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Rolling away
Title:  Rolling away
Description:  TV200X rolls through Kirkwood and away from Binghamton behind a trio of Santa Fe units.
Photo Date:  8/8/1990  Upload Date: 1/21/2016 1:37:06 AM
Location:  Kirkwood, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  ATSF 8092(C30-7) ATSF 5335(SD45u) ATSF 8041(C30-7)
Views:  506   Comments: 1
On the double track
Title:  On the double track
Description:  OIBU rolls onto the double track at Coles behind one of the three SD 60 demonstrators it picked up from EMD as it approaches Binghamton with 93 cars. It will be downtown in another five minutes.
Photo Date:  8/28/1990  Upload Date: 1/26/2016 4:46:09 AM
Location:  Kirkwood, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Signal,Action
Locomotives:  CR 6841(SD60) CR 6798(SD50)
Views:  492   Comments: 2
NYK 6
Title:  NYK 6
Description:  NYSW continued to aggressively pursue international container traffic, and Walter Rich was pretty successful at it. This is NYK 6, and eastbound move for NYK steamship lines, though there are some Hanjins on the head end of the 65 platform train. A pair of B 40s has the train headed for Starrucca and Jersey, rolling past the water plant and Willow Run Foods at Kirkwood.
Photo Date:  9/21/1990  Upload Date: 1/29/2016 4:32:58 AM
Location:  Kirkwood, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  NYSW 4044(B40-8) NYSW 4038(B40-8)
Views:  276   Comments: 0
Against the wind
Title:  Against the wind
Description:  As I chased SLN 5 east, I played point and shoot as I paced along side them near SR Tower in Pa.
Photo Date:  11/3/1990  Upload Date: 6/2/2012 6:30:54 PM
Location:  Kirkwood, NY
Author:  JJ Young III
Categories: 
Locomotives:  NYSW 4006(B40-8)
Views:  569   Comments: 0
GE local
Title:  GE local
Description:  A B23-7 has WABH 11 today as it sits behind the Rocket Plaza on Upper Court St in the Town of Kirkwood. Power for this job was typically an EMD, often a GP 40 by this time, but GEs occasionally showed up.
Photo Date:  1/4/1991  Upload Date: 4/14/2015 2:44:37 AM
Location:  Kirkwood, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CR 1936(B23-7)
Views:  274   Comments: 0
Onto the double track
Title:  Onto the double track
Description:  OIBU rolls past CP Coles-note the signal at right-and onto the double track as it heads downtown to do its work before moving on to Elmira.
Photo Date:  1/4/1991  Upload Date: 4/14/2015 3:03:52 AM
Location:  Kirkwood, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Signal,Action
Locomotives:  CR 6811(SD50) CR 6640(C36-7) CR 6811(SD50) CR 6640(C36-7)
Views:  432   Comments: 0
Last light
Title:  Last light
Description:  NY 10 rolls east at the south end of Kirkwood behind a trio of B40s as the last rays of a winter sun reflect off the power.
Photo Date:  1/27/1991  Upload Date: 4/14/2015 3:31:09 AM
Location:  Kirkwood, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Winter,Action
Locomotives:  NYSW 4006(B40-8) NYSW 4044(B40-8) NYSW 4038(B40-8)
Views:  281   Comments: 0
Underway
Title:  Underway
Description:  NY 10 has just started east with 105 stack platforms behind three B40s, two of them from the group CSX financed for the directed service of the D&H. They will soon be off the railroad.
Photo Date:  1/27/1991  Upload Date: 4/14/2015 3:35:26 AM
Location:  Kirkwood, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Winter,Action
Locomotives:  NYSW 4006(B40-8) NYSW 4044(B40-8) NYSW 4038(B40-8)
Views:  364   Comments: 0
Dreary westbound
Title:  Dreary westbound
Description:  OIBU rolls toward Binghamton on a cloudy day with 71 cars in tow.
Photo Date:  2/24/1991  Upload Date: 4/11/2015 3:46:06 AM
Location:  Kirkwood, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CR 6748(SD50) CR 6785(SD50)
Views:  446   Comments: 0
Rolling east
Title:  Rolling east
Description:  BUOI rolls past the Kirkwood water plant and Willow Run Foods on its way out of Binghamton.
