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Viewing Album:  Chasing 41T and its counterpart, 40T
 
By:Tom Beckett
Dates:6/1/2001 - 11/1/2006
Album Info:For several years, NS ran 41T on the Tier. The train originated at Enola, ran the ex PRR and D&H to Binghamton, then west to Buffalo and Toronto. It usually had CN power, including IC and WC units. I was driving for Broome County Transit at the time, working split shifts, which left the middle of my days open. This was usually a good match for 41T, which tended to get out of Binghamton mid day, and made for a good chase. It became 31T in March 2004 or so, continuing to run the Tier, though later the routing would change to a CP-D&H move north of Binghamton, ending my Tier chases of the train. It was good while it lasted. We'll also see some shots of the train south of Binghamton on the line to Scranton.
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Coming around
Title:  Coming around
Description:  41T rolls around the big curve at MP 231 in the snow.
Photo Date:  2/18/2004  Upload Date: 6/1/2017 4:25:23 AM
Location:  Campville, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Winter,Action
Locomotives:  CN 5281(SD40-2W) CN 5778(SD75I) IC 6204(SD40-3)
Views:  457   Comments: 0
Frozen river
Title:  Frozen river
Description:  41T gets 47 cars underway from Binghamton, crossing the frozen Chenango River. 41T typically got a set of CNs new SD75s or GEs, or some combination of them. Occasionally an older unit would get in the mix, as well as IC units. Here we see one such mixed set.
Photo Date:  2/18/2004  Upload Date: 6/1/2017 4:27:26 AM
Location:  Binghamton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Bridge,Winter,Action
Locomotives:  CN 5281(SD40-2W) CN 5778(SD75I) IC 6204(SD40-3)
Views:  491   Comments: 1
Out of the woods
Title:  Out of the woods
Description:  41T rolls out of a stand of trees that flank the tracks near MP 233, passing the eastbound signal as it crosses Hiawatha Rd.
Photo Date:  2/18/2004  Upload Date: 6/1/2017 4:32:26 AM
Location:  Owego, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Winter,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  CN 5281(SD40-2W) CN 5778(SD75I) IC 6204(SD40-3)
Views:  422   Comments: 1
CN power west
Title:  CN power west
Description:  Train 41T was changed to 31T in March 2004, keeping the same end points as a run through to Canadian National, and typically got CN power in this time period. Here a solid set of CN units lead 71 cars out of Binghamton.
Photo Date:  4/20/2004  Upload Date: 1/6/2013 3:40:32 AM
Location:  Binghamton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Bridge,Action
Locomotives:  CN 2618(C44-9W) CN 2527(C44-9W) CN 2670(C44-9W)
Views:  705   Comments: 0
Underway
Title:  Underway
Description:  31T rolls west over the Chenango River on the DLW bridge as it clears downtown and heads for Buffalo with 71 cars. This view highlights the concrete construction the DLW was noted for. The arches on the approach are typical reinforced concrete. The adjacent Erie bridge was(and is) steel. The red brick building to the right of the train is Derby Knitting Mills, which would burn to the ground in a spectacular fire ten years hence.
Photo Date:  4/20/2004  Upload Date: 6/1/2017 4:00:24 AM
Location:  Binghamton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Bridge,Action
Locomotives:  CN 2618(C44-9W) CN 2527(C44-9W) CN 2670(C44-9W)
Views:  491   Comments: 0
In between
Title:  In between
Description:  30 T makes its way along the Johnson Runner, a pair of CN units flanking a leased ex Santa Fe unit. Theyll take 63 cars to Enola today.
Photo Date:  5/16/2004  Upload Date: 6/1/2017 4:36:25 AM
Location:  Binghamton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Signal,Action
Locomotives:  CN 5723(SD75I) NREX 6415(SD45) CN 5619(SD70I)
Views:  527   Comments: 0
Ready to work
Title:  Ready to work
Description:  The conductor is on deck as 31T slows for its Gang Mills work. Interesting power mix today.
Photo Date:  6/20/2004  Upload Date: 11/13/2017 4:59:22 AM
Location:  Gang Mills, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Yard,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  CN 5373(SD40-2) CN 5546(SD60F) CN 2656(C44-9W) NS 2588(SD70M)
Views:  590   Comments: 2
Rattlesnake
Title:  Rattlesnake
Description:  31T rolls west through Rattlesnake Curve near Cameron. This was a classic shot in EL days, when there was less foliage. Its still a pretty good scene.
