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May 23, 2009 | 3010 leads a northbound over the newly repaved Clinton Street crossing. | Joshua K. Blay |
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October 28, 2007 | First the good news. The on/off service at the Homer Oil is back on. Three hoppers await pickup. | Joshua K. Blay |
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October 28, 2007 | Now the bad news. Tank car GATX 20455 is reported as the last car to be delivered to Henkel. With customers dating back to the original Brockway company, rail service to this location is at an end. They are believed to be the longest customer on the line. | Joshua K. Blay |
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July 3, 2007 | 3010 leads 3636 north at Clinton Street. | Joshua K. Blay |
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April 7, 2007 | 3636 leads 3018 and 3618 south. On the left is now closed Homer Oil, once Sheffield Milk. Originally there were two double ended sidings that served the plant. After the last rail shipment the 1960s, the tracks were removed. A stub end siding was reinstalled in the 1980s for soybean delivery. | Joshua K. Blay |
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July 3, 2006 | A very early morning view of the passenger station while waiting for a train. | Joshua K. Blay |
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July 3, 2006 | Southbound SY-X, a detoured D&H 252, shatters the quiet of a very early summer morning. Disastrous floods have damaged railroads in the area, and the NYS&W is hosting the D&H for awhile. | Joshua K. Blay |
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July 23, 2005 | CL-1 with another CSX train. | Joshua K. Blay |
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July 23, 2005 | An HLCX unit in the new Helm paint scheme is the second engine. | Joshua K. Blay |
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May 29, 2005 | This year's detour trains started early. CEFX 3125 is south through Homer at twilight with Q156. | Joshua K. Blay |
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May 29, 2005
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Q156 passing by Homer's former Lackawanna passenger station. The original wood station, built for the Syracuse & Binghamton Railroad, still exists in the village as a private residence. | Joshua K. Blay |
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August 4, 2004 | BH-2 with what was thought to be the last detour of Q156 of the year. There were to be other detours later in the year due to derailments on CSX . | Joshua K. Blay |
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August 4, 2004 | An empty car behind the trailing unit allows for a mostly unobstructed view of the CSXT 5101, also in the dark blue scheme. | Joshua K. Blay |
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July 11, 2004 | Almost every summer since the CR split, the NYS&W has hosted CSX trains detouring around track work projects on the former NYC east of Syracuse. Lead by an AC4400CW in the new dark blue scheme, Q156 crosses James Street. | Tim Wakeman |
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June 27, 2004 | Southbound BH-2 divides Cayuga Street and the village in half. | Joshua K. Blay |
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May 13, 2004 |
SY-1 with a high/wide stopped to check clearance a bridge north of Hooker Ave. | Joshua K. Blay |
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May 13, 2004 |
Headed south at Hooker Ave. | Joshua K. Blay |
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May 5, 2004 | 116 running around its train after switching Henkle. | Joshua K. Blay |
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March 28, 2004 | The "Maple Leaf Express" passes through, bound for Cortland and Marathon. 3040 was on the other end. | Joshua K. Blay |
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March 7, 2004 | 3014 and 3040 head south past the former DL&W passenger station, now the village police headquarters. | Joshua K. Blay |
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September 15, 2003
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BH-1 passing the gravel pits north of the village. | Joshua K. Blay |
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October 24, 2002 | SY-1 with 3634, 3002, and 4008 pass through Homer shortly after noon. 3002, an old C-430 number, is an ex SP/UP "tunnel motor." | Joshua K. Blay |
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October 24, 2002 | The "new" 3002 was renumbered 3010 soon after. Four ex SP's were purchased to replace/augment the B40-8s and SD45s. | Joshua K. Blay |
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August 19, 2001 |
A rare sighting, P&W 3001 is on the rear of 4 SD45s switching in Homer. |
Joshua K. Blay |
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December 30, 2000 |
CSXT 7543 leads Q271 north through the village. The bridge trains ended in early 2001. |
Joshua K. Blay |
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January 3, 2000 |
With stack trains gone, the NYS&W hosted CSX bridge trains following the CR split. A CSX GP40-2 and SD40-2 lead BH-X past the former DL&W station. |
Joshua K. Blay |
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January 1999 |
St.L&H 5447 leads an SD45 on a NB stack train, crossing James St. |
Joshua K. Blay |
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April 1994 |
120, a former B&O SW-9, in the Homer Oil siding, formerly the Sheffield Milk Plant. |
Joshua K. Blay |
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August 1984? |
C-430 3008 and I by the station. There were many early trips, how many boarded passengers in Homer I am not sure of. |
Stephen Blay |
