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Tom Beckett's Collection
 
1/23/2025
 
 
 
 
 
Owner: Springfield Terminal
Model:Rebuilt EMD SD26Built As:ATSF 905 (SD24)
Serial Number:25172Order No:5597
Frame Number:5597-6Built:5/1959
Notes:Ex ATSF 4605
Other locos with this serial:  ST 619(SD26)
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Push em up
Title:  Push em up
Description:  A pair of SD 26s lends some effort to PYRP as it starts toward Belden tunnel.
Photo Date:  5/14/1987  Upload Date: 5/4/2015 1:36:50 AM
Location:  Binghamton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  ST 649(SD26) ST 619(SD26)
Views:  758   Comments: 0
SD 26 pushers
Title:  SD 26 pushers
Description:  The "new" units at the time were a group of ex Santa Fe rebuilt SD 24s, which ATSF classed SD 26s, as they had their horsepower rating upped to 2625 in the rebuild. Two of them are pushing PYRP and its 68 cars into Belden tunnel
Photo Date:  5/14/1987  Upload Date: 4/25/2015 3:49:01 AM
Location:  Tunnel, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Tunnel,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  ST 649(SD26) ST 619(SD26)
Views:  675   Comments: 0
Pushers await
Title:  Pushers await
Description:  A pair of SD 26s assigned to pusher duty wait for PYRP to come out of the yard for an assist up the hill. Thats the Bow coal trains power in the background.
Photo Date:  5/14/1987  Upload Date: 5/4/2015 1:38:32 AM
Location:  Binghamton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  ST 649(SD26) ST 619(SD26) ST 642(SD26)
Views:  738   Comments: 2
Matched set on high
Title:  Matched set on high
Description:  A matched set of Guilford power rolls over the Harpursville bridge with BUME.
Photo Date:  6/18/1988  Upload Date: 7/19/2015 2:26:20 AM
Location:  Harpursville, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Bridge,Action
Locomotives:  ST 619(SD26) MEC 602(SD40) BM 690(SD39)
Views:  945   Comments: 1
Guilford looking good
Title:  Guilford looking good
Description:  Much as I hate to say it, the power in a complete set, fresh paint, and clean actually looks decent. Here we see BUME rolling slowly north against the grade as it passes Phelps St
Photo Date:  6/18/1988  Upload Date: 7/19/2015 2:28:08 AM
Location:  Port Dickinson, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  ST 619(SD26) MEC 602(SD40) BM 690(SD39)
Views:  907   Comments: 0
271 with a common mix
Title:  271 with a common mix
Description:  It was not unusual to see Guilford power coming into Binghamton on 271, the former MEBU. It would yard there, and the Guilford power would go back on 270 most of the time.
Photo Date:  9/12/1993  Upload Date: 1/12/2015 3:08:04 AM
Location:  Binghamton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  GATX 7368(SD40-2) ST 619(SD26) ST 680(SD45)
Views:  589   Comments: 0


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