NYS&W CL-PX brings the Norfolk Southern/Bennett Levin/Webb Rail Toys for Tots train deadhead equipment through Deposit, NY, on the former Erie Delaware Division. Bennett Levin's PRR E8As trail two... (more)

"Ouch"

"Replacements Passing the Injured"

"Inspecting Deposit"

Wist Industries

While normal operations over the CNYK Sourhern Tier are under the cover of darkness, a rare daylight road freight made an appearance the day before an anticipat... (more)

A Conrail B23-7 and three of the Susquehanna’s ex-BN SD45’s lead westbound NYS&W Sea-Land stack train NTV-9 out of the Delaware River Valley at Deposit, New York. After cresting the grade at Gulf... (more)

Stretched out in Deposit

The Strates Carnival train is roughly an hour outside of Binghamton as the Susquehanna crew makes good time through Deposit, NY. The train can be seen ... (more)

Painted in a one-of a-kind “Keep it Moving with Conrail” scheme, CR B23-7 1980 leads eastbound train BUOI (Buffalo – Oak Island) across Oquaga Creel on the Southern Tier line. The train is descend... (more)

A westbound Susquehanna haulage train begins the climb to Gulf Summit from Deposit, New York. Deposit was a helper base for this grade into early Conrail days. I don’t know why the Conrail C36-7/C... (more)

Evolution of a Susquehanna SD45

Before, interim, and after examples of Susquehanna SD45’s can be seen in this view of a westbound Sea-Land stack train rolling through the one-time ... (more)

Snow, Stacks, and Centuries

Eastbound Sea-Land stack train NTV-4 rolls past the site of the Erie yard in Deposit, New York. Two C430’s and a GP18, all two decades old, are handlin... (more)

Deposit Monument

On November 10, 1905, the Erie Railroad dedicated this granite monument to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the railroad’s groundbreaking at this spot in Deposi... (more)

Southern Tier Stone

An eastbound Conrail stone train rolls out of Deposit, New York on the Southern Tier. At this time, the Susquehanna was regularly hauling solid trains of stone ... (more)

Experiencing a big upswing in traffic on the Southern Tier, the power-short Susquehanna often had to borrow power from Conrail or the D&H to supplement its fleet of C430’s and newly-acquired ex-BN... (more)

A BHX extra crew brings the James E. Strates carnival train west through Deposit behind an increasingly-rare C40-8 leader. Daylight moves on this stretch of the Southern Tier are extremely rare, m... (more)