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Tom Beckett's Collection
 
5/1/2024
 
 
 
 
 
Owner: New York Susquehanna & Western
Model:GE B40-8Built As:NYSW 4008 (B40-8)
Serial Number:45679Order No:1415N
Frame Number: Built:6/1988
Notes:Sold to P&W in 2005
Other locos with this serial:  NYSW 4008(B40-8) PW 4002(B40-8)
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HAN 2 rolls east
Title:  HAN 2 rolls east
Description:  HAN 2 has made its crew change to an NYSW crew, and is now heading east at BD with a run through GATX leaser and a pair of NYSW B40s. Today they are taking 40 stack platforms, 7 COFC, 2 auto racks, and 10 freight east to Jersey.
Photo Date:  4/17/1993  Upload Date: 1/26/2015 12:55:26 AM
Location:  Binghamton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Signal,Action
Locomotives:  GATX 7372(SD40-2) NYSW 4008(B40-8) NYSW 4004(B40-8)
Views:  288   Comments: 0
252 rolls under the bridge
Title:  252 rolls under the bridge
Description:  Train 252 rolls under the NY 17C overpass with a pair of NYSW B 40s leading 65 platforms.
Photo Date:  8/17/1993  Upload Date: 1/13/2015 11:16:49 PM
Location:  Endicott, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  NYSW 4006(B40-8) NYSW 4008(B40-8)
Views:  77   Comments: 0
SLN 5 over the Chemung River
Title:  SLN 5 over the Chemung River
Description:  SLN 5 crosses the Chemung River at Elmira NY with a mixed bag of power.
Photo Date:  8/28/1993  Upload Date: 5/18/2011 12:15:57 AM
Location:  Elmira, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Bridge,Action
Locomotives:  NYSW 4008(B40-8) NYSW 4004(B40-8) ST 615(SD26) GATX 7363(SD40-2) CP 672(SD40-2)
Views:  1046   Comments: 2
Panorama
Title:  Panorama
Description:  A panoramic view of 255 rolling into Gang Mills shows the 195 platform train stretched back toward the hillside overlooking Corning and the area near the confluence of the Tioga and Coshocton Rivers to form the Chemung.
Photo Date:  8/28/1993  Upload Date: 1/13/2015 11:22:23 PM
Location:  Gang Mills, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  NYSW 4008(B40-8) NYSW 4002(B40-8) ST 615(SD26) GATX 7363(SD40-2) CP 672(SD40-2)
Views:  720   Comments: 0
Big SLN 5
Title:  Big SLN 5
Description:  SLN 5 rolls into Binghamton with 195 platforms, led by five units of mixed ownership. It will make a crew change here and roll to Buffalo with a CP crew. While the crew change is taking place, it will get scooped by DABU, which will pass on track 2, do its own crew change, and roll on.
Photo Date:  8/28/1993  Upload Date: 1/15/2015 3:18:13 AM
Location:  Binghamton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  NYSW 4008(B40-8) NYSW 4002(B40-8) ST 615(SD26) GATX 7363(SD40-2) CP 672(SD40-2)
Views:  521   Comments: 0
Dark of winter
Title:  Dark of winter
Description:  A long 255 rolls through Gang Mills with 168 platforms and 3 COFC during the dark days of winter. Its only about 1630 and the light is largely gone. The typically gray skies of the Southern Tier are doing their best to compound the light situation
Photo Date:  1/15/1994  Upload Date: 1/7/2015 3:24:22 AM
Location:  Gang Mills, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Winter,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  CP 741(SD40) SOO 775(SD40-2) NYSW 4008(B40-8) SOO 6613(SD40-2) CP 5522(SD40)
Views:  725   Comments: 0
Dawns early light
Title:  Dawns early light
Description:  I was going to work one morning when I came down the hill to NY 17C to find this westbound going past. Of course I could not pass up the shot, which worked better than I thought. This is a stunning afternoon shot; it wasnt so bad in the morning, even back lit. Train 251(NY () rolls 65 stack platforms and 1 COFC west along the Susquehanna