Photo Date:  3/10/1991  Upload Date: 4/11/2015 3:40:28 AM
Location:  Kirkwood, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CR 6701(SD50) CR 6718(SD50) CR 6480(SD40-2)
Views:  625   Comments: 0
Not quite gone
Title:  Not quite gone
Description:  OIBU rolls into Coles with a bay window caboose behind the power. Every once in a while one would show up.
Photo Date:  3/23/1991  Upload Date: 4/9/2015 3:02:33 AM
Location:  Kirkwood, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CR 6717(SD50) CR 6700(SD50)
Views:  507   Comments: 0
By the water plant
Title:  By the water plant
Description:  SLN 4 rolls past the small industrial park that contains the Town of Kirkwood water plant, as well as a lumber yard, American Pipe and Plastic, and Willow Run Foods as it heads for Jersey in the spring gloom. A block of Hyundai stacks are ahead of the Sea Lands on today's 90 platform train.
Photo Date:  5/6/1991  Upload Date: 3/15/2015 4:45:47 AM
Location:  Kirkwood, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  NYSW 4004(B40-8) NYSW 3622(SD45)
Views:  178   Comments: 0
Big power for a local
Title:  Big power for a local
Description:  WABH 11 got four motor power-ALWAYS. So you can imagine my surprise when I rolled across the bridge from Conklin to Kirkwood to see an SD 50 about to switch Frito Lay. This was the only time I saw an SD on the local while Conrail ran the line. NS, on the other hand...
Photo Date:  5/13/1991  Upload Date: 3/9/2015 2:48:00 AM
Location:  Kirkwood, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CR 6730(SD50)
Views:  365   Comments: 1
Along US 11 in the sun
Title:  Along US 11 in the sun
Description:  OIBU rolls along US 11 in the late day sun as it approaches Binghamton behind 4 units.
Photo Date:  6/6/1991  Upload Date: 3/11/2015 2:53:31 AM
Location:  Kirkwood, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  CR 6550(C30-7A) CR 6633(C36-7) CR 6555(C30-7A) CR 6737(SD50)
Views:  676   Comments: 0
SU 100
Title:  SU 100
Description:  This stack train, symbolled SU 100 by NYSW, though it looks like an SLN 4, rolls under the bridge by Frito Lay as it heads into the Delaware Division darkness with 30 stack platforms, 12 COFC and 8 freight.
Photo Date:  6/6/1991  Upload Date: 3/4/2015 4:03:38 AM
Location:  Kirkwood, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  NYSW 4004(B40-8) CP 5670(SD40-2) NYSW 3618(SD45)
Views:  857   Comments: 0
Late afternoon eastbound
Title:  Late afternoon eastbound
Description:  Its almost sunset as NY 10 rolls through Kirkwood, headed for the Delaware valley darkness. This same power set would return a couple days later on SLN 5.
Photo Date:  8/22/1991  Upload Date: 2/27/2015 2:46:00 PM
Location:  Kirkwood, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CP 5679(SD40-2) PLMX 3052(SD40) CP 5697(SD40-2)
Views:  688   Comments: 0
Switching the industrial park
Title:  Switching the industrial park
Description:  Conrail WABH 11 switches at Kirkwood Industrial Park on the former EL east of Binghamton. It has just pulled an empty out of American Pipe.
Photo Date:  10/14/1991  Upload Date: 5/29/2011 3:24:59 AM
Location:  Kirkwood, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Bridge,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  CR 3282(GP40-2)
Views:  416   Comments: 0
Arriving at the park
Title:  Arriving at the park
Description:  WABH 11 switched several places in the Binghamton area. Among them was the Kirkwood Industrial Park, which had American Pipe and Plastic, a lumber company, and the Kirkwood water plant. Here we see the train arriving with a car for American Pipe and the lumber yard.
Photo Date:  10/25/1991  Upload Date: 2/19/2015 3:25:18 AM
Location:  Kirkwood, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CR 3282(GP40-2)
Views:  279   Comments: 0
Working the pipe plant
Title:  Working the pipe plant
Description:  WABH 11 is moving cars around at American Pipe. Right now hes pulling an empty and will spot loads at their unloading device.
