Conrail Southern Tier Volume 1

This is a preview of the Conrail Southern Tier Volume 1. The full DVD is available from our website: www.johnpmedia...
DVD summary below:
The Conrail Southern Tier Line consists of the former Erie Railroad trackage between Suffern and Buffalo, NY.
The trackage was inherited by Conrail on April 1st, 1976 when Conrail took over the bankrupt Anthracite railroads in the northeast.
Under Conrail, the Delaware & Hudson was granted trackage rights on the Southern Tier Line to access the Buffalo area.
In volume 1, we’ll look at Conrail and D&H operations on the Southern Tier Line between Deposit NY and Gang Mills yard in Erwin, NY from April of 1979 to November of 1985 through the films of Dave Deyo.
Narrated with commentary by Mike Bednar
Color; approximately 62 minutes runtime.

[@JamesParker-jb8rp]

Love this! Railfan born and raised in Elmira NY. These were our trains!

[@Retired88M]

Mike Bednar is the best narrator

[@jasonervoes1326]

Nice video. Great catch. I like freight trains especially cabooses. You only see cabooses nowadays just at the state borders for long hauls. Other places. They use cabooses once in a blue moon. Not too often. The deliveries they make are local runs. That's probably why

[@joshuaclark3630]

Great quality recordings

[@stephenheath8465]

Early Conrail Double Stack Trains on the former Erie Mainline👍

[@elsdp-4560]

Thank you for sharing👍

[@michaelmckibben3392]

I enjoyed the video what I liked was seeing the engines that had the old NW symbol

[@ronniecromer1230]

Awesome video 😊

[@jamesmonahanmusic]

FRIENDLY CROSSINGS. 😊

[@Boxpok]

0:35 Alburtis, still a busy mainline for NS.

[@robkrasinski6217]

Where is most freight traffic routed today below Binghamton? Is it toward Sunbury and Enola rather than Allentown, PA or Suffern, NY and NJ? NS stopped the Allentown to Binghamton freight which used 45 miles of Reading and Northern and only has the local to Hazleton. I don't think the ex-Erie from Binghamton to Port Jervis is used much and the ex-LV south of Sayre, PA isn't really a through route anymore, RBMN owns the track south of Mehoopany and NS leases the Athens-Mehoopany segment to Lehigh Railway. In the Conrail era there was an Allentown, PA to Corning, NY freight which used the ex-LV from Pittston to Sayre, and into Waverly, NY where it then went on the ex-Erie Southern Tier.

[@jeffreysheridan5205]

The southern tier was an albatross for Conrail.

[@stephenheath8465]

It serve as the backup line for the old Water Level Route pretty much between NYC and Buffalo

[@LindaSwartz-mf1bu]

Ilovetrains❤

[@tigerphid9677]

It's nice to see the cars before they were defaced with that terrible graffiti.

[@jamielacourse7578]

Not exactly a smooth ride in some spots........