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Shop switcher
Title:  Shop switcher
Description:  RELCO was a contract freight car rebuilder that worked out of the ex LV shop in Sayre. They had this yellow SW 1 to push the cars around.
Photo Date:  9/28/1988  Upload Date: 9/9/2015 2:29:55 AM
Location:  Sayre, PA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  RE 503(SW1)
Views:  340   Comments: 0
Past the station
Title:  Past the station
Description:  CGAL arrives at Sayre. It will drop its train here as it runs south to Athens to cross over and get into the yard area.
Photo Date:  10/12/1988  Upload Date: 9/11/2015 3:20:10 AM
Location:  Sayre, PA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Station,Action
Locomotives:  CR 3399(GP40-2) CR 6607(C30-7)
Views:  536   Comments: 1
Pulled down
Title:  Pulled down
Description:  CGAL is pulled down to MP 270 for headroom as it switches the Sayre yard. It will pick up cars from the Ithaca Branch, as well as pick up and set out for the RELCO contract repair shop, then head for Towanda, Wilkes Barre and Allentown.
Photo Date:  12/7/1988  Upload Date: 9/17/2015 4:27:56 AM
Location:  Sayre, PA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Winter,Action
Locomotives:  CR 6637(C36-7) CR 6776(SD50) CR 6408(SD40-2) CR 6759(SD50)
Views:  743   Comments: 3
Heading for the Tier
Title:  Heading for the Tier
Description:  An empty XWB coal train has changed ends and is now pulling from the station at Sayre. It will take the Lehigh Secondary, the connecting track to the Southern Tier Line, and join the Tier at block station WAVE, in downtown Waverly.
Photo Date:  12/17/1988  Upload Date: 9/17/2015 4:03:45 AM
Location:  Sayre, PA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Action
Locomotives:  CR 6359(SD40-2) CR 6809(SD50) CR 6803(SD50)
Views:  526   Comments: 1
Car shop SW with a classic
Title:  Car shop SW with a classic
Description:  If one can consider a PC gon a classic. GE Railcar operated a contract repair shop in the old LV facility in Sayre PA. Aside from having this SW 1, it also took old cars in as fodder for rehab, and it was not uncommon to see some fallen flags, such as this PC gondola.
Photo Date:  1/25/1989  Upload Date: 9/25/2015 4:40:48 AM
Location:  Sayre, PA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  RE 503(SW1)
Views:  269   Comments: 0
Pulling them down
Title:  Pulling them down
Description:  RELCOs SW 1 rolls down the running track, setting out cars for Conrail to pick up. The track at left is the Lehigh Runner, the connecting track from the ex LV Lehigh Line to the Southern Tier Line. It is used by ALCG and CGAL, as well as any trains from the Tier to the Ithaca Branch, though those trains have to do a run around to access the branch.
Photo Date:  1/25/1989  Upload Date: 9/25/2015 4:48:21 AM
Location:  Sayre, PA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  RE 503(SW1)
Views:  247   Comments: 0
Coal to Ithaca
Title:  Coal to Ithaca
Description:  A gloomy day finds a UNL train rolling north at Sayre with loads for the NYSEG plant at Ludlowville, just up the lake from Ithaca.
Photo Date:  3/15/1989  Upload Date: 9/29/2015 2:10:16 AM
Location:  Sayre, PA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  CR 6768(SD50) CR 6351(SD40) CR 6352(SD40)
Views:  512   Comments: 1
CR 6792
Title:  CR 6792
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/18/1989  Upload Date: 3/2/2013 9:51:08 AM
Location:  Sayre, PA
Author:  Sam Botts
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CR 6792(SD50) CR 6804(SD50)
Views:  333   Comments: 0
Coal for Ludlowville
Title:  Coal for Ludlowville
Description:  A coal train for the NYSEG plant at Ludlowville, north of Ithaca, has changed ends and is ready to go north on one of the few remaining segments of the Lehigh Valley left in New York.
Photo Date:  4/11/1989  Upload Date: 10/5/2015 4:42:24 AM
Location:  Sayre, PA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Action
Locomotives:  CR 6727(SD50) CR 6826(SD50) CR 6714(SD50)
Views:  504   Comments: 1
Empties going back
Title:  Empties going back
Description:  The power has now changed ends on this empty train from the NYSEG plant north of Ithaca, and will take the Lehigh Runner to BLS Wave in Waverly, where it will get on the Tier for the run to Buffalo.
