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RS3s on the 1st Belt - summer of 1970 - 1 of 3 |
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Date approximate. First Belt is pulling across Ridge Road in this summer shot. The B&O is over on the right. Notice the autos patiently waiting at the B&O lights (no crossing arms until the massive Ridge Rd. rebuilding years later...). The RS3s are relatively new on 1st Belt assignments (for some of us anyway) and have started to push out the older RS1s in local service. Later, they too would be supplanted, then by first generation EMDs. |
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7/1/1970 Upload Date: 2/10/2018 3:23:00 PM |
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Rochester, NY |
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Christopher Smith |
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NYC 5325(RS3) |
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544 Comments: 0 |
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RS3s on the 1st Belt - summer of 1970 - 2 of 3 |
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Date approximate. The brakie is getting ready to drop off at the switch, not at the one in the foreground however, but at the one for the Kodak lead, still a few car lengths beyond the front of the train. NYC (PC) 9901 made it into PC paint, but didn't make it into the next decade. The stub track is a leftover from when the two sidings (now both south of the Ridge) once extended across the Ridge. Those two sidings, plus a team track (on the other side of the train) and a lumber yard spur (this side) account for why the Kodak lead switch is so far down. All is gone today except for the main and the Kodak lead. |
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7/1/1970 Upload Date: 2/10/2018 3:23:26 PM |
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Rochester, NY |
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Christopher Smith |
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Locomotives: |
PC 9901(RS1) |
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424 Comments: 0 |
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RS3s on the 1st Belt - summer of 1970 - 3 of 3 |
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Date approximate. The switch has been flipped and now we're backing into Kodak. Note the advertising on the billboards: Lark's Gas-Trap Filter is being promoted as an Anti-Pollution Device, while Ford is pushing Pintos. Either one could've killed ya in the 70's !!! |
Photo Date: |
7/1/1970 Upload Date: 2/10/2018 3:23:47 PM |
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Rochester, NY |
Author: |
Christopher Smith |
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NYC 5311(RS3) PC 9901(RS1) |
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711 Comments: 0 |
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