Photo Date:  6/23/2004  Upload Date: 11/2/2017 5:27:58 AM
Location:  Cameron, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  CN 5547(SD60F) CN 5736(SD75I) NS 8946(C40-9W)
Views:  438   Comments: 1
31T in the valley
Title:  31T in the valley
Description:  31T behind a mix of power rolls 65 cars under the bridge at Carson, two miles east of Canisteo.
Photo Date:  6/23/2004  Upload Date: 1/6/2013 3:45:15 AM
Location:  Canisteo, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  CN 5547(SD60F) CN 5736(SD75I) NS 8946(C40-9W)
Views:  877   Comments: 0
Red among the green
Title:  Red among the green
Description:  The thick greenery of the Canisteo valley is broken by the bright red nose of the lead CN unit as 31T rolls through CP Adrian.
Photo Date:  6/23/2004  Upload Date: 11/2/2017 5:32:55 AM
Location:  Browns Crossing, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  CN 5547(SD60F) CN 5736(SD75I) NS 8946(C40-9W)
Views:  446   Comments: 1
CLiffside
Title:  CLiffside
Description:  This spot near West Cameron is where the tracks stay on the north side of the river along a high cliff-the green wall behind the train. At its highest point, the top of the ridge is 1000 feet above the river. Were just east of CP Cam, where River Rd crosses back to follow the tracks going west.
Photo Date:  6/23/2004  Upload Date: 11/2/2017 5:37:59 AM
Location:  West Cameron, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  CN 5547(SD60F) CN 5736(SD75I) NS 8946(C40-9W)
Views:  387   Comments: 0
No its not a model
Title:  No its not a model
Description:  The buildings at Waverly have made an excellent backdrop for train photos for many years, and look like someones model railroad. Here 31T with 65 cars rolls west.
Photo Date:  6/23/2004  Upload Date: 1/6/2013 3:47:33 AM
Location:  Waverly, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  CN 5547(SD60F) CN 5736(SD75I) NS 8946(C40-9W)
Views:  2371   Comments: 6
Into the sun
Title:  Into the sun
Description:  31T rolls 65 cars west as it pokes out from behind the cliff along NY 427 at Wellsburg
Photo Date:  6/23/2004  Upload Date: 11/2/2017 5:39:57 AM
Location:  Wellsburg, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CN 5547(SD60F) CN 5736(SD75I) NS 8946(C40-9W)
Views:  455   Comments: 1
Recrewed and rolling
Title:  Recrewed and rolling
Description:  31T gets 70 cars underway toward Buffalo and the CN now that it has a new crew, just taking over from the crew that brought it in from Enola.
Photo Date:  6/30/2004  Upload Date: 11/5/2017 3:02:21 AM
Location:  Binghamton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Bridge,Action
Locomotives:  CN 5348(SD40-2W) CN 5427(SD50F) CN 2506(C44-9WL)
Views:  442   Comments: 0
Classic power
Title:  Classic power
Description:  Though trains 30T and 31T usually got the newest power, sometimes the old war horses got the call. Here we see two of them in company of a newer GE leaving town with 31Ts 70 cars.
Photo Date:  6/30/2004  Upload Date: 1/6/2013 3:42:46 AM
Location:  Binghamton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Bridge,Action
Locomotives:  CN 5348(SD40-2W) CN 5427(SD50F) CN 2506(C44-9WL)
Views:  660   Comments: 0
Way off
Title:  Way off
Description:  If you hustled after you got off NY 17 at Chemung, you might beat a westbound to Wellsburg, where NY 427 gradually got closer to the tracks. That approach did allow some panoramic shots, such as this 31T rolling 70 cars west, seen from the shoulder of NY 427 east of Wellsburg.
Photo Date:  7/1/2004  Upload Date: 6/7/2017 3:21:01 AM
Location:  Wellsburg, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  CN 5714(SD75I) CN 5695(SD75I) GCFX 6052(SD40-3)
Views:  480   Comments: 0
Dinked
Title:  Dinked
Description:  31T rolls under the Campville-Apalachin connector just as a cloud passes over, darkening the shot. Never fails...
