Sunday, April 1, 2018

Newburgh Yard, Circa 1971

By the year 1971, action at the Erie Lackawanna yard in Newburgh was drawing to a close. The Newburgh Branch would only operate for another eight years before abandonment, and the yard is indeed showing signs of disuse. Dennis Carpenter captured this scene of Erie Lackawanna GP-9 heading southbound through a maze of twisted rails and growing weeds.

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