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| Title: |
Smoking it up now |
| Description: |
Davidson Road is at the top of a long climb out of a section called Sleepy Hollow, a dip between here and Gentry down into a creek valley. Unit trains really work here, and this 101 car grain train is no exception, and it shows as the leader smokes from a bad turbo as it makes a final push to crest the grade. |
| Photo Date: |
7/31/2024 Upload Date: 8/11/2024 5:13:44 AM |
| Location: |
Siloam Springs, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
KCS 4603(AC44CW) CP 8762(ES44AC) |
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260 Comments: 4 |
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| Title: |
Snoot |
| Description: |
UP had a group of SD40-2s that were known as "snoots" due to their lengthened short hoods. These were set up to carry radio equipment for remote power, then a novel idea which required some specialized equipment. Heres one of them leading a train on the ex Wabash. |
| Photo Date: |
2/19/1986 Upload Date: 11/11/2014 4:06:27 AM |
| Location: |
North Kansas City, MO |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Yard,Action |
| Locomotives: |
UP 3764(SD40-2) NS 6083(SD40-2) NW 1604(SD40) NW 8045(C30-7) |
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20234 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
252 with unusual power |
| Description: |
252 rolls south over the Harpursville bridge behind a trio of 40's. The two trailing units are notable. The middle unit is an ex SOU unit that was converted to a B unit by CP; they changed it by removing the seats and control stand, and boarding up the windows-yes, boarding up: they used plywood. The trailing unit is ex Greater Winnipeg Water District, and a trade from CN-note the road number that falls into CN's SD40 series. |
| Photo Date: |
1/22/2002 Upload Date: 12/26/2013 1:10:30 AM |
| Location: |
Harpursville, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Bridge,Winter,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CP 5612(SD40-2) CP 5475(SD40-2) CP 5394(SD40-2) |
| Views: |
23952 Comments: 7 |
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| Title: |
Classic Erie |
| Description: |
The only thing better would have been Erie(or EL, Id take that any day) E 8s on this train, the Southern Tier picnic special, which ran from Port Jervis to Hammond Dam State Park near Wellsboro PA. Here it is on the famous Starrucca Viaduct, a pair of classics if ever there was one. |
| Photo Date: |
8/26/1989 Upload Date: 11/5/2015 2:53:30 AM |
| Location: |
Lanesboro, PA |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Bridge,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CR 4021(E8A) CR 4020(E8A) |
| Views: |
19967 Comments: 6 |
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| Title: |
Southern power rolls |
| Description: |
A set of Southern SD 40s rolls south through a pair of NW signals with a grain train on the NW Shenandoah Sub, showing the effects of the NS merger four years earlier. Long hood forward was standard practice on the Southern and N&W, so the leader is not running backward. |
| Photo Date: |
9/11/1986 Upload Date: 12/12/2014 2:32:27 AM |
| Location: |
Waynesboro, VA |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
SOU 3193(SD40) NS 3276(SD40-2) SOU 3184(SD40) |
| Views: |
15678 Comments: 3 |
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| Title: |
Lucky for the brakie |
| Description: |
This southbound thqottles up as it passes the Pomona Yard office in a mid afternoon thunderstorm, its ground crew relieved there will be no work for them here today. An SD 40-2 and two 45's make up the power. |
| Photo Date: |
8/9/1980 Upload Date: 11/12/2016 4:54:29 AM |
| Location: |
Greensboro, NC |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Yard,Station,Action |
| Locomotives: |
SOU 3314(SD40-2) SOU 3158(SD45) SOU 2353(MP15DC) |
| Views: |
16148 Comments: 3 |
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| Title: |
Oddball |
| Description: |
Conrail had 100 GP15-1s, all new from EMD in 1979, which were scattered about the system in local service. Most of them survived to the split, with NS and CSX each getting some. CSX had some already, former Chessie units. On NS, they were orphans, and wound up in odd places. One is working the west end of local H2A(I swear, NS picks the letters and numbers out of a hat when they set up their train symbols) passing the Erie station, at right, in Owego. |
| Photo Date: |
12/16/2003 Upload Date: 6/21/2016 5:15:29 AM |
| Location: |
Owego, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Winter,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 1447(GP15-1) |
| Views: |
1368 Comments: 3 |
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| Title: |
Last blade |
| Description: |
The last semaphore in service on the Southern Tier witnesses the passing of 41T at west Endicott. |
| Photo Date: |
12/17/2002 Upload Date: 6/4/2016 4:47:51 AM |
| Location: |
Endicott, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Winter,Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CN 5656(SD75I) CN 5273(SD40-2W) CN 5670(SD75I) |
