SU99/SU100 Thread

[Sid Farkus]

Those cars were on Stourbridge. I'm assuming they are heading back to their owners.

[ErieLimited2914]

"That's my ride"

The L&N goes to Whippany, and 333 goes to Boonton (or was at Boonton), where does the Hickory creek go? And anyone know when theyre going to make the move?

[MNR's #1 Conductor]

That's an awesome photo set!! Every once in a blue moon I get to see SU-99 when at Ridgefield Park, mostly though I see WS-3, WS-4 or WS-5. Nice work, man!!

[apcjr01]

I was skiing at Mountain Creek today and noticed a train on the tracks that had not moved for several hours. After i finished up i went to the former depot at Vernon Crossing Road and took a photo. At least one of the units was idling, but i did not see anyone in the cab. Anyone know what's up?

I tried to upload the image, but apparently the default resolution on my camera is too rich for this site.

[Kaback9]

I was skiing at Mountain Creek today and noticed a train on the tracks that had not moved for several hours. After i finished up i went to the former depot at Vernon Crossing Road and took a photo. At least one of the units was idling, but i did not see anyone in the cab. Anyone know what's up?

I tried to upload the image, but apparently the default resolution on my camera is too rich for this site.

The Southern Tier has been shut down due to the storm it will reopen today, NJT would not allow the NYSW onto the tier for this reason. The train has been sitting a few days.

[scottychaos]

I tried to upload the image, but apparently the default resolution on my camera is too rich for this site.

Im not sure how you were attempting to upload a photo to this site..
since railroad.net has no method to do so!

but you cant upload any photo directly to a message..
you have to upload it to a photo host site, like photobucket, first..then you can add it to a message here..
and please re-size it first!
640 pixels wide is perfect..

Scot

[Sid Farkus]

Found pictures of it after clearance was allowed for the train to proceed. Looks like it was involved in some sort of collision.http://rrpicturearchives.net/showPictur ... id=1965036

[Kaback9]

Found pictures of it after clearance was allowed for the train to proceed. Looks like it was involved in some sort of collision.http://rrpicturearchives.net/showPictur ... id=1965036

It hit a tree.

[Phase Gap]

Here are some pics from the SU-99...

http://petergloistein.zenfolio.com/

[dutchboy]

There are a couple of Vids on youtube of this train and just the engines clearing snow from the rails..I dont have the links to the vids but I guess the train had some issues with a car or two so they had to leave the whole train behind...

[cjvrr]

dutchboy,

It is my understanding that the following happened;

The crew picked up the train to proceed north on Monday. Somewhere around Warwick they hit another tree that pulled the cut lever on the final car and separated it from the train, dumping the air. After a long walk in the deep snow someone decided to get an NS maintainer to come out with a chain saw to clear the line north of Warwick of trees. However with the deep snow there was no way for a Hyrail to run the line so they used the engines from the SU-99 to plow the snow and get to the downed trees. By the time they got to Hudson Junction and back to the train the crew was short on time so they called it a day.

On Tuesday a fresh crew arrived and hauled the train to Binghamton.

[sullivan1985]

Took chase of the SU99. All pure NYSW power. 4 motors and 99 cars. Met them at Maywood, Oakland Bridge, Newfoundland, Beaver Lake, Vernon Valley, Sparrowbush, Hawks Nest, Lackawaxen and Narrowsburg. Paced them along the Delaware River for a bit between Hawks Nest and Pond Eddy.

Took a few more photos that need processing, but this is clearly my winner from the chase.

Enjoy! More photos to come.

http://sullivan1985.deviantart.com/art/ ... -156440669

Video too! Video by Jim Brennan (NJT 4111)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0dJUsuUjPY

[Steve F45]

Nice video. What did it take from the time you started chasing till you got to the end of the chase?

[sullivan1985]

Kaback and Gulden caught the power at Little Ferry. They told me they where getting ready to leave. They came by me and we all moved to Maywood about 10 minutes before they showed. That was just after 5PM. We had them pretty close to us the rest of the way out to Vernon. We tried to catch them in Warwick but they had already come through town when we got there. Then of course I made a wrong turn and we end up in Washingtonville, NY. In that time they where run all the way to OV. Then we went to PO and hung out at CP Sparrow and waited... and waited... and waited... Just as we where about to give up and where driving away we spotted headlights at about 11:30. So we chased them out to Narrowsburg and ended the chase at about 1:30A.

[Kaback9]

They got their D around 5 or a little after.