NYSW Chase 6/12/04

Well those of you here from the Yahoo! NYSW group i posted this there. But incase people here arent on that group im also posting my chase report here:

Well seeing as how beautiful today is me and my dad were going out to chase. Thanks to Louis for posting the Form D on the other Yahoo! NYSW group. The chase went well except we then lost it. We were thinking that it was switching at SJ? Does anyone know if it was?

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Here in butler we caught it. To bad we didnt get it on the main street in Butler as at the time we were getting a drink and had to run out (we payed for our stuff) and we were able to hear and see those locomotives really pulling.

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After seeing it in Butler we decided to pull off of 23 and go into Oak Ridge. I spotted a parking lot by the tracks where the grade would be higher then us. It produced a nice shot when the train blasted through.

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We then beat the train to Victoria's in where i was able to get this shot. By this time the train had slowed down again.

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For the final spot we were over the tracks on a bridge and i got a pretty nice shot although i would have liked to have taken the shot a split second sooner to have a bit better framing.

It was a very good chase although it had to end a bit early for my liking. But at least the weather was amazing. I hope you like the photos.

Great Shots, Jeff... I was committed to a wedding, so i couldn't go out, even though I live within spitting distance of Little Ferry!

BTW, nice River Line stuff, too!

Yeah i turned out to have a good railfan weekend even though on Thursday i thought i would see nothing! And man to see the Riverline that busy on Sunday was great. I might ask my dad to bring me back down next sunday :D

I heard SU-99 getting their Form D in Warwick... but I was already at Bear Mountain and Iona Island... I figured by the time I made my way over there, it would have been too late. We did see nineteen trains on the River Line though... but dammit, I would have liked to have seen SU-99. Nice shots!

-otto-

19 trains on the Riverline? How long were you there? I was able to catch some good action on the Riverline sunday morning. 6 trains from 8:30 till 11:15. It seems to be the Riverline is becoming a lot more busy. Im hopin for maybe another daylight SU99 next saturday. It would make it 3 saturdays in a row at that point! It seems to be business is good.

Nice shots :D

Speaking of the NYS&W, the Station agent is now available at Blockbuster starting today.

Ken