"First Revenue Run North In 12 Years" NYS&W Utica Branch

The NYS&W ran a revenue freight up its Binghamton-Utica branch today for the first time since 2006 when flooding severely damaged the line south of Sherburne.

This short video features the revenue freight at two locations in N Norwich and in Earlville:

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Awesome news! Glad to see the rust knocked off the rails after so long. Thanks
for sharing the video with us!

Charlie

Good stuff, interesting, thanks for sharing.
Noel Weaver

Great to see. Thanks for posting. Hopefully they will start moving traffic from Binghamton to Utica over the branch. I would think that it would a better way to handle that traffic instead of relying on CSX between Syracuse and Utica. As an aside it looks like the tracks go through quite a bit of wetlands. Hope that there aren't any more washouts in the near future.

J. Lang

Was the track repaired, or is this a run short of the washout?

Must be a dozen posts covering the repairs to the line, multiple washouts, brush trimmed back, crossings redone, surfacing. 2 or 3 light engine moves prior to this. It's still slow, they go down one day, come back the next.

Edit: nearly 80 pages of Utica Branch discussion here on this board:

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