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Tom Beckett's Collection
 
1/23/2025
 
 
 
 
 
Owner: New York Susquehanna & Western
Model:GE B40-8Built As:NYSW 4004 (B40-8)
Serial Number:45677Order No:1415N
Frame Number: Built:6/1988
Notes:Sold to P&W in 2004
Other locos with this serial:  NYSW 4004(B40-8) PW 4001(B40-8)
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Rolling into town
Title:  Rolling into town
Description:  SLN 5 rolls under the Kirkwood-Conklin connector as it makes its approach to Binghamton. There, it will set off trailing unit 3618 and the 8 freight cars it brought up from Binghamton. The rest will go on to Buffalo as CP 255.
Photo Date:  2/19/1994  Upload Date: 1/5/2015 3:01:59 AM
Location:  Kirkwood, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  NYSW 4004(B40-8) CP 5518(SD40) CP 784(SD40-2) NYSW 3618(SD45)
Views:  826   Comments: 0
Stack action
Title:  Stack action
Description:  CP train 255 behind NYSW power rolls under the signal bridge at Alden on the former Erie
Photo Date:  3/12/1994  Upload Date: 10/20/2011 1:44:09 AM
Location:  Alden, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Winter,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  NYSW 4004(B40-8) NYSW 4002(B40-8)
Views:  519   Comments: 0
255 with NYSW power
Title:  255 with NYSW power
Description:  CP train 255, the Saturday Sea Land train, approaches the bridge at Carson, MP 325, just east of Canisteo in a Christmas card scene
Photo Date:  3/12/1994  Upload Date: 9/23/2012 2:25:36 AM
Location:  Canisteo, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Winter,Action
Locomotives:  NYSW 4004(B40-8) NYSW 4002(B40-8)
Views:  344   Comments: 1
Sea Land stacks, Buffalo bound
Title:  Sea Land stacks, Buffalo bound
Description:  NYSW run through power leads CP train 255, the SLN 5 near Hunt on the CR Southern Tier Line
Photo Date:  3/12/1994  Upload Date: 10/20/2011 1:42:37 AM
Location:  Hunt, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Winter,Action
Locomotives:  NYSW 4004(B40-8) NYSW 4002(B40-8)
Views:  221   Comments: 0
Snowy day in the Canisteo valley
Title:  Snowy day in the Canisteo valley
Description:  Train 255 passes a snowbound cornfield under the bluffs near West Cameron.
Photo Date:  3/12/1994  Upload Date: 9/23/2012 2:32:40 AM
Location:  West Cameron, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Winter,Action
Locomotives:  NYSW 4004(B40-8) NYSW 4002(B40-8)
Views:  356   Comments: 1
Wide open
Title:  Wide open
Description:  One of the few places on the Tier with a really open view is here at Big Flats, where we see 255 rolling west behind a pair of NYSW GEs. At one time, the DLW ran next to the Erie here. It must have been quite a show.
Photo Date:  3/12/1994  Upload Date: 1/5/2015 1:34:20 AM
Location:  Big Flats, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Winter,Action
Locomotives:  NYSW 4004(B40-8) NYSW 4002(B40-8)
Views:  132   Comments: 0
Out of the valley
Title:  Out of the valley
Description:  255 rolls under the bridge at Carson(MP 325) as it exits the Canisteo Valley. It will shortly be passing the Village of Canisteo, then Hornell as it heads to Buffalo.
Photo Date:  3/12/1994  Upload Date: 9/24/2014 11:46:25 AM
Location:  Canisteo, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Winter,Action
Locomotives:  NYSW 4004(B40-8) NYSW 4002(B40-8)
Views:  136   Comments: 2
Long view
Title:  Long view
Description:  255 rolls down the long(for the Tier) tangent at Erwins as it approaches Addison and the Canisteo Valley.
Photo Date:  3/12/1994  Upload Date: 9/24/2014 11:57:22 AM
Location:  Erwins, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Winter,Action
Locomotives:  NYSW 4004(B40-8) NYSW 4002(B40-8)
Views:  107   Comments: 0
Christmas card scene
Title:  Christmas card scene
Description:  255 rolls along the Canisteo River near Rathbone in a scene that is more appropriate to Christmas than to the onset of spring.
Photo Date:  3/12/1994  Upload Date: 9/24/2014 12:09:52 PM
