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4/24/2024
 
 
 
 
 
Owner: Soo Line
Model:EMD SD40-2Built As:SOO 6614 (SD40-2)
Serial Number:797393-1Order No:797393
Frame Number:797393-1Built:3/1981
Other locos with this serial:  SOO 6614(SD40-2) CP 6614(SD40-2)
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SOO power west
Title:  SOO power west
Description:  Train 501 rolls 72 cars of COFC west toward Windsor and Chicago behind the usual SOO unit and a pair of CP SD40s.
Photo Date:  6/14/1989  Upload Date: 10/19/2015 4:31:20 AM
Location:  Dorval, QC
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Action
Locomotives:  SOO 6614(SD40-2) CP 5505(SD40) CP 5532(SD40)
Views:  328   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 used 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 remained up-there's one on the D&H side as well-into the nid 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:  860   Comments: 2
Grain for Albany
Title:  Grain for Albany
Description:  A 390 grain train gets rolling up the Buffalo Runner behind a PLM unit and three SOOs on a typically gloomy Tier day.
Photo Date:  4/8/1991  Upload Date: 3/12/2015 3:15:26 PM
Location:  Binghamton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  PLM 3052(SD40-2) SOO 6614(SD40-2) SOO 788(SD40-2)
Views:  474   Comments: 0
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.
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:  492   Comments: 0
419 river view
Title:  419 river view
Description:  Train 419 crosses the Chemung River at Elmira on the NS Southern Tier Line behind typical power for the era, 4 40s.
Photo Date:  8/29/2004  Upload Date: 12/10/2012 1:11:46 AM
Location:  Elmira, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Bridge,Action
Locomotives:  CP 5857(SD40-2) CP 5752(SD40-2) SOO 6617(SD40-2) SOO 6614(SD40-2)
Views:  598   Comments: 3
Scenic view from new bridge
Title:  Scenic view from new bridge
Description:  After years of discussion, the Apalachin-Campville connector was built near exit 66 of NY 17, the Apalachin exit. It extended across the Susquehanna to reach NY 17C near Campville, allowing a view of the tracks not previously available. We see 11T behind a mix of 40s as it rolls 39 cars along the river, about 15 minutes from Binghamton.
Photo Date:  3/27/2006  Upload Date: 5/22/2018 5:49:24 AM
Location:  Campville, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  CP 5802(SD40-2) CP 9009(SD40-2F) SOO 6614(SD40-2)
Views:  317   Comments: 0
Splash of red
Title:  Splash of red
Description:  Eastbound haulage train 11T rolls past the early spring dreariness in a burst of red. Note the red barn in the consist.
Photo Date:  3/27/2006  Upload Date: 11/4/2012 1:57:54 AM
Location:  Owego, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  CP 5802(SD40-2) CP 9009(SD40-2F) SOO 6614(SD40-2)
Views:  343   Comments: 0


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