Conrail (CR) 6098 - GE C40-8W

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TV 26 has just climbed up out of the Genesee valley with its 5 COFC and 40 auto racks, where it crossed Portage Bridge, and is now approximately at the location of the ELs NT tower, where the River Line went west to join the main at Cuba Jct. That line is lone gone by now, but the traffic on the former Buffalo Sub is pretty good today.

TV 26 rolls east past the cornfields of Arkport.

A going away shot of BUOI passing the Kirkwood Industrial Park shows a full moon. Soon it will be lighting the way down the Delaware.

The trains always do!! The traffic light to the left of the train is set so that when theßcrossing gates go down, it turns red for traffic going over the crossing. Wish I had one of those.

BUOI approaches the Kinney Rd crossing in Campville. The trees at left made a nice foregound a couple of years ago. Now theyre tall enough to block the side view of the train.

The CR ex Erie station at Silver Springs, now used by MOW forces, in a view of TV 26, passing with 45 cars.

BUOI has worked Gang Mills yard and is now heading east for Elmira and Binghamton with 51 cars. This was Eries, and later ELs yard in the Corning area. The track going out of the picture to the far left is the connection to the ex NYC line to Jersey Shore PA. That line originally ran on the other side of the Tioga River at this point. The connection was put in when the Erie and NYC were relocated out of downtown in 1951.

ATSF westbound intermodal breezes past the E/B BNSF 1026 California Wine Train waiting at the end of the double track CTC

Conrail 6098 going over the CSX rail bridge in Sidney, Oh

TV-6 cresting the grade in Hinsdale center at MP 142.