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Tom Beckett's Collection
 
5/3/2024
 
 
 
 
 
Owner: Conrail
Model:EMD SD40Built As:PC 6254 (SD40)
Serial Number:36910Order No:7290
Frame Number:7290-15Built:12/1970
Notes:ex-PC
Other locos with this serial:  CR 6254(SD40) PC 6254(SD40) EMDX 407(SD40) EMDX 6407(SD40) FURX 3038(SD40-2) CLLX 3507(SD40-2) CLXX 3507(SD40-2)
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Rare bird
Title:  Rare bird
Description:  Conrail had only ten C30-7s, a model that was common elsewhere. They did go big for a modified version, the 12 cylinder C30-7A, of which they had 50. One of the straight C30s leads SEEN7 into Enola from Selkirk with 121 cars.
Photo Date:  5/18/1987  Upload Date: 4/26/2015 3:44:08 AM
Location:  Enola, PA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  CR 6605(C30-7) CR 6280(SD40) CR 6254(SD40)
Views:  534   Comments: 1
Busy place
Title:  Busy place
Description:  Enola could get wonderfully busy at times. Here we have SEEN7 coming in, waiting for the yard pullers to clear.
Photo Date:  5/18/1987  Upload Date: 4/26/2015 4:39:41 AM
Location:  Enola, PA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  CR 7547(GP10) CR 7550(GP10) CR 6605(C30-7) CR 6280(SD40) CR 6254(SD40)
Views:  819   Comments: 0
Oil
Title:  Oil
Description:  An eastbound 84 car GATX oil train rolls past the east end of Dewitt yard, seen from the pedestrial overpass in Minoa. The hump set sits at right, waiting for another cut of cars to shove over the hump.
Photo Date:  5/31/1988  Upload Date: 7/19/2015 3:05:59 AM
Location:  Syracuse (Dewitt), NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  CR 6486(SD40-2) CR 6587(C30-7A) CR 3378(GP40-2) CR 6254(SD40) CR 6958(SD38) CR 1128(MT6)
Views:  695   Comments: 0
Passing a classic
Title:  Passing a classic
Description:  BUOI rolls east at McMaster St in Owego, passing an ex NYSW RS 1 sitting in the Tioga Central yard.
Photo Date:  8/7/1990  Upload Date: 1/22/2016 4:08:21 AM
Location:  Owego, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Signal,Action
Locomotives:  CR 6730(SD50) CR 6254(SD40)
Views:  257   Comments: 2
BUOI in the Canisteo valley
Title:  BUOI in the Canisteo valley
Description:  BUOI rolls through some of New Yorks most scenic terrain behind an old warrior.
Photo Date:  8/9/1991  Upload Date: 2/27/2012 1:45:25 AM
Location:  Cameron Mills, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  CR 6254(SD40) CR 6011(C39-8)
Views:  515   Comments: 3
BUOI and a blade
Title:  BUOI and a blade
Description:  The signal at Rathbone was easy to get-it was right next to the road, as were several in the Canisteo valley.
Photo Date:  8/9/1991  Upload Date: 2/27/2015 3:58:56 PM
Location:  Rathbone, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  CR 6818(SD50) CR 6724(SD50) CR 6254(SD40)
Views:  551   Comments: 2
BUOI along the river
Title:  BUOI along the river
Description:  BUOI passes along the rocks at Browns Crossing.
Photo Date:  8/14/1991  Upload Date: 9/27/2012 3:01:27 PM
Location:  Browns Crossing, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  CR 6254(SD40) CR 6011(C39-8) CR 8083(GP38-2)
Views:  473   Comments: 1
Going for Gang Mills
Title:  Going for Gang Mills
Description:  BUOI rolls toward its next stop at Gang Mills, and is about to knock down the automatic at MP 300 as it passes through this pastoral setting at the east end of the Canisteo valley.
Photo Date:  8/24/1991  Upload Date: 2/27/2015 4:16:50 PM
Location:  Addison, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  CR 6254(SD40) CR 6011(C39-8) CR 8093(GP38-2) CR 6633(C36-7)
Views:  432   Comments: 0
By the blade
Title:  By the blade
Description:  BUOI rolls past an ex Erie semaphore just west of Rathbone.
Photo Date:  8/24/1991  Upload Date: 2/27/2015 3:57:04 PM
Location:  Rathbone, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  CR 6254(SD40) CR 6011(C39-8) CR 8093(GP38-2) CR 6633(C36-7)
Views:  410   Comments: 0
MP 337
Title:  MP 337
Description:  The milepost to the right of BUOI gives away the location as the train approaches Hornell and a pick up at Morrison Knudsen. To the left of the train, next to the pole line, you can see a semaphore in the approach position. There were a pair of semaphores there, across from each other. It was not an easy location to access, hence there are few photos of that set, unlike the Tioga Center blades, which you could shoot from the shoulder of NY 17C. The train is on track 1, the "fast" track, with a 40 MPH speed limit. Track 2, the "D&H main", so called becaise some Conrail dispatchers would put D&H trackage rights trains on it, had a section of 25 MPH and a section of 10 MPH speed restrictions, making for a very slow trip to River Jct.
Photo Date:  8/24/1991  Upload Date: 2/27/2015 3:51:01 PM
Location:  Arkport, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  CR 6254(SD40) CR 6011(C39-8) CR 6633(C36-7) CR 8093(GP38-2)
Views:  481   Comments: 2


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