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by ANDY117
NEWS FLASH! BROOME AND DELAWARE COUNTIES NOW IN STATE OF EMERGENCY.
RT.17 BETWEEN HANCOCK AND DEPOSIT IS FLOODED, AND CLOSED.
DEPOSIT AND KIRKWOOD ARE BEING EVACUATED.
3 SHELTERS NOW OPEN.
Well, it's a safe assumption that the S. Tier is underwater out near Deposit and Hancock now....
I am definately staying awake tonight now
thankfully, i'm up on a VERY high hill. More to come... Methinks Conklin is Next
RT.17 BETWEEN HANCOCK AND DEPOSIT IS FLOODED, AND CLOSED.
DEPOSIT AND KIRKWOOD ARE BEING EVACUATED.
3 SHELTERS NOW OPEN.
Well, it's a safe assumption that the S. Tier is underwater out near Deposit and Hancock now....
I am definately staying awake tonight now
thankfully, i'm up on a VERY high hill. More to come... Methinks Conklin is Next
by ANDY117
UE IS NOW A FISH SCHOOL! ( corny joke, i know, please don't PM me about it) But, there were MANY plus things about 'fanning today!
THE ALCO IS GONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! BE ON THE LOOKOUT!
I'm about to load my images and give 'em to scottychaos to host and put up here. First, i'm going to eat, i'll give the FULL report later, including a picture of me by our train layout! (if it's OK with mom, of course)!
THE ALCO IS GONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! BE ON THE LOOKOUT!
I'm about to load my images and give 'em to scottychaos to host and put up here. First, i'm going to eat, i'll give the FULL report later, including a picture of me by our train layout! (if it's OK with mom, of course)!
by ANDY117
No picture, it's too messy. Anyways, here's the good stuff:
Rt. 17 is submerged, so anybody wanting to travel wants a boat!
Ah, now the typing of the results begins in 3...2...1... GO!
RT. 17 Floodedized
UEHS Aquariumized
Alco as stated before, is gone.
There wasd a train behind the NYSEG thing on Court street, by the bridge with some familiar power for those of you who follow these.
NS
D9-40CW
9371, Horsehead, P5 airhorns.
9515
D8-40CW
8407 in CR blue
in that order
NS 8302 was STILL on that cut of cars.
There was a train putting itself together (i sent scotty the pictures, if it worked right!) it had
NYSW
SD40T-2 3012
MLW 636 78 ( Bingo just can't get rid of this thing!)
SD40T-2 3016 in that order
on the Bevier Street overpass, there were Mid train helpers, why, i have no Godly idea, anyway here they are, in order. (i think!)
CPR
SD40-2 2 flags scheme 5792
SD40-2 5919 No multimark
CSX C40-8 7519 White Cab roof
CP SD40-2 5672 2 Flags scheme
we went further down the road, to a little parking lot, where none other than CPR Heritage Locomotive D&H 7312 is at the point of that train! AWESOME! i took a lot of pictures. the infamous sticker on the air filter thing on the roof says "KEEP YOUR HEAD IN THE GAME" and a small sticker on the bottom says CPR Heritage Locomotive, with a small Beaver herald before it. It is also named B. C. O' Brien in the D&H script. on the step guard in front of the fireman's side of the cab.
IN the NYSW shop area were the usual suspects
NYSW
GP20 2064, 2062
GP18 1802 was out back, and i THINK I saw 1804. Don't hold me to that, because all i saw were the exhaust stacks between cars of that NS train.
SW9 901 was there probably, but i couldn't see it because of grain hoppers
U23B 2208 was there, as was the E-L pass. car, a SEA-LAND thing, and a old freight car, which i think is getting moved to sayre sometime.
When we went to go see if there was anything at the OTHER end of that CP train (which we found out afterwards there wasn't) Along come a pair of NS D9-40CW's! It was 167! here's the power
NS
D9-40CW 9013, then 9339.
We then went down Court Street, and NS 2501 Was at the point of a LONG cut of cars.
By the Rocket plaza, a NYSW train was waiting for a crew, with 4 locomotives.
Here they are in order from first.
NYSW
SD40T-2 3010 Which has it's UP number stencil of 8590 showing through the paintover!
SD40 Hi-Hood 3020
SD45 3634
SD45 3618, which was belching a plume of smoke.
Now let's swing over to Conklin yard!
you can't get to Conklin Ave. because it's floodedized. BOTH ENDS.
They shoot you around the neighborhoods on the hill, and out that way, but the crossibg is blocked ALSO!
but we saw 3 SD40-2's shoving a cut of cars into the yard.
here they are! In order
CP 5794
CP/SOO 702
CP 5936
2 GP9's were out front of the shops
Another 2 were closer to the entrance
CP 8230
StL&H 8244
Don't drive around here, as the Rivers in places have YET to crest, and we're getting more rain!
Rt. 17 is submerged, so anybody wanting to travel wants a boat!
Ah, now the typing of the results begins in 3...2...1... GO!
RT. 17 Floodedized
UEHS Aquariumized
Alco as stated before, is gone.
There wasd a train behind the NYSEG thing on Court street, by the bridge with some familiar power for those of you who follow these.
NS
D9-40CW
9371, Horsehead, P5 airhorns.
9515
D8-40CW
8407 in CR blue
in that order
NS 8302 was STILL on that cut of cars.
