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| Title: |
OIEL arriving |
| Description: |
OIEL arrives at Salamanca on the ex EL Mahoning Division with his train of 68 cars, including a block of TOFC up front. These are obviously not priority trailers. Hes coordinating with ELOI, who is working the yard there at the same time. A year later, I moved to Binghamton, where I lived for 18 years. This was the only time I ever saw both of these trains on the same day, never mind the same location. |
| Photo Date: |
6/27/1987 Upload Date: 5/14/2015 3:42:39 PM |
| Location: |
Salamanca, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CR 6269(SD40) CR 6430(SD40-2) CR 6431(SD40-2) |
| Views: |
580 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
ELOI and the BR&P station |
| Description: |
ELOI pulls up to work Salamanca yard, adjacent to the former B&O station, now the Salamanca Rail Museum, which is on a spur downtown. The museum is well worth your time if you find yourself in Salamanca. |
| Photo Date: |
6/27/1987 Upload Date: 5/14/2015 3:48:48 PM |
| Location: |
Salamanca, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Station,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CR 6700(SD50) |
| Views: |
524 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Down the hill |
| Description: |
The XBP empty coal train to the Buffalo & Pittsburgh at Salamanca rolls downgrade just west of Andover. |
| Photo Date: |
3/24/1990 Upload Date: 12/31/2015 4:48:04 AM |
| Location: |
Andover, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CR 6032(C40-8) CR 6749(SD50) |
| Views: |
272 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Down on the farm |
| Description: |
A close up view of the XBP train passing the silos of a dairy farm at Scio on the Erie main. |
| Photo Date: |
3/24/1990 Upload Date: 12/31/2015 4:48:57 AM |
| Location: |
Scio, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CR 6032(C40-8) CR 6749(SD50) |
| Views: |
247 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Great spot |
| Description: |
This was the only shot I ever got of a train here. I was not far enough ahead of him to get a good tele shot, but still managed a decent photo, though the lead unit is partly obscured. An XBP empty coal train rolls past a farm at Andover. |
| Photo Date: |
3/24/1990 Upload Date: 12/29/2015 2:46:43 AM |
| Location: |
Andover, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CR 6032(C40-8) CR 6749(SD50) |
| Views: |
292 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Hi-low |
| Description: |
Erie seemed to be unable to settle on a single type of hardward for their signals. They had searchlights, tri light clusters, traffic light types, and of course the many semaphores that were still in service at the date of this photo. Another twist was this high and low pair at Belmont, seen with an XBP coal train. |
| Photo Date: |
3/24/1990 Upload Date: 12/29/2015 2:51:11 AM |
| Location: |
Belmont, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CR 6032(C40-8) CR 6749(SD50) |
| Views: |
312 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Used to be busy here |
| Description: |
A Conrail XBP empty coal train on the Meadville Line, once ELs Mahoning Division 4th sub, crosses the ex Pennsy Buffalo Line, also a Conrail operation, at the location of X tower. Now, the tower is long gone, and its CP Olean. At one time, this was a busy place, with several dozen train per day, most of them EL. There will be half a dozen moves here today, maybe. |
| Photo Date: |
3/24/1990 Upload Date: 12/29/2015 2:56:09 AM |
| Location: |
Olean, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
CR 6032(C40-8) CR 6749(SD50) |
| Views: |
633 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Once busy, now a memory |
| Description: |
An XBP coal train passes Cuba Jct, once a much busier place than it is at the date of this photo. The train is on the Meadville Line, going from single track to double for the 11 miles into Olean. There were eastbound and westbound sidings here in Erie days. The empty roadbed to the left was the Erie/EL River Line, which followed the Genesee River to NT tower, near Hunt, where it joined the Buffalo Sub. It crossed the river near Belfast on one of Eries massive steel bridges. A busy route when it was EL-it was the preferred route for most frieghts, since it had a much better gradient than the main line through Wellsville-it was abandoned almost immediately after Conrail startup. They dynamited the bridge in the early 80s. Of note, and not visible in this photo, the PRR also had a branch to Rochester that left the Buffalo Line at Olean, and passed under the River Line just east of here, taking a river level route up through Letchworth Park. |
| Photo Date: |
3/24/1990 Upload Date: 12/29/2015 3:39:13 AM |
| Location: |
Cuba, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CR 6032(C40-8) CR 6749(SD50) |
