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Tom Beckett's Collection
 
5/4/2024
 
 
 
 
 
Owner: General American Marks Company
Model:EMD SD40-2Built As:MP 3186 (SD40-2)
Serial Number:74690-23Order No:74690
Frame Number:74690-23Built:3/1975
Other locos with this serial:  GSCX 7369(SD40-2) GATX 7369(SD40-2) GEXR 3394(SD40-2) MP 3186(SD40-2) UP 4186(SD40-2)
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A and a future B
Title:  A and a future B
Description:  Train 270 rolls east at West Endicott behind a blue GATX and an ex Southern SD40-2. CP would convert these ex NS units to B units soon after their acquisition.
Photo Date:  2/15/1993  Upload Date: 1/30/2015 1:12:07 AM
Location:  Endicott, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Winter,Action
Locomotives:  GATX 7369(SD40-2) CP 3245(SD40-2)
Views:  508   Comments: 1
Big snow
Title:  Big snow
Description:  Train 255, the NYSW SLN 5 Sea Land train, rolls through a snow covered landscape, seen from the NY 352 bridge east of Corning. A good sized train of 117 platforms is in tow.
Photo Date:  2/20/1993  Upload Date: 1/30/2015 1:19:22 AM
Location:  Big Flats, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Winter,Action
Locomotives:  NYSW 4006(B40-8) NYSW 3634(SD45) CP 3253(SD40-2) GATX 7369(SD40-2)
Views:  598   Comments: 1
Deep in the valley
Title:  Deep in the valley
Description:  Train 255 is well into its trip down the Canisteo valley as we see it from the local road bridge in Cameron
Photo Date:  2/20/1993  Upload Date: 1/30/2015 1:21:48 AM
Location:  Cameron, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Winter,Action
Locomotives:  NYSW 4006(B40-8) NYSW 3634(SD45) CP 3253(SD40-2) GATX 7369(SD40-2)
Views:  455   Comments: 0
Out of the valley
Title:  Out of the valley
Description:  Train 255 rolls out of the Canisteo valley at Carson, meeting BUOI in the process. It will be through Hornell in another ten minutes, and on its way to Portage and Buffalo.
Photo Date:  2/20/1993  Upload Date: 1/30/2015 1:23:32 AM
Location:  Canisteo, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Winter,Action
Locomotives:  NYSW 4006(B40-8) NYSW 3634(SD45) CP 3253(SD40-2) GATX 7369(SD40-2)
Views:  571   Comments: 0
Along the river
Title:  Along the river
Description:  Train 255 rolls along the Canisteo River near Rathbone. I used this shot for a Christmas card that year.
Photo Date:  2/20/1993  Upload Date: 1/30/2015 1:25:10 AM
Location:  Rathbone, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Winter,Action
Locomotives:  NYSW 4006(B40-8) NYSW 3634(SD45) CP 3253(SD40-2) GATX 7369(SD40-2)
Views:  518   Comments: 0
Mixed signals
Title:  Mixed signals
Description:  CP train 255 with a pair of NYSW B boats leading rolls through a set of mismatched signals at Waverly.
Photo Date:  2/20/1993  Upload Date: 1/30/2015 1:28:02 AM
Location:  Waverly, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Winter,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  NYSW 4006(B40-8) NYSW 3634(SD45) CP 3253(SD40-2) GATX 7369(SD40-2)
Views:  426   Comments: 7
Wintry earth
Title:  Wintry earth
Description:  Train 255 rolls west between Chemung and Wellsburg seen from NY 427 in a panoramic winter scene.
Photo Date:  2/20/1993  Upload Date: 1/30/2015 1:30:13 AM
Location:  Wellsburg, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Winter,Action
Locomotives:  NYSW 4006(B40-8) NYSW 3634(SD45) CP 3253(SD40-2) GATX 7369(SD40-2)
Views:  376   Comments: 1
Pigs east
Title:  Pigs east
Description:  Train 262 rolls its 51 cars of trailers east from Buffalo to the east coast, passing Conrails ex Erie station at Silver Springs, now a maintenance base.
Photo Date:  7/17/1993  Upload Date: 1/19/2015 4:10:47 AM
Location:  Silver Springs, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Action
Locomotives:  GATX 7369(SD40-2) GATX 7370(SD40-2)
Views:  429   Comments: 0


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