NS F-units and OCS in New York State - 8/22-25

How is this train coming to Binghamton, down the NS from Saratoga, or down the NYS&W from Syracuse? Gonna try and catch it before work.

Awesome videos, thanks for posting them!

Those clouds are fierce looking, holy crap!!

Charlie

Jr's videos and my photos could have been a lot nicer, but like I said, all of a sudden it got REAL windy, dark, and then rainy. I'm tellin' you it's weird. This happened to us last summer at Lake Ave. with the same NS OCS train, and then again in Jamestown 2 weeks ago with that PRR E-8 passenger train. With heavy downpours & lightening flying everywhere, I was starting to question my sanity just for standing there...

The trains looked awesome anyway, regardless of the photo quality, it was really nice just to see them go through town.....and then run for the shelter of my truck as they passed by...

So, it looks like it will be out of M'Ville at 0800hrs on the 24th, right? Of course, this goes without saying that this all happens assuming NS doesn't change their mind again...

Yep, it looks like Wednesday it will come back from points east back to Bison! Hopefully!

Charlie

It was through Hornell tonight at 8:07 PM. Just in the last available light.

MP366 And I followed it East from Attica, black cloud following all the way. I gave up at Arkport. NS 955 called CASS signal at 19:58.
Pics later when I get time to put them up.

Mike

Here we go. Don't have a fast lens on the DSLR and had to use ISO 800, so quality isn't the best. It was still fun to chase even in the gloomy weather.
Thanks to K4 for all his efforts.

At Attica:


Flying thru Silver Springs:


Still moving slow along Rt. 438 just East of Portage Bridge:


In the flats just North of Arkport:



Hope for better weather and scheduling on Wednesday.

Wow, that second shot is great! If you don't mind me asking', what camera & what exact settings did you use for those? Thanks.

Railroaded wrote:Wow, that second shot is great! If you don't mind me asking', what camera & what exact settings did you use for those? Thanks.

Nikon D3000
DSLR settings were bad = ISO800 at 1/100 @ f5.6 with a zoom lens.

The train was really moving, except at Portageville where they were just starting to accelerate after crossing the bridge.

Thanks for the pics and videos!
its interesting that the two A-units are facing in the same direction!
I wonder how that happened? and why?
and will one of them be turned somewhere before the "real" tour begins?

Scot

For Scott's answer to his question: "At Mohawk, 2 of the units (an A & B unit) and the sleepers (head 4 cars)
will be cut and staged on the Mohawk Switching Lead."

For the head on shot I'm guessing you used a tripod ? Were the side on views hand held & panned with the motion of the train? The sharpness & clarity at that low light condition is really good.

Railroaded wrote:For the head on shot I'm guessing you used a tripod ? Were the side on views hand held & panned with the motion of the train? The sharpness & clarity at that low light condition is really good.

All hand held. I tried panning at Arkport, but with a 1/100 shutter speed it was not slow enough to blur the scenery very well.

Great shots......thanks Mike!

Charlie