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By:Tom Beckett
Dates:4/1/1976 - 6/1/1999
Album Info:Southern Tier Line action in the Triple Cities-Binghamton, Johnson City, Endicott-and as far east as Kirkwood Industrial Park.
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Moon over BUOI
Title:  Moon over BUOI
Description:  A going away shot of BUOI passing the Kirkwood Industrial Park shows a full moon. Soon it will be lighting the way down the Delaware.
Photo Date:  8/28/1993  Upload Date: 1/14/2015 1:45:12 AM
Location:  Kirkwood, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  CR 6098(C40-8W) CR 6077(C40-8W)
Views:  274   Comments: 0
Slowing for a crew change
Title:  Slowing for a crew change
Description:  DABU rolls through BD, passing SLN 5, and will make a crew change at the Conrail yard office under Chenango St, then head for Buffalo with the recrewed SLN 5-CPs 255-following. A UP unit is mid consist, lending some effort ro DABUs 113 cars. The signals at right control the interlocking at BD on the CP side. The tracks there were once the Lackawanna main to Scranton and Hoboken.
Photo Date:  8/28/1993  Upload Date: 1/16/2015 3:01:01 AM
Location:  Binghamton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CR 6497(SD40-2) UP 3942(SD40-2) CR 6508(SD40-2)
Views:  362   Comments: 0
OIBU in the late afternoon
Title:  OIBU in the late afternoon
Description:  OIBU was a pretty reliable afternoon train at Binghamton, which made for some great lighting, such as on todays train, working QD yard. The steel structire at right is a Marconi tower. The Lackawanna RR was an early experimenter with radio communication, and had erected the tower to transmit from the station to trains in 1913. There is a NY State historical marker to note its significance.
Photo Date:  8/28/1993  Upload Date: 1/14/2015 1:51:17 AM
Location:  Binghamton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  CR 6772(SD50) CR 6964(SD40-2R)
Views:  436   Comments: 1
DABU along Court St
Title:  DABU along Court St
Description:  DABU rolls up to BD along Court St, in the shadow of the Bginhamton Psych Center, up on the hill. It will do a crew change here at the yard office, then roll for Buffalo with its 96 cars. The former DLW signals guarding BD are still in service, seen along the now CP tracks at right.
Photo Date:  10/16/1993  Upload Date: 1/9/2015 3:40:11 AM
Location:  Binghamton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  CR 6222(C40-8W) CR 6114(C40-8W)
Views:  315   Comments: 0
Unlikely meet
Title:  Unlikely meet
Description:  WABH 11 with its usual GP 38-2 meets an unlikely unit working the NYSW ayrd, an O&W NW 2. This one was repainted as a "heritage" unit to honor the NYO&W, which had abandoned completely in March 1957.
Photo Date:  10/16/1993  Upload Date: 1/9/2015 3:44:54 AM
Location:  Binghamton, NY
Author:  Too Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  CR 8152(GP38-2) NYOW 116(NW2)
Views:  444   Comments: 1
DABU with a little fall color
Title:  DABU with a little fall color
Description:  DABU works west past the rock at MP 220 in Endwell en route to Buffalo
Photo Date:  10/25/1993  Upload Date: 10/6/2011 12:25:05 AM
Location:  Endwell, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  CR 6963(SD40-2R) CR 6416(SD40-2) CR 5567(SD60M)
Views:  991   Comments: 2
Local
Title:  Local
Description:  WABH 11 was the local that did whatever work needed to be done at Binghamton. For a long time, it got GP 38s or U23B/B23-7s. In the early 90s, it started getting GP 40s, such as todays train, heading east at BD.
Photo Date:  11/8/1993  Upload Date: 1/9/2015 3:33:59 AM
Location:  Binghamton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CR 3338(GP40-2)
Views:  304   Comments: 0
OIBU in the snow
Title:  OIBU in the snow
Description:  OIBU starts west toward Gang Mills and Buffalo past the iconic buildings in the station area at Binghamton on a snowy day in January
Photo Date:  1/15/1994  Upload Date: 9/21/2012 5:35:20 PM
Location:  Binghamton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Winter,Action
Locomotives:  CR 5509(SD60M) CR 6468(SD40-2)
Views:  1050   Comments: 2
UP leader at the pond
Title:  UP leader at the pond
Description:  ML 440 rolls past the Endwell pond with 67 auto racks behind a UP leader, unusual to see on the Tier.
Photo Date:  4/3/1994  Upload Date: 9/22/2014 3:35:48 AM
Location:  Endwell, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  UP 3497(SD40-2) CR 5018(B36-7) CR 5507(SD60M)
Views:  273   Comments: 0
Waterside
Title:  Waterside
Description:  TV 204 rolls 101 stack platforms east past the pond next to Watson Blvd in Endwell. Five more minutes til it gets to Binghamton.
