{"id":41347,"date":"2025-03-12T06:51:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-12T10:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=41347"},"modified":"2025-03-11T22:15:25","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T02:15:25","slug":"cp-rail-along-the-dale-road-west-middlebury-ny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/cp-rail-along-the-dale-road-west-middlebury-ny\/","title":{"rendered":"CP Rail along the Dale Road, West Middlebury, NY."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The former Erie Railroad between Hornell and Buffalo, New York, is operated at Norfolk Southern&#8217;s Southern Tier route. At West Middlebury, New York the line runs parallel to the Dale Road (named for the nearby town). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This CP Rail mixed freight carried NS train symbol 39T. It was working railroad timetable-west toward Buffalo. The timetable and compass do not correspond at West Middlebury;  because the track curves to reach Attica, New York, this westward freight is running in a north-easterly direction, which allows for nice morning sun of the front of CP Rail&#8217;s GE AC4400CW 9551.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>CP Rail&#8217;s operation over the former Erie was a legacy of Delaware &amp; Hudson&#8217;s trackage rights on Conrail to Buffalo that dated to Conrail&#8217;s start-up in 1976.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"474\" height=\"310\" data-attachment-id=\"41348\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/cp-rail-along-the-dale-road-west-middlebury-ny\/ns_southern_tier_former_erie_railroad_route_at_west_middlebury_ny_w_cpr_wb_39t_11may2007brian_solomon_123042\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/NS_Southern_Tier_former_Erie_Railroad_route_at_West_Middlebury_NY_w_CPR_wb_39T_11May2007\u00a9Brian_Solomon_123042.jpg?fit=2048%2C1340\" data-orig-size=\"2048,1340\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;LS-5000&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1741180859&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;\\u00a9BrianSolomon&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"NS_Southern_Tier_former_Erie_Railroad_route_at_West_Middlebury_NY_w_CPR_wb_39T_11May2007\u00a9Brian_Solomon_123042\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/NS_Southern_Tier_former_Erie_Railroad_route_at_West_Middlebury_NY_w_CPR_wb_39T_11May2007\u00a9Brian_Solomon_123042.jpg?fit=709%2C464\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/NS_Southern_Tier_former_Erie_Railroad_route_at_West_Middlebury_NY_w_CPR_wb_39T_11May2007\u00a9Brian_Solomon_123042.jpg?fit=474%2C310\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/NS_Southern_Tier_former_Erie_Railroad_route_at_West_Middlebury_NY_w_CPR_wb_39T_11May2007\u00a9Brian_Solomon_123042.jpg?resize=474%2C310&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-41348\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/NS_Southern_Tier_former_Erie_Railroad_route_at_West_Middlebury_NY_w_CPR_wb_39T_11May2007\u00a9Brian_Solomon_123042.jpg?w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/NS_Southern_Tier_former_Erie_Railroad_route_at_West_Middlebury_NY_w_CPR_wb_39T_11May2007\u00a9Brian_Solomon_123042.jpg?resize=709%2C464 709w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/NS_Southern_Tier_former_Erie_Railroad_route_at_West_Middlebury_NY_w_CPR_wb_39T_11May2007\u00a9Brian_Solomon_123042.jpg?resize=1022%2C669 1022w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/NS_Southern_Tier_former_Erie_Railroad_route_at_West_Middlebury_NY_w_CPR_wb_39T_11May2007\u00a9Brian_Solomon_123042.jpg?resize=205%2C134 205w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/NS_Southern_Tier_former_Erie_Railroad_route_at_West_Middlebury_NY_w_CPR_wb_39T_11May2007\u00a9Brian_Solomon_123042.jpg?resize=1536%2C1005 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/NS_Southern_Tier_former_Erie_Railroad_route_at_West_Middlebury_NY_w_CPR_wb_39T_11May2007\u00a9Brian_Solomon_123042.jpg?w=948 948w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/NS_Southern_Tier_former_Erie_Railroad_route_at_West_Middlebury_NY_w_CPR_wb_39T_11May2007\u00a9Brian_Solomon_123042.jpg?w=1422 1422w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">CP Rail&#8217;s westward 39T rolls along the former Erie Railroad parallel to the Dale Road in West Middlebury, New York on May 11, 2007<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I exposed this view on Fujichrome slide film using a Canon EOS-3 with 200mm Canon telephoto.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tracking the Light Posts Daily!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The former Erie Railroad between Hornell and Buffalo, New York, is operated at Norfolk Southern&#8217;s Southern Tier route. At West Middlebury, New York the line runs parallel to the Dale Road (named for the nearby town). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41348,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","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":[6060,10,6108,48],"tags":[5211,5383,5503],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/NS_Southern_Tier_former_Erie_Railroad_route_at_West_Middlebury_NY_w_CPR_wb_39T_11May2007\u00a9Brian_Solomon_123042.jpg?fit=2048%2C1340","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-aKT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41347"}],"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=41347"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41349,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41347\/revisions\/41349"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}