{"id":1829,"date":"2013-03-27T07:00:40","date_gmt":"2013-03-27T11:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=1829"},"modified":"2013-03-27T08:09:08","modified_gmt":"2013-03-27T12:09:08","slug":"new-ges-roll-east-on-the-former-erie-at-canaseraga-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/new-ges-roll-east-on-the-former-erie-at-canaseraga-new-york\/","title":{"rendered":"New GE\u2019s Roll East on the former Erie at Canaseraga, New York"},"content":{"rendered":"

Conrail’s former Erie Route, April 1989.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"NYS&W<\/a>
Exposed on Kodachrome 25 (PKM) with a Leica M2 and 50mm Summicron.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

While on the topic of the former Erie Railroad, I thought I would post this unpublished view of brand new New York, Susquehanna & Western Dash8-40Bs working a Delaware & Hudson freight on Conrail\u2019s former Erie route between Hornell and Buffalo, New York.<\/p>\n

The new units were ordered by NYS&W during its brief court-ordered operation of D&H between 1988 and 1990.<\/p>\n

I started following this train earlier in the day. It was a typical western New York morning, with fits of sun bursting through a deck of thick gray clouds.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s the reason for this unusual composition: for a moment the sun emerged to flush the front of the bright yellow GE\u2019s. I made a spot decision to photograph the train more distant than I\u2019d originally intended.<\/p>\n

At that time, Conrail was only maintaining the old number 2 track (eastward mainline) for 10 mph. Most traffic was routed on the number 1 main (traditionally the westward track) that was in much better condition. However, by Spring of 1989, Conrail\u2019s Erie route was bursting with traffic. To avoid congestion, Conrail\u2019s dispatcher opted to keep this D&H train bumping along at 10mph, while westward traffic stayed on the faster track.<\/p>\n

East of Canaseraga, the Erie line was in characteristic grade separated arrangement that probably dated from Underwood-era improvements in the early 20th<\/sup> century. If I write my book on the Erie, I\u2019ll be finally able to confirm this fact.<\/p>\n

In the early 1990s, Conrail reconfigured this portion of the Erie. It replaced the traditional directional double-track with a single-track main and centralized traffic control-style system. The change resulted in abandonment of the number 1 main at this location, and spelled the end for the steam-era Union Switch & Signal Style-S upper quadrant semaphores.<\/p>\n

Just for the record, I made several closer views of this train.<\/p>\n

For more on the former Erie Railroad, see my earlier posts including: Vestiges of the Erie Railroad near Kenton, Ohio<\/a>;\u00a0Erie Code Lines\u2014Horseheads, New York, October 5, 2009<\/a>, and\u00a0Erie October Morning<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Conrail’s former Erie Route, April 1989. While on the topic of the former Erie Railroad, I thought I would post this unpublished view of brand new New York, Susquehanna & Western Dash8-40Bs working a Delaware & Hudson freight on Conrail\u2019s former Erie route between Hornell and Buffalo, New York. The new units were ordered by … Continue reading New GE\u2019s Roll East on the former Erie at Canaseraga, New York<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10],"tags":[4537,567,53,565,404,51,7535,9,29,310,219,568,7,5,32,33,570,566,569],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-tv","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1829"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1829"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1833,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1829\/revisions\/1833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}