboro, as it makes its way around tunnel construction. We hit a double trifecta here, with three roads and three builders represented on one train. |
| Photo Date: |
8/20/1985 Upload Date: 10/6/2014 12:27:58 AM |
| Location: |
Lanesboro, PA |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
DH 462(C424) BM 320(GP40) MEC 283(U23B) |
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552 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
A ghost from the past |
| Description: |
A D&H Belden Hill detour train pulls up the connector from the D&H Penn Division to Conrails Southern Tier Line at Jefferson Jct behind a mix of power that looks deceptively like a vision from the past. The reality is that the patch paint over the former road name has worn off, allowing the prior owners name to bleed through. Nobody was complaining!! |
| Photo Date: |
8/20/1985 Upload Date: 10/29/2011 3:23:14 AM |
| Location: |
Lanesboro, PA |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
DH 409(C420) BM 1564(GP7) BM 314(GP40-2) MEC 225(U25B) |
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1270 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
B&M Slug set |
| Description: |
The B&M slug set 300/100/301 leads a Belden tunnel detour train past the Erie station at Susquehanna PA. An NYSW RS watches the proceedings from the set out track east of the station. The RS 3 had been set off due to flat wheels. |
| Photo Date: |
10/8/1985 Upload Date: 11/12/2011 11:33:05 PM |
| Location: |
Susquehanna, PA |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Action |
| Locomotives: |
BM 301(GP40-2) BM 100(Road Slug) BM 300(GP40-2) |
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794 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
B&M leader westbound |
| Description: |
A B&M GP40-2 leads this westbound train out of Conklin yard as seen from the Conklin Av overpass. The trailing unit is notable, as it was one of the three ex Illinois Terminal SD 39's Guilford acquired from NS. |
| Photo Date: |
10/8/1985 Upload Date: 10/11/2014 2:36:36 AM |
| Location: |
Binghamton, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Yard,Action |
| Locomotives: |
BM 316(GP40-2) BM 332(GP40) BM 690(SD39) |
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761 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Alco yard engine |
| Description: |
D&H 5017 pulls a cut north as it prepares to switch the train at East Binghamton. This unit would last into the CP era, working mostly as a yard engine, but occasionally getting out on the road when NYSW operated the D&H from 1988-1990. |
| Photo Date: |
10/8/1985 Upload Date: 10/11/2014 2:40:25 AM |
| Location: |
Binghamton, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Yard,Action |
| Locomotives: |
DH 5017(RS36) |
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331 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Steamtown move |
| Description: |
When Steamtown moved from Vermont to Scranton, most of the smaller equipment was mounted on flat cars and moved in special trains. This one is approaching Binghamton on the Southern Tier, having just entered the line at Lanesboro. There are a number of smaller engines and other equipment on the train, some of which can be seen in the Steamtown album. |
| Photo Date: |
10/8/1985 Upload Date: 10/14/2014 2:59:14 AM |
| Location: |
Kirkwood, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
DH 7413(GP39-2) |
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326 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Power to the house |
| Description: |
The power off a recently arrived northbound heads to the service tracks as the power for an impending westbound is seen in the distance. |
| Photo Date: |
10/8/1985 Upload Date: 10/11/2014 2:41:51 AM |
| Location: |
Binghamton, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Yard,Action |
| Locomotives: |
DH 7418(GP39-2) BM 191(U33B) |
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| Title: |
BUME |
| Description: |
BUME arrives Binghamton with a typical consist for the period. The former DLW station can be seen in the background at left-the tower is visible. |
| Photo Date: |
1/4/1986 Upload Date: 10/16/2014 2:25:28 AM |
| Location: |
Binghamton, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Winter,Action |
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NW 8041(C30-7) NW 6181(SD40-2) MEC 289(U23B) DH 665(U33C) |
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| Title: |
BUME at Bevier St |
| Description: |
BUME starts up Belden Hill past the yard office at Bevier St, behind a typical mix of 4 axle units of that era. |
| Photo Date: |
4/22/1986 Upload Date: 11/20/2014 5:37:32 PM |
| Location: |
Binghamton, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Yard,Action |
| Locomotives: |
BM 317(GP40-2) DH 7406(GP39-2) DH 7410(GP39-2) BM 335(GP40) |
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538 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Into the climb |
