General American Marks Company (GATX) 2002 - EMD SD40-2

Eastbound TOFC passing through Silver Springs

Eastbound TOFC passing through Silver Springs

A set of GATX lease units(Gators, as we affectionately knew them) comes over the bridge from East Binghamton and will shortly cross over Conrail and head north.

804 EB

084 EB at Slaughterhouse Road

A pair of ex MP GATX lease units rolls high over Wylie Creek with a 310 train bound for Mohawk. These would be supplemented by a group of 15 blue GATX lease units in the 7359-7373 series, in addition to the PLM units already on the property.

A UB coal train passes the sign at the east end of the village as it makes its way toward Binghamton and a crew change.

A shot I wanted to do, but never seemed to be in the right place for, was this shot from NY 17C in Campville. It didnt turn out as well as I had hoped, as the lighting was a problem most of the day, and there was more clutter than at first glance. Either way, heres a 98 car UB series coal train behind the usual set of SD40 types.

Lease units fore and aft hide an M630 as 556 rolls through BX toward the CP yard across the river. Alco units were fairly common on trains coming down from Montreal, but less common on the Tier trains.

A PLM and GATX unit get onto Conrail at BD with the 102 cars of todays 309.

This was picnic day on the CP, but some train had to run. This is 270 getting out ahead of the picnic train so it can get to Saratoga without being delayed by the festivities. Seen at Bevier St with 52 cars and an Alco as trailing unit

The last rays of sun accentuate the color on the GATX leader of 557 as it blasts through Waverly with 23 cars.

A GATX unit leads 57 cars of 270 past Kinney Rd in Campville.

One of the great things about unit trains is that the uniformity of the consisw makes a good photo, such as this 891 approaching Owego, stretched out into the distance.

I like to put railroad lineside items in my photos; mileposts are always a good prop. MP 216 is on the Tier in Johnson City, down off a back street. Almost all the mileposts on the Tier are the ex Erie concrete markers that show JC on them, signifying Jersey City. NS has replaced many in the process of single tracking the line. Here is 891 rolling 86 empties west.

Train 254 rolls along the Canisteo near Rathbone. Chasing was easy here, as the road and tracks ran side by side for miles.

A 254 train rolls through downtown Addison as it makes its way east behind a pair of GATX lease units.

CP train 254-it will become SLN 4 when the NYSW gets it at Binghamton-rolls along the Canisteo River near Rathbone with 60 Sea Land platforms

A 270 has left the yard and is about to cross over the Southern Tier at BD and head for Mechanicville, pushing the snow as it goes.

Train 262 rolls east through Endicott with a pair of GATX leasers and 98 cars

Prior to CP taking over, when the D&H used letter codes, this train wa MEBU, and often ran the Buffalo Runner to the Southern Tier, bypassing the yard. CP worked it more often than not, so we have the incongruity of a westbound going east(or south) into the yard. Here it is behind three GATX units, two of which-the yellow ones-would eventually be bought by CP. Todays train has 86 cars.

R402 lead by a trio of SD40-2's (NS 1646, CP 5690, GATX 2002) at Springarden Street, Baltimore, MD. Kodachrome by C. Hash.

Empty coal train rolls into the curve behind Ave. A in Johnson City NY

Empty hoppers from Bainbridge rolls west between the old Endicott Johnson Shoe factories in the complex along the old Erie Main in Johnson City NY. Today the factories are long gone and now NS operates the property

D&H @257 exits Belden Tunnel, Tunnel, NY

A pair of GATX lease units take train 254 toward Binghamton and the NYSW. One of the former Erie semaphores is seen on track 1 in the distance.

westbound TOFC leaves D&H/CP Conklin Yard approaching downtown Binghamton

northbound TOFC leaves D&H/CP Conklin Yard

HAN-2 eastbound at Stockholm, NJ