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Utica Notes: Only one trip to Sangerfield last week. This is due to change soon as there is always a big increase in traffic each spring to the three customers receiving agricultural products and the one customer receiving asphalt. It's not unusual to see trips everyday M-F during the next few month...

This video includes scenes from the March 14th Utica-Sangerfield run when UT-1 operated in a major snowstorm:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtPlIlTWe2k

Utica Notes: Most of the slow orders which were in effect last year on Paris Hill appear to have been rescinded as UT-1 moves along at a good speed throughout. This is no doubt a result of the completion late last year of a major track project. On March 14th, CSX 2514 & NYSW 3040 teamed-up once ...

Longtime railfan Jay Winn discusses some recollections of the E-L's Utica NY line beginning at the 1.23:39 mark of this recent video, including a cab ride on a southbound freight on Paris Hill's 1.8% grade:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxyieeqgRiE

Jay Winn became a railfan in the late 1940s when his grandfather began taking him to Utica NY's Union Station to watch the NY Central. In this recent video beginning at the 32:25 mark , he discusses some of his remembrances of the NYC including a coal train derailment in Oriskany NY which nearly had...

Longtime railfan Jay Winn recalls designing the paint scheme for D&H's "Sharks' along with other remembrances beginning at the 16:38 mark of this recent video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxyieeqgRiE

Longtime railfan Jay Winn recalls his 1970's-era recollections of the Hoosac Tunnel (including accompanying a trackwalker inside and experiencing a train passing by) starting at the 54:13 mark of this recent video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxyieeqgRiE

Longtime railfan Jay Winn discusses his personal remembrances of the Utica Division beginning at the 1.15:35 mark of this recent video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxyieeqgRiE

New Hartford resident Jay Winn's interest in railroading developed when his grandfather began taking him down to Utica's Union Station to watch the New York Central in the late 1940s. This led to a lifetime of railfanning, including making/repairing model trains, recording/collecting railroad sounds...

Quite by chance, I came upon Adirondack's "Cabin Fever Special" in Remsen yesterday.

Here's the video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMaov1iZuCs

Utica Notes: Not much change from the last update. CSX 2514 remains on the branch. The CSX leaser teamed-up with 3040 on Feb 28th on a run to Sangerfield. Seems like the crew has gone on duty a bit earlier of late with the move out of the yard often being made before 9 am. Looks like the Susquehanna...

A friend recently invited me to watch his Boston & Albany Berkshire pull a milk train at the Central NY NRHS Chapter's O Gauge group recently. Here's a video showing some of the activity:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eBwXaYYjp4

This video from Jan 25th shows activity on the New Hartford industrial (ex-NYO&W) as well as on the Utica Main (Schuyler Street, Clayville and Greens Crossing, Paris, site of an 1898 boiler explosion on a southbound passenger train which killed the engineer and fireman): https://www.youtube.com/...

Utica Notes: There were two runs to Sangerfield this week, on Wednesday & Friday. Wednesday's run (highlights in the video below) featured 3040 running light south but returning to Utica with 9 cars. On Friday, both 3040 and CSX 2514 were used. I didn't see the southbound run but saw them return...

A look at a recent CSX interchange train at NYS&W's yard in Utica together with mainline CSX activity and some MA&N action as well:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVhC2QxVaZg