Conrail (CR) 6458 - EMD SD40-2

CR 6241

on St Louis line

SETO WB at Joppa Rond

The great thing about Tioga Center was the semaphores; the down side was the hill to the west of the tracks, which made them go into shadow early. I had to dodge the shadows to get the power lit, meaning I had to pass up the "through the goalposts" signal shot. Still the blade on track 2 has not started to drop yet, and it can be seen above the lead stack.

TV 200 rolls 140 APL platforms through west Endicott, ten minutes from Binghamton and a crew change.

TV 200 rolls east approaching Campville, reflecting the sun on a flowery right of way.

OIBU meets TV 200 near MP 249 east of Waverly.

TV 200 approaches the NY 17C overpass in Endicott as it rolls its 140 APL platforms to a crew change in Binghamton.

BUOI rolls east as a CP 751 phosphate train waits for it to cleam. The Binghamton Psychiatric Center is up on the hill.

A Conrail train ieaded from the ex Pennsy to the ex NYC rolls past the PATH station at Journal Square in Jersey City. This was an intresting place to see Conrail trains. At the time, you could see oot only diesel powered trains, but some with various electric units as well, including E33's, E44's and GG1's. CR 6520 was almost brand new on the date of this photo.

autoracks headed north on river line

trailing unit of northbound on river line

headed northbound . canopy on the right is what was left of the nysw station

The PATH train from Jersey City to Newark sometimes yielded some good photo ops, if the timing was right. This time I got a train on the P&H line behind a set of SD40-2s, the lead unit one of the newest on the CR roster at the time, and the 5th from last such unit CR would acquire, the final SD40-2 being 6524. If only the PATH train had been a split second faster, the catenary support would not have cut off the pilot of the lead unit. Close but no cigar!!

OIBU crosses over Starrucca Viadust.

A meet at CP 286. (date is approximate; definitely a Saturday)

IHB 8785, CR 2965, 6254, 2546, and 6458

SEPY-8 southbound rips by EN[E-7 in the siding. The wkods on the left are where noted railroad photographer and fellow railroader Bob Malinoski walked his dog.