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Tom Beckett's Collection
 
4/29/2024
 
 
 
 
 
Owner: Conrail
Model:EMD SD60Built As:CR 6859 (SD60)
Serial Number:886006-17Order No:886006
Frame Number:886006-17Built:9/1989
Other locos with this serial:  NS 6713(SD60) CR 6859(SD60)
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Local and OIBU
Title:  Local and OIBU
Description:  OIBU is holding for the signal at BD as WABH 11 rolls through on its way to Frito Lay and GP in Kirkwood.
Photo Date:  1/16/1990  Upload Date: 12/20/2015 4:08:21 AM
Location:  Binghamton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Winter,Action
Locomotives:  CR 3390(GP40-2) CR 6859(SD60) CR 6840(SD60)
Views:  341   Comments: 1
Waiting
Title:  Waiting
Description:  Sometimes you cant get a break. OIBU has pulled up to the signal at BD, and now waits for local WABH 11 to get out of the yard, cross over to track 2 and clear the plant, before it can get downtown to do its work. The trailing unit, 6840, is one of three SD 60 demonstrators CR acquired, the others were CR 6841 and 6842, ahead of the order from EMD.
Photo Date:  1/16/1990  Upload Date: 12/20/2015 4:12:31 AM
Location:  Binghamton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Winter,Action
Locomotives:  CR 6859(SD60) CR 6840(SD60)
Views:  324   Comments: 0
No tee time today
Title:  No tee time today
Description:  OIBU rolls under the NY 17C overpass welcoming visitors to the BC Open in west Endicott. There wont be any golf going on today.
Photo Date:  1/16/1990  Upload Date: 12/20/2015 4:14:39 AM
Location:  Endicott, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Bridge,Winter,Action
Locomotives:  CR 6859(SD60) CR 6840(SD60)
Views:  270   Comments: 0
Westbound to gloom
Title:  Westbound to gloom
Description:  OIBU rolls west at Smithboro, about MP 246 where the tracks come up to the road after going through town.
Photo Date:  4/6/1990  Upload Date: 1/6/2016 3:14:37 AM
Location:  Smithboro, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  CR 6859(SD60) NS 6108(SD40-2) CR 3288(GP40-2)
Views:  298   Comments: 1
Take the A train
Title:  Take the A train
Description:  A pair of CR SD60s lead eight flats of NY subway cars past signal 234-1 entering Owego. The cars will go to Morrison Knudsen in Hornell for rebuild. The cars are R-46s. I remember when they were delivered in the 1970s.
Photo Date:  3/17/1991  Upload Date: 9/21/2012 6:25:35 PM
Location:  Owego, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Signal,Action
Locomotives:  CR 6859(SD60) CR 6853(SD60)
Views:  534   Comments: 3
Late winter in the Tier.
Title:  Late winter in the Tier.
Description:  The snow has all melted, and the grays and browns have taken over. Buds wont start appearing for another several weeks. Against this drab backdrop, OIBU rolls west on the Southern Tier at MP 231 along the Susquehanna River with 29 cars
Photo Date:  3/17/1991  Upload Date: 4/9/2015 3:15:43 AM
Location:  Campville, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  CR 6859(SD60) CR 6853(SD60)
Views:  337   Comments: 2
Lehigh runner
Title:  Lehigh runner
Description:  OICG, one of the several incarnations of the train that connected upstate NY to eastern PA and Jersey via the Lehigh Line-it also was ALCG and ALBU-rolls north through a wintry cornfield as it makes its way to Sayre, and then onto the Southern Tier at Waverly. It will terminate at Gang Mills yard near Corning with today's train of 94 cars.
Photo Date:  4/10/1991  Upload Date: 3/13/2015 4:00:41 AM
Location:  Milan, PA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CR 6036(C40-8) CR 6028(C40-8) CR 6859(SD60)
Views:  530   Comments: 1
Flowery scene
Title:  Flowery scene
Description:  OIBU rolls 82 cars west past a bright field of yellow on a gloomy day.
Photo Date:  6/30/1992  Upload Date: 2/2/2015 3:52:30 AM
Location:  Owego, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  CR 5040(B36-7) CR 6859(SD60)
Views:  291   Comments: 0


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