Photo Date:  4/26/1989  Upload Date: 10/8/2015 3:21:40 AM
Location:  Sayre, PA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Action
Locomotives:  CR 6408(SD40-2) CR 6808(SD50) CR 6626(C36-7)
Views:  588   Comments: 1
GE unit??
Title:  GE unit??
Description:  Well, sorta. Its an SW 1, but working at the GE Railcar shop, the one time Lehigh Valley shop and roundhouse at Sayre PA. The roundhouse can be seen to the right of the unit, which is switching bad order cars in the yard.
Photo Date:  4/26/1989  Upload Date: 10/8/2015 2:44:19 AM
Location:  Sayre, PA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  GECX 3(SW1)
Views:  414   Comments: 0
CGAL big sky
Title:  CGAL big sky
Description:  CGAL pulls down the Lehigh Line after making a pick up under a towering sky.
Photo Date:  9/2/1989  Upload Date: 11/22/2015 3:52:34 AM
Location:  Sayre, PA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  CR 6420(SD40-2) CR 6439(SD40-2) CR 6251(SD40)
Views:  462   Comments: 2
Working
Title:  Working
Description:  CGAL worked the ex LV yard at Sayre, now used by GE Railcar as a contract repair shop. There were always cars in and cars out, so they spent some time here.
Photo Date:  9/2/1989  Upload Date: 11/22/2015 3:55:28 AM
Location:  Sayre, PA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  CR 6420(SD40-2) CR 6439(SD40-2) CR 6251(SD40)
Views:  436   Comments: 1
Old station
Title:  Old station
Description:  The Lehigh Valley station had not seen a passenger since 1961, and had served a variety of other purposes since then, mostly as a restaurant-several of them, as they never seemed to take hold. WACG01 sits outside the 1881 station as the crew gets back on after running around the train for the trip to Ithaca.
Photo Date:  3/31/1990  Upload Date: 1/8/2016 2:32:41 AM
Location:  Sayre, PA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Action
Locomotives:  CR 6792(SD50) CR 6804(SD50)
Views:  344   Comments: 1
Block limit stations
Title:  Block limit stations
Description:  Since the Ithaca Branch was Form D territory, there were block stations to designate track blocks. We see a 103 car UNE train for Milliken passing two of them. Rena, on the left, governs the Ithaca Branch; Croft, on the right, is on the Lehigh Secondary. There is also one at the other end of the secondary where it meets the Southern Tier, designated Wave, in Waverly.
Photo Date:  8/9/1990  Upload Date: 1/21/2016 1:49:15 AM
Location:  Sayre, PA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Signal,Action
Locomotives:  CR 6031(C40-8)
Views:  545   Comments: 1
Track geometry train
Title:  Track geometry train
Description:  Conrail had a track geometry train that took all kinds of engineering measurments on the track structure. It was permanently assgined to B23-7 1933, which was specially outfitted to work with the equipment in the cars. We see it on the ex LV at Sayre, laying over for a trip down the Lehigh Line the next day.
Photo Date:  5/30/1991  Upload Date: 3/11/2015 2:33:41 PM
Location:  Sayre, PA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  CR 1933(B23-7)
Views:  679   Comments: 1
CGAL on the Lehigh
Title:  CGAL on the Lehigh
Description:  CGAL, Conrails train on the ex Lehigh Valley, poses at the Sayre station. It will pick up cars from GE Railcar, which does freight car rebuild in part of the old Sayre shop, before heading east. The JJ Newberry store(far left) was still open in Sayre then.
Photo Date:  1/15/1992  Upload Date: 2/16/2015 4:49:39 AM
Location:  Sayre, PA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Winter,Station,Action
Locomotives:  CR 6807(SD50) CR 6700(SD50) CR 6513(SD40-2) CR 6627(C36-7)
Views:  630   Comments: 1
Coal on the old LV
Title:  Coal on the old LV
Description:  One of the few remaining segments of the Lehigh Valley in New York was the line from Sayre PA to Ludlowville, north of Ithaca. It was a good moneymaker for Conrail, as it hosted three coal trains weekly going to the NYSEG plant there, as well as salt loads out from Cargill. Occasionally Cornell would get coal for its boilers. This train has just changed ends at Sayre and is sitting by the former station, now a restaurant, as it gets ready to go north.