Photo Date:  10/25/1991  Upload Date: 2/19/2015 3:32:32 AM
Location:  Kirkwood, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CR 3282(GP40-2)
Views:  252   Comments: 0
Pulling the empty
Title:  Pulling the empty
Description:  WABH 11 pulls the empty hopper out, and spots the loaded ones back in.
Photo Date:  10/25/1991  Upload Date: 2/19/2015 3:36:11 AM
Location:  Kirkwood, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CR 3282(GP40-2)
Views:  290   Comments: 0
Spotting the box
Title:  Spotting the box
Description:  The box car is now spotted at the lumber company now that American Pipe has been worked.
Photo Date:  10/25/1991  Upload Date: 2/19/2015 3:38:16 AM
Location:  Kirkwood, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CR 3282(GP40-2)
Views:  273   Comments: 0
Golden day
Title:  Golden day
Description:  OIBU approaches Binghamton, still about ten minutes out as it rolls past a stubble corn field near Kirkwood in golden late day light. Check out the PH&D box cars right behind the power.
Photo Date:  11/2/1991  Upload Date: 2/17/2015 4:20:21 AM
Location:  Kirkwood, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  CR 6521(SD40-2) CR 6745(SD50)
Views:  827   Comments: 0
NYSW 4006
Title:  NYSW 4006
Description: 
Photo Date:  1/13/1992  Upload Date: 11/26/2009 11:34:32 AM
Location:  Kirkwood, NY
Author:  Sam Botts
Categories: 
Locomotives:  NYSW 4006(B40-8)
Views:  237   Comments: 1
GATX 2007
Title:  GATX 2007
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/10/1992  Upload Date: 8/11/2009 1:29:37 PM
Location:  Kirkwood, NY
Author:  Sam Botts
Categories: 
Locomotives:  GATX 2007(SD40-2) GSCX 7377(SD40-2)
Views:  685   Comments: 0
GEs
Title:  GEs
Description:  A pair of 4 axle GEs, the last Conrail would get, roll east with a 20 car BUOI at the Kirkwood water plant.
Photo Date:  4/14/1992  Upload Date: 2/13/2015 4:00:02 AM
Location:  Kirkwood, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  CR 5050(B36-7) CR 5082(B40-8)
Views:  503   Comments: 0
Breakin the law
Title:  Breakin the law
Description:  Time having expired for this crew, the change was made just down from the truck stop along Court Street in Kirkwood NY
Photo Date:  7/11/1992  Upload Date: 6/4/2012 9:19:07 AM
Location:  Kirkwood, NY
Author:  JJ Young III
Categories: 
Locomotives:  NYSW 4044(B40-8) NYSW 4040(B40-8)
Views:  639   Comments: 0
All Aboard
Title:  All Aboard
Description:  The crew is seen entering the power on an SLN 5 in Kirkwood NY after the previous crew outlawed west of the Frito's Lays plant in Kirkwood
Photo Date:  7/11/1992  Upload Date: 6/4/2012 9:24:18 AM
Location:  Kirkwood, NY
Author:  JJ Young III
Categories: 
Locomotives:  NYSW 4044(B40-8) NYSW 4040(B40-8)
Views:  521   Comments: 0
recrew on the job
Title:  recrew on the job
Description:  The crew for the continued trip begin to mount the bahemaths in Kirkwood NY
Photo Date:  7/11/1992  Upload Date: 6/4/2012 10:08:49 AM
Location:  Kirkwood, NY
Author:  JJ Young III
Categories: 
Locomotives: 
Views:  479   Comments: 0
In the chips
Title:  In the chips
Description:  TV 26 rolls 4 COFC and 39 autos past the Frito Lay plant in Kirkwood. The 84 lumber yard is now a memory. Theyve been gone for 20 years as I write this.