Photo Date:  5/5/1994  Upload Date: 9/20/2014 1:54:49 AM
Location:  Endwell, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  CR 3398(GP40-2) CR 6595(C30-7A) CR 6306(SD40)
Views:  473   Comments: 0
TV 204 by the pond
Title:  TV 204 by the pond
Description:  TV 204 and 102 platforms rolo past the pond in Endwell
Photo Date:  5/10/1994  Upload Date: 9/21/2014 3:14:47 AM
Location:  Endwell, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  CR 6264(SD40) CR 6017(C39-8) CR 2813(B23-7)
Views:  440   Comments: 0
At the station
Title:  At the station
Description:  The lead unit of ML 486 rests outside the yard office on the Erie main as we look across to the old DLW station across the tracks.
Photo Date:  9/8/1994  Upload Date: 8/29/2014 4:25:58 AM
Location:  Binghamton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Station,Action
Locomotives:  CR 6967(SD40-2R)
Views:  239   Comments: 0
JC coal
Title:  JC coal
Description:  A UNE coal train with 87 cars for the NYSEG Goudy Generating Station on the old DLW main in Johnson City rolls into the west side of Binghamton. For some reason, these trains drew 4 axle power most of the time, even though the road units rarely went to the plant. Local power off WABH 11 usually took the cars down in roughly 45 car cuts.
Photo Date:  9/17/1994  Upload Date: 8/29/2014 4:29:27 AM
Location:  Binghamton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CR 7722(GP38) CR 7924(GP38) CR 3334(GP40-2)
Views:  604   Comments: 0
Medium Clear
Title:  Medium Clear
Description:  SV 20 has a medium clear indication at CP Coles as it heads east toward Starricca Viaduct and New Jersey.
Photo Date:  9/24/1994  Upload Date: 8/31/2014 3:16:11 AM
Location:  Kirkwood, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Signal,Action
Locomotives:  CR 6119(C40-8W) CR 5549(SD60M) CR 6747(SD50)
Views:  431   Comments: 0
Out of the sun
Title:  Out of the sun
Description:  And headed for Jersey. ML 440 was an afternoon event in the Binghamton area, and hard to get good lighting, so lots of backlit shots. Heres one of them, as it rolls through BD and heads out of town with 10 stack platforms and 87 auto racks
Photo Date:  4/27/1995  Upload Date: 8/17/2014 3:33:31 AM
Location:  Binghamton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Signal,Action
Locomotives:  CR 6815(SD50) CR 6480(SD40-2) CR 6833(SD50)
Views:  398   Comments: 0
Rolling to a crew change
Title:  Rolling to a crew change
Description:  TV 202 rolls across the Chenango River on the Erie bridge and will shortly get a new crew to take on Starrucca and the trip to Jersey.
Photo Date:  4/30/1995  Upload Date: 8/17/2014 3:26:55 AM
Location:  Binghamton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Bridge,Action
Locomotives:  CR 6179(C40-8W) CR 5037(B36-7) CR 3363(GP40-2)
Views:  465   Comments: 1
Out of the sun
Title:  Out of the sun
Description:  TV 202 rolls 135 platforms and a long COFC out of the sun along Watson Blvd in Endwell.
Photo Date:  6/9/1995  Upload Date: 8/14/2014 3:53:21 AM
Location:  Endwell, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  CR 6741(SD50) CR 6719(SD50) CR 3393(GP40-2)
Views:  480   Comments: 0
Racks east
Title:  Racks east
Description:  ML 440, a daily auto rack train, passes the pond along Watson Blve in Endwell in late afternoon sun with 16 COFC and 63 racks.
Photo Date:  8/23/1995  Upload Date: 8/14/2014 3:50:57 AM
Location:  Endwell, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  CR 6432(SD40-2) CR 6197(C40-8W) CR 5519(SD60M)
Views:  286   Comments: 0
Still on the Tier
Title:  Still on the Tier
Description:  By this time, CR had finished the West Point tunnel project and was running most of its stack trains via the River Line. Some still ran the Tier, suich as this TV 202 coming out of the sun with 116 stack platforms as seen from Watson Blvd in Endwell.
Photo Date:  9/23/1995  Upload Date: 8/10/2014 2:20:09 AM
Location:  Endwell, NY
Author:  Tom Becke
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  CR 5571(SD60M) CR 6744(SD50) CR 6424(SD40-2)
Views:  332   Comments: 0
Detour train
Title:  Detour train
Description:  An eastbound is by QD on track 2 with a pair of NS units. NS would not take over the Tier for another two years, and I cannot recall a train running through to CP at this time. Must be a detour train over CR??
Photo Date:  5/5/1997  Upload Date: 3/30/2014 4:07:41 AM
Location:  Binghamton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  NS 8909(C40-9W)
Views:  552   Comments: 0


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