Photo Date:  5/22/1992  Upload Date: 2/9/2015 2:08:42 AM
Location:  Sayre, PA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Station,Action
Locomotives:  CR 6020(C39-8) CR 6008(C39-8)
Views:  492   Comments: 2
CR 6632
Title:  CR 6632
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/27/1992  Upload Date: 6/18/2012 5:52:28 AM
Location:  Sayre, PA
Author:  Sam Botts
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CR 6632(C36-7)
Views:  255   Comments: 0
CR 6632
Title:  CR 6632
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/27/1992  Upload Date: 6/18/2012 5:52:00 AM
Location:  Sayre, PA
Author:  Sam Botts
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CR 6632(C36-7) CR 6383(SD40-2) CR 6630(C36-7)
Views:  459   Comments: 0
CR 6630
Title:  CR 6630
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/27/1992  Upload Date: 6/18/2012 5:52:57 AM
Location:  Sayre, PA
Author:  Sam Botts
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CR 6630(C36-7)
Views:  209   Comments: 0
GE in the snow
Title:  GE in the snow
Description:  CR 6007 in the snow, and possibly one of the dirtiest slides I have. This is UNL15B arriving at Sayre after a run down the Ithaca Branch with an empty coal train. Trailing unit 6059 will lead onto the Southern Tier Line and west from Waverly.
Photo Date:  1/24/1994  Upload Date: 3/4/2012 4:29:19 AM
Location:  Sayre, PA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Winter,Action
Locomotives:  CR 6007(C39-8) CR 6808(SD50) CR 6059(C40-8W)
Views:  820   Comments: 1
This lashup prepares to run to the other end of the coal train for the n/b run to Ithaca
Title:  This lashup prepares to run to the other end of the coal train for the n/b run to Ithaca
Description: 
Photo Date:  10/10/2000  Upload Date: 10/17/2006 10:10:33 PM
Location:  Sayre, PA
Author:  Tim Sullivan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  NS 6658(SD60)
Views:  699   Comments: 0
Ithaca train
Title:  Ithaca train
Description:  Besides the NYSEG plant at Milliken, there is also a large Cargill salt mine north of Ithaca. This customer sometimes gets big cuts of covered hoppers to load there. Heres a set of empties on its way to Cargill, seen on the ex LV at Sayre.
Photo Date:  4/8/2001  Upload Date: 12/3/2013 1:43:40 AM
Location:  Sayre, PA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  NS 8960(C40-9W) NS 9214(C40-9W) NS 9238(C40-9W)
Views:  889   Comments: 0
H 11 at historic station
Title:  H 11 at historic station
Description:  H 11 sits at the ex LV station in Sayre PA, once a busy division point on the Lehigh Valley, now just a backwater of a large system. The station has ahd several incarnations as a restaurant over the years. Most, even the good ones, dont seem to make it. Today's train has a varied menu, however, with a former NW short hood SD40-2, and an ex Southern hi hood SD40.
Photo Date:  6/1/2002  Upload Date: 9/22/2013 3:06:03 AM
Location:  Sayre, PA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Action
Locomotives:  NS 6158(SD40-2) NS 3180(SD40)
Views:  663   Comments: 0
Gang Mills bound
Title:  Gang Mills bound
Description:  Local H13 has a cut of empty coal hoppers in tow as it gets ready to run back to Gang Mills following a run down to Sayre from Ithaca, one on of the few parts of the LV west end still in service. There, a new crew will get the train to forward on to Buffalo, and eventually to southwestern PA for reload.
Photo Date:  8/3/2003  Upload Date: 6/10/2016 3:06:54 AM
Location:  Sayre, PA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  NS 8407(C40-8W) NS 9174(C40-9W) NS 6798(SD60M) NS 9600(C40-9W)
Views:  669   Comments: 1
Never thought Id see this in the 21st Century!!
Title:  Never thought Id see this in the 21st Century!!
