Sorry about the delay in posting this pictorial- I've been busy with photographing several rock bands, including a certain juke box hero who hails from my necks of the woods.
Anyway, this was a fun chase day involving both NS and in interchange partner I have been chasing since 1976- the Bath & Hammondsport RR. The day began at the B&H yard in Cohcoton. The train had already departed, but Alco S1 #5 was parked outside the engine house.
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I had a hard time finding the B&H local, so I decided to head to the Corning area, since I knew they'd interchange with NS there. That was a good choice, since I found several DuPont cars there. A couple of locals have informed me that NS and several local fire departments had been using the DuPont cars for practice drills. They were parked at Gang Mills.
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Guess what else I saw? Owing to a derailment on the CSX Chicago Line, they were detouring a few trains on NS's Southern Tier Mainline. Express freight L090, a joint UP/CSX operations that runs between the West Coast and the Port of Albany (NY) came through the area late in the morning. I caught the train at the State Route 352 overpass in Gibson.
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After L090 passed, I returned to the NS yard at Gang Mills, where local power was assembling lcoal H77.
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12T also arrived in the early afternoon, and worked the other end of the yard at Gang Mills.
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All photos in this post were taken by me Friday 6/28/2013 in Steuben County, NY.
Now, here's the reason I chose the B&H for my chase. They acquired an RS18 from the Owego & Hartford RR last year, and the MLW recently made her debut on the B&H local. I found #416 sitting on the wye at Painted Post, along with C424M #423.
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The B&H crew had dropped off their consist,so NS sent out H77 to fetch it. This is Chemung Street in Painted Post.
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BTW, a heavy thunderstorm rolled in just as H77 headed back to home turf. This is the Hamilton Street crossing in Painted Post.
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The B&H local came off the wye and headed west in a toorrential downpour. This is also Hamilton Street in Painted Post.
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I headed west, too... and got out from under the storm to catch the B&H on the former DL&W main (later EL Wayland Branch) in Campbell. I'm sure N&W, Southern and EL will agree the running long hood forward is fun to watch.
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The tail end of the B&H local apsses the old Lacakwanna depot in Campbell.
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All photos in this post were taken by me Friday 6/28/2013 in Steuben County, NY. I hope y'all have liked this pictorial. As always, a big thank you goes out to the employees of the B&H for their friendliness and professionalism.
If anyone wants to see the rest of my photos from that day, or the rest of June, please visit:
http://s857.photobucket.com/user/Erielackawanna/library/2013/June%202013?sort=2&page=1
Enjoy!