Syracuse
NYSW CL-2 departs Syracuse, New York for Cortland behind #3014, an ex-SP SD40T-2 snoot, leading two SD70M-2s, a few moments after the world's largest cloud finally opened up.
These rails were originally part of the DL&W mainline up to Oswego. The Lackawanna expanded up to Lake Ontario by acquiring the Syracuse, Binghamton, and New York Railroad in 1869. This would become the Lackawanna's principal connection to the Great Lakes giving the railroad an outlet for anthracite coal until it completed a brand-new mainline between Binghamton and Buffalo in 1882.
Just around the corner from here was the Lackawanna passenger depot at Armory Square, built during World War II. The Lackawanna ran a Syracuse-Philadelphia train, the Interstate Express, as well as a Syracuse-Binghamton local well into the late 1950s. Passenger service was finished by 1958.
Syracuse
NYSW CL-2 departs Syracuse, New York for Cortland behind #3014, an ex-SP SD40T-2 snoot, leading two SD70M-2s, a few moments after the world's largest cloud finally opened up.
These rails were originally part of the DL&W mainline up to Oswego. The Lackawanna expanded up to Lake Ontario by acquiring the Syracuse, Binghamton, and New York Railroad in 1869. This would become the Lackawanna's principal connection to the Great Lakes giving the railroad an outlet for anthracite coal until it completed a brand-new mainline between Binghamton and Buffalo in 1882.
Just around the corner from here was the Lackawanna passenger depot at Armory Square, built during World War II. The Lackawanna ran a Syracuse-Philadelphia train, the Interstate Express, as well as a Syracuse-Binghamton local well into the late 1950s. Passenger service was finished by 1958.