BUFFALO & PITTSBURGH
The Buffalo & Pittsburgh RR was created in 1988 by Genesee & Wyoming to take over about 370 miles of CSX trackage from Buffalo, NY south to Eidenau, PA and trackage rights on CSX continuing on into New Castle where interchange was made. The line had it's origins as the Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh RR, a profitable coal hauler that was acquired by the B&O in 1932. G&W had previously taken control of the Rochester line under the banner of their Rochester & Southern RR. In 1992 the G&W bought the Allegheny RR and in 1996 the Pittsburg & Shawmut, and the operations of both were melded into the B&P.
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GP9 #887 is at CP's SK Yard in Buffalo, NY on March 20, 1999. B&P purchased 7 ex N&W GP9's and GP18's all retaining their old numbers and most remaining in N&W black colors for many years, except the #887. |
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For the lines startup, National Railway Equipment refurbed and painted 9 ex Chessie System GP9's for the B&P. Here is #200 at the Buffalo Creek Yard, only a few months old and paint still fresh on November 26, 1988. |
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GP9's #206 and 204 are switching the Buffalo Creek Yard on September 17, 1994. The view is from the old Tifft Street bridge in Buffalo, NY. |
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GP9's #204 and 201 have a transfer run headed east to Conrail's Frontier Yard on June 5, 1994. The units are on Conrail's Chicago main and have passed the Central Terminal in the background. |
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GP38's #2002 & 2003 are at the Buffalo Creek Yard on June 25, 1995. Coupled behind are an ex Kyle RR GP40 and an Allegheny RR GP40. |
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GP40 #3001 is pulling it's cut of cars out of CP's SK Yard in Buffalo, NY on July 23, 1994. To the right is a Susquehanna B40-8 off of an intermodal train from Binghamton, NY. |
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GP40 #3000, Allegheny GP35 #305 and GP40's #6673, 3119 & 3102 lead train BNZ south at McKinley Road in Lackawanna, NY on November 12, 1994. |
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A pair of GP40's, #3119 and 3106 have brought transfer run 'Run 1' into CP's SK Yard in Buffalo, NY on February 15, 1998. The B&P bought six of these units from the Kyle Railway in Kansas. |
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SD45E #456 is stopped in front of a B&O color position signal at Foster Brook, PA on August 28, 1999. This is northbound train BTBF. |
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SD45E #454 has train BNZ southbound at Foster Brook, PA on April 27, 1996. The train is passing the Kendall Refining Company plant, one of several in this oil producing area around Bradford, PA. |
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A trio of SD45E's, #454, 451 and 452 power BNZ at Brockway, PA on June 15, 1996. To the left is one of the classic BR&P concrete phone booths. The track to the left is the connection to the ex Pittsburg & Shawmut line, now also a part of the B&P. |
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Another trio of SD45E's led by #453 are laying over with train BFBT waiting on a new crew in front of the old station at East Salamanca, NY on October 17, 1998. The BR&P had a locomotive shop to the right of where this train is parked. |
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SW1500 #1508 is preparing to go to work at Johnsonburg, PA on August 19, 2000. The B&P stations a unit here to work the yard and paper mill in town. |
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SW1500's #1511 & 1513 work the interchange yard at Tifft St. in Buffalo, NY on October 23, 2004. The B&P's latest acquisition is the South Buffalo RR on whose track this train is working. |