Description:  The former LV Sayre shops were, at the time of this photo(and may still be) run by GE Railcar, which did contract rebuilding and wreck repairs. It was a busy place, and some days, ALCG and CGAL set off and picked up significant numbers of cars here. Among the many odd and obscure items that turned up here was a set of Rock Island gons, in full RI lettering and excellent paint. The only thing not RI on these cars were the reporting marks, which were assigned to GE Railcar, and later to Wells Fargo.. Almost a quarter century after Rocks demise, and long after just about everything Rock had disappeared from the American rail scene, who ever would have thought something like this would turn up in Sayre PA??
Photo Date:  2/18/2004  Upload Date: 6/3/2017 4:02:42 AM
Location:  Sayre, PA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Yard
Locomotives: 
Views:  283   Comments: 2
Local working
Title:  Local working
Description:  H 12 with a pair of six axles stops next to the former LV station at Sayre, waiting for the word to shove a cut of cars into GE railcar. The banner next to the station says it will be opening soon-yet another restaurant in the old station.
Photo Date:  7/1/2004  Upload Date: 6/5/2017 5:30:38 AM
Location:  Sayre, PA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Action
Locomotives:  NS 6750(SD60I) NS 8743(C40-8)
Views:  418   Comments: 0
Coal train
Title:  Coal train
Description:  Coal trains to AES Milliken Station north of Ithaca on the ex LV followed Conrails pattern in the NS era, running off the Southern Tier at Waverly onto the connection the the ex LV at Sayre, running the power around the train, then going north. Here we see a train that has just had the power cut off to change ends. Note the number boards on the lead unit, an ex LMS lease unit, with their CNJ typeface.
Photo Date:  7/11/2004  Upload Date: 1/6/2013 4:11:25 AM
Location:  Sayre, PA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  NS 8465(C40-8W) NS 9186(C40-9W) NS 2581(SD70M)
Views:  1106   Comments: 0
CNJ number boards
Title:  CNJ number boards
Description:  The leader on this coal train to Milliken has an unusual typeface for power in this era. It looks starkly reminiscent of the font the Jersey Central used. Nothing wrong with that!!
Photo Date:  7/28/2004  Upload Date: 6/5/2017 5:34:49 AM
Location:  Sayre, PA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  NS 8465(C40-8W) NS 9186(C40-9W)
Views:  461   Comments: 0
NS ;920
Title:  NS ;920
Description: 
Photo Date:  8/20/2005  Upload Date: 3/20/2006 11:40:42 AM
Location:  Sayre, PA
Author:  Shawn Karney
Categories: 
Locomotives:  NS 9920(C40-9W)
Views:  710   Comments: 0
NS 9531
Title:  NS 9531
Description: 
Photo Date:  8/20/2005  Upload Date: 3/20/2006 11:40:42 AM
Location:  Sayre, PA
Author:  Shawn Karney
Categories: 
Locomotives:  NS 9531(C40-9W)
Views:  492   Comments: 0
NS 9920
Title:  NS 9920
Description: 
Photo Date:  8/20/2005  Upload Date: 3/20/2006 11:40:43 AM
Location:  Sayre, PA
Author:  Shawn Karney
Categories: 
Locomotives:  NS 9920(C40-9W)
Views:  609   Comments: 2
ex penn central GP 30 sits in sayre yard in pa
Title:  ex penn central GP 30 sits in sayre yard in pa
Description: 
Photo Date:  1/1/2006  Upload Date: 2/5/2006 3:37:35 PM
Location:  Sayre, PA
Author:  tim heckman
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CR 2233(GP30)
Views:  1081   Comments: 0
Ithaca coal train
Title:  Ithaca coal train
Description:  A coal train for the Ithaca Branch has arrived at the old LV yard in Sayre where the power will run around and head up the branch to Milliken power plant.
