NYSW serviced Nepera on CR back in the 1980s?

I stumbled across this photo online and was a little confused:
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Nepera Chemical was in Harriman, which was CR territory back then. I always assumed the trackage rights deal NYSW had with CR prohibited them from servicing customers along CR's tracks... true? or did NYSW serve customers like Nepera regularly?

There's a few photos on rrpicturearchives of CR switching the same customer.

I've been doing a bit of research on Nepera recently, so any stories / info on how and when it was switched would be appreciated.

This was NOT a regular occurrence. My father and I chased those trains quite often and the NYS&W didn't have anything other than haulage and later trackage rights on that line.

My guess is something happened that restricted Conrail from getting to service this and NYS&W subbed.

Did the Susquehanna ever go that way? Nepara Chemical was in Harriman and NYS&W trains (to my knowledge) always ran from Campbell Hall down through Warwick to regain home trackage, just like they do today.

That was before the track from Butler to Warwick was rebuilt.

cjvrr wrote:This was NOT a regular occurrence. My father and I chased those trains quite often and the NYS&W didn't have anything other than haulage and later trackage rights on that line.

My guess is something happened that restricted Conrail from getting to service this and NYS&W subbed.

I suspected something like that. There's a few more photos of that train by that photog that day with captions explaining it was a surprise to him too.

I don't think NYSW ran on that route for long, maybe one or two years tops?

Just to clarify- at that point NYSW was moving traffic via HAULAGE rights on CR, they did not have TRACKAGE rights until the Sparta Mtn route was rebuilt (there is a long backstory to the CR/NYS&W legal arrangement and various clauses which ultimately allowed NYS&W to become what it did). As such, CR was moving trains for NYS&W using CR crews between PAssaic JCt. and Binghamton (or reverse). So, long story short, depending on crew availability/what was moving when/power availability/delayed hot cars for a customer/etc., CR might combine an NYS&W train with one of it's own, or use it to move some of it's own traffic or perform it's own work along the way. Hence, "NYS&W power on NYS&W haulage train wih CR crew switches CR customer". Not a "routine" occurrence, but it happened.