F40 352 brings an eastbound into East Syracuse.CONRAIL
This page will cover the former New York Central mainline from Syracuse, NY to Cleveland, OH. Most images here are from the early 1980's to 1992. We will begin at the Amtrak station located in East Syracuse.
F40 352 brings an eastbound into East Syracuse.
A little later the Conrail Geometry Train rolls in. 2002 led this train
all over the system.
A Conrail office car brings up the rear.
In the mid-1980's, GP40's ruled the piggy-back and early double stack trains.
A westbound manifest train pulls up next to the Geometry train.
A SD38 and a slug cut down from an Alco RSD-12 work DeWitt Yard.
An assortment of four-axle units at the engine house.
SD60 6802 on a westbound in the yard.
A brand new wide-cab GE stops at the yard.
While making a pick-up, the 6246 is past by a through westbound led 6776.
A new Amtrak Genesis unit brings a late running Lake Shore Limited into
town. The old steam era coaling
towers were located next to the original mainline that ran straight through
downtown Syracuse. A by-pass was built to avoid
the elevated section of downtown. Portions of the old station remain along
a highway today.
Early morning finds this very lo-o-o-o-ong westbound departing the yard.
With nine units even this long train is quickly up to track speed passing the
NYS&W junction at C.P. 286
west of downtown.
An early morning eastbound along the farmlands outside Weedsport, NY.
The modest yard at Lyons, NY in 1986. The old West Shore line paralleled
the NYC main
even here. Note the old bridge in the top right corner of the depot
picture.
Newark, NY. That bridge in the distance is the former Pennsylvania
Railroad line to Sodus Point.
Looking west from the Turk Hill Rd. overpass in Fairport, NY
SD50 6735 brings an westbound through the east side of Rochester, NY.
GP40 3399 on a container train passing the short yard on Rochester's east side.
Rochester Station and the tower in 1986. What was the tower's designation?
SD40 6278 westbound at R & S Junction west of downtown.
SD50 6501 in the last light of day eastbound near North Chili, NY, October 8,
1987.
Churchville, NY, 1987.
5020 on an eastbound at East Bergen, NY.
3374 on another eastbound at Bergen, NY. Quite a parade.
It's a terrible shot, but three Amtrak painted E8's roll the Niagara Rainbow
west on March 8, 1976.
5048 rolls westward through the remains of the closed yard at Batavia, NY.
F40 376 enroute to Buffalo with train # 63 passes the country side near Corfu,
NY.
Behind the Amtrak train was this short westbound near Critendon. October 8,
1987.
Following along in trail is this eastbound.
6429 smokes it up accelerating east out of Lancaster, NY. July 27, 1983.
GP40 3364 and three other units wheel a westbound TV train by the Amtrak depot
at Depew. 1983.
Still in Penn Central black, 9523 works a local at Depew. July 27, 1983.
6628 westbound at CP 433 entering Buffalo, NY.
In a cool sequence, eastbound 6502 passes a stopped train with an old
PRR cabin car and meets a westbound with 3364 on the point.
By 1983, many of the older Geeps were headed for scrap. Frontier Yard in
Buffalo..
Back in Penn Central days, two GP7's sit in Niagara Falls, Ontario. March
1976.
Perhaps one of the fastest freights I have
ever seen is this eastbound literally flying through Conneaut, Ohio.
Sept.
17, 1974