No hint, just a decent vantage point for an eastbound and a crackle on the scanner for CP. Pure luck as much as I would like to claim any skill or inside info....
This caboose sits on a siding that serves a large-ish grain elevator near here. Yesterday, it was at the tail end of a string of covered hoppers, but today it was sitting by itself. From the colors, I almost wonder if the elevator bought it from C&O, except the dark color seems to be too black and not enough blue. Sent from my SM-A716U using Tapatalk
Given its little bay window protruding from a flat side carbody, my guess is former CR (ex-PC, nee NYC) [not my photo]:
It lives there so I'll try to remember to take along something with a telephoto lens next time I'm out that way. Sent from my SM-A716U using Tapatalk
From April 1980 at the C&NW's Proviso Yard in Melrose Park west of Chicago, an F, Crandall Cab and Geep receive some care.
You said it. Mega miles in winter commuter service must have been murder on equipment [Barrington, IL 03/20/1979]
It's starting to grow on me; the looks of the new ALC-42 Chargers from Siemens. The Day One livery looks good, too!
It's the zebra stripes that do it for me. Safety stripes and zebra stripes are the coolest thing to come from locomotive paint scheme design. Even the 'ugly' ones like BN Tiger Stripe are cool in a retro kind of way. It gives the locomotive a bit of an 'industrial' look rather than the sweeping curves that some of the other schemes have, and not just the new Chargers, but even the Phase V P42s with the blue roofline.
OK, I can live with #50's scheme. Doesn't flow as much as I'd prefer, but at least it isn't as abrupt as its sisters.
They look way better than the pointy boxes that are the P42s. Nice and clean curvy lines. Not a bad paint job either.
It looks good per Google Maps. I too wonder about @BoxcabE50 's question on what this line carries today after its extensive rebuilding in the latter 1980s to handle stack trains and CR's breakup between NS and CSX. NS and CSX wanted to guard against an incursion into their market by a third railroad, so bought control of the NYS&W, even though they didn't need the capacity. I don't know when the Google image was recorded, but the ROW looks to be in very good shape.
Amazingly, the Beaver Lake depot as seen in the old photo still stood on that same April 1981 day when I took the above shot, albeit in decrepit condition. From what I read, it's since collapsed and is marked by a pile of timber. That's a pier from NJ-23 adjacent.
A very neat classic NYS&W crossbuck still stood at Charlotteburg, NJ in July 1980. This end of the railroad had been out of service for years as a result of a washout east of here.
