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Tom Beckett's Collection
 
5/12/2024
 
 
 
 
 
Owner: Delaware & Hudson
Model:Alco C424Built As:RDG 5206 (C424)
Serial Number:84735Order No:21193
Frame Number:prime mover # 7973Built:11/1963
Notes:ex-CR 2495, ex-RDG 5206
Other locos with this serial:  DH 452(C424) LAL 421(C424) RDG 5206(C424) WNYP 421(C424) LAL 452(C424) CR 2495(C424) MEC 452(C424)
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Still blue
Title:  Still blue
Description:  A pair of the MK rebuilt C 424s sit outside the Binghamton shop. These two escaped the Guilford paint booth, and are still in their blue D&H scheme, a bit worse for wear, but still blue.
Photo Date:  7/4/1988  Upload Date: 8/29/2015 1:21:16 AM
Location:  Binghamton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  DH 452(C424) DH 454(C424)
Views:  354   Comments: 0
Not long
Title:  Not long
Description:  A pusher set roll through BD on its way back to the yard. The last unit, 452, will soon find itself on the East Binghamton dead line. Dont know the details, but Im assuming it had some major failure.
Photo Date:  10/15/1988  Upload Date: 9/11/2015 3:44:59 AM
Location:  Binghamton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Signal,Action
Locomotives:  DH 452(C424) NYSW 6500(SD45) NYSW 3622(SD45)
Views:  557   Comments: 2
Fate is sealed
Title:  Fate is sealed
Description:  D&H 452 appears to be done, as it is now missing some windshield glass and other parts. Only a couple of weeks prior, I caught it working on a pusher set. Too bad, its a nice looking unit-much better than the Guilford brown on the rest of them.
Photo Date:  10/29/1988  Upload Date: 9/9/2015 3:41:03 AM
Location:  Binghamton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  DH 452(C424)
Views:  292   Comments: 1
Northern power for a northbound train
Title:  Northern power for a northbound train
Description:  BAR 97 leads PYRP through the yard, headed for the north end and an exit to Rouses Point. A trio of out of service Alcos looks on.
Photo Date:  11/26/1988  Upload Date: 9/14/2015 12:41:58 PM
Location:  Binghamton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  BAR 97(GP38) NRL 6642(F45) DH 5003(RS11) DH 506(RS3M) DH 452(C424)
Views:  849   Comments: 0
Cool power
Title:  Cool power
Description:  A view of the south end of the shop at East Binghamton gets a view of an NYSW GP18 and a D&H C 424. Youd be hard pressed to match that scene anywhere else.
Photo Date:  12/10/1988  Upload Date: 9/24/2015 3:32:57 AM
Location:  Binghamton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  DH 7418(GP39-2) NYSW 1804(GP18) NYSW 6500(SD45) DH 452(C424)
Views:  649   Comments: 0
Shop line
Title:  Shop line
Description:  The line up at the East Binghamton shop is almost all Alco today. There are four C 424's, and RS 36 and RS 3M. What's that GP 38 doing there?? Must be lost.
Photo Date:  12/10/1988  Upload Date: 9/24/2015 3:10:07 AM
Location:  Binghamton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  DH 75(C424) BAR 96(GP38) DH 506(RS3M) DH 454(C424) DH 74(C424) DH 5022(RS36) DH 452(C424)
Views:  1091   Comments: 0
PYRP
Title:  PYRP
Description:  PYRP gets rolling through Bevier St behind an ex Reading unit and a power set only the NYSW and D&H could put together, including two C424's.
Photo Date:  12/15/1988  Upload Date: 9/27/2015 3:20:11 AM
Location:  Binghamton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  DH 7408(GP39-2) DH 75(C424) NYSW 3632(SD45) DH 452(C424)
Views:  699   Comments: 1
Northbound at BX
Title:  Northbound at BX
Description:  A northbound, probably BUME, passes the south end of Bevier St yard at the site of BX en route to Belden Hill and Mechanicville.
Photo Date:  2/17/1990  Upload Date: 5/28/2011 11:58:54 PM
Location:  Binghamton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  DH 7408(GP39-2) DH 75(C424) NYSW 3632(SD45) DH 452(C424)
Views:  765   Comments: 0


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