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... (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-tim... (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 handl... (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 Depo... (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-... (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)
TV200X, the first of two closely spaced EB stacks (designated by the X in the symbol), rolls along the West Branch Delaware River with CR SD50's #6780 and #6779 followed by CR SD40 #6315 (ex PC 60... (more)
Five, count 'em Alco's power SU-99 at Deposit, NY
TV200 rolls along the West Branch Delaware River with C40-8W # 6066, B36-7 # 5050, and C36-7 # 6623. When stack trains first started to proliferate on Conrail the Southern Tier Line became a favor... (more)
Eastbound to North Jersey
B&O GP40-2 #4245 (today CSXT 6144), B&O 4129 (today CSXT 6029), and Seaboard System SD40-2 #8165 (today CSXT 8165) lead NYS&W train NY-10 eastbound at Deposit, NY.
Special Excursion To Binghamton Ny
