I am captioning my photos, and from time to time I will use this thread to ask you good folks to help me out, if you are so inclined.
Here’s my first ask:
This photo was taken in Binghamton NY in the Fall of '92. I would call it a CP train. But I know it could be run-thru power, and therefore not really be a CP train. If anyone can help, please weigh in.
I know where this is, but interested to see if Balt will identify the location in approximately .05 seconds! And wondering if it is true that the large office building is, as I was told, former C&O offices.
B&O at Grafton, WV I presume.
Yes, Grafton. So B&O. Thanks.
Did you not think that CP might not be operating its own locomotives on its own property a year after buying the D&H?
(How this got nearly 5 hours without someone who actually knows the area and the railroad, like Harrison, to comment, I don’t know. I trust they can give you all the data for a proper caption now that they are alerted.)
If the CP had bought the D&H by then, I’ll just call it a CP train. Thanks.
This MNCR photo was taken on the Hudson River line. Does anyone know which station this is? There is a very out-of-focus sign in the background; unreadable, but it looks like a single word.
I think I found it! Looks very much like the Peekskill Station based on Google Satellite View, and the building in the background looks very much like the Franciscan Sisters- Peekskill building.
Thank you Brian!!! [Y]
I thought the building in the back might help.
You’re welcome- one of the things I love to do is to track down mysterious locations using Google Satellite View.
Funny how this Trains Hot Spot popped up in my Facebook feed today-
It is a great area for train-watching. Lots of trains on each side of the river.
I take it all of the MNCR FL9s have been retired. Too bad.
Re this photo, can we say for sure that this is a camp car? I shot this in 1989.
Without seeing the entire car, I can’t exclude a material handling car or similar. The camp cars I slept in had windows, home type doors, and a short chimney for the stove.
Well, you can see a little bit of a window at upper right.
BTW, why does it have the X in its number?
I believe that’s an indication that the car is not in revenue service.
I couldn’t find any images of that car, but other MOW equipment on BAR also has an X…
The key is in the Mechanical Designation stencilled underneath the number: an “MWX” was a car used for human occupants (bunk, dining, kitchen, etc.). A tool car would have been “MWT”, and a stores car “MWM”.
My first though was that was the BAR car!! [B]
All very nice pictures, L.O.
Thanks, Carl! [Y]