After attending the ELHS Spring Meet in NJ on Sunday (which, like Saturday, was a beautiful day), I spent Monday - a chilly and wet day, in keeping with Ron's Corollary to Murphy's Law - perusing the old Erie main between Port Jervis NY and Binghamton NY. Following are several photos, many sans-trains, of a line that barely qualifies as a shadow of its former self. Feel free to scroll ahead to the next post...
Port Jervis station, renovated a few years ago:
One of the highlights of the day - spotted this eagle across the river from Port:
An ALCo painted for the New York and Greenwood Lake Ry:
An active customer in Narrowsburg, NY:
The Erie lives on - at least on the bridge...:
Crossing the Delaware at Hancock NY:
Reached Malfunction Junction in the early afternoon, and right away was able to chase a freight north on the D&H - I stayed with it almost to Sanitaria Springs:
Some colorful graffiti:
And bringing up the rear:
I then drove out to Vestal to see if the station was still standing; I had not known it had been restored and turned into a museum:
Back in Bingo, I witnessed a 3-way meet between an eastbound coal train, a westbound stack train, and another eastbound merchandise train with CP power. By this time the rain was pretty heavy and then turned to sleet.
And some more local color. After this sequence it was time to head back home.
