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Clear board
Title:  Clear board
Description:  The CP south end picnic train has a clear board at GR after meeting a northbound, and will be rolling momentarily.
Photo Date:  9/22/1991  Upload Date: 2/23/2015 3:14:09 AM
Location:  Afton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  CP 4221(C424) CP 4233(C424)
Views:  437   Comments: 0
Under the signals
Title:  Under the signals
Description:  The CP picngc train rolls past GR cabins signals on its way to Oneonta
Photo Date:  9/22/1991  Upload Date: 2/20/2015 2:25:31 AM
Location:  Afton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Signal,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  CP 4233(C424) CP 4221(C424)
Views:  459   Comments: 0
CP 5682
Title:  CP 5682
Description: 
Photo Date:  11/2/1991  Upload Date: 11/28/2009 3:30:31 PM
Location:  Afton, NY
Author:  Sam Botts
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CP 5682(SD40-2)
Views:  411   Comments: 1
CP 4210
Title:  CP 4210
Description: 
Photo Date:  2/27/1992  Upload Date: 11/26/2009 12:36:36 AM
Location:  Afton, NY
Author:  Sam Botts
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CP 4210(C424)
Views:  480   Comments: 0
CP 5410
Title:  CP 5410
Description: 
Photo Date:  4/10/1992  Upload Date: 5/13/2008 10:58:17 AM
Location:  Afton, NY
Author:  Sam Botts
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CP 5410(SD40) CP 4742(M636)
Views:  703   Comments: 1
CP 4743
Title:  CP 4743
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/13/1992  Upload Date: 6/22/2012 5:24:57 PM
Location:  Afton, NY
Author:  Sao Botws
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CP 4743(M636)
Views:  440   Comments: 0
CP 4707
Title:  CP 4707
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/15/1992  Upload Date: 5/26/2008 4:24:59 PM
Location:  Afton, NY
Author:  Sam Botts
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CP 4707(M636)
Views:  384   Comments: 0
D&H Northbound-exact date approximate
Title:  D&H Northbound-exact date approximate
Description:  Going away picture of the D&H Northbound as it heads towards Bainbridge.
Photo Date:  10/15/1992  Upload Date: 7/12/2023 9:27:26 AM
Location:  Afton, NY
Author:  Matthew Gibbons
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  DH 5022(RS36) CP 5689(SD40-2) MEC 604(SD40) GATX 2009(SD40-2) GATX 7359(SD40-2)
Views:  373   Comments: 0
D&H Northbound-exact date approximate
Title:  D&H Northbound-exact date approximate
Description:  In my time in train service on the D&H 15 years after I took this picture, while qualifying as a Engineer I had older D&H Engineers tell me they called this Benedict Sag. Taken alongside RT7 between Afton and Bainbridge
Photo Date:  10/15/1992  Upload Date: 7/12/2023 9:25:29 AM
Location:  Afton, NY
Author:  Matthew Gibbons
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  GATX 7359(SD40-2) GATX 2009(SD40-2) MEC 604(SD40) CP 5689(SD40-2) DH 5022(RS36)
Views:  400   Comments: 0
D&H Northbound-exact date approximate
Title:  D&H Northbound-exact date approximate
Description:  Trailing units on this D&H Northbound in the sag
Photo Date:  10/15/1992  Upload Date: 7/12/2023 9:26:22 AM
Location:  Afton, NY
Author:  Matthew Gibbons
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  MEC 604(SD40) CP 5689(SD40-2) DH 5022(RS36)
Views:  261   Comments: 0
CP 5533
Title:  CP 5533
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/20/1993  Upload Date: 12/25/2010 1:17:57 AM
Location:  Afton, NY
Author:  Sam Botts
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CP 5533(SD40)
Views:  419   Comments: 0
553 under the signal at GR
Title:  553 under the signal at GR
Description:  CP train 553 passes the signals at GR cabin in Afton NY behind an interesting mix of power. The trailing unit is a C424.
Photo Date:  5/9/1993  Upload Date: 7/20/2011 7:32:24 PM
Location:  Afton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Signal,Action
Locomotives:  CP 1823(RS18u) DH 7307(GP38-2) CP 4229(C424)
Views:  966   Comments: 1
Coming along
Title:  Coming along
Description:  Train 553 approaches CPF 587-GR cabin-at Afton.
