Just looking to clarify a few questions regarding local service between Binghamton and Oneonta.
First- SU-2 was the long-standing "south" local out of Oneonta, serving all shippers as far as Afton. Did it ever run all the way into Bingha,ton? I have seen a shot or two of a single RS11 pulling a train at Belden, just wondering if this was SU-2 or perhaps just some sort of short Oneonta-Binghamton extra or something?
After the D&H bought the old DL&W line, a train still rain via the Penn Div.-LAnesboro-Conrail routing from Oneonta to Binghamton with high-wide cars that could not fit through the tunnel. I have seen this referred to as SU-1, SU-2, SU-x, etc.- I am thinking that perhaps at times the Oneonta-Binghamton high-wide traffic may have run as it's own train, while at other times it was an extension of the SU-2 which still also went about it's normal local work along the way?
Went did SU-2 move from being based at Oneonta, to running north out of Binghamton> IIRC it was about 1997?
I've not seen many photos of CP RS18us on the SU-2, despite the fact that they were common (if not almost always?) the power for SU-2 from the time the last few RS-36s and RS-11s were retired (1994?) until the MLWs started to be retired en masse (circa 1997). So if anyone has or knows of shots of RS18s on the SU-2 I'd love to see them! Also I'd guess that in the early 90s the RS11s/36s and RS18s both showedup on SU-2?
Also would like to confirm when in fact the last RS36s and RS11s were retired- I believe it would have to have been between late 1993 and late 1994?
First- SU-2 was the long-standing "south" local out of Oneonta, serving all shippers as far as Afton. Did it ever run all the way into Bingha,ton? I have seen a shot or two of a single RS11 pulling a train at Belden, just wondering if this was SU-2 or perhaps just some sort of short Oneonta-Binghamton extra or something?
After the D&H bought the old DL&W line, a train still rain via the Penn Div.-LAnesboro-Conrail routing from Oneonta to Binghamton with high-wide cars that could not fit through the tunnel. I have seen this referred to as SU-1, SU-2, SU-x, etc.- I am thinking that perhaps at times the Oneonta-Binghamton high-wide traffic may have run as it's own train, while at other times it was an extension of the SU-2 which still also went about it's normal local work along the way?
Went did SU-2 move from being based at Oneonta, to running north out of Binghamton> IIRC it was about 1997?
I've not seen many photos of CP RS18us on the SU-2, despite the fact that they were common (if not almost always?) the power for SU-2 from the time the last few RS-36s and RS-11s were retired (1994?) until the MLWs started to be retired en masse (circa 1997). So if anyone has or knows of shots of RS18s on the SU-2 I'd love to see them! Also I'd guess that in the early 90s the RS11s/36s and RS18s both showedup on SU-2?
Also would like to confirm when in fact the last RS36s and RS11s were retired- I believe it would have to have been between late 1993 and late 1994?