Photo Date:  4/19/1994  Upload Date: 9/21/2014 2:23:37 AM
Location:  Campville, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  NYSW 4008(B40-8) NYSW 3618(SD45)
Views:  381   Comments: 0
Two weeks in a row
Title:  Two weeks in a row
Description:  I caught 251 again exactly a week after the first such encounter, with the same NYSW unit leading, this time assisted by a SOO unit. Today there are an even 50 platforms.
Photo Date:  4/26/1994  Upload Date: 9/21/2014 2:27:18 AM
Location:  Campville, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  NYSW 4008(B40-8) SOO 6608(SD40-2)
Views:  208   Comments: 0
Out of the mist
Title:  Out of the mist
Description:  251 rolls west through the fog as it approaches Owego at Miller Beach Rd
Photo Date:  4/26/1994  Upload Date: 9/21/2014 2:28:42 AM
Location:  Owego, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  NYSW 4008(B40-8) SOO 6608(SD40-2)
Views:  178   Comments: 0
SLN5
Title:  SLN5
Description:  SLN 5 the Saturday Sea Land train, arrives Binghamton behind a pair of 45s bracketed by two B40's with 139 platforms. Trains this size were common.
Photo Date:  10/7/1995  Upload Date: 8/7/2014 3:41:47 AM
Location:  Binghamton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Signal,Action
Locomotives:  NYSW 4002(B40-8) NYSW 3614(SD45) NYSW 3636(F45) NYSW 4008(B40-8)
Views:  286   Comments: 0
Study in yellow
Title:  Study in yellow
Description:  A set of yellowjackets on the newly arrived SLN 5 contrasts the yellow flowers along Court St.
Photo Date:  10/7/1995  Upload Date: 8/7/2014 3:48:14 AM
Location:  Binghamton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  NYSW 4002(B40-8) NYSW 3614(SD45) NYSW 3636(F45) NYSW 4008(B40-8)
Views:  175   Comments: 0
Meet at BD
Title:  Meet at BD
Description:  Eastbound 270 behind SOO power is about to meet the NYSW Sea Land train that is about to change crews and head for Buffalo. The 270 will head into East Binghamton across the river, get switched, and then roll north to Mohawk. This photos shows part of the layout at BD. The tracks to the left are the former DLW main, with the line going across to the Court St overpass and under SLN5 is the former DLW Syracuse and Utica line, now used by CP to get to the D&H. Conrail ownership of what had been tracks 3(farthest) and 4(closest to the camera) started here. They were, respectivelt, the 2 and 1 running tracks on the CP, leading over the Susquehanna River to their East Binghamton yard, a former DLW facility. Conrail had redisgnated tracks 3 and 4 to the Johnson Runnng Track and DL 4 respectively bhy this time.
Photo Date:  10/7/1995  Upload Date: 8/7/2014 3:05:59 AM
Location:  Binghamton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Signal,Action
Locomotives:  SOO 765(SD40-2) CP 5580(SD40-2) CP 5448(SD40-2) CP 5429(SD40-2) NYSW 4002(B40-8) NYSW 3614(SD45) NYSW 3636(F45) NYSW 4008(B40-8)
Views:  649   Comments: 0
Visit to the mall
Title:  Visit to the mall
Description:  A pair of NYSW units waits out the evening in the pocket track at Carousel Mall.
Photo Date:  11/14/1995  Upload Date: 8/4/2014 1:25:30 AM
Location:  Syracuse (Carousel Mall), NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Night,Station
Locomotives:  NYSW 3636(F45) NYSW 4008(B40-8)
Views:  167   Comments: 0
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:  558   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:  342   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:  279   Comments: 1