Photo Date:  5/10/1993  Upload Date: 1/14/2018 4:38:54 AM
Location:  Afton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  CP 1823(RS18u)
Views:  323   Comments: 0
CP 4225
Title:  CP 4225
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/1/1993  Upload Date: 12/13/2007 12:42:18 PM
Location:  Afton, NY
Author:  Sam Botts
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CP 4225(C424)
Views:  458   Comments: 1
CP 4225
Title:  CP 4225
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/1/1993  Upload Date: 10/5/2008 8:37:50 PM
Location:  Afton, NY
Author:  Sam Botts
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CP 4225(C424) CP 4245(C424)
Views:  686   Comments: 0
CP 4225
Title:  CP 4225
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/1/1993  Upload Date: 10/5/2008 8:38:45 PM
Location:  Afton, NY
Author:  Sam Botts
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CP 4225(C424)
Views:  549   Comments: 1
CP 4225
Title:  CP 4225
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/1/1993  Upload Date: 10/5/2008 8:39:14 PM
Location:  Afton, NY
Author:  Sam Botts
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CP 4225(C424)
Views:  398   Comments: 0
CP 4225
Title:  CP 4225
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/1/1993  Upload Date: 10/5/2008 9:20:19 PM
Location:  Afton, NY
Author:  Sam Botts
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CP 4225(C424)
Views:  483   Comments: 0
Classic D&H
Title:  Classic D&H
Description:  Train 553 rolls under the signals at GR, now CPF 587, in Afton, with a power consist that was familiar to the D&H.
Photo Date:  6/12/1993  Upload Date: 1/20/2015 9:52:44 PM
Location:  Afton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  CP 4716(M636) CP 4241(C424) CP 4219(C424) CP 1819(RS18u)
Views:  890   Comments: 1
Under the signal
Title:  Under the signal
Description:  Train 553, today behind a six axle leader, rolls under the home signal at GR.
Photo Date:  6/12/1993  Upload Date: 1/14/2018 4:57:40 AM
Location:  Afton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Signal,Action
Locomotives:  CP 4716(M636) CP 4241(C424)
Views:  485   Comments: 0
CP train, D&H signal
Title:  CP train, D&H signal
Description:  A combined 553 and 270 rolls under the classic D&H signa gantry at Afton with a wild mix of power.
Photo Date:  6/12/1993  Upload Date: 1/20/2015 10:06:01 PM
Location:  Afton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  CP 5690(SD40-2) CP 4703(M636) CP 4711(M636) CP 8248(GP9u) MEC 603(SD40) GATX 2004(SD40-2)
Views:  1235   Comments: 0
Picnic train meets a northbound
Title:  Picnic train meets a northbound
Description:  The employee picnic train meets train 553 behind a trio of RS18us in the siding at Afton
Photo Date:  9/12/1993  Upload Date: 1/8/2012 10:00:19 PM
Location:  Afton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Signal,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  DH 7303(GP38-2) CP 775(SD40-2) CP 1847(RS18u) CP 1825(RS18u)
Views:  1609   Comments: 1
CP 4743
Title:  CP 4743
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/21/1993  Upload Date: 7/10/2012 7:06:20 AM
Location:  Afton, NY
Author:  Sam Botts
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CP 4743(M636)
Views:  508   Comments: 0
CP 4743
Title:  CP 4743
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/21/1993  Upload Date: 10/7/2008 2:21:52 AM
Location:  Afton, NY
Author:  Sam Botts
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CP 4743(M636) CP 4201(C424)
Views:  1311   Comments: 1
Meet with Alcos on both trains
Title:  Meet with Alcos on both trains
Description:  CP still had a good sized fleet of MLWs in that period, and they often ran on the D&H. Here 553 holds the main as 556 rolls its 52 cars past with a GP9 rebuild leading a pair of C424s, passing the M636 trailing on 553.
Photo Date:  5/22/1994  Upload Date: 9/19/2014 3:30:20 AM
Location:  Afton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Signal,Action
Locomotives:  CP 8235(GP9u) CP 4243(C424) CP 4245(C424) CP 4706(M636)
Views:  786   Comments: 0
Power change
Title:  Power change
Description:  This 553 train left Binghamton with CP 5646 leading. it must have crapped out somewhere on Belden Hill and this GP9 leader was brought up from Binghamton, or swapped off 556. Still, it looks good in clean paint, even if the delay has now put the train almost in darkness, now rolling on past GR with its 82 cars.
