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LV 0-4-0T #3500 - Lehigh Valley
Title:  LV 0-4-0T #3500 - Lehigh Valley
Description:  This little switcher was only one of two 0-4-0 switchers on the LV roster since the line was primarily hauling heavy loads. It spent its life at the LV's Bronx Terminal shuffling cars. After nearly 33 years of switching duties, the loco was scrapped in August of 1939. Specs - 48" drivers, 180 psi boiler pressure, 16x24" cylinders, modest engine wt of 97,000 lb, very modest tractive effort of 19,584 lb. No date was given for the photo but it had to be before the August, 1939 scrapping. Photo by Anderson.
Photo Date:  6/1/1938  Upload Date: 11/6/2023 7:40:47 AM
Location:  Bronx, NY
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,Yard,Steam
Locomotives:  LV 3500(0-4-0T)
Views:  111   Comments: 0
"Juice Jacks," Page 39, 1944
Title:  "Juice Jacks," Page 39, 1944
Description:  Here is page 32 of a 32-page cover article entitled "Juice Jacks: The Electric Locomotive Comes Of Age." It was published originally in the July 1944 issue of "Railroad" magazine, page 39.
Photo Date:  7/1/1944  Upload Date: 12/22/2021 7:41:05 AM
Location:  Bronx, NY
Author:  Thomas C. Ayers
Categories:  Station,Passenger
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Views:  107   Comments: 0
NYC Subway Map Showing Ex-NYWB Line
Title:  NYC Subway Map Showing Ex-NYWB Line
Description:  New York City's #5 subway train operates on the New York, Westchester, & Boston Railroad's former r-o-w in The Bronx.
Photo Date:  3/1/1947  Upload Date: 9/7/2004 8:40:42 PM
Location:  Bronx, NY
Author:  David Sommer
Categories: 
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Views:  1186   Comments: 0
NYC 226
Title:  NYC 226
Description: 
Photo Date:  1/1/1965  Upload Date: 1/4/2009 10:34:12 PM
Location:  Bronx, NY
Author:  Steve Loitsch
Categories: 
Locomotives:  NYC 226(S-1 Electric)
Views:  2991   Comments: 1
NYC T-motor
Title:  NYC T-motor
Description: 
Photo Date:  1/1/1965  Upload Date: 1/4/2009 10:37:35 PM
Location:  Bronx, NY
Author:  Steve Loitsch
Categories: 
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Views:  495   Comments: 1
New Haven MUT's
Title:  New Haven MUT's
Description: 
Photo Date:  1/1/1965  Upload Date: 1/4/2009 10:38:09 PM
Location:  Bronx, NY
Author:  Steve Loitsch
Categories: 
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Views:  472   Comments: 0
NYC P-motor at Woodlawn Junction
Title:  NYC P-motor at Woodlawn Junction
Description: 
Photo Date:  1/1/1966  Upload Date: 1/4/2009 9:28:51 PM
Location:  Bronx, NY
Author:  Steve Loitsch
Categories: 
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Views:  983   Comments: 0
NYC 102
Title:  NYC 102
Description: 
Photo Date:  1/1/1966  Upload Date: 1/4/2009 10:34:29 PM
Location:  Bronx, NY
Author:  Steve Loitsch
Categories: 
Locomotives:  NYC 102(Steeplecab)
Views:  1820   Comments: 0
P motor at 138th Street station
Title:  P motor at 138th Street station
Description: 
Photo Date:  1/1/1966  Upload Date: 1/4/2009 10:35:07 PM
Location:  Bronx, NY
Author:  Steve Loitsch
Categories: 
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Views:  203   Comments: 0
NYC 107
Title:  NYC 107
Description: 
Photo Date:  1/1/1966  Upload Date: 1/4/2009 10:35:22 PM
Location:  Bronx, NY
Author:  Steve Loitsch
Categories: 
Locomotives:  NYC 107(Steeplecab)
Views:  1413   Comments: 0
View from the Phoebe Snow
Title:  View from the Phoebe Snow
Description: 
Photo Date:  1/1/1966  Upload Date: 1/6/2009 9:09:36 PM
Location:  Bronx, NY
Author:  Steve Loitsch
Categories: 
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Views:  219   Comments: 0
New York Express
Title:  New York Express
Description:  EP-5 enroute to GCT- 138th ST
Photo Date:  10/15/1966  Upload Date: 10/24/2011 12:34:48 AM
Location:  Bronx, NY
Author:  James Gillin
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  NH 372(EP-5)
Views:  1546   Comments: 2
Brewster bound
Title:  Brewster bound
Description:  A pair of FL 's lead a Brewster train north into the Bronx. At the time, all trains beyond North White Plains were diesel hauled. The line north of there would not be electrified for ~lmost another ten years.
