HiDef: Norfolk Southern F-Unit OCS on the NS Buffalo Line

May 31, 2010: NS F9A 4270 leads NS F7B 4275, NS F7B 4276, and NS F9A 4271 up the Buffalo Line northbound from the Harrisburg region to Sunbury where it was diverted to the Canadian Pacific Sunbury Line.

The opening scene is NS 974 sitting on the Rockville Bridge. After a crew change, we then catch it heading north just above North Ferry, at around Milepost BR 282. We then catch it again just north of North Boyles at Milepost BR 265, which is just outside of Selinsgrove. The chase was made easy because H2W was put ahead of the OCS, and he was way underpowered, a long and heavy train with only two rare exConrail SD38's, which were barely pulling 25 MPH at Notch 8! We were more interested in chasing that extreme Notch-8 show than the OCS, that video of H2W is to come soon.

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[SuperbirdVH]

Nice, I caught these later on after they had departed Buffalo. Too bad that guy pulled out in front of your camera at the first crossing..

[o00o00ozy]

@SuperbirdVH

Yeah I know, people have no respect. Right in front of a photo line! That's just rude.

[AliceInChains243]

Haha so...you gave up chasing the OCS for H2W? Are you out of your mind??? Hahaha nah just kidding, notched geeps are getting harder and harder to come by these days (but there is NO shortage of that in New England, hint hint).

Awesome job, it's been 2 years now since I've last seen and shot the F's.

[o00o00ozy]

@AliceInChains243

SD38's actually, and the leader in CR blue, which I just couldn't pass up. I can see the OCS over and over again, but seeing full-throttle SD38's on NS just may be something I will never see again. And yeah, we got to lot of railfanning to do up there.

[AliceInChains243]

@o00o00ozy If it's SD38's then hey, that changes things.

Where in VT are you going to be anyway? NECR? VRE? Ect ect?

[o00o00ozy]

@AliceInChains243

My dorm will be about 300 feet away from the NECR mainline. I would love to go over to VTR in beautiful locations around Rutland. I won't have a ride, so whenever works, hopefully you can come up and bail me out. I won't be far from I-89. I would love to hit up Rutland, White River Jct., or Palmer, etc. every once in awhile. CP might not be worth the trip, everything seems nocturnal. You can only count on Amtrak, which is also mostly what I'll probably be seeing on the NECR.

[billconner718]

I want this video on my KP202 unit.

[darinsargent25]

This vid went viral on Manama

[codybrock2345]

nice k5la its hualin away!!!!!!!! yeah Northfolk southern rocks!!!!

[theyourmumifyer]

Those locos are a remake of these

/watch?v=Fo52ZfDh510&feature=r­elated

Good old Aussie GM Power!

[csu1226]

Does anybody know the NS Buffalo line frequency?

[justkiddin08]

Nice catch! Great looking train.

[BaltimoreAndOhioRR]

Thats a great looking train. I bet that white on the front gets dirty quickly!

[tedibear17]

@writesong Yes, they are used for the executives. We built these units a few years ago at Juniata. We put alot of time into them.

[highlife0586]

Heck, I did not know NS had F units

[K4JW]

a GP38 runs by my huose everyday about 5to 6 times a day it hauls chemical cars back and forth between two plants in this area it even has a chessie caboose hooked to it all the time too so the switching crew has a place to chill it runs on the csx main line of course the loco is a csx other than that mostly newer style locos go buy all though there is acouple SD 50s too with old style cabs