Photo Date:  5/22/1994  Upload Date: 9/19/2014 3:38:32 AM
Location:  Afton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Signal,Action
Locomotives:  CP 8249(GP9u) CP 5475(SD40-2) CP 4706(M636)
Views:  1341   Comments: 0
CP 1861
Title:  CP 1861
Description: 
Photo Date:  7/16/1994  Upload Date: 8/16/2009 10:10:27 AM
Location:  Afton, NY
Author:  Sam Botts
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CP 1861(RS18u)
Views:  458   Comments: 0
D&H Northbound
Title:  D&H Northbound
Description:  A clear signal on the main at CPF-*87 for this Northbound D&H train-date approximate
Photo Date:  3/8/1995  Upload Date: 6/2/2023 7:56:53 AM
Location:  Afton, NY
Author:  Matthew Gibbons
Categories:  Signal,Action
Locomotives:  CP 5408(SD40) CP 4208(C424)
Views:  211   Comments: 0
D&H Northbound
Title:  D&H Northbound
Description:  At CPF 587 a D&H Northbound train with a ex QNS&L leader. date approximate
Photo Date:  3/8/1995  Upload Date: 6/2/2023 7:55:45 AM
Location:  Afton, NY
Author:  Matthew Gibbons
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CP 5408(SD40)
Views:  147   Comments: 0
Rolling past GR
Title:  Rolling past GR
Description:  CP 555 rolls 92 cars past GR cabin in Afton
Photo Date:  8/12/1995  Upload Date: 8/13/2014 2:49:13 AM
Location:  Afton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  CP 5793(SD40-2) CP 671(SD40-2) CP 5569(SD40-2) HLCX 4057(SD40-2)
Views:  1047   Comments: 0
Under the signal
Title:  Under the signal
Description:  D&H had classic signal gantries, though the configurations were not uncommon in the east. KL 2 passes under the signals at GR cabin, now CPF 587, in Afton
Photo Date:  8/20/1996  Upload Date: 5/6/2014 2:56:21 AM
Location:  Afton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  CP 5662(SD40-2) CP 5425(SD40-2) GATX 7372(SD40-2)
Views:  756   Comments: 0
Southbound
Title:  Southbound
Description:  A southbound train is holed up short of the farm crossing at Afton waiting on a recrew. Quite the power mix. One oddity of the CR split was the chance to see Conrail power on the D&H, almost unheard of prior to that time.
Photo Date:  7/1/1999  Upload Date: 3/3/2014 1:37:13 AM
Location:  Afton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  NS 2569(SD70) NS 8634(C39-8) SOO 6037(SD60) CP 5633(SD40-2)
Views:  885   Comments: 1
CP 5672
Title:  CP 5672
Description: 
Photo Date:  7/1/2000  Upload Date: 12/27/2007 1:45:30 AM
Location:  Afton, NY
Author:  Sam Botts
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CP 5672(SD40-2) VTR 202(GP38-2)
Views:  1147   Comments: 1
VTR 202
Title:  VTR 202
Description: 
Photo Date:  7/1/2000  Upload Date: 2/26/2012 7:48:19 AM
Location:  Afton, NY
Author:  Sam Botts
Categories: 
Locomotives:  VTR 202(GP38-2)
Views:  366   Comments: 0
VTR 202
Title:  VTR 202
Description: 
Photo Date:  7/1/2000  Upload Date: 2/26/2012 7:49:21 AM
Location:  Afton, NY
Author:  Sam Botts
Categories: 
Locomotives:  VTR 202(GP38-2)
Views:  426   Comments: 0
Nose on
Title:  Nose on
Description:  Power for SU 2 nose on while it waits for 268 to pass
Photo Date:  2/2/2001  Upload Date: 12/26/2013 1:10:46 AM
Location:  Afton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  STLH 7308(GP38-2)
Views:  445   Comments: 0
Meeting the local
Title:  Meeting the local
Description:  CP 269 meets SU 2 as a crewmember gives 269 the roll by.
