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About 45 minutes later, I saw something I've never photographed at CP Cass until now... a westbound freight train:



Photo taken by me Saturday 1/31/2009 in Hornell, NY.    

A former Conrail widecab was in the mix, too.



Photo taken by me Saturday 1/31/2009 in Hornell, NY. 

Soon the end of the train passed by this crossing, which is West Street.



Photo taken by me Saturday 1/31/2009 in Hornell, NY.  I was standing with the ex-EL mainline (now WNYP) to my back and the Buffalo Extension in front of me.  CP Cass was to my right. 

That was my last train for the weekend, but I got one more treat. Shortly after 2 PM, this hi-rail truck came down the WNYP. After they stopped to ask me if I was OK (they thought I was stuck in the snow), they drove away on West Street.



Photo taken by me Saturday 1/31/2009 in Hornell, NY.   

Without intending to do so, I captured the WNYP hi-rail truck as I photgraphed the crossing signal for the Buffalo Extension at West Street.



Photo taken by me Saturday 1/31/2009 in Hornell, NY.   The Buffalo Extension was a 2 track line until Conrail intalled CTC in the early '90s.  Thetruck is turnong from West Street onto Buffalo Street.  

Looking up the Buffalo Extension one more time, it is easy to see this was a 2 track ROW once upon a time:



Photo taken by me Saturday 1/31/2009 in Hornell, NY.     

This is the final look at CP Cass... for now. The signals look like they are lit, but they are not. We are looking east from West Street:



Photo taken by me Saturday 1/31/2009 in Hornell, NY. I hope everyone has enjoyed this tour of NS. The former EL and LV certainly have their charms. I will add more pictures from my neck of the woods to this thread as future trips permit.

Well, it's been a while since I've had a chance to visit here. It's been a busy spring and (what passes for) summer, which included a number of train chases.

Let's resume with a return to Hornell on Easter weekend. Here is a westbound freight passing through the junction at CP Cass:



Photo taken by me Saturday 4/11/2009.

The same train heading up the ex-Erie/EL Buffalo Extension:



Photo taken by me Saturday 4/11/2009.

Tail end of the same train crossing West Street:



Photo taken by me Saturday 4/11/2009.

About an hour later, an eastbound manifest freight entered Hornell on the Buffalo Extension:



Photo taken by me Saturday 4/11/2009. 

The same train entering the former Erie/EL mainline:



Photo taken by me Saturday 4/11/2009.

Running next to Buffalo Street in Hornell:



Photo taken by me Saturday 4/11/2009.

That train had an usual treat tacked onto its tail, a caboose!



Photo taken by me Saturday 4/11/2009.

This caboose is property of GVT, which owns a collection of shortlines. The hack was in transit from the Falls Road (FRRR) near Niagara Falls to the Delaware-Lackawanna RR in Scranton, PA.



Photo taken by me Saturday 4/11/2009.

As the afternoon deepened, a westbound CP/NS transfer freight approached CP Cass:



Photo taken by me Saturday 4/11/2009.

With the recent closure of SK yard in Buffalo, the CP/NS transfer freight would terminate at Bison Yard that evening. Seen at Hornell, NY:



Photo taken by me Saturday 4/11/2009

heading west on the Buffalo Extension:



Photo taken by me Saturday 4/11/2009.

With the sun about to set, the CP/NS transfer was the last train I saw that day:



Photo taken by me Saturday 4/11/2009.

The following day, I was visting family in Corning... which was a convneinet opportunity to photograph in the Gang Mills area. Here is the well-known Gang Mills yard, as seen from across Route 15:



Photo taken by me Saturday 4/11/2009.

A coal train was also idling on a siding west of the Gang Mills yard.



Photo taken by me Saturday 4/11/2009. It was Easter- so I saw nothing else that day.

Oh boy, I've been away for a while! I guess it will take a while to get caught up here... but I promise to make the wait worthwhile. Let's move forward to last summer. This was an eastbound coal train idling on the former EL at Binghamton, NY:



Photo taken by me Friday 7/10/2009.

The NS line in Binghamton is notoriously difficult to photograph, as most of the ROW is is bordered by private property to the south. Thus I had to settle for shooting into the sun when this CP transfer freight arrived:



Photo taken by me Friday 7/10/2009.

While the CP freight slowly crept westward, this westbound NS freight was waiting at the junction of the former Erie and DL&W mainlines:



Photo taken by me Friday 7/10/2009 in Binghamton, NY   

Later that same afternoon, this eastbound NS freight rumbled through Wellsburg, NY-  a small town on the former Erie/EL mainline between Elmira and Binghamton.



Photo taken by me Friday 7/10/2009.