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Good job.  More pix please.

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A few cripples from Finger Lakes Railway...

...in my way, of course.

GVT Rail System gets in on the gravy....

The Falls Road boys managed to get out of bed this morning and run some Hominy out to Cayuga Feeds for me...2035 has come fresh from the shop and that pilot job, but she still needs her horns changed back to the A-200's and the stack extended to funnel the smoke a bit better.  FRR 1802 leads, as it should be. A fine tribute to ALCO in the corporate-based colors...

I'm sure they will smoke it up after they clear the interlocking and head for Yale Farm Road.

Looking Good

I would love to see more pictures.

LV210 & 211 Alcos

210 & 211 have the duty today, trailing some armor out to the Seneca Army Base and "ORDNANCE" interlocking.  Things must be heating up in the middle east....

Here is the train departing Buffalo.  Bison Intermodal Yard is on the right, with the Harlem Road bridge in the background.  The main continues underneath, with the L&LE Branch breaking left to go up and over Clinton & William Streets, and the Buffalo Creek. The train is waiting for it's security detail from the 42nd Military Police Co.

Lehigh Valley #60 and friends....

I got a great rate from the Dakota & Manitoba Railway on this move....new Deere for a farmer in Watkins Glen.  I had to pay the crew overtime but as you can see, why wouldn't anyone want this run?

Right up my alley!

I grew up in the Valley and was in my teens when those '38's were purchased.  I noticed 211 in a consist - what did you use to perform the conversion?  I've had little luck finding a Tiger Valley or other kit.  Here are a couple of my U-boats somewhere between Lehighton and Bear Mountain...

LV

Wow.  You've got it going on as well....nice job.  Seems as thought we have the same Uboats...I have four, but probably will never use them all.

I'm stuck on ALCOs...

Manchester

 I had a friend who worked for the Valley out of Manchester. Don't know if you knew him. His name was Carl Rogoza. His father was an engineer out of Manchester also. I model the Valley in the last years be

fore CONRAIL but, I like your CONRAIL never happened approach. 

 Art

LV 211

The base is a DCC-equipped RTR Athearn RS-3 #216.  I removed the short hood, added a piece to the bottom, and put it back in.  Now, for the rivet-counters, it's not perfect, but I don't care...the thing I really notice is that it raised the handbrake. The number "boards" I did myself and I added some other details on my own.

I have EMD SW's that hold the yard job in Buffalo, so I think these will be assigned to protect the Geneva work. 122-128 are regular goats, but I converted SW-1 #112 into a remote-controlled slug to go with either of the others.  Occasionally, ALCO S's will show up and want to play.

Nickel Plate run through...

The Nickel Plate teamed up with the Lehigh to get the freight to Chicago.  Here is the NKP 400 - a model done by a friend of mine in Elma, NY. One would have definitely seen GP30's roaring through Gilbert Cut in the 1960's. 

LV, D&H, and NKP would have made a cool system together.

Carl

I have heard the name.  I am scrambling to learn what I can because if you were a Lehigh man, the sun is setting fast.  I am surprised at how much information is rapidly disappearing.  Not just the technical stuff, but the STORIES.  More guys need to put down the stories before they are lost to time.

I go to Manchester regularly.  What a shame.  The kids that are switching there today have no clue where they are.

JB

Is that D&H an 11 or a

Is that D&H an 11 or a 32/36?  Looks nice as well.

I like your....

railroad. I live near Syracuse and we spend a lot of time in the Finger lakes area. The wines and cheeses made there are wonderful. I am currently building a small switching layout in N scale. I am running a Finger Lakes GP and a CSX GP. I like what you have done with the FGLK cars for the road.

I really need to update my layout photos to show people that I really have made some progress.

Jim

Booty Hill Road...

It's River Road in the Timetable, though...