There was a train putting itself together (i sent scotty the pictures, if it worked right!) it had
NYSW
SD40T-2 3012
MLW 636 78 ( Bingo just can't get rid of this thing!)
SD40T-2 3016 in that order
on the Bevier Street overpass, there were Mid train helpers, why, i have no Godly idea, anyway here they are, in order. (i think!)
CPR
SD40-2 2 flags scheme 5792
SD40-2 5919 No multimark
CSX C40-8 7519 White Cab roof
CP SD40-2 5672 2 Flags scheme
we went further down the road, to a little parking lot, where none other than CPR Heritage Locomotive D&H 7312 is at the point of that train! AWESOME! i took a lot of pictures. the infamous sticker on the air filter thing on the roof says "KEEP YOUR HEAD IN THE GAME" and a small sticker on the bottom says CPR Heritage Locomotive, with a small Beaver herald before it. It is also named B. C. O' Brien in the D&H script. on the step guard in front of the fireman's side of the cab.
IN the NYSW shop area were the usual suspects
NYSW
GP20 2064, 2062
GP18 1802 was out back, and i THINK I saw 1804. Don't hold me to that, because all i saw were the exhaust stacks between cars of that NS train.
SW9 901 was there probably, but i couldn't see it because of grain hoppers
U23B 2208 was there, as was the E-L pass. car, a SEA-LAND thing, and a old freight car, which i think is getting moved to sayre sometime.
When we went to go see if there was anything at the OTHER end of that CP train (which we found out afterwards there wasn't) Along come a pair of NS D9-40CW's! It was 167! here's the power
NS
D9-40CW 9013, then 9339.
We then went down Court Street, and NS 2501 Was at the point of a LONG cut of cars.
By the Rocket plaza, a NYSW train was waiting for a crew, with 4 locomotives.
Here they are in order from first.
NYSW
SD40T-2 3010 Which has it's UP number stencil of 8590 showing through the paintover!
SD40 Hi-Hood 3020
SD45 3634
SD45 3618, which was belching a plume of smoke.
Now let's swing over to Conklin yard!
you can't get to Conklin Ave. because it's floodedized. BOTH ENDS.
They shoot you around the neighborhoods on the hill, and out that way, but the crossibg is blocked ALSO!
but we saw 3 SD40-2's shoving a cut of cars into the yard.
here they are! In order
CP 5794
CP/SOO 702
CP 5936
2 GP9's were out front of the shops
Another 2 were closer to the entrance
CP 8230
StL&H 8244
Don't drive around here, as the Rivers in places have YET to crest, and we're getting more rain!
by Matt Langworthy
The reports I'm getting from my family (who still live in Bath and Elmira Heights) are not pretty. Sounds like '72 on a smaller scale. Funny enough, The Rochester Democrat & Chronicle had a pic of a double track bridge (ex-DL&W?) over a flooded roadway in Easton, PA. The caption under the pic says this is the worst flooding in that area since 1955. The '55 flooding caused tremendous damage to both DL&W and Erie, with the financial losses pushing both lines to seek merger a few years later.
BTW, there's flooding in the Rochester area, too, so I wouldn't recommend railfanning here, either.
Sounds like '72 on a smaller scale. Funny enough, The Rochester Democrat & Chronicle had a pic of a double track bridge (ex-DL&W?) over a flooded roadway in Easton, PA. The caption under the pic says this is the worst flooding in that area since 1955. The '55 flooding caused tremendous damage to both DL&W and Erie, with the financial losses pushing both lines to seek merger a few years later. BTW, there's flooding in the Rochester area, too, so I wouldn't recommend railfanning here, either.
Matt Langworthy
"It is highly likely that the 1990s were an overrated decade."
"It is highly likely that the 1990s were an overrated decade."
by thannon
ANDY117 wrote:Anyone know who B.C O'Brien is?He was a long time D&H employee with 50 years of service, retiring as road foreman if I recall. Not really familiar with his story, but he provoked legend status on the line. Every story I've heard spoke wonders of him. He did a lot of volunteer work at Steamtown too.
Tom H>
by cjvrr
I believe Mr. O'Brien still volunteers with Steamtown as, what else, an Engineer on one of the steam engines. He ran a train to Moscow I was on 2 years ago. Here are a few links with info about him;
http://www.trainweb.org/railpix/cppix1.html
http://www.ble.org/pr/newsletter/0902ne ... tory7.html
Chris
http://www.trainweb.org/railpix/cppix1.html
http://www.ble.org/pr/newsletter/0902ne ... tory7.html
Chris
CV the Civil E
by ANDY117
O, folks, the moment you've all been waiting for...
Not much on INDIVIDUAL locomotives, except 3 CN units on a e/b train, WITH A NJT PL42AC! there was a CSX unit drilling Bingo yard. 3020 was there, and so was a SD40T. a NS unit at the other end of the yard. ON the way home, No more NJT or CN units. CSX had moved on, and a new train had pulled in by the NS yard office.
Not much on INDIVIDUAL locomotives, except 3 CN units on a e/b train, WITH A NJT PL42AC! there was a CSX unit drilling Bingo yard. 3020 was there, and so was a SD40T. a NS unit at the other end of the yard. ON the way home, No more NJT or CN units. CSX had moved on, and a new train had pulled in by the NS yard office.