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EL WB behind ex-DLW F-3
Title:  EL WB behind ex-DLW F-3
Description:  Westbound EL freight behind ex_ DL&W F-3d
Photo Date:  4/14/1970  Upload Date: 2/27/2013 10:52:57 AM
Location:  Johnson City, NY
Author:  Art House
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  EL 6561(F3A)
Views:  810   Comments: 1
CR 6763
Title:  CR 6763
Description: 
Photo Date:  4/28/1980  Upload Date: 3/7/2008 6:46:40 AM
Location:  Johnson City, NY
Author:  Sam Botts
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CR 6763(SD50) CR 6014(C39-8)
Views:  1219   Comments: 1
Approaching Binghamton
Title:  Approaching Binghamton
Description:  An intermodal train, Im guessing TV 78, about to roll into Johnson City on its approach to Binghamton. This area has seen a lot of change over the years. River Plaza to the left of the lead unit, has been mostly empty for years. The GE building above the train is now BAE Systems. To its right is now a Home Depot. The smokestack above the lead unit belongs to NYSEG's Goudy plant, a long time Conrail customer. It closed around 2005. Of course, Conrail itself is now a memory.
Photo Date:  2/2/1984  Upload Date: 6/7/2014 2:21:22 AM
Location:  Johnson City, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CR 6438(SD40-2) CR 6315(SD40)
Views:  1180   Comments: 1
NYSW 4030
Title:  NYSW 4030
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/20/1988  Upload Date: 2/1/2008 11:20:45 AM
Location:  Johnson City, NY
Author:  Sam Botts
Categories: 
Locomotives:  NYSW 4030(B40-8) NYSW 6366(SD45)
Views:  918   Comments: 0
NWs and SD 45s
Title:  NWs and SD 45s
Description:  A pair of NW GEs bracket a pair of SD 45s, one an NRL lease unit of Southern heritage, the other one of NYSWs ex BN units, as they lead MEBU under the Lester Av overpass in Johnson City.
Photo Date:  9/19/1988  Upload Date: 8/30/2015 2:48:27 AM
Location:  Johnson City, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  NW 8082(C30-7) NYSW 6361(SD45) NRL 3144(SD45)
Views:  1487   Comments: 0
Coal empties on the Vestal Spur
Title:  Coal empties on the Vestal Spur
Description:  By the 1980s there was little traffic on the Vestal Spur, except for National Pipe and Plastic, which was the last customer on the Vestal side of the river; and NYSEG's Goudy Station in Johnson City. Here WABH 11 is pulling empties past the abandoned factories of Johnson City. This was once the 70 MPH DL&W main line.
Photo Date:  3/14/1989  Upload Date: 1/8/2012 2:16:53 AM
Location:  Johnson City, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CR 3281(GP40-2)
Views:  1341   Comments: 2
Work train east
Title:  Work train east
Description:  This ex Reading N4A car was on the Tier for several weeks, working on a tie train. The work trains tended to get cabooses since they had a lot of backing moves.
Photo Date:  3/21/1989  Upload Date: 9/28/2015 4:12:42 AM
Location:  Johnson City, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  290   Comments: 0
Crawling
Title:  Crawling
Description:  The crane, the train was moving right along. The crane on the gondola is mounted so that it can move along the car as it completes its work, and can also move from car to car, an operation that is really interesting to watch. This one is on an eastbound tie train. Check the EL gon!!
Photo Date:  3/21/1989  Upload Date: 9/28/2015 4:18:32 AM
Location:  Johnson City, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  410   Comments: 1
NYSW 4026
Title:  NYSW 4026
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/21/1989  Upload Date: 5/13/2008 2:51:10 AM
Location:  Johnson City, NY
Author:  Sam Botts
Categories: 
Locomotives:  NYSW 4026(B40-8)
Views:  763   Comments: 0
CR 21302
Title:  CR 21302
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/25/1989  Upload Date: 6/18/2012 4:11:28 AM
Location:  Johnson City, NY
Author:  Sam Botts
Categories: 
Locomotives: 
Views:  336   Comments: 0
Over the River
Title:  Over the River
Description:  WABH-11 crosses the Susquehanna River bridge returning from Vestal. Covered hoppers are parked on the runaround across from Goudy Station. Exact date unknown.