Photo Date:  8/16/1973  Upload Date: 2/29/2016 4:12:58 AM
Location:  Bronx, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  PC 5049(FL9) PC 5027(FL9)
Views:  643   Comments: 0
Dyre Av Line
Title:  Dyre Av Line
Description:  We took the IRT no 5 train to Dyre Av, once the NY Westchester & Boston. It was a marvelously engineered right of way, with wide tunnels. Dad caught this southbound train in one of the tunnels, I believe near the Esplanade station.
Photo Date:  2/11/1974  Upload Date: 12/5/2014 1:44:53 AM
Location:  Bronx, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Tunnel,Transit,Passenger,Action
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Views:  182   Comments: 0
IRT snowplow
Title:  IRT snowplow
Description:  Believe it or not, the NYCTA has snowplows mounted on retired Low V cars. We spotted this one at 238th St yard on an ERA fantrip.
Photo Date:  3/10/1974  Upload Date: 12/4/2014 4:01:02 AM
Location:  Bronx, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Yard
Locomotives:  NYCTA 38190(MoW Equipment)
Views:  349   Comments: 0
Not hard to tell a fan
Title:  Not hard to tell a fan
Description:  You just cant tell some of them very much. A fantrip always brings out the colors, as this participant shows with his display of a variety of railroad heralds, almost all of them now a memory.
Photo Date:  4/14/1974  Upload Date: 2/24/2016 3:45:32 AM
Location:  Bronx, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Transit,Passenger
Locomotives: 
Views:  192   Comments: 1
Portrait of the author as a subway nut
Title:  Portrait of the author as a subway nut
Description:  Yes, thats me in April 1974, just before by 15th birthday. I was on a quest to ride the entire NYCTA-not all at once-and dad would ride along with me to the Bronx, since he was a little jittery about me going up there alone at that time in history. I think he trusted me not to do anything stupid or dangerous, he just didnt want to hear a lot of crap about it from mom if anything unfortunate were to happen while I was on one of these jaunts. Anyway, thats me on the #5 Dyre Av line, at the last stop, waiting to head back to E 180th to ride the #2 up to 241st St.
Photo Date:  4/15/1974  Upload Date: 2/6/2016 3:40:35 AM
Location:  Bronx, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Transit,Passenger,Action
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Views:  225   Comments: 1
Baychester Av
Title:  Baychester Av
Description:  The Dyre Av line was built on the abandoned right of way of the short lived-and marvelously appointed-NY Westchester & Boston, and electrified railroad that opened in 1913, and ceased operations in 1938. It was handicapped from the start by lack of a Manhattan terminal, its riders having to change to elevated trains in the south Bronx to reach midtown. It was lavishly built, with a wide right of way. The IRT, by then owned by the city, acquired it in 1941, building a connection from the White Plains Rd line at E 180th St. Were headed north at Baychester Av on a spring day in April 1974.
Photo Date:  4/15/1974  Upload Date: 2/6/2016 3:47:38 AM
Location:  Bronx, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Transit,Passenger,Track,Action
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Views:  175   Comments: 0
Morris Park
Title:  Morris Park
Description:  The IRT trackwork at Morris Park, where there were a pair of layup tracks on the beds of the NYW&B express tracks.
Photo Date:  4/15/1974  Upload Date: 2/6/2016 3:52:47 AM
Location:  Bronx, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Transit,Track
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Views:  202   Comments: 0
Yard leads
Title:  Yard leads
Description:  The leads to the 239th St yard on the White Plains Rd line. I always found the track layouts for such places fascinating, how they built it all essentially up on stilts. It was even more amazing that the IND did all of this work underground, such as on 53rd St between 5 Av and the 8th Av subway.
Photo Date:  4/15/1974  Upload Date: 2/6/2016 3:54:58 AM
Location:  Bronx, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Signal,Transit,Track
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Views:  229   Comments: 0
Jerome Av yard
Title:  Jerome Av yard
Description:  We also rode the #4 Jerome Av Line to Woodlawn. Dad got this shot of the yard at the end of the line, mostly empty except for one train set. The rest are out on the line, as rush hour approaches.