Photo Date:  7/8/2004  Upload Date: 10/26/2017 5:38:48 AM
Location:  Campville, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  CN 2533(C44-9W) CN 2620(C44-9W) GTW 5931(SD40-2)
Views:  489   Comments: 0
Grab shot
Title:  Grab shot
Description:  I was out chasing something else when I caught 31T, formerly 41T, at the Lowman-Wellsburg connector, with a trio of CN GEs.
Photo Date:  8/29/2004  Upload Date: 5/6/2017 4:48:53 AM
Location:  Wellsburg, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  CN 2569(C44-9W) CN 2417(C40-8M) CN 2517(C44-9WL)
Views:  612   Comments: 2
Red in the afternoon
Title:  Red in the afternoon
Description:  This was a banner day for chasing the Canadian trains. I caught 31T at Binghamton and chased to Dalton, then got this shot of what my notes call 12K(though it looks like a 30T) with 105 cars near Swains, its lead unit catching the low sun of a September afternoon.
Photo Date:  9/19/2004  Upload Date: 5/12/2017 2:58:45 AM
Location:  Swain, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  CN 2618(C44-9W) CN 5652(SD75I) CN 5516(SD60F)
Views:  461   Comments: 0
Out of the valley
Title:  Out of the valley
Description:  31T rolls out of the Canisteo valley behind the usual mix of CN power. There used to be two tracks here til Conrail single tracked the line west of Waverly in 1992.
Photo Date:  9/19/2004  Upload Date: 5/12/2017 3:03:43 AM
Location:  carson, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  CN 5417(SD50F) CN 5690(SD75I) CN 5717(SD75I)
Views:  420   Comments: 1
Were off!!
Title:  Were off!!
Description:  I caught this 31T rolling west out of Binghamton as it left QD and rolled its 107 cars across the Chenango River. It was one of those glorious sunny days in the Tier, made for a chase. I made the best of it, following this train to Dalton, almost 140 miles to the west.
Photo Date:  9/19/2004  Upload Date: 5/12/2017 3:10:30 AM
Location:  Binghamton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Bridge,Action
Locomotives:  CN 5417(SD50F) CN 5690(SD75I) CN 5717(SD75I)
Views:  448   Comments: 0
Last shot
Title:  Last shot
Description:  This was the last shot I got of that 31T. West of Hornell, he really took off, and I had a hard time keeping up, since he had 50 MPH, and I had to get through Canisteo and Hornell, a challenge to start with, then deal with 40 MPH at Arkport, 30 at Canaseraga, and hope to stay close. I beat him here, but that was the end. I could have beat him to Silver Springs, but it was getting late and I had to be at work the next morning by 6.
Photo Date:  9/19/2004  Upload Date: 5/12/2017 3:26:32 AM
Location:  Dalton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CN 5417(SD50F) CN 5690(SD75I) CN 5717(SD75I)
Views:  422   Comments: 0
Three units on the Chemung
Title:  Three units on the Chemung
Description:  31T crosses the Chemung River, as seen from the park on Water St. This was always a good location, but if you shot him at Waverly, you had to run to get it. If you shot him at Chemung, you really had to hustle, and hope you made the lights in Elmira.
Photo Date:  9/19/2004  Upload Date: 5/12/2017 3:28:07 AM
Location:  Elmira, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Bridge,Action
Locomotives:  CN 5417(SD50F) CN 5690(SD75I) CN 5717(SD75I)
Views:  415   Comments: 0
31T and high water
Title:  31T and high water
Description:  31T crosses the Chemung River at Elmira with 117 cars. Must have rained a lot recently-not a stretch, seems like its ALWAYS raining in the Southern Tier!! The water is high-normally you can almost walk across the river bed here.
Photo Date:  9/19/2004  Upload Date: 12/9/2012 2:45:07 AM
Location:  Elmira, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Bridge,Action
Locomotives:  CN 5417(SD50F) CN 5690(SD75I) CN 5717(SD75I)
Views:  689   Comments: 0
New track
Title:  New track
Description:  There had been a washout near this location several years prior, and the track had all been rebuilt. 31T is taking advantage of the new track, though the curvature in the valley is such that it wont make a lot of speed anyway. The view shows why this is such a great place to shoot train photos.