Photo Date:  9/1/1989  Upload Date: 1/24/2017 4:23:37 PM
Location:  Johnson City, NY
Author:  G. Vaughn
Categories: 
Locomotives: 
Views:  324   Comments: 0
High Iron
Title:  High Iron
Description:  It used to be the DL&W eastbound main, but now its restricted speed all the way. WABH-11 approaches the Susquehanna River bridge just west of Goudy Station on return from Vestal. Engine is an oldy too at this point, a U23B. Exact date unknown.
Photo Date:  9/1/1989  Upload Date: 1/24/2017 4:19:41 PM
Location:  Johnson City, NY
Author:  G. Vaughn
Categories: 
Locomotives: 
Views:  336   Comments: 0
Susy-Qs mixed bag
Title:  Susy-Qs mixed bag
Description:  NYSW 4032 leads an eastbound mixed into Binghamton as WABH-11 makes a run to Vestal on the old DL&W. End of September, exact day unknown.
Photo Date:  9/1/1989  Upload Date: 1/24/2017 4:16:41 PM
Location:  Johnson City, NY
Author:  G. Vaughn
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  NYSW 4032(B40-8) DH 221(GP38-2)
Views:  952   Comments: 1
CR 6032
Title:  CR 6032
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/10/1990  Upload Date: 6/13/2012 5:20:28 AM
Location:  Johnson City, NY
Author:  Sam Botts
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CR 6032(C40-8)
Views:  734   Comments: 1
Working Goudy
Title:  Working Goudy
Description:  The main activity on the Vestal Spur, the remaining piece of the DLW west of Binghamton, was the NYSEG Goudy Generating Station, which got 90 or so cars twice weekly. The coal would come in on UNG trains, which dropped the loads at Binghamton. WABH 11%would get the task of switching out the plant. Since CR assigned a single 4 motor unit to that job-they didnt allow 6 axle units on the spur, it would take the cars down in 45 car cuts, and work the plant solo. It could be an all day affair for the local, since the plant yard was oddly configured, and there was a lot of see sa{ing to get loads in, and empties out. Thats the NY 201 overpass above the train.
Photo Date:  7/9/1990  Upload Date: 1/11/2016 3:13:59 AM
Location:  Johnson City, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CR 1982(B23-7)
Views:  645   Comments: 0
Charging ahead
Title:  Charging ahead
Description:  ABBU, the empty cars returning from the Port of Albany, get a move on as they approach Lester Avenue in Johnson City. Were looking down the former Erie through the west side of Binghamton-you can barely see CP Johnsons home signals in the distance. The large building in the far distance is the Binghamton State Office Building, a structure with a colorful history of its own.
Photo Date:  10/6/1990  Upload Date: 1/28/2016 4:07:20 AM
Location:  Johnson City, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CP 5692(SD40-2) CP 5683(SD40-2)
Views:  1180   Comments: 0
CR 3321
Title:  CR 3321
Description: 
Photo Date:  12/2/1990  Upload Date: 2/16/2008 10:55:42 AM
Location:  Johnson City, NY
Author:  Sam Botts
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CR 3321(GP40-2) CR 2003(B23-7)
Views:  1062   Comments: 0
CP 5646
Title:  CP 5646
Description: 
Photo Date:  1/1/1991  Upload Date: 12/12/2007 10:29:34 PM
Location:  Johnson City, NY
Author:  Sam Botts
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CP 5646(SD40-2) CP 5645(SD40-2)
Views:  1601   Comments: 1
CP 9015
Title:  CP 9015
Description: 
Photo Date:  1/1/1991  Upload Date: 3/2/2008 8:04:29 AM
Location:  Johnson City, NY
Author:  Sam Botts
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CP 9015(SD40-2F)
Views:  1111   Comments: 0
Hard to believe
Title:  Hard to believe
Description:  This used to be a 70 MPH main line. WABH 11, the Binghamton based local, heads down the Vestal Spu} with a cut of coal for the NYSEG Goudy Station just before the bridge to Vestal. The train is crossing into Johnson City, with the rear still in Binghamton. Thats the Main St overpass in the background. There are still a couple of sidings off the spur at this time. The one to the left appears to have not seen any cars spotted in a long time, but there were a couple others between where Im standing and Baldwin St that did see a very occasional car. As I write this in March 2015, the lines future is not looking bright.
