"First Revenue Run North In 12 Years" NYS&W Utica Branch

[ut-1]

The NYS&W ran a revenue freight up its Binghamton-Utica branch today for the first time since 2006 when flooding severely damaged the line south of Sherburne.

This short video features the revenue freight at two locations in N Norwich and in Earlville:

https://youtu.be/TttWbjTycsc

[charlie6017]

Awesome news! Glad to see the rust knocked off the rails after so long. Thanks
for sharing the video with us!

Charlie

[Noel Weaver]

Good stuff, interesting, thanks for sharing.
Noel Weaver

[J.D. Lang]

Great to see. Thanks for posting. Hopefully they will start moving traffic from Binghamton to Utica over the branch. I would think that it would a better way to handle that traffic instead of relying on CSX between Syracuse and Utica. As an aside it looks like the tracks go through quite a bit of wetlands. Hope that there aren't any more washouts in the near future.

J. Lang

[BandA]

Was the track repaired, or is this a run short of the washout?

[lvrr325]

Must be a dozen posts covering the repairs to the line, multiple washouts, brush trimmed back, crossings redone, surfacing. 2 or 3 light engine moves prior to this. It's still slow, they go down one day, come back the next.

Edit: nearly 80 pages of Utica Branch discussion here on this board:

viewtopic.php?f=57&t=36243