January 7th, 2006
Laura and I drove down to St. Catherines to meet up with Brian and explore the CSX and NS mains South/West of Buffalo. We caught 23 trains of various descriptions and went home happy as clams with 511 pictures and 21 videos.
Lackawanna, New York
(map) Lackawanna is immediately south of Buffalo and hosts Buffalo and Pittsburgh, Buffalo Southern, NS, and CSX tracks.
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CSX sends us another intermodal train as the light begins to fail.
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A still-primered C40-9W unit leads an NS eastbound a little ways off in the distance.
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The BPRR switches around Lackawanna.
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A CSX unit coal train heads into Buffalo.
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A CSX primered GEVO leads an eastbound toward Buffalo.
December 31st, 2006
With 2006's dying hours at hand, we returned home from Altoona stopping to see what we could find on the way, culminating in a stop just outside of CSX's southernmost Buffalo yard at Lake Avenue, where a CSX security officer gave us a CSX 2007 calendar and wished us a happy new year. Happy new year indeed!
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CSXT #Q380 pulls into Buffalo.
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CSXT #Q108 arrives with CSXT 4835 trailing.