Photo Date:  5/16/1991  Upload Date: 3/12/2015 1:13:24 AM
Location:  Johnson City, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CR 2805(B23-7)
Views:  620   Comments: 0
Seldom seen signal
Title:  Seldom seen signal
Description:  Actually, I used to see it all the time. Signal 216-2, the distant signal for CP Johnson, was easy to see, just hard to photograph. You could see it from the NY 201 overpass to the west, but stopping there to take a picture was out of the question due to traffic. This was a walk in from the old Broad St crossing. I wish I had done it a little more often. The offset lights were a peculiarity of northeastern railroading not seen much in other parts of the country. HAN 1X passes on its way to Buffalo.
Photo Date:  5/25/1991  Upload Date: 3/11/2015 1:41:00 PM
Location:  Johnson City, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Signal,Action
Locomotives:  CP 5698(SD40-2) GATX 2005(SD40-2)
Views:  1065   Comments: 0
Coming round the corner
Title:  Coming round the corner
Description:  OIBU rolls around the curve under Lester Av, as seen from the long closed Broad St crossing in Johnson City.
Photo Date:  6/13/1991  Upload Date: 3/11/2015 2:56:41 AM
Location:  Johnson City, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CR 6634(C36-7) CR 6707(SD50) CR 6825(SD50)
Views:  1088   Comments: 0
WABH 11
Title:  WABH 11
Description:  Binghamton based local WABH 11 rolls past Baldwin St with cars for the NYSEG Goudy station just to the west, and for National Pipe & Plastic, the only customer left on the Vestal side of the bridge over the Susquehanna. This is the former DLW main line west from Binghamton to Buffalo; the train is passing the site of the DLW station, now occupied by an Express Mart.
Photo Date:  7/9/1991  Upload Date: 9/21/2012 5:28:03 PM
Location:  Johnson City, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CR 3362(GP40-2)
Views:  695   Comments: 1
CR 3282
Title:  CR 3282
Description: 
Photo Date:  10/23/1991  Upload Date: 11/28/2009 1:53:11 AM
Location:  Johnson City, NY
Author:  Sam Botts
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CR 3282(GP40-2)
Views:  665   Comments: 1
On the DLW
Title:  On the DLW
Description:  WABH 11 with its 52 coal loads for NYSEG is now on the Lackawanna main, such as it exists in 1992, and has just crossed into Johnson City. Not exactly the 70 MPH main line of yore.
Photo Date:  6/2/1992  Upload Date: 2/6/2015 2:34:43 AM
Location:  Johnson City, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CR 3336(GP40-2)
Views:  613   Comments: 1
Industrial giants
Title:  Industrial giants
Description:  Not anymore. WABH 11 passes between one of the many Endicott Johnson buildings in the area, on the left, and the Fair Play Caramel building on the right. The DLW station once sat here too, just the other side of Baldwin St, out of the photo to my right. Now its a single track, jointed rail, rough ride to Vestal. The coal wont get that far; its destination is only about 1/2 mile ahead in JC.
Photo Date:  6/2/1992  Upload Date: 2/6/2015 2:38:32 AM
Location:  Johnson City, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  CR 3336(GP40-2)
Views:  633   Comments: 1
Pretty colors in the dark
Title:  Pretty colors in the dark
Description:  OIBU rolls 93 cars west through Johnson City as the light goes, but theres still enough to see trackside flowers contrasting with the blue diesels.
Photo Date:  6/4/1992  Upload Date: 2/6/2015 2:49:44 AM
Location:  Johnson City, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  CR 6123(C40-8W) CR 6340(SD40)
Views:  681   Comments: 0
MP 216
Title:  MP 216
Description:  I like to put railroad lineside items in my photos; mileposts are always a good prop. MP 216 is on the Tier where in Johnson Cit}, down off a back street. Almost all the mileposts on the Tier are the ex Erie concrete markers that show JC on them, signifying Jersey City. NS has replaced many in the process of single tracking the line. Here is 891 rolling 86 empties west.
Photo Date:  6/22/1992  Upload Date: 2/7/2015 3:37:49 AM
Location:  Johnson City, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  CP 5677(SD40-2) GATX 2002(SD40-2)
Views:  963   Comments: 0
West into the sunset
Title:  West into the sunset
Description:  Empty coal train rolls into the curve behind Ave. A in Johnson City NY
Photo Date:  11/23/1993  Upload Date: 7/29/2012 3:14:20 PM
Location:  Johnson City, NY
Author:  JJ Young III
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CP 5692(SD40-2) CP 5698(SD40-2) GATX 2002(SD40-2)
Views:  1642   Comments: 0
261 and a surprise
Title:  261 and a surprise
Description:  261 rolls west at Lester Av with CP 2902 leading. The unit is notable for being painted to honor Smokey the Bear.
