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Pictures of PLMX 3052
 
Owner: CIT Group/Capital Finance, Inc
Model:EMD SD40Built As:UP 3052 (SD40)
Serial Number:32404Order No:7932
Frame Number:7932-5Built:10/1966
Other locos with this serial:  PLMX 3052(SD40) UP 3052(SD40) HLCX 6321(SD40-2) MPI 9049(SD40M-2) MKCX 9049(SD40M-2) HLCX 1509(SD40M-2)
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Stretched out
Title:  Stretched out
Description:  A trio of PLM units with a CP unit tagging along have 105 cars of empty coal train NU 1 stretched out along the George F Highway as the train approaches the curve at MP 220.
Photo Date:  2/2/1991  Upload Date: 4/14/2015 3:55:49 AM
Location:  Endwell, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  PLMX 3104(SD40) PLMX 3052(SD40) PLMX 3004(SD40) CP 5679(SD40-2)
Views:  1714   Comments: 0
Valley view
Title:  Valley view
Description:  A view from NY 17C, high above the tracks at this point near MP 252 shows train 309 rolling through the Susquehanna valley in a snowy scene typical of mid March.
Photo Date:  3/15/1991  Upload Date: 4/11/2015 2:05:41 AM
Location:  Waverly, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Winter,Action
Locomotives:  PLMX 3021(SD40) PLMX 3052(SD40)
Views:  1004   Comments: 0
Farm view
Title:  Farm view
Description:  Train 309 rolls past the stubble corn of a farm near Waverly. The barn and silo still have a few more years left before they succumb to the elements and crash into a heap.
Photo Date:  3/15/1991  Upload Date: 4/11/2015 2:07:45 AM
Location:  Waverly, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Winter,Action
Locomotives:  PLMX 3021(SD40) PLMX 3052(SD40)
Views:  1052   Comments: 0
Classic scene
Title:  Classic scene
Description:  This shot shows some of the remnants of the south end of Bevier St, on the east side of Binghamton. The signal protects what was at one time the crossing at BX, where train 390 is rolling north in this view taken from alongside the Agway plant, seen at right. Agway was an active Conrail customer at the time of the photo(and sometimes got grain in Erie boxcars). Were standing on the main track of the DLW Syracuse and Utica line, which crossed the D&H where the train is moving. Behind me out of sight is the yard that serviced that line, YO yard. It was abandoned long before this photo was taken. The train is on the D&H, which bears to the east into Bevier St yard before going up to Belden tunnel and the capital district. Bevier St was adjacent to the DLW YO yard. The crossing at BX was removed in the early 80s and changed to a set of crossovers, with the tracks now forming a wye that allowed trains to go either to the ex DLW East Binghamton yard, or to the Buffalo Runner, the line this train is on. The NYSW, which had acquired the DLW trackage north of Binghamton, connected to the Buffalo Runner through a switch, under 390's third unit, to access its yard at the east end of Eries QD yard, near Liberty St. In 1990, the overpasses on Bevier St were modified, with both the NYSW and CP going onto one bridge that was high enough to clear a standard 13'6" truck, eliminating the two D&H spans and the DLW bridge to the west of those. The NYSW now uses the D&H alignment to reach its ex DLW line via a connection north of Bevier St, with the DLW line through YO yard abandoned. The signals remgined up-there's one on the D&H side as well-into the mid 1990's, though they had been inactive for many years by that time.
Photo Date:  4/8/1991  Upload Date: 3/13/2015 3:24:37 AM
Location:  Binghamton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  PLMX 3052(SD40) SOO 6614(SD40-2) SOO 788(SD40-2) SOO 6615(SD40-2)
Views:  1757   Comments: 2
Turning the power
Title:  Turning the power
Description:  The power off a 390 grain train rolls through BD. It will reverse here, go through BD up to Bevier St, then back down onto its train, which is sitting at QD downtown. I guess the crew didnt want to ride in the SOO leader. Trailing unit 6615 would later get painted in candy apple red.