This is Geneva Junction - Eastward - today.  Track to the right is the leader from Geneva Yard along NY 5&20.  Center is the Main, and the left is the passing siding, formerly Main One.  The interlocking used to take the Black Diamond at a restriction of 60 mph.  The story is that Matt Wronski had a westbound in his charge not long ago.  Approaching the interlocking with many cars in tow, he witnessed a dog in gauge.  An animal lover, Matt threw the train in the hole, causing a major derailment.  The junction is now restricted to 25 in both directions, and as you can see, they are still cleaning up the mess.....

In addition, the kids still have not managed to burn down the interlocking tower.  It controlled the line to Romulus and Ithaca, which used to break off to the left.

You will be happy to know that the dog survived and went on to have three litters of puppies....

Niagara Junction MP 438

Niagara Junction MP 438 was where the LV main track split off to head for Niagara Falls, ducking under the New York Central Chicago main (on left).  The main continued westward to Buffalo, ducking under the DL&W first, and then the Erie's line to Hornell before swinging through Cheektowaga and coming in alongside EL's Bison Yard. 

If you look closely, you can see Rail Super-Fan Mr. Devan Lawton standing very close to the MP 438 marker. As soon as the crew highballs, I think that "438" will make it into the back of the station wagon....he's just biding his time....

Eastward...

...a westward shot....October, 1975.  The sun is setting on the Lehigh, Niagara Junction, and Buffalo's Industrial prominence. By this time the line is out of service, with the Falls traffic now handled by the Penn Central (ugh). 

Westward...

Cool...

Yes you do.  I'd like to see your layout as well.

We get different kinds of "whines" on the railroad, as you can imagine.

Be good.

JB

A few more cars....

These carmen are really getting picky.....

C44-9W....

Sure....I just get it out of the paint shop, and they freeze it up overnight....Someone's gonna get time off for this...

And these were done WAY BEFORE it was "heritage"....

642 & 643 at Buffalo...

...gettting ready to hand it off to the Nickel Plate.  The guys will be home just in time for the Bills game....

The Alco hood peeking out...

That's a trainman RS36 that I painted in the "dip" theme.  I'm a big D&H fan and have a horde of C420's in both the Valley and D&H colors.  I just picked up an Atlas blue "dip" last week at the Allentown show on the cheap.  I also have a GP39 ready for weathering and I've decided to sell my Athearn 38's and paint a couple of Atlas units - I have one body ready for paint right now.

As far as knowledge departing, we still have Mike Bednar with us and JPM has a whole series of "Railfanning" DVDs, of which I'm slowly accumulating.  Mike's a character and worked the southern tier, and he's a typical "dutchman" from the valley.  There is also a young person that frequents the Diesel Detailer named Rudy Garbely  who has become quite a LV historian, with one book published and another on the way.  He just recently took employment at the Pennsylvania Railroad Museum in Strasburg.  You can checkout his publications at rudystrains.com.  So we are gaining some younger folks to keep the tradition.

Keep the pictures coming.  I will try to get some new photos of a coal drag I'm working on tonight or tomorrow...

-bill

Niagara Jct to Geneva

You do any modeling of anything between Niagara Jct and Geneva, like Rochester Jct. ?

The black and white is a photo taken by Ed VanLeer. Year unknown.

Bernd

My aching heart...

Really, I had a double-deck with a helix that included Batavia, P&L Junction, & Manchester.  I'm thinking that I need to start modules so I can do it all....Rochester Jct was a great place....beautiful shots....

Since my layout timeframe includes the 90's, I had Manchester (since the yard was tore out in the 70's) as the site of a new Niagara Mohawk plant, so I could take coal off the B&O at P&L Jct and switch it all on the same level, but it was too much.  If I ever get a warehouse or other location big enough, I'd love to do it complete from the Falls and Tifft, right to Sayre.  Pennsy, NYC, D&H, CN/CP, Buffalo Creek, Chessie, EL....all into one bundle.

JB

Looky...

How great their track was...generally without machinery back then....