Haulaging Ass
It's "Grab-a-Box" week once again. This time I reached into the cabinet in the hall and opened a shoe box containing maybe thirty of those little yellow boxes. This one would held 20 slides, but only 15 were in it. I scanned them all and will post them all so this theme will run for a little over two weeks. All are from the 80's decade. There are six railroads represented. So, with no direction to go with but chronologically, we'll begin with the earliest one from 1980 and make our way to the final ones in 1988.
For the third slide we have moved to September of 1984.
The New York, Susquehanna & Western has been in operation of the Utica & Syracuse branches that were obtained from the great Conrail branch line spin off for nearly two and a half years now. It became the "Northern Division" of the NYS&W with no direct connection to the "Southern Division> in New Jersey. However, much traffic from Canada and the west would arrive at Binghamton and Utica to be forwarded by Conrail to the Southern Division. The NYS&W struck a haulage agreement for a reduced shipping rate if a tonnage line was reached. So, NYS&W held paper cars bound for Marcal and propane cars bound for a couple of gas customers until that line was reached and then ran a train. To make the haulage agreement even cheaper, NYS&W tossed in the power, too! All Conrail did was supply the crew. On this day, 3 Alco C430's would be the treat. This train would run maybe every week to ten days, but when word got out, fans flocked to Binghamton, even in rain, sleet, snow, and sometimes, sun!
Here we find one such "Haulage Train", (I don't recall the CR symbol), at Kirkwood, NY with the engineer really feeding the fuel to reach track speed, which will be needed to move the 10,000+ tons for what lays ahead, Gulf Summit.
Haulaging Ass
It's "Grab-a-Box" week once again. This time I reached into the cabinet in the hall and opened a shoe box containing maybe thirty of those little yellow boxes. This one would held 20 slides, but only 15 were in it. I scanned them all and will post them all so this theme will run for a little over two weeks. All are from the 80's decade. There are six railroads represented. So, with no direction to go with but chronologically, we'll begin with the earliest one from 1980 and make our way to the final ones in 1988.
For the third slide we have moved to September of 1984.
The New York, Susquehanna & Western has been in operation of the Utica & Syracuse branches that were obtained from the great Conrail branch line spin off for nearly two and a half years now. It became the "Northern Division" of the NYS&W with no direct connection to the "Southern Division> in New Jersey. However, much traffic from Canada and the west would arrive at Binghamton and Utica to be forwarded by Conrail to the Southern Division. The NYS&W struck a haulage agreement for a reduced shipping rate if a tonnage line was reached. So, NYS&W held paper cars bound for Marcal and propane cars bound for a couple of gas customers until that line was reached and then ran a train. To make the haulage agreement even cheaper, NYS&W tossed in the power, too! All Conrail did was supply the crew. On this day, 3 Alco C430's would be the treat. This train would run maybe every week to ten days, but when word got out, fans flocked to Binghamton, even in rain, sleet, snow, and sometimes, sun!
Here we find one such "Haulage Train", (I don't recall the CR symbol), at Kirkwood, NY with the engineer really feeding the fuel to reach track speed, which will be needed to move the 10,000+ tons for what lays ahead, Gulf Summit.