Sunset chase followed by storm clouds and lightning stripes

[Matt L]

As most (or maybe even all) of the jreb faithful have seen, I had a fun chase with NS H06 a month ago. This local runs from gang Mills to Geneva, NY on Sun-Thu schedule. While the previous chase was quite nice, my second swing at H06 was even better why?

A. Better weather when the train entered the Corning Secondary in Corning:



B. This run was right before a holiday break, so H06 had just 11 cars. The consist usually has at least 40 cars these days, and sometimes (including the June 5th chase) over 50 cars. The shorter train got up the 1% grade with ease, allowing for a daylight shot at County Route 16 in Dix:



C. For the first time since 2012, I actually caught H06 at the State Route 14 crossing in Himrod just after sunset. This shot was taken a full 40 minutes earlier than the hcase on June 5th:



D. There was even enough light (with a little help from a friendly motorist) to snag a few shots near Lake Street in the City of Geneva:







To see the whole chase, please visit

http://s857.photobucket.com/user/Erielackawanna/slideshow/2016/June%202016/0630%20NS%20H06

All photos in this post and the link were taken by me Thursday 6/30/2016 in central New York.

[Matt L]

just as i did on June 5th, I stayed overnight  in geneva and chased the Finger Lakes Railway.

FGLK B23-7 #1974 (still Conrail blue) and U23B #2201 switching in the yard at Border City:



Slide show of all the yard action at Border City and Geneva:

http://s857.photobucket.com/user/Erielackawanna/slideshow/2016/July%202016/0701%20FGLK%20yard

This time I chased road freight GS2 deep into the countryside, including a alkeside shot in Cayuga:



Finger Lakes Railway GS2 at East Genesee Street Road in Aurelius:



Complete slide show of FGLK GS2 from Border City to Aurelius:

http://s857.photobucket.com/user/Erielackawanna/slideshow/2016/July%202016/0701%20GS2

All photos in this post and the links were taken by me Friday 7/1/2016 in central New York.

[Matt L]

My chase of FGLk GS2 ended at Solvay. Before that train arrived, I caught local SY1 running next to State Route State Route 297:



Road freight GS2 showed up in Solvay a short time later:



Entering the yard at Solvay for interchange with CSX and NYSW (of which NS owns a small stake):



Complete slide show at Solvay:

http://s857.photobucket.com/user/Erielackawanna/slideshow/2016/July%202016/0701%20PM1%20Solvay%20NY

Heading west, I also snagged FGLK local AY1 switching in Auburn:



Short slide show of Auburn action:

http://s857.photobucket.com/user/Erielackawanna/slideshow/2016/July%202016/0701%20PM2%20Auburn%20NY

The day ended a rather stormy note. I had headed back to Geneva to catch  the return of GS2 (which didn't return to the yard until we ll after dark). In the meantime, I saw nasty thunderstorms to the north, east and south. Thankfully my location on the west side of Seneca Lake in Geneva was safe!



All photos in this post were taken by me Friday 7/1/2016 in central New York. A special thanks goes out to the Finger Lakes Railway for giving me permission to access part of their property in Border City, NY. All other shots were taken from public locations.