G&W southbound from Greece

Today we got LUCKY!!! The baby and I were coming home from dropping her older sister off at school and we just happened to catch the R&S coming south towards Dewey Ave. The first shot is of G&W #46 at Barnard Crossing on Dewey Ave. At this point they only had one center beam flatcar.

The second shot was taken at Ridgeway Ave.. The train took longer than I expected to show up here from the Ridge Rd. crossing. We figured out why when the train came into view, they must have picked up a tank car at the Eastman Kodak Co. after they crossed Ridge.

After Ridgeway we headed further south til we hit Lyell Ave. Our last shots were taken as the train headed down the grade after crossing the old "Falls Road Branch". Ahhh, the thrill of the chase!

More power to Dansville

Today in the yard we spotted three more units destined for Dansville. Two GP-15's one in black with a white sill stripe and one in Conrail Blue and a 30 or 40 series Geep lettered for the Shannendoah Valley Railroad. A little while later a piece of CSX Geometry equipment, GRMS1 the "Spirit of R.F. Selbaugh" was stopped on track one at the signal at C.P. 369. hmmmm, maintenance is a good thing...

My wife and I took the baby to the yard last Saturday night to watch trains after I got out of work. We started out at Main and Goodman at the west end of the yard to see what power was on hand, At the time the 5400 was still in town so I was able to get some nice late afternoon shots with the last light. After shooting the "yard queens" we headed east to Unniversity ave. We caught an eastbound container train just moments before the sun dropped below the buildings. In this light you almost couldn't tell this was a csx train... Gee, I miss Conrail.