Photo Date:  4/8/1991  Upload Date: 3/12/2015 3:17:36 PM
Location:  Binghamton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Signal,Action
Locomotives:  SOO 6615(SD40-2) SOO 788(SD40-2) SOO 6614(SD40-2) PLMX 3052(SD40)
Views:  1316   Comments: 1
Nowlan Rd
Title:  Nowlan Rd
Description:  Train 556 approaches the north end of Nowlan Rd in Sanitaria Springs as it makes its way down hill from the tunnel behind a set of lease power.
Photo Date:  4/13/1991  Upload Date: 3/19/2015 3:58:16 AM
Location:  Sanitaria Springs, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  GATX 2001(SD40-2) PLMX 3019(SD40) PLMX 3052(SD40)
Views:  1553   Comments: 1
Big train
Title:  Big train
Description:  This HAN1X seen at Roods Creek was the heaviest stack train the NYSW had handled at that point, with 150 platofrms of stacks, and 2 freight, coming in somewhere over 8000 tons.
Photo Date:  4/27/1991  Upload Date: 4/9/2015 1:26:36 AM
Location:  Hale Eddy, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  CP 5684(SD40-2) GATX 2005(SD40-2) CP 5679(SD40-2) PLMX 3052(SD40)
Views:  1439   Comments: 2
Alco surrounded
Title:  Alco surrounded
Description:  Lease units fore and aft hide an M630 as 556 rolls through BX toward the CP yard across the river. Alco units were fairly common on trains coming down from Montreal, but less common on the Tier trains.
Photo Date:  5/11/1991  Upload Date: 3/13/2015 2:34:10 AM
Location:  Binghamton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  GATX 2002(SD40-2) GATX 2004(SD40-2) CP 4571(M630) GATX 2007(SD40-2) PLMX 3052(SD40)
Views:  2153   Comments: 0
556 mix
Title:  556 mix
Description:  A mix of lease units and CP power heads for the East Binghamton yard at BX. The train will next cross the ex Erie main, then head into the yard. There are 54 cars in todays train.
Photo Date:  5/25/1991  Upload Date: 3/12/2015 2:36:23 AM
Location:  Binghamton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  GATX 2008(SD40-2) PLMX 3052(SD40) CP 5690(SD40-2)
Views:  1557   Comments: 0
Downhill from here
Title:  Downhill from here
Description:  Train 556 rolls downhill at Nowlan Rd in Sanitaria Springs with its 54 cars. We caught a lot of northbounds here, not too many southbounds, so this was different. The guy taking video is fellow contributor Sam Botts, back when he was still a college man.
Photo Date:  5/25/1991  Upload Date: 3/12/2015 2:38:39 AM
Location:  Binghamton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  GATX 2008(SD40-2) PLMX 3052(SD40) CP 5690(SD40-2)
Views:  1506   Comments: 0
Road shot
Title:  Road shot
Description:  I caught up to this 310 while driving toward Albany on I 88. The timing for once was perfect, and I was able to get this "hold up the camera and pray" shot
Photo Date:  6/8/1991  Upload Date: 3/4/2015 4:13:29 AM
Location:  East Worcester, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  GATX 2003(SD40-2) PLMX 3004(SD40) PLMX 3052(SD40)
Views:  1631   Comments: 0
Extra 253
Title:  Extra 253
Description:  A 253X train-there must have been a lot of Sea Land stacks that day-approdches Gang Mills, meeting 310, on the adjacent track, in the process.
Photo Date:  8/16/1991  Upload Date: 2/27/2015 3:38:46 AM
Location:  Gang Mills, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Yard,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  PLMX 3052(SD40) CP 5697(SD40-2)
Views:  1106   Comments: 4
Late afternoon eastbound
Title:  Late afternoon eastbound
Description:  Its almost sunset as NY 10 rolls through Kirkwood, headed for the Delaware valley darkness. This same power set would return a couple days later on SLN 5.