Photo Date:  8/13/1992  Upload Date: 2/7/2018 5:02:14 AM
Location:  Kirkwood, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CR 8043(GP38-2) CR 5050(B36-7) CR 7708(GP38)
Views:  583   Comments: 0
GSCX 7370
Title:  GSCX 7370
Description: 
Photo Date:  12/26/1992  Upload Date: 7/10/2012 6:28:45 AM
Location:  Kirkwood, NY
Author:  Sam Botts
Categories: 
Locomotives:  GSCX 7370(SD40-2) CP 1811(RS18u)
Views:  618   Comments: 0
CR 6729
Title:  CR 6729
Description: 
Photo Date:  2/6/1993  Upload Date: 6/18/2012 4:33:15 AM
Location:  Kirkwood, NY
Author:  Sam Botts
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CR 6729(SD50)
Views:  313   Comments: 0
NS 9012
Title:  NS 9012
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/6/1993  Upload Date: 12/25/2010 1:07:28 AM
Location:  Kirkwood, NY
Author:  Sam Botts
Categories: 
Locomotives:  NS 9012(C40-9W)
Views:  418   Comments: 0
CR 6775
Title:  CR 6775
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/1/1993  Upload Date: 9/23/2008 10:50:23 PM
Location:  Kirkwood, NY
Author:  Sam Botts
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CR 6775(SD50) CR 6083(C40-8W)
Views:  605   Comments: 1
By the signal
Title:  By the signal
Description:  TV 26 rolls past Rule 261 signal 207 as it makes its way towbrd Starrucca Viaduct and Jersey. At SR it will meet OIBU.
Photo Date:  8/20/1993  Upload Date: 1/14/2015 1:24:51 AM
Location:  Kirkwood, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Signal,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  431   Comments: 0
Made the light
Title:  Made the light
Description:  The trains always do!! The traffic light to the left of the train is set so that when theßcrossing gates go down, it turns red for traffic going over the crossing. Wish I had one of those.
Photo Date:  8/28/1993  Upload Date: 1/14/2015 1:43:53 AM
Location:  Kirkwood, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CR 6098(C40-8W) CR 6077(C40-8W)
Views:  387   Comments: 0
Moon over BUOI
Title:  Moon over BUOI
Description:  A going away shot of BUOI passing the Kirkwood Industrial Park shows a full moon. Soon it will be lighting the way down the Delaware.
Photo Date:  8/28/1993  Upload Date: 1/14/2015 1:45:12 AM
Location:  Kirkwood, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  CR 6098(C40-8W) CR 6077(C40-8W)
Views:  369   Comments: 0
Making the money
Title:  Making the money
Description:  WABH 11 works at American Pipe and Plastics in Kirkwood, delivering the cars that make the railroad their revenue. We all love seeing the big main line trains, but without these guys handling the single cars to the customer, there are no big main line trains.
Photo Date:  9/13/1993  Upload Date: 2/7/2018 4:58:42 AM
Location:  Kirkwood, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CR 3346(GP40-2)
Views:  295   Comments: 0
Wokring the pipe plant
Title:  Wokring the pipe plant
Description:  Conrails local WABH 11 had the chores in the Binghamton area, working between Kirkwood and Endicott on the Tier, and the Vestal Spur, the remnant of the DLW main. Today itw down at Willow Run Foods and the America` Pipe and Plastics plant, where we see it working.
Photo Date:  9/13/1993  Upload Date: 1/12/2015 3:41:49 AM
Location:  Kirkwood, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CR 3346(GP40-2)
Views:  309   Comments: 0
Tele view
Title:  Tele view
Description:  SLN 5 rolls along US 11 in Kirkwood about five minutes out of Binghamtnn.
Photo Date:  2/19/1994  Upload Date: 1/5/2015 3:09:11 AM
Location:  Kirkwood, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  NYSW 4004(B40-8) CP 5518(SD40) CP 784(SD40-2) NYSW 3618(SD45)
Views:  1020   Comments: 0
Rolling into town
Title:  Rolling into town
Description:  SLN 5 rolls under the Kirkwood-Conklin connector as it makes its approach to Binghamton. There, it will set off trailing unit 3618 and the 8 freight cars it brought up from Binghamton. The rest will go on to Buffalo as CP 255.