Location:  Rathbone, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Winter,Action
Locomotives:  NYSW 4004(B40-8) NYSW 4002(B40-8)
Views:  144   Comments: 2
Yellowjackets for Jersey
Title:  Yellowjackets for Jersey
Description:  Train HAN 2 rolls east at Willow Run Foods in Kirkwood with 20 platforms and 18 freight as it heads for Starrucba Viaduct and New Jersey on this sunny Saturday
Photo Date:  5/14/1994  Upload Date: 9/21/2014 1:15:28 AM
Location:  Kirkwood, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  NYSW 4006(B40-8) NYSW 4004(B40-8) NYSW 1804(GP18)
Views:  155   Comments: 0
By the pond
Title:  By the pond
Description:  Train 554 rolls past the pond by Watson Blvd in Endwell with 45 platforms and 5 COFC behind a typical power set.
Photo Date:  6/14/1994  Upload Date: 9/16/2014 4:09:29 AM
Location:  Endwell, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  NYSW 4004(B40-8) NS 2852(GP38AC)
Views:  257   Comments: 1
HAN 1
Title:  HAN 1
Description:  The route for NYSW originated stack trains was simple, but had a lot of players, often with run through power. Here an NYSW B 40 and SD70-one of the few times I saw one-roll the Hanjin train west under the NY 427 overpass at Chemung
Photo Date:  3/15/1999  Upload Date: 3/3/2014 1:29:13 AM
Location:  Chemung, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  NYSW 4004(B40-8) NYSW 4054(SD70M)
Views:  316   Comments: 3
Meet at BD
Title:  Meet at BD
Description:  NYSW SU 99 meets and eastbound CP train at BD on Binghamtons east side.
Photo Date:  10/6/2001  Upload Date: 10/6/2011 12:17:07 AM
Location:  Binghamton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  NYSW 4004(B40-8) NYSW 4008(B40-8) STLH 5615(SD40-2) CP 5973(SD40-2)
Views:  686   Comments: 0
SU 99
Title:  SU 99
Description:  SU 99 behind a pair of B40-8s passes under the Kirkwood-Conklin connector
Photo Date:  10/6/2001  Upload Date: 11/27/2011 12:17:38 AM
Location:  Binghamton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  NYSW 4004(B40-8) NYSW 4008(B40-8)
Views:  386   Comments: 1
Engine house line up
Title:  Engine house line up
Description:  Four units outside the Binghamton engine house. The B30-7AB is an ex BN unit going to another owner, along with three of the original B40's
Photo Date:  11/19/2001  Upload Date: 10/26/2013 2:25:10 AM
Location:  Binghamton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  NYSW 4008(B40-8) BN 4060(B30-7AB) NYSW 4004(B40-8)
Views:  364   Comments: 1
Ready to go south
Title:  Ready to go south
Description:  During the Marathon Maple Festivals, NYSW would run shuttle trains from Marathon up to Cortland, primarily as a ride people attending the festival could take as part of the activities, but also as a way for people to reach the event. at while parking was a nightmare. Heres the train taking on passengers at the old DLW station in Cortland, with one of the historic crossing watchmens towers in front of the station.
Photo Date:  4/7/2002  Upload Date: 10/5/2013 11:06:32 PM
Location:  Cortland, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  NYSW 4004(B40-8)
Views:  107   Comments: 0
Festival train departs
Title:  Festival train departs
Description:  The Marathon Maple Festival train departs Cortland en route to the festival. The coaches are well suited to the task-they ran on the Long Island RR before being acquired by the NYSW, and are accustomed to a heavy passenger load.
Photo Date:  4/7/2002  Upload Date: 10/5/2013 11:08:05 PM
Location:  Cortland, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  NYSW 4004(B40-8)
Views:  130   Comments: 0
BH 1 heads north
Title:  BH 1 heads north
Description:  BH 1 behind a pair of B40s that will soon be off the roster, heads for the Syracuse Branch.
Photo Date:  4/26/2002  Upload Date: 10/6/2013 2:41:34 AM
Location:  Binghamton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  NYSW 4008(B40-8) NYSW 4004(B40-8)
Views:  180   Comments: 0


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