| Description: |
MEBU smokes it up as it digs into the hill at Phelps St in Port Dickinson |
| Photo Date: |
4/22/1986 Upload Date: 11/20/2014 5:39:32 PM |
| Location: |
Port Dickinson, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
BM 317(GP40-2) DH 7406(GP39-2) DH 7410(GP39-2) BM 335(GP40) |
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490 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
We get by with a little help from our GE friends |
| Description: |
A pair of ex CR U33Cs give MEBU a push toward the tunnel. |
| Photo Date: |
4/22/1986 Upload Date: 11/20/2014 5:41:59 PM |
| Location: |
Port Dickinson, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
DH 658(U33C) DH 656(U33C) |
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478 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Ex Rock unit |
| Description: |
Guilford acquired Rocks U25Bs after that road went under in 1980. Heres one at East Binghamton in its new Harvest Gold colors, and surprisingly clean. |
| Photo Date: |
4/22/1986 Upload Date: 11/19/2014 2:22:22 PM |
| Location: |
Binghamton, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Roster,Yard |
| Locomotives: |
MEC 230(U25B) |
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583 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Ready to go |
| Description: |
D&H train RPPY has changed ends at Allentown and is now ready to head for Reading and a CSX connection at Philadelphia. |
| Photo Date: |
5/20/1986 Upload Date: 11/20/2014 5:26:15 PM |
| Location: |
Allentown Hump Yard, PA |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Bridge,Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
BM 203(GP38-2) BM 368(GP39-2) DH 7404(GP39-2) DH 7420(GP39-2) |
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| Title: |
Over the river |
| Description: |
RPPY crosses the Lehigh River at Canal Park in Allentown as it starts for Philly. The two trailing ex Reading GP39-2's should feel right at home here. |
| Photo Date: |
5/20/1986 Upload Date: 11/20/2014 5:28:40 PM |
| Location: |
Allentown, PA |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Bridge,Action |
| Locomotives: |
BM 203(GP38-2) BM 368(GP39-2) DH 7404(GP39-2) DH 7420(GP39-2) |
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474 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Burning west |
| Description: |
RPPY rolls west through CP Burn en route to Reading and Philadelphia |
| Photo Date: |
5/20/1986 Upload Date: 11/20/2014 5:31:12 PM |
| Location: |
Allentown, PA |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
BM 203(GP38-2) BM 368(GP39-2) DH 7404(GP39-2) DH 7420(GP39-2) |
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556 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Slug set and a semaphore |
| Description: |
The B&M slug set, now repainted into the Guilford scheme, leads three other units past semaphore 251-1 and the Tioga County transfer station as it leads NY 9 toward Buffalo |
| Photo Date: |
8/5/1986 Upload Date: 9/22/2012 2:09:24 AM |
| Location: |
Barton, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
BM 300(GP40-2) BM 100(Road Slug) BM 301(GP40-2) BM 306(GP40-2) DH 7317(GP38-2) BM 338(GP40) |
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| Title: |
SLN 3 goes west |
| Description: |
SLN 3, now symbolled DHT9 on Conrail, as it is now a D&H train, rolls west past the Owego station sign at Mc Master St behind, among other things, the B&M road slug set. |
| Photo Date: |
8/5/1986 Upload Date: 12/7/2014 2:57:23 AM |
| Location: |
Owego, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
BM 300(GP40-2) BM 100(Road Slug) BM 301(GP40-2) BM 306(GP40-2) DH 7317(GP38-2) BM 338(GP40) |
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| Title: |
Landlord and tenant |
| Description: |
The eastbound D&H BUEB meets Conrail WAEL39 as the Conrail train heads back to Elmira to finish its day. The former Erie station is at right, |
| Photo Date: |
8/5/1986 Upload Date: 12/5/2014 4:16:58 AM |
| Location: |
Owego, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CR 8182(GP38-2) DH 456(C424) BM 323(GP40) BM 191(U33B) |
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749 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
BUEB |
| Description: |
I went out to Owego to sit and wait for whatever came along. This was one of my rewards, an eastbound with an Alco leading. Some days you win. |
| Photo Date: |
8/5/1986 Upload Date: 12/5/2014 4:15:18 AM |
| Location: |
Owego, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
DH 456(C424) BM 323(GP40) BM 191(U33B) |
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629 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Starting west |
| Description: |
This ABBU(ALbany-BUffalo) empty grain train is going out Track 3 to West BD to get onto the Southern Tier Line, and will shortly be passing the ex DLW station. Power today is a pair of ex Detroit Edison units. |