Photo Date:  11/23/1994  Upload Date: 8/26/2014 1:37:40 AM
Location:  Johnson City, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CP 5902(SD40-2) CP 6404(SD40) SOO 789(SD40-2)
Views:  1309   Comments: 0
Only you
Title:  Only you
Description:  ...can prevent forest fires. CP 5902 showing the special paint scheme to honor Smokey's 50th.
Photo Date:  11/23/1994  Upload Date: 8/26/2014 1:38:56 AM
Location:  Johnson City, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CP 5902(SD40-2)
Views:  1162   Comments: 1
NS 9122
Title:  NS 9122
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/10/2000  Upload Date: 2/17/2008 12:36:17 PM
Location:  Johnson City, NY
Author:  Sam Botts
Categories: 
Locomotives:  NS 9122(C40-9W) NS 9269(C40-9W)
Views:  1221   Comments: 0
167
Title:  167
Description:  167 rolls west past the old EJ plant in Johnson City.
Photo Date:  12/3/2001  Upload Date: 10/26/2013 3:52:50 AM
Location:  Johnson City, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  SOO 6039(SD60) CP 9006(SD40-2F) SOO 6016(SD60)
Views:  1305   Comments: 0
DH 7312
Title:  DH 7312
Description: 
Photo Date:  2/18/2003  Upload Date: 12/12/2007 9:59:39 PM
Location:  Johnson City, NY
Author:  Sam Botts
Categories: 
Locomotives:  DH 7312(GP38-2)
Views:  569   Comments: 0
BNSF 8051
Title:  BNSF 8051
Description: 
Photo Date:  8/12/2003  Upload Date: 3/16/2008 8:26:54 AM
Location:  Johnson City, NY
Author:  Sam Botts
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BNSF 8051(SD40-2)
Views:  856   Comments: 1
Through the fence
Title:  Through the fence
Description:  Im on the Lester Av overpass, shooting through the chain link as 167 gets its 116 cars underway out of Binghamton, passing some old E-J buildings as it enters Johnson City. They're gone now, a Wal Mart standing in their place. Ill follow him to Elmira.
Photo Date:  10/7/2003  Upload Date: 11/1/2017 4:30:18 AM
Location:  Johnson City, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CP 6041(SD40-2) CP 6077(SD40-2) CP 5970(SD40-2) CP 5668(SD40-2) CP 5730(SD40-2) CP 5642(SD40-2)
Views:  1471   Comments: 2
Wherever you can
Title:  Wherever you can
Description:  Sometimes the shot you get just isnt the best frame you would like. Such was the case for this 40T at Johnson City, being brought in by the H1G crew. I heard him on the scanner, and ran for the only shot I had, from a parking lot behind an industrial building off Main St.
Photo Date:  1/15/2004  Upload Date: 10/12/2017 5:59:52 AM
Location:  Johnson City, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Winter,Action
Locomotives:  CN 2435(C40-8M) IC 6140(SD40-2) CN 5665(SD75I)
Views:  1099   Comments: 0
This is why you carry your scanner
Title:  This is why you carry your scanner
Description:  I always carried my scanner with me(which, by the way, is illegal in some places, New York among them. See VTL secvion 397) just in }ase something turned up. Today was one of those days, as I heard D 22 calling the signal at 216-2. I was on the west side, and able to get into position to get a shot near Lester Av. Thiv is the result, a lightning stripe GP 38 with 12 cars passing under Arch St.
Photo Date:  1/27/2004  Upload Date: 10/15/2017 5:05:16 AM
Location:  Johnson City, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Winter,Action
Locomotives:  DH 7303(GP38-2) CP 8230(GP9u)
Views:  1400   Comments: 1
NS 3214
Title:  NS 3214
Description: 
Photo Date:  2/10/2004  Upload Date: 3/16/2008 8:51:57 AM
Location:  Johnson City, NY
Author:  Sam Botts
Categories: 
Locomotives:  NS 3214(SD40-2) UP 2986(SD40-2)
Views:  1132   Comments: 1
Changing scene
Title:  Changing scene
Description:  This view of 419 from Lester Av in Johnson City is notable not so much for the train, but how much has changed in the area over the years. The piles of dirt beyond the train were once the Endicott Johnson Paracord plant. That area will become a Wal Mart in a few years. Progress, I suppose, but not necessarily improvement. The SD 40s powering the train, like the EJ plant, will soon become a memory.