Photo Date:  4/15/1974  Upload Date: 2/6/2016 3:56:28 AM
Location:  Bronx, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Transit,Passenger,Action
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Views:  154   Comments: 0
Freeman St
Title:  Freeman St
Description:  On days off, or school vacations, dad and I would sometimes take off for some of the more far flung parts of the NYCTA, especially the Bronx, which at the time was, well, not the place you wanted to spend a lot of time. I was on a quest to ride all of the system at the time, and dad was sympathetic. He also had cautioned that if I wanted to go there, he wanted to go along, not that he questioned my judgement about riding to some parts of the city, but that if anything should happen, he knew hed never hear the end of it from my mom, who was worried about everything. I was with him on that one, because Id never hear the end of it either. In any event, here we see the Freeman St station coming up as we ride the No 5-Dyre Av train, in a view of classic NYCTA elevated tracks.
Photo Date:  4/15/1974  Upload Date: 2/15/2016 3:15:23 AM
Location:  Bronx, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Transit,Passenger,Track,Action
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Views:  182   Comments: 0
Woodlawn yard
Title:  Woodlawn yard
Description:  Thf IRT Woodlawn Yard, seen from the lead off the Jerome Av line. We covered several of the Bronx yards on this trip.
Photo Date:  10/27/1974  Upload Date: 2/24/2016 3:49:36 AM
Location:  Bronx, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Transit,Passenger,Action
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Views:  127   Comments: 0
SSW 35226 and SP 224009
Title:  SSW 35226 and SP 224009
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/1/1977  Upload Date: 9/6/2011 11:23:05 PM
Location:  Bronx, NY
Author:  Henry Frick
Categories:  Scenic,RollingStock,Action
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Views:  936   Comments: 0
Mott Haven "MO" Signal Tower
Title:  Mott Haven "MO" Signal Tower
Description:  The Tower can be seen at the right edge of the photo.
Photo Date:  6/10/1978  Upload Date: 9/29/2006 8:27:03 AM
Location:  Bronx, NY
Author:  Bill Rogerson
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Views:  723   Comments: 0
Northbound Metropolitan Transit Authority (New York) Commuter Train with Connecticut Department of Transportation MU Cars
Title:  Northbound Metropolitan Transit Authority (New York) Commuter Train with Connecticut Department of Transportation MU Cars
Description:  Mott Haven, Bronx, NY
Photo Date:  6/10/1978  Upload Date: 9/29/2006 8:34:58 AM
Location:  Bronx, NY
Author:  William Rogerson
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Views:  324   Comments: 0
Put power
Title:  Put power
Description:  The Putnam Division was still a going concern in the late 70s, though its days were numbered. Service at the time went as far as an A&P warehouse in, I think, Tuckahoe. The power requirements were not extensive, and this GP 7 was more than up to the task. Seen at the Putnam Division yard in the Bronx, where the Hudson Line follows the Harlem River, and the Put goes north. Note the small Conrail lettering and can opener on the long hood. And how about those PC trailers at left!!
Photo Date:  8/18/1978  Upload Date: 12/18/2016 6:22:11 AM
Location:  Bronx, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  CR 5638(GP7)
Views:  758   Comments: 0
Northbound Metropolitan Transit Authority (New York) Commuter Train led by EMD FL9 No. 5044
Title:  Northbound Metropolitan Transit Authority (New York) Commuter Train led by EMD FL9 No. 5044
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/7/1980  Upload Date: 2/4/2009 8:41:19 AM
Location:  Bronx, NY
Author:  Bill Rogerson
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  MNCR 5044(FL9)
Views:  763   Comments: 0
Conrail (CR) GE B23-7 No. 2806
Title:  Conrail (CR) GE B23-7 No. 2806
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/7/1980  Upload Date: 2/9/2009 3:15:07 PM
Location:  Bronx, NY
Author:  Bill Rogerson
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  CR 2806(B23-7)
Views:  614   Comments: 0
Conrail (CR) GE B23-7 No. 2814
Title:  Conrail (CR) GE B23-7 No. 2814
