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Tom Beckett's Collection
 
1/24/2025
 
 
 
 
 
Owner: Conrail
Model:GE B40-8Built As:CR 5081 (B40-8)
Serial Number:45645Order No:1413
Frame Number:Built:5/1988
Other locos with this serial:  MEC 5973(B20-8) NS 4811(B40-8) CR 5081(B40-8) CSX 5973(B40-8) MEC 5973(B40-8)
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Westbound vans
Title:  Westbound vans
Description:  A slightly different angle of a train seen elsewhere. CR had a big stable of 4 axle GEs that were common on these trains, especially on the Chicago Line, which was ideal for them. Three do the honors here on a 65 car TV 79.
Photo Date:  7/15/1988  Upload Date: 8/28/2015 2:46:19 AM
Location:  Syracuse (Dewitt), NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Station,Action
Locomotives:  CR 5081(B40-8) CR 5080(B40-8) CR 5051(B36-7)
Views:  608   Comments: 0
Smokin vans
Title:  Smokin vans
Description:  TV 79 smokes past the station at Dewitt, rolling on into the setting sun behind a typical intermodal power set of that era.
Photo Date:  7/15/1988  Upload Date: 8/26/2015 2:45:41 AM
Location:  Syracuse (Dewitt), NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Action
Locomotives:  CR 5081(B40-8) CR 5080(B40-8) CR 5051(B36-7)
Views:  625   Comments: 1
Even the vans wait
Title:  Even the vans wait
Description:  An eastbound is rolling through CP 285 and into the west end of Dewitt as the TV 79 cools its heels waiting for it to clear.
Photo Date:  7/15/1988  Upload Date: 8/28/2015 2:49:19 AM
Location:  Syracuse (Dewitt), NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  CR 5081(B40-8) CR 5080(B40-8) CR 5051(B36-7)
Views:  555   Comments: 0
On the way home
Title:  On the way home
Description:  My route home was partly along NY 17C between Owego and Endicott. I caught trains there a surprising number of days. Today, its TV 201, rolling west near MP 232 in Campville.
Photo Date:  9/5/1989  Upload Date: 11/27/2015 3:48:23 AM
Location:  Campville, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  CR 5083(B40-8) CR 5004(B36-7) CR 5081(B40-8)
Views:  540   Comments: 1


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