NS and fall foliage in western NY

[Matt L]

New York is a colorful place to be at this time of year, since trees are a blaze of color,  I had two outings with NS running through the foliage last month. The first outing was along the Southern Tier Mainline.

NS auto rack freight 28N eastbound at MP 389/Spring Road in Alexander:



NS mixed freight 36T eastbound at East Main Street Road in Attica, with Lehigh Railway #5700 as the 3rd unit:



NS 36T climbing the grade on the east side of Attica:



NS intermodal I3K at MP 385/Spring Road in Bethany:



For a complete look at all three trains, please visit my lside show:

http://s857.photobucket.com/user/Erielackawanna/slideshow/2016/Oct%202016/1022%20NS

All photos in this post and the link were taken by me Saturday 10/22/2016 in western NY. The LHRY SD40-2 was coming back for Ohio, and was dropped off later at Gang Mills. After being forwarded to Elmira, NS local H12 delivered her to the LHRY in Sayre (PA) a couple days later.

[Matt L]

A week late, I was out at the Bayview Road crossing after a successful chase of the New York & Lake Erie RR. NS sent three eastbound trains down the former NKP main while I was there.

NS intermodal 22K with an SD60M, standard cab SD70 (ex-CR) and standard cab Dash 9:



NS intermodal 206:



As the tail end of NS 206 passed, I could already see the headlights for the 3rd train in the distance:



The 3rd train was NS mixed freight 14M:



For a complete look at all 3 NS trains at the Bayview Road crossing, as well as CSX's former NYC line at the same location, please visit my slide show:

http://s857.photobucket.com/user/Erielackawanna/slideshow/2016/Oct%202016/1029%20PM%20Hamburg

All photos in this post and the link were taken by me Saturday 10/29/2016 in Hamburg, NY.

[dschlegel]

Great stuff!!

[Matt L]

Thanx, Dan! I don't know what happened to poor CSX that day. If you check out the slide show, you'll see that their 3 track line (ex-NyC main) turned into a parking lot. I'm not sure what happened because my scanner was tuned to NS.