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/7/1980  Upload Date: 2/9/2009 3:26:22 PM
Location:  Bronx, NY
Author:  Bill Rogerson
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  CR 2814(B23-7)
Views:  603   Comments: 0
Southern Railway (SOU) Box Car No. 18681 on a Car Float
Title:  Southern Railway (SOU) Box Car No. 18681 on a Car Float
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/7/1980  Upload Date: 2/9/2009 3:43:13 PM
Location:  Bronx, NY
Author:  Bill Rogerson
Categories:  Scenic,RollingStock
Locomotives: 
Views:  351   Comments: 0
Former Liberty Ship "SS John W. Brown"
Title:  Former Liberty Ship "SS John W. Brown"
Description:  Photo taken on a Railfan Trip to Conrail's Oak Point facility
Photo Date:  5/7/1980  Upload Date: 2/14/2009 12:44:59 PM
Location:  Bronx, NY
Author:  Bill Rogerson
Categories:  Scenic
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Views:  267   Comments: 0
Amtrak east
Title:  Amtrak east
Description:  Amtrak AEM7 leads a Boston bound train past Conrails Oak Point yard
Photo Date:  3/8/1983  Upload Date: 10/30/2013 1:43:30 AM
Location:  Bronx, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 932(AEM7)
Views:  688   Comments: 0
Yard power, and a rare road unit
Title:  Yard power, and a rare road unit
Description:  Conrail used many of the ex PC SW1500s for local!and yard jobs in the New York area. We see one here at Oak Point in company of a much more unusual unit, though a regular visitor to the city. Selkirk was home base to much of CRs GE fleet including the four U36Bs. They were a common sight on SELI/LISE and its occasional modification, SEOP/OPSE, the connection to the Long Island at Fresh Pond. U36B 2974 is on hand today, and will return to Selkirk later in the evening.
Photo Date:  3/22/1983  Upload Date: 11/3/2013 1:36:09 AM
Location:  Bronx, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  CR 9508(SW1500) CR 2974(U36B)
Views:  920   Comments: 0
Still PC
Title:  Still PC
Description:  No, not politically correct, Penn Central. In 1983 it was still possible to see units inpredecessor paint jobs, but there were not many by this time. SW1500 9509 is one, still in its Penn Central garb. at Oak Point
Photo Date:  3/22/1983  Upload Date: 11/3/2013 1:38:06 AM
Location:  Bronx, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  CR 9509(SW1500)
Views:  733   Comments: 1
One of many
Title:  One of many
Description:  Conrail had over 100 SW1500s, I saw four of them this day at Oak Point yard in the Bronx.
Photo Date:  3/22/1983  Upload Date: 11/3/2013 1:41:34 AM
Location:  Bronx, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  CR 9512(SW1500)
Views:  598   Comments: 0
SW1500
Title:  SW1500
Description:  CR 9534 works at Oak Point yard
Photo Date:  3/22/1983  Upload Date: 11/3/2013 1:46:10 AM
Location:  Bronx, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  CR 9534(SW1500)
Views:  595   Comments: 0
Rye to Washington, #8 of 13, 1987
Title:  Rye to Washington, #8 of 13, 1987
Description:  R2W. Here is the eighth of 13 original photos that I took while riding in an Amtrak passenger train from Rye, New York, to Washington, DC, on 26 July 1987. Shown here (R to F) are the skyline of uptown Manhattan, various buildings in the mid-Bronx, as well as the northern approach to the Whitestone Bridge. The silhouette of Riverside Church's 392-foot-high tower is discernable in the center. Photo taken while approaching the Hell Gate Bridge, which was opened on 28 March 1917.
Photo Date:  7/26/1987  Upload Date: 1/19/2024 3:02:05 PM
Location:  Bronx, NY
Author:  Thomas C. Ayers
Categories:  Bridge,Passenger
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Views:  75   Comments: 0
Rye to Washington, #9 of 13, 1987
Title:  Rye to Washington, #9 of 13, 1987
Description:  R2W. Here is the ninth of 13 original photos that I took while riding in an Amtrak passenger train from Rye, New York, to Washington, DC, on 26 July 1987. Shown here (R to F) are the skyline of downtown Manhattan, the northern abutment of the Whitestone Bridge, as well as the dog-leg entrance of the waters of Hell Gate. The ghostly forms of the two World Trade Center towers are discernable near the center. Photo taken while crossing the Hell Gate Bridge, which was opened on 28 March 1917.
