Amtrak train #40, the "Broadway", passes under the Westinghouse Bridge in East Pittsburgh.
A Guilford train snakes thru the curves just East of Browns Crossing on Conrails Southern Tier Line..
The operators desk inside of BD Tower in Binghamton.
The operator at BD Tower ties train orders to the arms on the train order pole.
Ex CR C-424 2488 is now B&H 422. The unit is ex EL 2414. Here it is on "home" rails, the ex EL Rochester Division, which later became the CR Mortimer Secondary before being purchased by the LA&L in 1996. The train is crossing Honeoye Creek in West Rush. This unit was rebuilt to a C-424-m in the 1980's and became D&H 455 prior to becoming a LA&L family engine.
The West end of the Southern Tier was at Bison Yard, a joint facility with N&W. It did not take long for this yard to be abandoned, since Frontier Yard was only a little over a mile away. Here is a mix of power at the engine facilities as seen from the old LV main.
An Eastbound Guilford stacker with a 3 builder lashup.
A leased CN GP-38 leads an Eastbound into Hornell. Those widecabs were a novelty back then!
CN lease power works an Eastbound by Goodman Street yard. Those wide cabs were a novelty at the time.
A leased CN GP38 leads an ex PC SD-45 on a Westbound on the West side of Rochester, NY in August, 1977.
A leased CNW SD-40 is the trailing unit on this power that is backing into the yard for a pickup.
Early CR had leased power from several sources, including CNW, CN, BAR, & Precision National.
D&H/CP train 259 at MP 361.
D&H/CP train 557 with a pair of CP SD-40-2s at Nichols.
An Eastbound CP/D&H train crosses the Portage Bridge with a mix of CP & CR power.
An Eastbound heads down track 3 at Goodman Street with a pair of F7A units trailing.
An F7A was a nice catch on this Eastbound freight.
An SW1500 has 2 cabooses, an ex LV & ex EL, in the cut of cars it is switching.
An ex RDG caboose brings up the rear of the Lima local. CR 18720 ex RDG 92874.
The Lima local is backing into the yard and putting its train together at Rochester Jct. CR 18720 ex RDG 92874.
A new B23-7 already has a broken window as it rolls a Westbound across the Portage Bridge.
WALY arrives at Avon to switch out Kraft foods and interchange with the LA&L.
It's dawn in the Canisteo River Valley and a Westbound CR freight is splitting the double semaphores just East of Adrian, NY.
WALY-14 is at Avon and will switch out Kraft Foods and interchange cars with the LA&L. In April 1996 the LA&L will own this trackage and CR will no longer run down the Mortimer Secondary to Avon.
An ex EL painted out caboose. It does not fit in the N3A number sequence, but looks like one.
BUOI splits the double semaphores at 308. The train was running "wrong main" on track 2.
A little B23-7 is leading much bigger units on an Eastbound coal train.
The salt train is on Chessie tracks as it heads South to P&L Jct. at Caledonia. The train has a matched set of 4 B23-7s.
Most likely this is a local of some sort. It was not common to see an RS-32 running the main at speed.
The Lima local heads North at Corby Road between Honeoye Falls and Lima.
Another one of my favorite CR photo's. The Lima local is just arriving before dark at the little yard at Rochester Jct. The ex LV yard was 3 tracks as I recall. Some cars that are not destined for points on the Lima Branch will be left here while the rest of the train goes to Lima. On the return trip, the dropped cars will be picked up to head back to Rochester.
