August 15,1984. Suffern, NY. This is a shot taken with a 110 pocket camera or what was it called, the instamatic? Anyway, this was on the 2nd roll of film shot that day as this 14 year old looked around for something to photograph after shooting the NJ Transit ex- CNW f7 #420 on a commuter train in the morning. I got a surprise as seeing any TOFC on the former EL seemed rare. Don't know what the train was or why it is on the former EL. The doulble stack clearance project on the River Line as far as I know hasn't started yet. A year later saw the track here cut back to only two main lines east of suffern. This train only eight years earlier could have been EL's NY-100 but with some SD's of course. Erie steam engines probably pounded this jointed rail! A large photo so you can see the Santa Fe and Milwaukee trailers behind the Conrail trailvan. [ September 15, 2005, 12:57 AM: Message edited by: Don Rickle ]
I was always intrigued by early intermodals... Hot Shot piggybacks on the Seaboard.. I burned many a roll of film trying to capture them. Harold