Photo Date:  9/19/2004  Upload Date: 5/12/2017 3:30:41 AM
Location:  Rathbone, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  CN 5417(SD50F) CN 5690(SD75I) CN 5717(SD75I)
Views:  418   Comments: 0
Rattlesnake curve
Title:  Rattlesnake curve
Description:  The reason for the name should be obvious!! 31T rolls through the curve near West Cameron, passing MP 316 as it heads toward me.
Photo Date:  9/19/2004  Upload Date: 5/12/2017 3:33:20 AM
Location:  West Cameron, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  CN 5417(SD50F) CN 5690(SD75I) CN 5717(SD75I)
Views:  467   Comments: 0
Onto the single track
Title:  Onto the single track
Description:  In the mid 1990s, Conrail single tracked the Tier west of Waverly. We see 31T coming off the double track, passing the eastbound home signal, and rolling for Elmira.
Photo Date:  9/19/2004  Upload Date: 5/22/2017 5:24:48 AM
Location:  Conklin, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Signal,Action
Locomotives:  CN 5417(SD50F) CN 5690(SD75I) CN 5717(SD75I)
Views:  413   Comments: 0
Starting out
Title:  Starting out
Description:  31T made its crew change at East Binghamton, and has now crossed the Susquehanna and is on the NS Tier. We see it at Liberty St at the start of the trip to Buffalo. The two tracks in the foreground, now the Johnson runner and the stub of track 4, were once the DLW east and westbound main tracks. This is also the approximate location of Liberty St tower. A track from the DLW station, out of view to the left, to the Syracuse and Utica Branches, crossed the Erie here.
Photo Date:  10/4/2004  Upload Date: 7/19/2017 3:43:21 AM
Location:  Binghamton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  CN 5707(SD75I) CN 5650(SD75I) CN 2653(C44-9W)
Views:  534   Comments: 0
North by Northwestern
Title:  North by Northwestern
Description:  A short 31T with the usual CN power waits for eastbound H 11 at Waverly. Trailing unit is something pretty unusual-a real CNW unit, unpatched. Heritage before there was heritage!!
Photo Date:  10/6/2004  Upload Date: 7/19/2017 3:36:56 AM
Location:  Waverly, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  CN 2609(C44-9W) CN 2619(C44-9W) CNW 8637(C44-9W)
Views:  479   Comments: 1
31T
Title:  31T
Description:  31T behind a mix of CN and CNW power approaches Waverly, where it will hold for local H11 to run through the interlocking and down to Sayre on the Lehigh Line.
Photo Date:  10/6/2004  Upload Date: 9/14/2012 3:51:49 AM
Location:  Waverly, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  CN 2609(C44-9W) CN 2619(C44-9W) CNW 8637(C44-9W)
Views:  596   Comments: 0
Fall color along the Susquehanna
Title:  Fall color along the Susquehanna
Description:  31T rolls west through typical fall foliage approaching Owego
Photo Date:  10/15/2004  Upload Date: 9/14/2012 3:57:08 AM
Location:  Campville, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  CN 5671(SD75I)
Views:  370   Comments: 0
Overpowered
Title:  Overpowered
Description:  31T rolls west behind more power than it will ever need for the 83 cars in the train today. It even had a couple of CR heritage units before heritage units were cool.
Photo Date:  10/16/2004  Upload Date: 12/9/2012 2:50:21 AM
Location:  Chemung, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  CN 5676(SD75I) CN 5561(SD60F) NS 3440(SD40-2) NS 6772(SD60M) NS 6793(SD60M) CN 2587(C44-9W) NS 9263(C40-9W)
Views:  1426   Comments: 0
31 T
Title:  31 T
Description:  Todays 31T with all CN power passes an old Erie tri light signal as it approaches Owego on its way to Toronto
Photo Date:  11/10/2004  Upload Date: 12/4/2011 11:19:46 PM
Location:  Owego, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Signal,Action
Locomotives:  CN 5671(SD75I) CN 5717(SD75I)
Views:  526   Comments: 0
Almost in
Title:  Almost in
Description:  31T rolls north along NY 7 near Stillwater with 57 cars. Hell head west on the Tier after a crew change at East Binghamton.