| Views: |
1529 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
No its not a model |
| Description: |
The buildings at Waverly have made an excellent backdrop for train photos for many years, and look like someones model railroad. Here 31T with 65 cars rolls west. |
| Photo Date: |
6/23/2004 Upload Date: 1/6/2013 3:47:33 AM |
| Location: |
Waverly, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CN 5547(SD60F) CN 5736(SD75I) NS 8946(C40-9W) |
| Views: |
2473 Comments: 6 |
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| Title: |
Last train through the signals?? |
| Description: |
Well, probably the last one Ill see here. Class unit KCS 3900 leading the Q KCSH splits the side by side searchlights at MP 187 near Anderson Mo late in the afternoon of Feb 26 2012. New signals have been going up in a steady southward pace, and the new lights can be seen on the ground here. Gentry and Siloam Springs got new home signals during the week of 02/20. This one is not long for the world. |
| Photo Date: |
2/26/2012 Upload Date: 2/28/2012 1:09:28 AM |
| Location: |
Anderson, MO |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
KCS 3900(SD70MAC) KCS 4053(SD70ACe) |
| Views: |
1803 Comments: 3 |
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| Title: |
Unusual scene |
| Description: |
SNOW in Arkansas!!! A trio of Belles rolls a southbound past the Allen Canning warehouse in Siloam Springs as seen from the US 412 overpass. |
| Photo Date: |
2/13/2011 Upload Date: 2/13/2012 12:49:09 AM |
| Location: |
Siloam Springs, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Winter,Action |
| Locomotives: |
KCS 4110(SD70ACe) KCS 4112(SD70ACe) KCS 4123(SD70ACe) |
| Views: |
1744 Comments: 7 |
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| Title: |
Into daylight |
| Description: |
CP 5566 rolls out of Belden tunnel and starts its downhill trip into Binghamton |
| Photo Date: |
10/16/1993 Upload Date: 1/22/2012 2:13:27 AM |
| Location: |
Tunnel, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Tunnel,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CP 5566(SD40-2) DH 7312(GP38-2) CP 6044(SD40-2) |
| Views: |
1358 Comments: 4 |
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| Title: |
Belle on the Illinois |
| Description: |
A pair of Belles lead a northbound empty grain train across the Illinois River |
| Photo Date: |
9/11/2011 Upload Date: 1/21/2012 12:25:57 AM |
| Location: |
Watts, OK |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Bridge,Action |
| Locomotives: |
KCS 4686(ES44AC) KCS 4125(SD70ACe) |
| Views: |
1363 Comments: 8 |
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| Title: |
WJAL 18 crosses the Delaware |
| Description: |
Allentown based local WJAL 18 crosses the CNJ bridge and heads up the Washington Secondary-the former DLW-toward Hackettstown NJ. Note the remains of semaphore signals protecting the interlocking. |
| Photo Date: |
4/25/1985 Upload Date: 8/7/2011 2:40:51 AM |
| Location: |
Phillipsburg, NJ |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Bridge,Station,Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CR 1978(B23-7) CR 7943(GP38-2) |
| Views: |
2259 Comments: 12 |
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| Title: |
GG 1 ready to roll |
| Description: |
PRR 4920 awaits its next run toward DC or Philly at Sunnyside Yard, as seen from the Long Island RR. My dad took the photo on his way to work. |
| Photo Date: |
11/10/1964 Upload Date: 7/20/2011 1:59:20 AM |
| Location: |
Sunnyside Yard, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Yard,Passenger |
| Locomotives: |
PRR 4920(GG1) |
| Views: |
1803 Comments: 16 |
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| Title: |
KCS 3131 Elk River |
| Description: |
KCS 3131/TFM 1426/1423 lead southbound grain over Elk River at Ginger Blue MO |
| Photo Date: |
7/27/2008 Upload Date: 1/15/2011 1:23:46 AM |
| Location: |
Ginger Blue, MO |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Bridge,Action |
| Locomotives: |
KCS 3131(SD40-3) TFM 1426(SD40-2) TFM 1423(SD40-2) |
| Views: |
1646 Comments: 8 |
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| Title: |
Going away |
| Description: |
Winchester & Western started operations on some ex PRSL lines in south Jersey, based out of!Brodgeton. Heres one of the trains going east, running with an ex NW GP 9 on each end. W&W 517 brings up the rear in this going away shot. |
| Photo Date: |
4/29/1987 Upload Date: 4/21/2015 2:00:45 AM |
| Location: |
Vineland, NJ |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
WW 517(GP9) |
| Views: |
443 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Odd power |
| Description: |
Guilford in its early years would buy anything that ran and was cheap. GE U boats didnt command a high resale value, and they picked up some from Conrail, such as this U33B. |
| Photo Date: |
12/4/1984 Upload Date: 8/1/2014 3:06:00 AM |
| Location: |
Mechanicville, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Winter,Yard,Action |
| Locomotives: |
BM 190(U33B) DH 415(C420) DH 7409(GP39-2) BM 327(GP40) |
| Views: |
1302 Comments: 0 |
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