Photo Date:  7/26/1987  Upload Date: 2/12/2017 5:53:36 AM
Location:  Bronx, NY
Author:  Thomas C. Ayers
Categories:  Bridge,Passenger
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Views:  109   Comments: 0
Rye to Washington, #10 of 13, 1987
Title:  Rye to Washington, #10 of 13, 1987
Description:  R2W. Here is the tenth of 13 original photos that I took while riding in an Amtrak passenger train from Rye (NY) to Washington (DC) on 26 July 1987. Shown here (R to F) are a portion of the Borough of Queens, the central portion of the Whitestone Bridge, as well as a tugboat pulling a barge loaded with containerized shipments negotiating the turgid waters of Hell Gate. Photo taken while crossing the Hell Gate Bridge, which was opened on 28 March 1917.
Photo Date:  7/26/1987  Upload Date: 2/12/2017 5:55:49 AM
Location:  Bronx, NY
Author:  Thomas C. Ayers
Categories:  Bridge,Passenger
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Views:  92   Comments: 0
Amtrak #57, northbound Bear Mountain
Title:  Amtrak #57, northbound Bear Mountain
Description:  Amtrak train 57, the northbound Bear Mountain behind FL9 488, negotiates the switches at Mott Haven Junction with the Manhattan skyline in the distance. As seen from 144th Street, Bronx, New York, USA, 29 July 1987.
Photo Date:  7/29/1987  Upload Date: 9/17/2016 4:38:40 PM
Location:  Bronx, NY
Author:  Bill Wilcox
Categories:  Scenic,Passenger,Track,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 488(FL9)
Views:  860   Comments: 1
AMTK 939
Title:  AMTK 939
Description: 
Photo Date:  1/1/1993  Upload Date: 1/1/2008 7:41:44 PM
Location:  Bronx, NY
Author:  Steve Loitsch
Categories: 
Locomotives:  AMTK 939(AEM7)
Views:  753   Comments: 1
Hell's GaŽe bridge from the Interstate
Title:  Hell's GaŽe bridge from the Interstate
Description: 
Photo Date:  10/1/1998  Upload Date: 2/22/2005 6:47:32 AM
Location:  Bronx, NY
Author:  Virgil Fitzpatrick
Categories: 
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Views:  404   Comments: 0
CSX 3176
Title:  CSX 3176
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/10/2000  Upload Date: 9/11/2014 10:32:14 PM
Location:  Bronx, NY
Author:  John McCluskey
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CSX 3176(B23-7)
Views:  575   Comments: 0
Untitled
Title:  Untitled
Description: 
Photo Date:  2/19/2003  Upload Date: 10/12/2010 10:42:09 AM
Location:  Bronx, NY
Author:  Bob Beaumont
Categories:  Bridge,Winter
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Views:  294   Comments: 0
CSX 6207
Title:  CSX 6207
Description: 
Photo Date:  7/29/2003  Upload Date: 7/30/2006 1:57:06 PM
Location:  Bronx, NY
Author:  John McCluskey
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CSX 6207(GP40-2)
Views:  676   Comments: 1
CSX 6236
Title:  CSX 6236
Description: 
Photo Date:  7/29/2003  Upload Date: 7/30/2006 1:57:06 PM
Location:  Bronx, NY
Author:  John McCluskey
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CSX 6236(GP40-2)
Views:  689   Comments: 0
CSX 8847
Title:  CSX 8847
Description: 
Photo Date:  7/29/2003  Upload Date: 7/30/2006 1:57:04 PM
Location:  Bronx, NY
Author:  John McCluskey
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CSX 8847(SD40-2)
Views:  645   Comments: 1
D&H/CP at Yankee Stadium with LIRR cars for scrap
Title:  D&H/CP at Yankee Stadium with LIRR cars for scrap
Description:  D&H/CP train 417 passes Yankee Stadium enroute to Saratoga Springs, NY. Former Long Island Railroad MUs are en route to scrapping. (Fuji Provia 100F) Exact date unknown
Photo Date:  1/1/2004  Upload Date: 4/20/2007 1:02:05 PM
Location:  Bronx, NY
Author:  Michael Foley
Categories: 
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Views:  1070   Comments: 0
D&H/CP at Yankee Stadium (Fuji)
Title:  D&H/CP at Yankee Stadium (Fuji)
Description:  D&H/CP train 417 passes Yankee Stadium enroute to Saratoga Springs, NY. STLH 5690 before repaint into CP (Fuji Provia 100F) Exact date unknown
Photo Date:  1/1/2004  Upload Date: 4/20/2007 1:03:06 PM
Location:  Bronx, NY
Author:  Michael Foley
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CP 5677(SD40-2) STLH 5690(SD40-2)
Views:  999   Comments: 0


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