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By:Tom Beckett
Dates:1/1/1977 - 5/1/2020
Album Info:CP operating the D&H, with some NYSW power from the days when they were giving up the directed service, and a smattering of off line power on the NS trains that run there.
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Over the top
Title:  Over the top
Description:  Train 253 rolls across the other bridge in Harpursville, over NY 79, its 68 cars now over Belden Hill and rolling down into the Susquehanna valley. Oh, and now you know where I got these negatives processed!!
Photo Date:  2/24/2006  Upload Date: 11/26/2017 3:31:03 AM
Location:  Harpursville, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Bridge,Winter,Action
Locomotives:  CP 9583(AC44CW) CP 9834(AC44CW)
Views:  253   Comments: 0
Just starting out
Title:  Just starting out
Description:  Train 253 is just starting to gain momentum for the climb to Belden Tunnel at Bevier St. For a change, it has some horsepower, with a SOO SD 60 and an AC 44CW in the mix.
Photo Date:  2/26/2006  Upload Date: 11/26/2017 3:07:54 AM
Location:  Binghamton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  CP 5640(SD40-2) SOO 6024(SD60) CP 9632(AC44CW)
Views:  483   Comments: 0
168 heads north
Title:  168 heads north
Description:  CP train 168, the run through of NS 206, rolls north at Allen Rd with 111 stack platforms as it heads for Kenwood Yard in Albany. The Capital District yard would be moved to Mechanicville six or seven years after this photo, when a new intermodal facility would be build on the site of the old D&H yard there.
Photo Date:  2/27/2006  Upload Date: 11/26/2017 2:56:25 AM
Location:  Harpursville, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Winter,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  NS 9030(C40-9W)
Views:  346   Comments: 0
Bare trees
Title:  Bare trees
Description:  Train 168 rolls north through the bare trees at Depot Hill Rd. Its the dead of winter, and it will be may before there are enough leaves on the trees to offset the black of the NS units that handle this train.
Photo Date:  2/27/2006  Upload Date: 11/26/2017 2:58:23 AM
Location:  Port Crane, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Winter,Action
Locomotives:  NS 9030(C40-9W)
Views:  378   Comments: 0
Looking from up the hill
Title:  Looking from up the hill
Description:  Theres a decent morning shot from just north of the old stone arch bridge over NY 7 in Sanitaria Springs, where the line crosses over the road as it heads up to the tunnel. Train 168 rolls 111 platforms over the road as it digs into the steep part of the climb.
Photo Date:  2/27/2006  Upload Date: 11/26/2017 3:46:48 AM
Location:  Sanitaria Springs, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Winter,Action
Locomotives:  NS 9030(C40-9W)
Views:  384   Comments: 0
Approaching BD
Title:  Approaching BD
Description:  Train 930, 30T on NS and now on a D&H routing north of Binghamton, rolls down track 5, the track that crosses the Southern Tier at BD, and connects to track 3 to East Binghamton. It will change crews and head for Enola. Im in the Maines Food Service lot off Oliver St. Lead unit 8598, a C39-8, is getting to be long in the tooth for a GE.
Photo Date:  3/3/2006  Upload Date: 11/26/2017 3:40:15 AM
Location:  Binghamton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Winter,Action
Locomotives:  NS 8598(C39-8) CN 5403(SD50F)
Views:  282   Comments: 0
Through the detector.
Title:  Through the detector.
Description:  CP has a high car detector just north of Afton. Here we see 164 passing through, getting checked for cars too high for Belden Tunnel, 15 miles to the south.
Photo Date:  3/5/2006  Upload Date: 11/4/2012 2:11:50 AM
Location:  Afton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Winter,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  CP 9565(AC44CW) CP 9627(AC44CW)
Views:  315   Comments: 0
Off the bridge, into the shadows
Title:  Off the bridge, into the shadows
Description:  Train 164 rolls off the Susquehanna River bridge into Bainbride, the sun dappling the train as it dives into the shadows. The low winter sun really brings out the colors, but makes some locations hard to get in full light. This would be full sun this time of day in the summer. Note the empty right of way where the old northbound track was.
Photo Date:  3/5/2006  Upload Date: 11/26/2017 3:13:52 AM
Location:  Bainbridge, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Bridge,Winter,Action
Locomotives:  CP 9565(AC44CW) CP 9627(AC44CW)
Views:  275   Comments: 0
Right down the line
Title:  Right down the line
Description:  With apologies to Gerry Rafferty...train 164 roll down a long tangent near Otego in a snowy land.