| Photo Date: |
12/9/1986 Upload Date: 12/19/2014 1:43:08 AM |
| Location: |
Binghamton, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
BM 640(U30C) MEC 600(SD40) |
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1256 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
Splitting the semaphores |
| Description: |
The Tier was known for its many Erie RR era semaphores. There were at least two pairs, one at Arkport, about five miles west of Hornell, rarely seen due to the walk in nature of their location; and this pair at Tioga Center, which were adjacent to NY 17C, and easy to photograph. ABBU, running wrong main, passes between them on its way west. |
| Photo Date: |
12/9/1986 Upload Date: 12/19/2014 1:50:51 AM |
| Location: |
Tioga Center, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
BM 640(U30C) MEC 600(SD40) |
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460 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Detroit Edison power |
| Description: |
A pair of ex Detroit Edison units lead ABBU past the semaphores at Tioga Center |
| Photo Date: |
12/9/1986 Upload Date: 9/22/2012 2:14:30 AM |
| Location: |
Tioga Center, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
BM 640(U30C) MEC 600(SD40) |
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1009 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
Nose to nose |
| Description: |
ABBU meest Conrail TV 300 on the Tioga River bridge at Gang Mills. |
| Photo Date: |
12/9/1986 Upload Date: 12/19/2014 2:01:12 AM |
| Location: |
Gang Mills, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Bridge,Action |
| Locomotives: |
BM 640(U30C) CR 3325(GP40-2) |
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478 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
ABBU at E Glass |
| Description: |
This photo shows the area on the east side of Corning that was CP E Glass for much of Conrails existence. The relay case can be seen to the left of track 1 at the crossovers. The lead to the Corning Secondary is the track going off to the left at the lower left corner of the frame. The E Glass/N Glass/W Glass complex formed a wye that connected the Corning Secondary and the Southern Tier Line. The Corning Secondary had been the NYC line along Seneca Lake to Geneva and a connection with the Water Level Route, now Conrails Chicago Line. Trains such as SYEN would come down this line, taking the W Glass leg of the wye and roll through Gang Mills Yard, where there was a connection back to the old alignment on the east side of the Tioga River. That line went down the Grand Canyon of PA to a connection with the Pennsy at Jersey Shore PA on the Buffalo Line. This was part of the 1951 realignment that took both the Central and the Erie out of the street in downtown Corning, a route now followed by NY 352, locally Dennison Pkwy. To the left of the existing track is an empty right of way. This was the DLW, which parallelled the Erie here, having returned to its own line just east of here after the 1959 facilities coordination, whereby the DLW abandoned its main as a through route from the west side of Binghamton. Here at Gibson it returned to its own line to reach Bath, Cohocton, and Groveland on its way to Buffalo. That line would be downgraded, and mostly abandoned after the 1960 EL merger. Prior to 1959, the DLW ran next to the Erie from here to Horseheads, where the lines separated to enter Elmira. |
| Photo Date: |
12/9/1986 Upload Date: 12/31/2014 5:02:49 AM |
| Location: |
Corning, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
BM 640(U30C) MEC 600(SD40) |
| Views: |
638 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
SLN 5 |
| Description: |
Or, DHT 9, about to become a B&O train. The Sea Land stack that started out the previous day on the NYSW is at SK yard in Buffalo, having arrived there courtesy of the D&H. It will get repowered by a set of Chessie units-theres an eastbound Sea Land train arriving in Buffalo as Im taking this picture-and head for a BN connection in Chicago. |
| Photo Date: |
12/28/1986 Upload Date: 12/24/2014 3:33:05 AM |
| Location: |
Buffalo (SK Yard), NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Yard,Action |
| Locomotives: |
DH 655(U33C) BM 363(GP39-2) |
| Views: |
954 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
No its not Rigby |
| Description: |
Guilford moved equipment all over the system, and it was not uncommon to find component roads power-and NS power-anywhere on the system. This "heritage" GP 7 was at Binghamton, along with a companion caboose. |
| Photo Date: |
12/31/1986 Upload Date: 12/29/2014 3:07:38 AM |
| Location: |
Conklin, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Roster,Yard |
| Locomotives: |
MEC 572(GP7) |
| Views: |
410 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Through the snow |
| Description: |
