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Tom Beckett's Collection
 
5/2/2024
 
 
 
 
 
Owner: Conrail
Model:EMD SD40Built As:PC 6243 (SD40)
Serial Number:36899Order No:7290
Frame Number:7290-4Built:12/1970
Notes:ex-PC
Other locos with this serial:  CR 802(SD40) IHB 4001(SD40) PC 6243(SD40) CR 6243(SD40) IHB 802(SD40)
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Local caboose
Title:  Local caboose
Description:  OIBU passes Campbell Hall, where it will set out cars for the local based there. The locals caboose is in the small yard. This operation is now handled by East Penn Railways.
Photo Date:  10/3/1987  Upload Date: 5/31/2015 3:19:06 AM
Location:  Campbell Hall, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  CR 6356(SD40) CR 6243(SD40)
Views:  542   Comments: 0
OIBU off the bridge
Title:  OIBU off the bridge
Description:  OIBU rolls off the big bridge over the East Branch at Hancock about an hour or so running time to Binghamton.
Photo Date:  10/3/1987  Upload Date: 5/31/2015 3:24:47 AM
Location:  Hancock, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Bridge,Action
Locomotives:  CR 6356(SD40) CR 6243(SD40)
Views:  484   Comments: 0
By the pad
Title:  By the pad
Description:  There is nothing left of the station at Lackawaxen but a concrete pad. A sad sight, brought home by the gloomy weather, although fall color is brightening the Delaware valley.
Photo Date:  10/3/1987  Upload Date: 5/31/2015 3:47:59 AM
Location:  Lackawaxen, PA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  CR 6356(SD40) CR 6243(SD40)
Views:  498   Comments: 0
Waiting
Title:  Waiting
Description:  OIBU waits at West OV, just east of the tunnel, for first a Port Jervis scoot, then TV 301.
Photo Date:  10/3/1987  Upload Date: 5/31/2015 3:28:01 AM
Location:  Otisville, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CR 6356(SD40) CR 6243(SD40)
Views:  423   Comments: 0
Scooped again
Title:  Scooped again
Description:  OIBU holds at the west end of Port Jervis yard while NYSW SLN 5 rolls past. Just not his day.
Photo Date:  10/3/1987  Upload Date: 5/31/2015 3:30:04 AM
Location:  Sparrow Bush, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  CR 6356(SD40) CR 6243(SD40) NYSW 6509(SD45) BN 6515(SD45) BN 6503(SD45)
Views:  878   Comments: 0
Low down
Title:  Low down
Description:  An eastbound 100 car XWM grain train rolls into Enola on the riverside track that ducks under the west end of Rockville Bridge.
Photo Date:  4/22/1988  Upload Date: 7/10/2015 2:50:39 PM
Location:  Enola, PA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  CR 6429(SD40-2) CR 6243(SD40) CR 7692(GP38)
Views:  487   Comments: 2
Busy spot
Title:  Busy spot
Description:  TOSE with 6791 waits at CP 434 while SLSE with 80 cars behind 6801, rolls past on the adjacent track. The cars beyond TOSE are on the Frontier lead.
Photo Date:  8/16/1991  Upload Date: 2/27/2015 3:23:18 AM
Location:  Cheektowaga, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  CR 6791(SD50) CR 6831(SD50) CR 6801(SD50) CR 6243(SD40)
Views:  784   Comments: 1


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