Photo Date:  10/6/2004  Upload Date: 7/19/2017 4:06:57 AM
Location:  Johnson City, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CP 5985(SD40-2) CP 6603(SD40-2)
Views:  724   Comments: 0
Six axles on the DLW
Title:  Six axles on the DLW
Description:  Conrail restricted the Vestal Spur, the one time DLW main segment from West BD to Vestal, to four motor power. NS, on the other hand, had no problem sending heavy power down to Goudy. We see one such train returning to Binghamton. Once there, it will go south as an 888 back to the mines in western PA.
Photo Date:  4/21/2005  Upload Date: 7/25/2017 3:27:11 AM
Location:  Johnson City, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  NS 9837(C40-9W) NS 8881(C40-9) BNSF 4569(C44-9W)
Views:  1070   Comments: 1
NS 8381
Title:  NS 8381
Description: 
Photo Date:  7/2/2005  Upload Date: 7/12/2008 1:05:59 PM
Location:  Johnson City, NY
Author:  Sam Botts
Categories: 
Locomotives:  NS 8381(C40-8W)
Views:  772   Comments: 0
CP 5701
Title:  CP 5701
Description: 
Photo Date:  7/2/2005  Upload Date: 7/12/2008 1:06:30 PM
Location:  Johnson City, NY
Author:  Sam Botts
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CP 5701(SD40-2)
Views:  589   Comments: 0
205 shows its face
Title:  205 shows its face
Description:  205, today led by a BNSF unit, peeks out from under the Lester Av bridge in Johnson City, catching the last rays of sun as it waits for the conductor to come up after closing up at QD.
Photo Date:  7/9/2005  Upload Date: 11/25/2012 4:43:35 AM
Location:  Johnson City, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 885(C40-8W) NS 6758(SD60I)
Views:  962   Comments: 0
H88
Title:  H88
Description:  Gang Mills based local H88 passes through Johnson City, showing the changes in the industrial landscape. The area behind the train was once an Endicott Johnson plant. It made, among other things, jump boots for the Army. The plant has been razed, and the site will soon be occupied by a Wal Mart. View is from the Lester Av overpass.
Photo Date:  11/25/2005  Upload Date: 6/23/2012 2:22:19 AM
Location:  Johnson City, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Winter,Action
Locomotives:  NS 9308(C40-9W) UP 6462(AC44CW)
Views:  1008   Comments: 0
No speed runs here
Title:  No speed runs here
Description:  H 01 is seen in the distance, ambling along with some cars for National Pipe and Plastic across the river in Vestal. This was once a mighty main line, the likes of Phoebe Snlw sprinting along at a cool 70. Her ghost will be haunting the house at a leisurely ten today, allowing her memory to linger as the afternoon gloom fades to night.
Photo Date:  6/20/2006  Upload Date: 2/14/2018 4:42:35 AM
Location:  Johnson City, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  266   Comments: 0
NS 9521
Title:  NS 9521
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/20/2006  Upload Date: 2/17/2008 11:41:18 PM
Location:  Johnson City, NY
Author:  Sam Botts
Categories: 
Locomotives:  NS 9521(C40-9W) NS 9428(C40-9W) NS 9012(C40-9W)
Views:  1195   Comments: 0
NS 5128
Title:  NS 5128
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/20/2006  Upload Date: 2/18/2008 11:55:03 PM
Location:  Johnson City, NY
Author:  Sam Botts
Categories: 
Locomotives:  NS 5128(GP38-2) NS 5542(GP38-2)
Views:  1017   Comments: 0
CP 9728
Title:  CP 9728
Description: 
Photo Date:  10/29/2007  Upload Date: 4/2/2008 1:14:12 AM
Location:  Johnson City, NY
Author:  Sam Botts
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CP 9728(AC44CW)
Views:  613   Comments: 0
 clearing the leaves
Title:  clearing the leaves
Description:  H88 roars throu^h Johnson'City NY trailing the fall foliage with them
Photo Date:  6/29/2008  Upload Date: 7/1/2008 4:09:27 PM
Location:  Johnson City, NY
Author:  JJ Young III
Categories: 
Locomotives:  NS 4620(GP59)
Views:  990   Comments: 0


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