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Tom Beckett's Collection
 
5/6/2024
 
 
 
 
 
Owner: Canadian Pacific Railway
Model:EMD SD40-2Built As:CP 5578 (SD40-2)
Serial Number:A2577Order No:C344
Frame Number:Built:3/1972
Notes:DRF-30g
Other locos with this serial:  CP 5578(SD40-2)
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Along the pole line
Title:  Along the pole line
Description:  Train 419-it ran to Buffalo and Toronto the days 167 didnt run, though this day's effort still has 18 stack platforms along with its 112 cars-rolls west along the George F Highway and the Erie pole line into the afternoon sun. NS would single track this ten years later, and remove the poles. It opened up the shot, but took away one of the things that made this line interesting.
Photo Date:  9/24/2003  Upload Date: 6/14/2016 2:42:06 AM
Location:  Endwell, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  CP 5652(SD40-2) CP 5566(SD40-2) CP 5607(SD40-2) CP 5578(SD40-2)
Views:  528   Comments: 1
Sailing through the corn
Title:  Sailing through the corn
Description:  The open field at Hiawatha Road in Owego rotates crops. This season it was growing corn, giving the appearance that passing trains were just riding on top of it. Heres CP 419 with 112 cars and 18 intermodal platforms passing the agricultural splendor.
Photo Date:  9/24/2003  Upload Date: 2/24/2013 2:33:33 AM
Location:  Owego, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  CP 5652(SD40-2) CP 5566(SD40-2) CP 5607(SD40-2) CP 5578(SD40-2)
Views:  566   Comments: 0
419 in the gloom
Title:  419 in the gloom
Description:  Its one of my favorite spots, but the Tier gloom sometimes can even make a pretty spot dull. The red CP power helps, though, as 419 works west along the Susquehanna with three CPs and a SOO unit and 48 cars.
Photo Date:  10/17/2003  Upload Date: 4/7/2017 2:26:28 AM
Location:  Campville, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  CP 5578(SD40-2) SOO 6003(SD60) CP 5629(SD40-2) CP 5643(SD40-2)
Views:  586   Comments: 0
Fields of gold
Title:  Fields of gold
Description:  I have always liked Stings song by that title; it fits so well in a rural scene like this. Train 419 rolls past the gold of a dying cornfield along NY 17C west of Tioga Center with 43 cars for Buffalo.
Photo Date:  10/17/2003  Upload Date: 4/7/2017 2:29:00 AM
Location:  Tioga Center, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  CP 5578(SD40-2) SOO 6003(SD60) CP 5629(SD40-2) CP 5643(SD40-2)
Views:  586   Comments: 0
Four 40s with a surprise
Title:  Four 40s with a surprise
Description:  A set of 4 SD40-2s, not uncommon at the time, has a surprise. The second unit is one of the NS ex Southern units they made into a cabless locomotive by removing the controls and blanking the windows. This is train 418 arriving from Buffalo with 48 cars.
Photo Date:  9/13/2004  Upload Date: 12/9/2012 5:29:49 AM
Location:  Binghamton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CP 5629(SD40-2) CP 5477(SD40-2B) CP 5578(SD40-2) SOO 6601(SD40-2)
Views:  2072   Comments: 0
252 on the new connector
Title:  252 on the new connector
Description:  CP 252 has come down Belden Hill and is on its last leg into Conklin yard, crossing from the Buffalo Runner to the Binghamton Runner, and will soon be crossing NS at BD
Photo Date:  12/12/2005  Upload Date: 11/12/2012 12:53:34 AM
Location:  Binghamton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Winter,Yard,Action
Locomotives:  CP 5578(SD40-2) SOO 6022(SD60) CP 5616(SD40-2)
Views:  443   Comments: 0


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