{"id":25904,"date":"2019-03-18T12:18:20","date_gmt":"2019-03-18T16:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=25904"},"modified":"2019-03-18T11:49:58","modified_gmt":"2019-03-18T15:49:58","slug":"csx-sd40-2-on-the-old-erie-delaware-hudson-sealand-train-attica-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/csx-sd40-2-on-the-old-erie-delaware-hudson-sealand-train-attica-new-york\/","title":{"rendered":"CSX SD40-2 on the old Erie: Delaware & Hudson Sealand Train, Attica, New York."},"content":{"rendered":"\n


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In September 1988, I was set up at Dixon\u2019s on Conrail\u2019s former Erie Railroad line over Attica Hill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Roaring up the grade with a CSX SD40-2 in the lead was this Delaware & Hudson Sealand doublestack land-bridge train bound for Little Ferry, New Jersey. The New York, Susquehanna & Western had just been appointed designated operator of the D&H, and NYSW locomotives were common on many D&H road freights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Land-bridge trains, such as this one, reached the east coast via Delaware & Hudson trackage rights over Conrail\u2019s former Erie mainlines between Binghamton and Buffalo, New York, and NYSW\u2019s rights on the old Erie east of Binghamton.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Catching a CSX painted locomotive was a rare find in western New York in 1988, and finding one leading on the Erie seemed like a special treat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This represents window in time in the dynamic melting pot of western New York railroading in the late 1980s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After exposing this black & white view using my dad\u2019s Rollei model T, I followed the train east and exposed dozens of photos along the way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In September 1988, I was set up at Dixon\u2019s on Conrail\u2019s former Erie Railroad line over Attica Hill. Roaring up the grade with a CSX SD40-2 in the lead was this Delaware & Hudson Sealand doublestack land-bridge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25906,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","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":[5460,5459,4250,5457,53,51],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Brian-Solomon-494983.jpg?fit=1089%2C801","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-6JO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25904"}],"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=25904"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25907,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25904\/revisions\/25907"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}