Photo Date:  1/27/2006  Upload Date: 11/4/2012 2:56:52 AM
Location:  Sayre, PA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Winter,Yard,Action
Locomotives:  NS 8787(C40-9) NS 8309(C40-8) NS 6113(SD40-2)
Views:  834   Comments: 0
UP 2439
Title:  UP 2439
Description: 
Photo Date:  2/20/2006  Upload Date: 5/22/2006 6:13:21 PM
Location:  Sayre, PA
Author:  Paul Graf
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 2439(SD60M)
Views:  417   Comments: 1
NS 9870
Title:  NS 9870
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/17/2006  Upload Date: 3/20/2006 11:40:44 AM
Location:  Sayre, PA
Author:  Shawn Karney
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 4013(SD70M) CSX 6017(GP40-2)
Views:  1728   Comments: 6
NS 9870
Title:  NS 9870
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/17/2006  Upload Date: 3/20/2006 11:40:47 AM
Location:  Sayre, PA
Author:  Shawn Karney
Categories: 
Locomotives:  NS 9870(C40-9W)
Views:  469   Comments: 1
UP 4173
Title:  UP 4173
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/17/2006  Upload Date: 3/20/2006 11:40:46 AM
Location:  Sayre, PA
Author:  Shawn Karney
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 4173(SD70M)
Views:  450   Comments: 0
NS 9969
Title:  NS 9969
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/17/2006  Upload Date: 3/20/2006 11:40:47 AM
Location:  Sayre, PA
Author:  Shawn Karney
Categories: 
Locomotives:  NS 9969(C40-9W)
Views:  560   Comments: 1
Caboose at the Original Italian Grille
Title:  Caboose at the Original Italian Grille
Description:  This "B&O" caboose sits alongside the former LV freight depot in Sayre, PA
Photo Date:  3/27/2006  Upload Date: 4/5/2006 10:28:08 AM
Location:  Sayre, PA
Author:  Jonathan Ferraro
Categories: 
Locomotives: 
Views:  529   Comments: 1
"Lehigh Valley" Boxcar
Title:  "Lehigh Valley" Boxcar
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/27/2006  Upload Date: 4/5/2006 10:28:11 AM
Location:  Sayre, PA
Author:  Jonathan Ferraro
Categories: 
Locomotives: 
Views:  300   Comments: 1
"LV" and "B&O" Equipment at the Italian Grille
Title:  "LV" and "B&O" Equipment at the Italian Grille
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/27/2006  Upload Date: 4/5/2006 10:28:10 AM
Location:  Sayre, PA
Author:  Jonathan Ferraro
Categories: 
Locomotives: 
Views:  351   Comments: 2
Not Exactly A Dining Car
Title:  Not Exactly A Dining Car
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/27/2006  Upload Date: 4/5/2006 10:28:12 AM
Location:  Sayre, PA
Author:  Jonathan Ferraro
Categories: 
Locomotives: 
Views:  378   Comments: 2
NS 6583
Title:  NS 6583
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/27/2006  Upload Date: 4/5/2006 9:50:40 AM
Location:  Sayre, PA
Author:  Jonathan Ferraro
Categories: 
Locomotives:  NS 6583(SD60)
Views:  473   Comments: 1
NS 6583
Title:  NS 6583
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/27/2006  Upload Date: 4/5/2006 9:50:41 AM
Location:  Sayre, PA
Author:  Jonathan Ferraro
Categories: 
Locomotives:  NS 6583(SD60)
Views:  477   Comments: 0
NS 9643
Title:  NS 9643
Description:  A Norfolk Southern freight passes the 1881 Lehigh Valley RR passenger depot in Sayre
Photo Date:  3/27/2006  Upload Date: 4/5/2006 9:50:45 AM
Location:  Sayre, PA
Author:  Jonathan Ferraro
Categories: 
Locomotives:  NS 9643(C40-9W)
Views:  643   Comments: 1
NS 9643
Title:  NS 9643
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/27/2006  Upload Date: 4/5/2006 9:50:45 AM
Location:  Sayre, PA
Author:  Jonathan Ferraro
Categories: 
Locomotives:  NS 9643(C40-9W)
Views:  507   Comments: 0
NS 9643
Title:  NS 9643
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/27/2006  Upload Date: 4/5/2006 9:50:46 AM
Location:  Sayre, PA
Author:  Jonathan Ferraro
Categories: 
Locomotives:  NS 9643(C40-9W)
Views:  604   Comments: 0
NS 9870
Title:  NS 9870
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/27/2006  Upload Date: 4/5/2006 10:28:13 AM
Location:  Sayre, PA
Author:  Jonathan Ferraro
Categories: 
Locomotives:  NS 9870(C40-9W)
Views:  513   Comments: 0


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