A Ride Above Route 23

An unusual Sunday Sparta extra heads eastbound with a crippled NYS&W 3800 leading CSX 2700 and consist of empty Sparta cars bound for the Southern Divisio... (more)

Sparta Water Tower

The LF-1 local crew is heading Eastbound through Sparta with a lengthy consist of empties from Sparta Junction. The crew made an unusual daylight Sparta turn... (more)

Emereging from the fog

An unusual daylight Sparta job is seen approaching Route 15 with the railroads matching SD33-ECO units. On account of the tri-weekly road train being off... (more)

SD33ECO sets up this evening's SU-99.

On the move,after dropping off bad order tank, is one of the 2 SD33ECOs on the Q.

The second of the Q's pair of ECOs is busy drilling cars.

Having just started the workday, this yellow jacket heads to the yard to drill cars.

Elevated Right of Way

The NYS&W Southern Division runs high above Route 23 carrying the six weekly road trains and occasional locals through the area. An unusual daylight local... (more)

The Twin ECOs

The matched set of NYS&W ECO units lead an incredibly unusual daylight local Eastbound from Sparta with a lengthy consist of empty cars having dropped loaded cars... (more)

Coasting to Sparta

An NYS&W local brings hot Sparta loads West on a gloomy Wednesday morning as a result of no SU-100 coming East the previous night. The crew was assigned both... (more)

With more and more developing traffic on its Southern Tier route, the New York, Susquehanna & Western acquired sixteen ex-BN 45-series EMD’s. The two F45’s in the lot were the first freight co... (more)

CSX used its interchange with the Delaware & Hudson in Buffalo as a major outlet to the northeast and New England. After the D&H was jettisoned by Guilford, the New York, Susquehanna & Western was... (more)

A late running New York Susquehanna & Western Railway Corp SU-100 crosses the Hackensack River near Hackensack, New Jersey on the morning of Monday, March 12, 2018 with 3800 (SD60) leading. A brie... (more)

NYSW GP40 #3040 leads NYSW plow #93 back north through Marshall, NY after plowing the Utica Branch between Utica, NY and Sangerfield, NY.

This NYS&W plow train looks a little out of place on a snow-free Schuyler Street in Utica, NY, however the train will have plenty of snow to clear when it gets a little further south on the Utica ... (more)