#New York Central System
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New York Central Transformed—Rochester, New York 1986.
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On the afternoon of September 12, 1986, I exposed this photograph of a westward Conrail double-stack container train on the former New York Central Waterlevel Route passing the Amtrak Station at Rochester, New York.
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May 10th 1892 and Number 999—Three Photos!
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On May 10th 1892, New York Central & Hudson River 4-4-0 with engineer Charles Hogan at the throttle raced special section of the Empire State Express westward toward Buffalo. This was no ordinary train, but a publicity run dreamed up by the railroad’s propaganda mastermind George Daniels.
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Not the New York Central—At Night!
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At first glance this nocturnal photo might be mistaken for a mid-1950s view of a New York Central EMD GP9 with a Bangor & Aroostook boxcar.
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CSX SD40-2 at Rotterdam Jct.
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Yesterday I scanned this 20 year old slide of an eastward CSX freight passing the signals at CPRJ—Rotterdam Junction, New York.
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Conrail and Conway in December 2019 TRAINS Magazine.
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Travels have kept me on the move. But last night I finally sat down with the paper copy of December 2019 Trains and read my column on page 13 that talks about New York Central and Conway Scenic.
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Color Photos of the 2017 New York Central System Historical Society Convention.
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On the weekend of May 5-7 2017, I attended and spoke at the New York Central System Historical Society Convention held in Marlborough, Massachusetts. The theme of the convention was the Boston & Albany and it was dedicated to my…
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CSX on the Hudson at Mine Dock Park—November 18, 2016.
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The sun was just rising over Bear Mountain, when I arrived at Mine Dock Park located on the west shore of the Hudson near Fort Montgomery, New York. I set up on CSX’s River Line, historically New York Central’s ‘West…
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Ghost of the New England States; Budd-built Babbling Brook Blitzes Warren.
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Yesterday’s (August 25, 2016) Boston section of Amtrak’s Lake Shore Limited carried an American classic: the streamlined Budd-built observation car Babbling Brook, a former New York Central car of the type that operated on the New England States (Boston-Chicago). My…
