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5/3/2024
 
 
 
 
 
Owner: Conrail
Model:EMD SD50Built As:CR 6825 (SD50)
Serial Number:857080-21 Order No:857080
Frame Number:857080-21Built:2/1986
Other locos with this serial:  CR 6825(SD50) NREX 8696(SD50) CSX 8696(SD50)
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SD50s for helpers
Title:  SD50s for helpers
Description:  This was unusual, as the SD 50 fleet ran system wide, and was not typically captive to such duty. The lead two units are the helpers here.
Photo Date:  2/14/1986  Upload Date: 10/20/2014 1:11:52 AM
Location:  Horseshoe Curve, PA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Winter,Action
Locomotives:  CR 6702(SD50) CR 6821(SD50) CR 6827(SD50) CR 6825(SD50)
Views:  470   Comments: 1
Reaching the Tier
Title:  Reaching the Tier
Description:  An empty XWB coal train from the NYSEG plant in Ithaca has reached block limit station WAVE(at right, small blue sign) and is now entering the Southern Tier Line. The train is being handled by a Gang Mills crew, and is symbolled WACG 30; the train will eventually go back to a mine in southwestern PA near Brownsville.
Photo Date:  5/20/1989  Upload Date: 10/9/2015 4:17:33 AM
Location:  Waverly, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CR 6776(SD50) CR 6310(SD40) CR 6825(SD50)
Views:  383   Comments: 2
Night at the Erie freight house
Title:  Night at the Erie freight house
Description:  CR 6611, a C32-8 unique to Conrail, sits outside the office in the old Erie freight house as it gets its switching orders. C 32-8s were uncommon here, as they were based out of Selkirk, and typically were found on the Boston Line over the Berkshires.
Photo Date:  3/13/1990  Upload Date: 3/4/2012 4:55:33 AM
Location:  Binghamton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Night,Station,Action
Locomotives:  CR 6611(C32-8) CR 6825(SD50)
Views:  429   Comments: 2
Tie a yellow ribbon
Title:  Tie a yellow ribbon
Description:  During the first Iraq war, Conrail decorated SD 50 6707 with a yellow ribbon in support of the troops who had gone to Kuwait and Iraq to serve in that conflict. Here we see the unit second in consist on a monster 144 car OIBU at CP Johnson.
Photo Date:  3/28/1991  Upload Date: 9/21/2012 6:11:50 PM
Location:  Binghamton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Action
Locomotives:  CR 6634(C36-7) CR 6707(SD50) CR 6825(SD50)
Views:  638   Comments: 1
Desert Storm
Title:  Desert Storm
Description:  We see OIBU at CP Johnson on the west side as it pickes up the empty coal hoppers pulled earlier from the NYSEG Goundy Station. The 144 car train is notable, aside from its length, for the second unit, a yellow ribbon painted on the side of SD 50 6707 to honor the troops who have gone to liberate Kuwait in the first Gulf War.
Photo Date:  6/13/1991  Upload Date: 3/7/2015 3:30:45 AM
Location:  Binghamton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CR 6634(C36-7) CR 6707(SD50) CR 6825(SD50)
Views:  460   Comments: 0
Coming round the corner
Title:  Coming round the corner
Description:  OIBU rolls around the curve under Lester Av, as seen from the long closed Broad St crossing in Johnson City.
Photo Date:  6/13/1991  Upload Date: 3/11/2015 2:56:41 AM
Location:  Johnson City, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CR 6634(C36-7) CR 6707(SD50) CR 6825(SD50)
Views:  391   Comments: 0
Stacks east
Title:  Stacks east
Description:  TV 20 rolls 45 stack platforms and 33 COFC/TOFC east at the new siding at Swain
Photo Date:  5/27/1994  Upload Date: 9/20/2014 1:58:44 AM
Location:  Swain, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  CR 6223(C40-8W) CR 6825(SD50) CR 6475(SD40-2)
Views:  424   Comments: 2


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