I am curious if we have any other Susie-Q fans/modelers here. I am building a small layout with the flavor of the Utica branch just prior to the mandate for ditch lights. For motive power I have an Alco C430 and a GE Dash8-40B(they had to go to Utica for servicing). In time I plan to add a couple GP18's as well. On another group, a gentleman posted a picture of a stack train detouring up the branch due to a derailment or washout(cant remember what it was). So I have provance to run an early style Sea-Land stacker(If Intermountain reruns them again, I did preorder a 5 car set). I have never railfanned the NYSW in person, just watched online videos and such, and something about those yellowjacket engines and the beautiful scenery calls my name. Mike the Aspie.
Silly NT's, I have Asperger's Syndrome
Not an NYSW fan but I have casually railfanned NYSW back when I lived in central NY. I bought a couple 5-car sets back when I was modeling late 1980's D&RGW since they the red NYSW Sea Land Twin Stacks started crossing the rockies late 1988.
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I don't model the NYS&W, but couldn't help being a railfan way back in the '60s. The Susquehanna and the Erie both passed through my town, Hawthorne, NJ, when I was a kid. I remember the dirty ALCO RS1s running with their hood doors open to keep them cooled down and pulling short passenger runs and freights. I even remember when the GP18s were first delivered and they were really an impressive sight compared to the old motive power they were running.
Russ
Modeling the early '50s Erie in Paterson, NJ. Here's the link to my railroad postcard collection: https://railroadpostcards.blogspot.com/
No, but I model the NYO&W. So the scenary is the same and I believe we interchanged somewhere (but not the portion of the NYOW I model). But I do love the NYSW livery! Owen W
I railfanned that line around Binghamton. Did het the sd45 but nothing moving. On a trip north from there to seracuse ny I saw one of the gp18'sfrom 81(i thinknit was 81 i was on). Long distance shot down into the valley that turned out nice. Only years later to see it in my. back yard on the East Penn RR. Long since. been painted. Didn't Atlas do a road number or two for the suzy Q on the rs1's?
A pessimist sees a dark tunnel
An optimist sees the light at the end of the tunnel
A realist sees a frieght train
An engineer sees three idiots standing on the tracks stairing blankly in space
Back in 1985 when the Susquehanna bought and re-opened the old L&HR main from Warwick to Sparta, we brought the first engine and revenue cars to "open the line" from Campbell Hall (I was engineer on the Campbell Hall local then). The engine was an old Alco S-1 or S-2 (can't remember) that had been restored and repainted to look as new. I still remember wooden trim on the control stand, polished brass air gauges, and the like. I think it might be the one that's now on display outside one of their stations (Maywood?).
With a GP38 for power, the S-1 and about 20 cars, we just barely made it over the top of Sugarloaf hill (the steepest grade on the L&HR).
When we pulled up in front of the L&HR general office building in Warwick, there was a crowd with the press there to record the event. My brakeman got on the front of the engine and got his picture into the papers for posterity!
Awsome posts folks. loved reading them. In HO scale, for the non brass folks, Atlas has done the RS1 in the silver/maroon paint scheme, Lifelike proto2k did the GP18's in the yellowjacket scheme. And I think Walthers did thier Trainline 8-40Bs in yellowjacket colors. Kato may have done a SD70m as well, but it could have been a custom job I saw. Overland offered factory painted 8-40b's, Alco C430s, F45 and SD70m's. I hope to get 2 more GE's to give me a 3 unit team for stack train duty. I have the 4008, hunting for 4006 and 4002. Of coarse, old 4006 was nicknamed "bash 8" from all the mishaps it had thru its years on the NYSW. Each time, GE put humpty dumpty back together again.
The late 80's is my fav time in railroading, its when I first started railfanning, first with a friend's dad, then I got my drivers license. Ditch lights only were on Canadian units, many engines had beacons or my favorite the Prime sequential flasher beacon as used on BN, NYSW, ATSF ect. Locomotive consists had more variety on the class one lines. Today its mostly all wide bodies. Gone are the standard cabs and most 2 stroke EMD's. I guess what they say about modeling what you saw growing up is true. Mike the Aspie
emdmike Awsome posts folks. loved reading them. In HO scale, for the non brass folks, Atlas has done the RS1 in the silver/maroon paint scheme, Lifelike proto2k did the GP18's in the yellowjacket scheme. And I think Walthers did thier Trainline 8-40Bs in yellowjacket colors. Kato may have done a SD70m as well, but it could have been a custom job I saw. Overland offered factory painted 8-40b's, Alco C430s, F45 and SD70m's. I hope to get 2 more GE's to give me a 3 unit team for stack train duty. I have the 4008, hunting for 4006 and 4002. Of coarse, old 4006 was nicknamed "bash 8" from all the mishaps it had thru its years on the NYSW. Each time, GE put humpty dumpty back together again. The late 80's is my fav time in railroading, its when I first started railfanning, first with a friend's dad, then I got my drivers license. Ditch lights only were on Canadian units, many engines had beacons or my favorite the Prime sequential flasher beacon as used on BN, NYSW, ATSF ect. Locomotive consists had more variety on the class one lines. Today its mostly all wide bodies. Gone are the standard cabs and most 2 stroke EMD's. I guess what they say about modeling what you saw growing up is true. Mike the Aspie
Also in HO...
Atlas Alco C420 in two different schemes,
Athearn EMD SD40t-2
Bowser Alco C430.