BH 1
Title:  BH 1
Description:  NYSW BH1 approaches its destination in Syracuse and a connection with CSX as it rolls along I 481,
Photo Date:  12/30/2001  Upload Date: 10/17/2013 11:46:11 PM
Location:  Syracuse, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  NYSW 2012(GP38) NYSW 3634(SD45) NYSW 3614(SD45) NYSW 4008(B40-8)
Views:  244   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:  143   Comments: 0
SY 1
Title:  SY 1
Description:  SY 1 works at QD in Binghamton. Note the second unit, one of the ex SP runnel motors. For a brief while they were numbered in the low 3000s. Heres 3002 that would become 3012.
Photo Date:  10/24/2002  Upload Date: 9/21/2013 4:09:37 AM
Location:  Binghamton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  NYSW 3634(SD45) NYSW 3002(SD40T-2) NYSW 4008(B40-8)
Views:  712   Comments: 1
Southbound power
Title:  Southbound power
Description:  The Marathon Maple Festival trains ran pull-pull to make the reverse moves easier. The north end of the train had the good power, a pair of E9s. The south end?? Just another freight unit.
Photo Date:  4/6/2003  Upload Date: 9/10/2013 1:17:58 AM
Location:  Cortland, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  NYSW 4008(B40-8)
Views:  360   Comments: 0
Bright face
Title:  Bright face
Description:  NYSW 4008 catches the sun
Photo Date:  10/7/2004  Upload Date: 9/14/2012 4:51:41 AM
Location:  Binghamton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  NYSW 4008(B40-8)
Views:  191   Comments: 0
Smokin it up
Title:  Smokin it up
Description:  An NYSW B 40 and a former P&W GE work at the south end of Bevier St.
Photo Date:  10/7/2004  Upload Date: 2/26/2012 4:19:47 AM
Location:  Binghamton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  NYSW 4008(B40-8) BDLX 2209(U23B)
Views:  506   Comments: 1
BH 1 bringing them in
Title:  BH 1 bringing them in
Description:  A B40-8 from the first 1988 order leads BH 1 along with an ex P&W GE from an earlier era at the south end of Bevier St.
Photo Date:  10/7/2004  Upload Date: 7/17/2017 4:26:21 AM
Location:  Binghamton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  NYSW 4008(B40-8) BDLX 2209(U23B)
Views:  256   Comments: 0
413 with a yellowjacket
Title:  413 with a yellowjacket
Description:  Train 413 rolls above Wylie Creek en route north with an interesting mix of power. The mix would get more interesting-there was a LIRR unit trailing, headed for Super Steel Schenectady.
Photo Date:  2/2/2005  Upload Date: 11/23/2012 1:18:19 AM
Location:  Harpursville, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Bridge,Winter,Action
Locomotives:  CP 5964(SD40-2) NYSW 4008(B40-8) SOO 6616(SD40-2) SOO 6036(SD60) LI 506(DM30AC)
Views:  642   Comments: 2
LIRR far from home
Title:  LIRR far from home
Description:  LIRR 506 trails 413s power en route north.
Photo Date:  2/2/2005  Upload Date: 11/23/2012 1:22:48 AM
Location:  Afton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Winter,Action
Locomotives:  CP 5964(SD40-2) NYSW 4008(B40-8) SOO 6616(SD40-2) SOO 6036(SD60) LI 506(DM30AC)
Views:  609   Comments: 0
LIRR on the high bridge
Title:  LIRR on the high bridge
Description:  LIRR 506 trails the power on 413-coupled to a SOO unit, a combination no one would expect-en route to Schenectady.
Photo Date:  2/2/2005  Upload Date: 11/23/2012 1:20:40 AM
Location:  Harpursville, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Bridge,Winter,Action
Locomotives:  CP 5964(SD40-2) NYSW 4008(B40-8) SOO 6616(SD40-2) SOO 6036(SD60) LI 506(DM30AC)
Views:  637   Comments: 0


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