BUEB rolls 78 cars east toward Binghamton in the snowy fields of western NY, seen from a local road bridge near Dalton. The power was common in those days. The SD26 is a recent acquisiton of Guilford, and will ultimately be painted Springfield Terminal. As if that wasn't enough heritage, the third unit is an ex Rock Island U25B. |
| Photo Date: |
2/25/1987 Upload Date: 4/18/2015 2:37:52 AM |
| Location: |
Dalton, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Winter,Action |
| Locomotives: |
BM 304(GP40-2) ST 4676(SD26) MEC 236(U25B) BM 308(GP40-2) |
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720 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Not exactly dashing through the snow |
| Description: |
But making decent enough time. A telephoto view of BUEB rolling east at Dalton behind the kind of power mix only Guilford could concoct. At least the B&M unit is leading. |
| Photo Date: |
2/25/1987 Upload Date: 4/21/2015 1:28:46 AM |
| Location: |
Dalton, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Winter,Action |
| Locomotives: |
BM 304(GP40-2) ST 4676(SD26) MEC 236(U25B) BM 308(GP40-2) |
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466 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
BUEB |
| Description: |
A mix of Guilford power leads Buffalo-Binghamton train BUEB near the ski area at Swains. Included in the power consist are two B&M GP 40-2's, a former ATSF SD 26, and a former Rock Island U 25B. |
| Photo Date: |
2/25/1987 Upload Date: 10/22/2011 2:41:08 AM |
| Location: |
Garwoods, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Winter,Action |
| Locomotives: |
BM 304(GP40-2) ST 4676(SD26) MEC 236(U25B) BM 308(GP40-2) |
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1033 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Guilford trio |
| Description: |
BUME behind three Guilford painted units rolls along the rock wall next to NY 17 just east of Corning with 48 cars. This was a challenging shot for an eastbound, as you had to stand on the shoulder of westbound NY 17, an expressway. Timing had to be good, as you could not stop here long. I got it right this sunny morning, catching three Guilford units, one each for the component roads, though the leader and trailing units had been "transferred" away from the D&H. |
| Photo Date: |
2/25/1987 Upload Date: 4/18/2015 2:45:05 AM |
| Location: |
Gibson, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Winter,Action |
| Locomotives: |
MEC 288(U23B) DH 651(U33C) BM 361(GP39-2) |
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848 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
BUME with Guilford power |
| Description: |
This view of BUME behind a solid set of Guilford power is notable for two reasons. First, a solid set of power on the D&H was notable any time it happened, though Guilford still managed to mix up the power, with one unit from each of their roads. Interestingly, the first and last units started out on the D&H, despite now being lettered for MEC and B&M. The other reason is that this shot gives an overview of the rail remnants of Corning as they appeared in the late 1980s. This is taken from the NY 414 overpass, looking west. The train is on the former Erie main, which is a relocation of the original main which ran down what is now NY 352 through downtown Corning. The "new" 1951 Erie station was just to the left of the train where it curves out of the photo. The empty right of way to the right of the train was the DLW, which was abandoned in stages between here and Buffalo following the EL merger in 1960; as it was, the line had only a year left as a through route after the consolidation of facilities in 1959, where the DLW abandoned much of its line from here to Binghamton in favor of running on the Erie. The connection was just east of the overpass Im standing on. The line in the distance is the connection from Conrails Corning Secondary, once the NYC line to Jersey Shore PA, itself relocated out of the street as part of the Erie relocation project in 1951-the lines had joined just east of downtown. It will join the Southern Tier at CP W Glass about 1/2 mile to the west, approximately where the Erie station stood. |
| Photo Date: |
2/25/1987 Upload Date: 9/22/2012 2:34:08 AM |
| Location: |
Corning, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
MEC 288(U23B) DH 651(U33C) BM 361(GP39-2) |
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1262 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Late afternoon at BD |
| Description: |
MEBU with a mix of power only found on the D&H rolls 109 cars past BD as it makes its way into East Binghamton. The last two units, a pair of D&H GP39s, are the power for SU 2, which MEBU picked up at Afton. |
| Photo Date: |
5/14/1987 Upload Date: 4/27/2015 3:51:33 AM |
| Location: |
Binghamton, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
BM 312(GP40-2) BM 1723(GP9) DH 650(U33C) ST 632(SD26) ST 18(GP7) DH 7411(GP39-2) DH 7409(GP39-2) |
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734 Comments: 0 |
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