Hi, Friend Dale Diacont and I began an eight day trip to portions of New York State and Pennsylvania on Saturday, October 16. Our first stop was East Orange, NJ along the former Delaware Lackawanna and Western mainline, where we photographed this eastbound commuter train.
We then followed the line west stopping at Orange, NJ where we photographed this westbound train and
this eastbound, both pushing out of the station.
Further west Mountain Station was not a stop for this westbound.
We spent the night in Port Jervis, NY and headed for Honesdale, PA on Sunday. Based on information received when I called the railroad on Friday we expected the Stourbridge Line's BL-2 to face east. However, such was not the case. We decided to chase it anyway as we were there. The train is shown below on the east side of Honesdale, and
at White Mills.
The locomotive ran around the train at Lackawaxen, PA. As there were limited opportunities to shoot the line and as the passengers were off the train at this point we decided to leave.
In Port Jervis we found an Erie Painted E-8 on the former Erie RR turntable. This is part of a museum display.
Also present was a New York & Greenwood Lake RS-3 in a paint scheme reminiscent of the old Erie RR freight scheme.
A number of New Jersey Transit trains operated for Metro North RR's West of Hudson service lay up in Port Jervis.
We checked the schedule after we photographed the laid up trains and found a train from Hoboken, NJ was due shortly.
After photographing the incoming train at Port Jervis we headed for the former New York Central Hudson Division. Our first stop was at New Hamburg, NY where we shot this northbound commuter train arriving.
Our final stop for the day was Poughkeepsie, NY. Below the Ethan Allan is making its station stop next to a Metro North train headed up by a GE in a New Haven paint scheme.
We spent Monday, October 19 on the former Boston & Maine, now Pan Am Southern. We first heard train RJED, pictured below, on the radio about 8:30 AM. However, it did not pass our location on the east bank of the Hudson River, just north of Mechanicville until 10:40. CP seems to really stab Pan Am Southern trains as we were told by other fans we met that our experience was not unusual.
As the sun was now out and the power was interesting we chased the train east. Our next location was Johnsonville, NY where the line to Troy, NY split off and went to the left of the tower.
The dispatcher held the train at Hoosic Junction, NY and sent the crew to man EDMO sitting a few miles east.
However, all the crew did was take EDMO to Eagle Bridge, NY and back it down onto the same track RJED was sitting on.
Meanwhile local AD1 was switching Hoosic Junction. When it was done it took cars up to the Vermont Railway interchange at North Bennington, VT. It left most of its train south of town and brought in only the first car. It then proceeded to work north of the station where it was inaccessible. Thus ended day 3.
The trip got a lot more interesting with and RS-3 and 3 U23Bs. I hope you enjoy the photos.
About 11:00 they headed out to Greenwich Junction where they switched a customer that received fertilizer and then
blocked their train in a small yard.
As they headed south to Eagle Bridge, NY the sun came out. Here the train is entering Shushan, NY.
The next 2 photographs were taken between Shushan and Cambridge.
We setup just south of the restored passenger station in Cambridge for these 2 photos.
While it was only partly sunny when the train arrived in Eagle Bridge, the clouds opened for the train. They dropped their Pan Am Southern interchange cars on the mainline north of town, as Pan Am Southern had not picked up cars previously left for them, and brought only their CP interchange cars into Eagle Bridge.
The crew spent the next few hours switching in Eagle Bridge before calling it a day. They would return to East Greenwich the next day.
While we were photographing the switching operations Pan Am Southern's MOAY passed by on the main. This is combination auto rack intermodal train that comes off the CP at Mohawk Yard near Schenectady, NY. I believe it originates on NS in Chicago, IL
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