CP 5672

An unidentified rail fan took this photo while the loco was in the Buffalo SK Yard.

Permission was obtained before taking this photo, a former D&H now CP painted GP38-2 is seen sitting in East Binghamton yard, taken with available light.

The alignment of the old DLW just south of New Milford take a short turn to the west before heading south again. Southbound 410 is seen from the PA 706 overpass as it rolls toward Enola.

These guys did. Train 410 meets northbound 167 at CPF 648 in Hop Bottom.

Train 410 rolls across Martins Creek"Viaduct late on an April day.

I dont think that was the actual time. We are looking at train 410, having left Binghamton in the low afternoon sun on an April day, heading for Enola.

BUME rolls past the Erie station at Tioga Center, an overlooked part of the railroad scene in that town. The station was in serious disrepair-it's a wonder Conrail left it up so long. Indeed, it would crash under its own weight in a few years. To look at Tioga Center now, it's hard to believe such a small town had a station at all.

BUME passes the famous semaphores, knocking down the eastbound blade as it passes.

BUME rolls into the morning sun at Kinney Rd in Campville with 53 cars. The shrubs at left will soon be tall enough to block the view of a train from the side.

MEBU rolls west behind an NYSW B40-nothing unusual there-and three CP units, a new development that was about to become a standard sighting in the Tier. I was at the Hess station on NY 17C in Endwell, figuring this would be a good place to get gas, so I could see the train if it showed. I was right on. The station is now a used car lot, taking it off the must stop places for gas and goodies, though there is a Valero a couple of blocks west, that allows you to see a train passing, but theres no shot there.

NYSW power would be a mainstay on the D&H lines well into the next year, and on stack trains it would run through along with CP power from Jersey to Buffalo til NYSW stopped getting stack trains in the late 90's. This move early in the CP regime shows the yellowjackets are still in their prime on the D&H as this 90 car MEBU rolls out toward BD.

UB7A rolls out of Belden tunnel into daylight as it heads downhill to Binghamton.

UB7A rolls south at Fuller Rd in Sanitaria Springs, now on the last ten miles into Binghamton.

UB7A with 106 empties rolls along Tunnel Rd at Dyes siding in a Christmas card worthy scene.

CP 557X behind a GATX lease unit and a pair of CP SD40s rolls along NY 17C west of Campville with 20 stack platforms

One of the remaining D&H RS 36s rolls a 556 south across the diamond at BD as it heads into East Binghamton. The RS 36s did not see the road often at this point, and it would have been a very unlikely leader, though CP was not shy about running Alcos in regular service. My guess is the crew on this train came down with the PLM unit leading, and was on short time. If there was no room at the inn, the East Binghamton yardmaster likely had him tie up at Bevier St and taxied the crew to the yard. Then 5022 was sent over to get the train once there was space.

A 390 grain train to the Port of Albany rolls north near Old State Road. The empty bridge in the foreground is the old DLW Syracuse and Utica Branch. This segment of it was abandoned as part of the project that raised the overpasses at Beview St. The NYSW, who now uses the line, runs on the D&H to a point just north of here, reaching its own line via a new connecting track.

A couple of local railfans record this 84 car 892 making a run at the hill at Nowlan Rd. Thats RRPA contributor JJ Young III on the left.

Typically the helpers on Belden Hill would be pushing on the rear, making for an easy cutoff at the tunnel, which is behind me. For some reason, this 84 car 892 train got its helper running long hood in the lead. Must have been a beast going up, though an easy ride coming back. MP 599, to the left of the train, is the mileage from Mattawamkeag Maine, where MEC meets the one time CP line from Montreal to St John NB.

Train 557 rolls under the NY 17C bridge west of Endicott, the one that welcomes participants and visitors the the BC Open, held at that time in September every year. Don't let that string of trailer flats fool you; the train ends just beyond the curve. Today's effort was only 15 cars.

The NYSW handed off its stack trains to CP at Binghamton, and power was often pooled. Here three CP units roll 88 stack platforms of train 259 west at Owego past the recently harvested corn field.

166 has jsut passed Owego and is seen at Miller Beach Rd

413 starts north with four 40s and an SD60, in three different paint jobs.

A SOO unit waiting for a recrew on a 390 grain train sits on the State St bridge in the glow of a street light.

Train 390 head through BX on the Buffalo Runner as it makes for Belden Hill and the port of Albany

A CP Rail "rail" train backs into the east end of the CP yard.

CP Rail 5672 waits for a northbound at Grover NC (Date approximate.)

Some rare visitors, including a former SDP40, lead Q375 south on a cloudy evening. This power set came east on an ethonal train from Chicago.