Photo Date:  3/5/2006  Upload Date: 11/26/2017 3:17:54 AM
Location:  Otego, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Winter,Action
Locomotives:  CP 9565(AC44CW) CP 9627(AC44CW)
Views:  286   Comments: 0
Red in winter
Title:  Red in winter
Description:  Train 164, now a little closer to Wells Bridge, rolls through the wintry world of upstate NY in March.
Photo Date:  3/5/2006  Upload Date: 11/26/2017 3:20:15 AM
Location:  Otego, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Winter,Action
Locomotives:  CP 9565(AC44CW) CP 9627(AC44CW)
Views:  279   Comments: 0
Through the goalposts
Title:  Through the goalposts
Description:  Not quite, but Id think that every time I saw a train pass between a pair of signals like this. Train 164 rolls south behind a pair of GEs at the old signal 108 just south of Bainbridge. Note the CNJ style numbers on the engine.
Photo Date:  3/5/2006  Upload Date: 9/16/2016 1:19:52 AM
Location:  Bainbridge, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Winter,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  CP 9565(AC44CW) CP 9627(AC44CW)
Views:  303   Comments: 2
Catching some rays
Title:  Catching some rays
Description:  Train 164 is high enough on the famous steel bridge to catch the sun, even though the valley has gone into shadow.
Photo Date:  3/5/2006  Upload Date: 9/16/2016 1:22:11 AM
Location:  Bainbridge, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Bridge,Winter,Action
Locomotives:  CP 9565(AC44CW) CP 9627(AC44CW)
Views:  302   Comments: 2
Festive scene
Title:  Festive scene
Description:  The house that sits just across the tracks from NY 7 in Afton always looks festive in the winter, like Christmas is coming.
Photo Date:  3/5/2006  Upload Date: 11/4/2012 2:13:58 AM
Location:  Afton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Winter,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  CP 9565(AC44CW) CP 9627(AC44CW)
Views:  314   Comments: 0
Past the mill
Title:  Past the mill
Description:  And almost home. Train 252 rolls past the Agway mill at the south end of Bevier St. All he has to do now is get his 76 cars across the Tier at BD, and he can get into East Binghakton and call it quits for the day.
Photo Date:  3/27/2006  Upload Date: 5/28/2018 5:57:36 AM
Location:  Binghamton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CP 9769(AC44CW) CP 9578(AC44CW)
Views:  251   Comments: 514
New power leads at BX
Title:  New power leads at BX
Description:  A new CP ES44 leads train 252 and the former location of X interlocking, where the D&H crossed the DLW. The former Agway plant looms in the background.
Photo Date:  4/19/2006  Upload Date: 10/19/2012 12:27:56 AM
Location:  Binghamton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  CP 8706(ES44AC) CP 1651(GP9u) CP 8543(AC44CW)
Views:  599   Comments: 1
Easing on down
Title:  Easing on down
Description:  Train 164 is in dymamics as it eases 3 stack platforms and 97 freight downhill into Binghamton, seen here at Hancock Rd in Sanitaria Springs.
Photo Date:  6/9/2006  Upload Date: 2/27/2018 4:47:32 AM
Location:  Sanitaria Springs, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  CP 8557(AC44CW) CP 8560(AC44CW) STLH 5690(SD40-2)
Views:  412   Comments: 0
Through the trees
Title:  Through the trees
Description:  A northbound 8858 coal train grinds up the hill toward the tunnel, peeking out from the trees at Depot Hill Rd. The difference between winter and summer is apparent here. In the winter, you can see the train stretched out down the hill. In the summer, hardly at all.
Photo Date:  6/18/2006  Upload Date: 2/27/2018 5:00:24 AM
Location:  Port Crane, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  NS 8953(C40-9W) NS 9301(C40-9W) NS 9819(C40-9W)
Views:  476   Comments: 0
413 on the hill
Title:  413 on the hill
Description:  A location not often seen, probably due to other more scenic/interesting locations being available, is at Hancock Rd in Santiaria Springs. Here we see CP 413 working its way to the tunnel on a summer morning.
Photo Date:  8/23/2006  Upload Date: 10/21/2012 4:43:10 AM
Location:  Sanitaria Springs, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  CP 5698(SD40-2) CP 7305(GP38-2) CP 6035(SD40-2) CP 5392(SD40-2) CP 5935(SD40-2)
Views:  856   Comments: 0


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