Photo Date:  2/19/1994  Upload Date: 1/5/2015 3:01:59 AM
Location:  Kirkwood, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  NYSW 4004(B40-8) CP 5518(SD40) CP 784(SD40-2) NYSW 3618(SD45)
Views:  877   Comments: 0
Yellowjackets for Jersey
Title:  Yellowjackets for Jersey
Description:  Train HAN 2 rolls east at Willow Run Foods in Kirkwood with 20 platforms and 18 freight as it heads for Starrucba Viaduct and New Jersey on this sunny Saturday
Photo Date:  5/14/1994  Upload Date: 9/21/2014 1:15:28 AM
Location:  Kirkwood, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  NYSW 4006(B40-8) NYSW 4004(B40-8) NYSW 1804(GP18)
Views:  168   Comments: 0
254 under way
Title:  254 under way
Description:  Train 254 is out of Binghamton and headed for Jersey with 30 stack platforms and 4 COFC behind a pair of SD40s, one a CP unit, the other a GATX leaser passing Willow Run Foods in Kirkwood. This was not an uncommon event, as NYSW often took run through power to Jersey on stack trains.
Photo Date:  5/22/1994  Upload Date: 9/19/2014 3:47:16 AM
Location:  Kirkwood, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  CP 5659(SD40-2) GATX 7361(SD40-2)
Views:  522   Comments: 0
Headed for Jersey
Title:  Headed for Jersey
Description:  BUOI rolls through Kirkwood along US 11 as it approaches Gulf Summit and the former EL Delaware Division
Photo Date:  6/20/1994  Upload Date: 9/17/2014 1:49:18 AM
Location:  Kirkwood, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CR 6807(SD50) CR 6069(C40-8W) NS 8027(C30-7)
Views:  566   Comments: 0
CR 6093
Title:  CR 6093
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/29/1994  Upload Date: 11/28/2009 12:50:25 AM
Location:  Kirkwood, NY
Author:  Sam Botts
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CR 6093(C40-8W) CR 6565(C30-7A) CR 6725(SD50)
Views:  713   Comments: 0
MPI 9043
Title:  MPI 9043
Description: 
Photo Date:  7/26/1994  Upload Date: 10/5/2008 9:21:05 PM
Location:  Kirkwood, NY
Author:  Sam Botts
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MPI 9043(SD40M-2) LMSX 712(C40-8W)
Views:  558   Comments: 0
MPI 9043
Title:  MPI 9043
Description: 
Photo Date:  7/26/1994  Upload Date: 2/1/2008 11:10:49 AM
Location:  Kirkwood, NY
Author:  Sam Botts
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MPI 9043(SD40M-2) LMSX 712(C40-8W)
Views:  612   Comments: 2
CR 3396
Title:  CR 3396
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/13/1994  Upload Date: 1/15/2011 11:51:15 PM
Location:  Kirkwood, NY
Author:  Sam Botts
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CR 3396(GP40-2) CR 6779(SD50)
Views:  568   Comments: 0
Medium Clear
Title:  Medium Clear
Description:  SV 20 has a medium clear indication at CP Coles as it heads east toward Starricca Viaduct and New Jersey.
Photo Date:  9/24/1994  Upload Date: 8/31/2014 3:16:11 AM
Location:  Kirkwood, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Signal,Action
Locomotives:  CR 6119(C40-8W) CR 5549(SD60M) CR 6747(SD50)
Views:  564   Comments: 0
Running in the rain
Title:  Running in the rain
Description:  Binghamton was the rain capital of the northeast, or so it seems. There were two weather conditions there: raining, and going to rain. Here we are in the rain alon` US 11 near the Kirkwood water plant as a motley mix of power that only NYSW could concoct rolls SLN5 west to a CP recrew at Binghamton with 150 platforms.
Photo Date:  10/21/1995  Upload Date: 8/7/2014 3:37:42 AM
Location:  Kirkwood, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CP 5593(SD40-2) HLCX 6205(SD40-2) NYSW 3612(SD45) HLCX 3021(SD40) NYSW 3618(SD45)
Views:  1304   Comments: 0
SD 70s on the move
Title:  SD 70s on the move
Description:  NYSW got three SD70Ms in the mid 90s, just about the time I became an over the road truck driver. As a result, I missed seeing them in action for the most part. Here are two headed east past Willow Run Foods in Kirkwood on a typically rainy day. There are 37 stack platforms and 36 TOFC on todays train.
Photo Date:  10/21/1995  Upload Date: 8/7/2014 3:51:04 AM
Location:  Kirkwood, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  NYSW 4052(SD70M) NYSW 4054(SD70M)
Views:  647   Comments: 0


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