Photo Date:  3/9/2001  Upload Date: 12/7/2013 3:35:11 AM
Location:  Afton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Winter,Action
Locomotives:  STLH 7308(GP38-2) NS 9497(C40-9W) NS 9371(C40-9W)
Views:  803   Comments: 0
DH 7312
Title:  DH 7312
Description: 
Photo Date:  8/1/2001  Upload Date: 5/27/2008 10:11:19 AM
Location:  Afton, NY
Author:  Sam Botts
Categories: 
Locomotives:  DH 7312(GP38-2) CP 6043(SD40-2)
Views:  638   Comments: 0
DH 7312
Title:  DH 7312
Description: 
Photo Date:  8/15/2001  Upload Date: 6/6/2008 11:39:06 PM
Location:  Afton, NY
Author:  Sam Botts
Categories: 
Locomotives:  DH 7312(GP38-2) DH 7304(GP38-2)
Views:  908   Comments: 0
D 22
Title:  D 22
Description:  CP 8230 and a GP 40-2 lead local D 22 north past the signal at GR
Photo Date:  10/4/2001  Upload Date: 1/22/2012 2:25:06 AM
Location:  Afton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Signal,Action
Locomotives:  CP 8230(GP9u) CP 4654(GP40-2)
Views:  665   Comments: 0
269
Title:  269
Description:  269 catches the last light as it rolls down the siding at Afton
Photo Date:  12/23/2001  Upload Date: 10/27/2013 2:03:10 AM
Location:  Afton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Winter,Action
Locomotives:  NS 9020(C40-9W) NS 8563(C39-8)
Views:  432   Comments: 0
Showing the colors
Title:  Showing the colors
Description:  413 rolling north shows the flag while meeting a southbound at Nineveh Jct.
Photo Date:  1/6/2002  Upload Date: 10/27/2013 1:53:20 AM
Location:  Afton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CP 5640(SD40-2)
Views:  347   Comments: 0
Flag and a wreath
Title:  Flag and a wreath
Description:  CP 413, flying the flag, rolls north past the house at CPF 587 in Afton, decked out for Christmas, on a wintry day
Photo Date:  1/6/2002  Upload Date: 10/27/2013 1:44:22 AM
Location:  Afton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Winter,Action
Locomotives:  CP 5640(SD40-2)
Views:  376   Comments: 0
269
Title:  269
Description:  269 rolls past the classic signal gantry and brick home at GR cabin.
Photo Date:  1/20/2002  Upload Date: 10/22/2013 12:04:08 AM
Location:  Afton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Winter,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  NS 8436(C40-8W) NS 8904(C40-9W) NS 9417(C40-9W)
Views:  853   Comments: 1
D 22
Title:  D 22
Description:  D 22 rolls past teh River Club in Afton on its way to Oneonta
Photo Date:  2/18/2002  Upload Date: 10/6/2013 11:20:22 PM
Location:  Afton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Winter,Action
Locomotives:  STLH 8244(GP9u) STLH 7308(GP38-2)
Views:  573   Comments: 1
NS 9136
Title:  NS 9136
Description: 
Photo Date:  4/21/2002  Upload Date: 12/13/2007 12:40:09 AM
Location:  Afton, NY
Author:  Sam Botts
Categories: 
Locomotives:  NS 9136(C40-9W)
Views:  640   Comments: 0
252 rolls into the sun
Title:  252 rolls into the sun
Description:  252 approaches Nineveh Jct into the late afternoon sun.
Photo Date:  4/21/2002  Upload Date: 10/6/2013 11:01:44 PM
Location:  Afton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CP 6017(SD40-2) CP 5701(SD40-2)
Views:  688   Comments: 2
By the River Club
Title:  By the River Club
Description:  168 rolls past the River Club parking lot.
Photo Date:  5/17/2002  Upload Date: 9/29/2013 4:11:04 AM
Location:  Afton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  NS 9605(C40-9W) NS 8400(C40-8W)
Views:  465   Comments: 0
CP 9012
Title:  CP 9012
Description: 
Photo Date:  8/29/2002  Upload Date: 12/13/2007 12:57:00 AM
Location:  Afton, NY
Author:  Sam Botts
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CP 9012(SD40-2F)
Views:  800   Comments: 0
CP 9019
Title:  CP 9019
Description: 
Photo Date:  1/30/2003  Upload Date: 3/2/2008 8:08:30 AM
Location:  Afton, NY
Author:  Sam Botts
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CP 9019(SD40-2F)
Views:  572   Comments: 0


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