| Views: |
570 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
View from the road |
| Description: |
I took this from the shoulder of NY 17, which follows the Meadville Line for much of the way from Belmont to Olean. Too bad they didnt run more trains here, the line has some really scenic spots. |
| Photo Date: |
3/24/1990 Upload Date: 12/29/2015 3:50:43 AM |
| Location: |
Friendship, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CR 6032(C40-8) CR 6749(SD50) |
| Views: |
349 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Used to be X tower |
| Description: |
The tower actually stood across the EL, in the northwest quadrant of the crossing, a half mile west of the Olean station. CR tore it down early in its existence when they were working furiously to downgrade the former EL lines. It really wasnt needed after the CR startup anyway, since traffic here declined from several dozen trains/day to a handful on both lines. It almost could have been made an automatic interlocking. So a once elegant towers work is now done by a guy a couple hundred miles away, and a metal box. Ah, progress!! |
| Photo Date: |
3/24/1990 Upload Date: 12/29/2015 3:11:59 AM |
| Location: |
Olean, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
CR 6032(C40-8) CR 6749(SD50) |
| Views: |
455 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Scio silo |
| Description: |
The westbound empty coal train rolls past a couple of silos in the dreary late winter farmland. |
| Photo Date: |
3/24/1990 Upload Date: 12/29/2015 3:17:45 AM |
| Location: |
Scio, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CR 6032(C40-8) CR 6749(SD50) |
| Views: |
286 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Lots of clutter |
| Description: |
The area around Cass St had a lot going on. We see OIEL about to take the switch from track 2 on the Southern Tier to the Meadville Line. There are signals on the Tier, one of them a dwarf on track 1, as well as the signal protecting Cass St for trains coming off the Meadville Line, along with the poles for power and the signals. Cass St tower, long closed, is the concrete block structure to the right of the train. |
| Photo Date: |
3/24/1990 Upload Date: 12/31/2015 5:42:24 AM |
| Location: |
Hornell, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CR 8224(GP38-2) CR 1927(B23-7) CR 1945(B23-7) |
| Views: |
362 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Taking the Meadville Line |
| Description: |
OIEL, the through road train on the Meadville Line, diverges off the Southern Tier at Cass St in Hornell, heading for Olean and Jamestown. This train would go into the yard at Olean and wait for a new crew. When OIEL made a crew change point, you never knew when it would roll next. There were relatively few crews on this part of the line, and the train was not high priority. We'd get lucky, and chase the coal train also in this album. OIEL would come to life again later in the day, and we'd see it passing Salamanca while we were at the museum there. |
| Photo Date: |
3/24/1990 Upload Date: 12/29/2015 3:53:19 AM |
| Location: |
Hornell, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CR 8224(GP38-2) CR 1927(B23-7) CR 1945(B23-7) |
| Views: |
425 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
A view from the bridge |
| Description: |
OIEL is pumping up air at Jamestown, seen from the NY 394 overpass that crossed the tracks and the Chadakoin River. |
| Photo Date: |
3/24/1990 Upload Date: 12/29/2015 3:57:11 AM |
| Location: |
Jamestown, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CR 8224(GP38-2) CR 1927(B23-7) CR 1945(B23-7) |
| Views: |
541 Comments: 3 |
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| Title: |
Along the bank |
| Description: |
OIEL from the bank of the Chadakoin River, a different view than from above. Picture this with an EL GP35 on each end of the consist, bracketing a pair of U25B's. |
| Photo Date: |
3/24/1990 Upload Date: 12/29/2015 4:01:14 AM |
| Location: |
Jamestown, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CR 8224(GP38-2) CR 1927(B23-7) CR 1945(B23-7) |
| Views: |
392 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
On into Pennsylvania |
| Description: |
After OIEL left Jamestown, we followed west, a bit of a challenge since there are no good roads that follow the tracks. We caught up near Niobe Jct, where the Columbus & Erie, a low grade line built in the early 20th century, split from the main. This is the last point on the Erie in NY state. Wed have chased to Corry, but the light was about gone-and we had a 220 mile ride home. |
| Photo Date: |
3/24/1990 Upload Date: 12/29/2015 4:05:49 AM |
| Location: |
Watts Flats, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
CR 8224(GP38-2) CR 1927(B23-7) CR 1945(B23-7) |
| Views: |
341 Comments: 0 |
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