Photo Date:  11/10/2004  Upload Date: 5/22/2017 4:51:31 AM
Location:  Conklin, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  CN 5704(SD75I) CN 2534(C44-9W) CN 2597(C44-9W)
Views:  533   Comments: 1
31 T
Title:  31 T
Description:  31T heads west past the stubble corn east of Owego in a late fall scene.
Photo Date:  11/14/2004  Upload Date: 12/4/2011 11:17:25 PM
Location:  Owego, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  CN 5619(SD70I) CN 2534(C44-9W) CN 5704(SD75I)
Views:  694   Comments: 0
Last semaphore
Title:  Last semaphore
Description:  The bright red of sunlit CN power contrasts against the yellow of the last Erie semphore standing as 31T works 83 cars west.
Photo Date:  11/14/2004  Upload Date: 5/22/2017 4:33:24 AM
Location:  Endicott, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  CN 5619(SD70I) CN 2534(C44-9W) CN 5704(SD75I)
Views:  562   Comments: 1
The corn is down
Title:  The corn is down
Description:  31T rolls past Hiawatha Rd in Owego following the corn harvest, leaving the field with only stubble. Now I wont have to stand on the roof of the car to get the shot over the corn.
Photo Date:  11/14/2004  Upload Date: 5/22/2017 4:37:06 AM
Location:  Owego, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  CN 5619(SD70I) CN 2534(C44-9W) CN 5704(SD75I)
Views:  515   Comments: 1
Multi modal
Title:  Multi modal
Description:  Not in the way youd expect. 30T sits at the ex DLW station waiting for a crew, while a Broome Transit bus crosses overhead on Chenango St. Its either a 28-Robinson St or 40-Chenango St; both use Chenango out of downtown, with the 28 turning onto Robinson to head to the end of the line at the Binghamton Psych Center. The 28 was good for seeing the action at Bevier St, since it also did a loop up Broad Av in both directions. Many a morning I watched NS 206 while on that run. The bus is one of the 23 Orion 6 coaches acquired by BC Transit in 2000.
Photo Date:  11/15/2004  Upload Date: 5/18/2017 4:53:20 AM
Location:  Binghamton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Action
Locomotives:  CN 5721(SD75I) IC 6003(SD40-2R) GCFX 6034(SD40-3)
Views:  534   Comments: 0
30T at the DLW station
Title:  30T at the DLW station
Description:  30T waits for a new crew at the ex DLW station in binghamton behind a mix of CN and IC power. The tpacks in the foreground were set out tracks use by DLW for sleepers and mail cars. They most recently held cars and an E 8 for the Susquehanna Valley Chapter NRHS.
Photo Date:  11/15/2004  Upload Date: 12/10/2012 12:49:05 AM
Location:  Binghamton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Station
Locomotives:  CN 5721(SD75I) IC 6003(SD40-2R) GECX 6034(SD40-2)
Views:  813   Comments: 0
Say what??
Title:  Say what??
Description:  In a turn reminiscent of Macys sending Christmas shoppers to Gimbels, a unit from CPs empire leads a train that will connect to the CN at Buffalo. SOO power was unheard of on 30T/31T, so this was quite unusual.
Photo Date:  11/22/2004  Upload Date: 5/18/2017 4:44:48 AM
Location:  Binghamton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Bridge,Action
Locomotives:  SOO 6027(SD60) NS 8435(C40-8W) CN 5268(SD40-2W)
Views:  601   Comments: 0
Only a few more miles
Title:  Only a few more miles
Description:  31T rolls north just below the NY state line, and will shortly be at East Binghamton. It will get a crew change and be off to Buffalo.
Photo Date:  3/9/2005  Upload Date: 11/13/2017 5:04:28 AM
Location:  Hallstead, PA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Winter,Action
Locomotives:  CN 5669(SD75I) DWP 5904(SD40) CSX 8662(SD50-3)
Views:  611   Comments: 0
Spring is almost here
Title:  Spring is almost here
Description:  But not quite. March can be a cruel month in upstate NY and nearby PA, with below freezing-and sometimes below zero-temps. Its not stopping 31T, which is rolling 70 cars to a crew change at Binghamton in this snowy scene.
Photo Date:  3/9/2005  Upload Date: 11/13/2017 5:08:42 AM
Location:  Summersville, PA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Winter,Action
Locomotives:  CN 5669(SD75I) DWP 5904(SD40) CSX 8662(SD50-3)
Views:  612   Comments: 0

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