On a foggy September morning in 2011, a Bow NH bound coal train is tied down on the east side of Owego NY on NS Southern Tier on the controlled siding at the CP-233 interlocking. A year earlier, this track would still have been double track ABS (although very under utilized). The Erie RR era code line poles have been cut down in a beautification effort. None of the locomotives have roof top PTC radio antennas and the NS8700, a C40-8 standard cab, would be retired in 2017. And the train loads of SW Pa bituminous (using a Helm Financial Corp hopper still painted in Frisco livery) bound for the Merrimack power station would stop operating on NS in the summer of 2016.

Photographed by John Barlow, September 18, 2011.
Added to the photo archive by John Barlow, December 28, 2020.
Railroad: Norfolk Southern.

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