Photo Date:  8/22/1991  Upload Date: 2/27/2015 2:46:00 PM
Location:  Kirkwood, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CP 5679(SD40-2) PLMX 3052(SD40) CP 5697(SD40-2)
Views:  1266   Comments: 0
High above a quiet town
Title:  High above a quiet town
Description:  NY 10 rolls across Starrucca, momentarily breaking the tranquility of Lanesboro.
Photo Date:  8/22/1991  Upload Date: 2/27/2015 2:49:38 PM
Location:  Lanesboro, PA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Bridge,Action
Locomotives:  CP 5679(SD40-2) PLMX 3052(SD40) CP 5697(SD40-2)
Views:  1257   Comments: 1
Sea Land in the valley
Title:  Sea Land in the valley
Description:  Train 255, the Sea Land train, runs 75 platforms along the Canisteo near Cameron Mills.
Photo Date:  8/24/1991  Upload Date: 2/26/2015 3:07:33 PM
Location:  Cameron Mills, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  CP 5697(SD40-2) PLMX 3052(SD40) CP 5679(SD40-2)
Views:  1395   Comments: 1
Swinging along the river
Title:  Swinging along the river
Description:  SLN5, 255 on CP, rolls around a curve in the Canisteo valley, allowing a good view of the valley and train.
Photo Date:  8/24/1991  Upload Date: 2/27/2015 2:05:11 PM
Location:  Cameron, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  CP 5697(SD40-2) PLMX 3052(SD40) CP 5679(SD40-2)
Views:  1439   Comments: 1
Old guard
Title:  Old guard
Description:  Train 255 passes one of the classic Erie semaphores still prevalent in the Canisteo valley.
Photo Date:  8/24/1991  Upload Date: 2/26/2015 3:09:33 PM
Location:  Cameron, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  CP 5697(SD40-2) PLMX 3052(SD40) CP 5679(SD40-2)
Views:  1410   Comments: 2
Past the station
Title:  Past the station
Description:  Train 255 passes the former Erie station at Canisteo as it comes out of the valley. The station was being leased by Agway at the time. A year or so later, Agway was out, and Conrail would demolish the station.
Photo Date:  8/24/1991  Upload Date: 2/27/2015 2:11:09 PM
Location:  Canisteo, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Station,Action
Locomotives:  CP 5697(SD40-2) PLMX 3052(SD40) CP 5679(SD40-2)
Views:  1323   Comments: 1
Coal north
Title:  Coal north
Description:  Train 890 with a trio of PLM lease units and one CP SD starts through Bevier St on its way to the B&M. Note the P&LE cars. They were common on these trains, which originated on the P&LE near West Brownsville PA.
Photo Date:  12/16/1991  Upload Date: 2/18/2015 2:22:54 AM
Location:  Binghamton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  PLMX 3041(SD40X) PLMX 3052(SD40) CP 5670(SD40-2) PLMX 3018(SD40)
Views:  1469   Comments: 0
Foamer line
Title:  Foamer line
Description:  A couple of local railfans record this 84 car 892 making a run at the hill at Nowlan Rd. Thats RRPA contributor JJ Young III on the left.
Photo Date:  6/13/1992  Upload Date: 2/9/2015 4:06:26 AM
Location:  Sanitaria Springs, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  CP 5689(SD40-2) CP 5678(SD40-2) PLMX 3052(SD40) PLMX 3029(SD40) CP 5672(SD40-2)
Views:  1623   Comments: 0
Front end helper
Title:  Front end helper
Description:  Typically the helpers on Belden Hill would be pushing on the rear, making for an easy cutoff at the tunnel, which is behind me. For some reason, this 84 car 892 train got its helper running long hood in the lead. Must have been a beast going up, though an easy ride coming back. MP 599, to the left of the train, is the mileage from Mattawamkeag Maine, where MEC meets the one time CP line from Montreal to St John NB.
Photo Date:  6/13/1992  Upload Date: 2/6/2015 1:40:37 AM
Location:  Tunnel, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  CP 5689(SD40-2) CP 5678(SD40-2) PLMX 3052(SD40) PLMX 3029(SD40) CP 5672(SD40-2)
Views:  1518   Comments: 1

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