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Tom Beckett's Collection
 
5/4/2024
 
 
 
 
 
Owner: New York Susquehanna & Western
Model:EMD SD45Built As:BN 6486 (SD45)
Serial Number:36375Order No:7261
Frame Number:7261-15Built:8/1970
Notes:Ex-BN, Renumbered to 3614
Other locos with this serial:  NYSW 3614(SD45) NYSW 6364(SD45) BN 6486(SD45)
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SLN4
Title:  SLN4
Description:  SLN4 with an SD 45 sandwiched between a pair of C 430s passing the former yard at Port Jervis. The open area behind the train was once the westbound yard there, extending to Sparrow Bush.
Photo Date:  7/22/1986  Upload Date: 5/17/2011 1:52:43 AM
Location:  Port Jervis, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  NYSW 3000(C430) NYSW 6364(SD45) NYSW 3004(C430)
Views:  1822   Comments: 3
Getting a roll on
Title:  Getting a roll on
Description:  With a cloud of smoke befitting its Alcos, NYSW SLN 4 has switched Nepera Chemical in Harriman, and is now rolling for Jersey at Newburg Jct, where the Erie main line turned west to Chester and Goshen. The NYSW train is on the Graham Line freight bypass built in 1907..
Photo Date:  7/22/1986  Upload Date: 12/3/2014 3:17:16 PM
Location:  Harriman, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  NYSW 3000(C430) NYSW 6364(SD45) NYSW 3004(C430)
Views:  1063   Comments: 1
Alco power
Title:  Alco power
Description:  Mostly. SLN 4 reaches the east end of Moodna, and will now work down toward Harriman and Jersey. Well get a surprise at Harriman, when the train stops to work Nepera Chemical there.
Photo Date:  7/22/1986  Upload Date: 12/3/2014 3:40:55 PM
Location:  Washingtonville, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Bridge,Action
Locomotives:  NYSW 3000(C430) NYSW 6364(SD45) NYSW 3004(C430)
Views:  1015   Comments: 3
River view
Title:  River view
Description:  SLN 4 behind a pair of C 430s bracketing an SD 45 crosses the Lackawaxen River in its namesake town as it makes its way down the Erie Delaware Division toward Port Jervis and home rails at Passaic Jct.
Photo Date:  7/22/1986  Upload Date: 12/3/2014 3:20:26 PM
Location:  Lackawaxen, PA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Bridge,Action
Locomotives:  NYSW 3000(C430) NYSW 6364(SD45) NYSW 3004(C430)
Views:  900   Comments: 0
Along the river from on high
Title:  Along the river from on high
Description:  SLN 4 rolls through the trees along the Delaware approaching Mill Rift bridge, as seen from the overlooks on NY 97 at Hawks Nest. It will shortly cross over into New York.
Photo Date:  7/22/1986  Upload Date: 12/3/2014 3:32:35 PM
Location:  Mill Rift, PA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  NYSW 3000(C430) NYSW 6364(SD45) NYSW 3004(C430)
Views:  923   Comments: 1
Zoomed in
Title:  Zoomed in
Description:  SLN 4 crosses Moodna Viaduct in a telephoto view. Even the long lens doesnt bring the train in much due to the massive dimensions of the viaduct.
Photo Date:  7/22/1986  Upload Date: 12/3/2014 3:39:44 PM
Location:  Washingtonville, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Bridge,Action
Locomotives:  NYSW 3000(C430) NYSW 6364(SD45) NYSW 3004(C430)
Views:  1001   Comments: 1
Wide shot
Title:  Wide shot
Description:  SLN 4 crosses Moodna Viaduct, one of the great Erie steel bridges, in a wide angle view taken from near CR 20.
Photo Date:  7/22/1986  Upload Date: 12/3/2014 3:38:17 PM
Location:  Washingtonville, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Bridge,Action
Locomotives:  NYSW 3000(C430) NYSW 6364(SD45) NYSW 3004(C430)
Views:  897   Comments: 4
Rolling
Title:  Rolling
Description:  SLN 4 is working Nepera Chemical at Harriman, and will soon be on its way to Suffern and Little Ferry.
Photo Date:  7/22/1986  Upload Date: 12/3/2014 3:18:23 PM
Location:  Harriman, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Action
Locomotives:  NYSW 3000(C430) NYSW 6364(SD45) NYSW 3004(C430)
Views:  1406   Comments: 0
Ex BN units
Title:  Ex BN units
Description:  NYSW 6366 and 6364 work near Passaic Jct, showing their heritage.
Photo Date:  9/16/1986  Upload Date: 2/26/2012 4:02:49 AM
Location:  Rochelle Park, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  NYSW 6366(SD45) NYSW 6364(SD45)
Views:  937   Comments: 0
Southern Division local
Title:  Southern Division local
Description:  Train WS 1 works east through Camp Gaw-also known as Franklin Lakes-on its way to Paterson, Hawthorne, and Passaic Jct. Two green ex BN units do the honors today.
Photo Date:  10/14/1986  Upload Date: 12/15/2014 3:37:50 AM
Location:  Franklin Lakes, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  NYSW 6364(SD45) NYSW 6366(SD45)
Views:  757   Comments: 1
WS 2
Title:  WS 2
Description:  The other train on the line that day was WS 2, working west. Here it is in a dark side photo at Midland Park
Photo Date:  10/14/1986  Upload Date: 12/19/2014 2:56:23 AM
Location:  Midland Park, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  NYSW 6364(SD45) NYSW 6366(SD45)
Views:  668   Comments: 0
Pulling up
Title:  Pulling up
Description:  WS 2 pulls past the Hawthorne station as it works the connection to the Erie main line.
Photo Date:  10/14/1986  Upload Date: 12/19/2014 2:58:15 AM
Location:  Hawthorne, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Action
Locomotives:  NYSW 6364(SD45) NYSW 6366(SD45)
Views:  625   Comments: 0
Working the customer
Title:  Working the customer
Description:  WS 2 switches cars in and out at a Midland Park customer.
Photo Date:  10/14/1986  Upload Date: 12/19/2014 3:01:05 AM
Location:  Midland Park, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  NYSW 6364(SD45) NYSW 6366(SD45)
Views:  663   Comments: 0
At the station
Title:  At the station
Description:  WS 2s power rolls past the Wyckoff station en route west.
Photo Date:  10/14/1986  Upload Date: 12/19/2014 3:03:13 AM
Location:  Wyckoff, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Action
Locomotives:  NYSW 6364(SD45) NYSW 6366(SD45)
Views:  600   Comments: 0
Approaching the station
Title:  Approaching the station
Description:  WS 2 approaches the Wyckoff station in a shot that shows the nicely painted NYSW station there.
Photo Date:  10/14/1986  Upload Date: 12/19/2014 3:04:33 AM
Location:  Wyckoff, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Action
Locomotives:  NYSW 6364(SD45) NYSW 6366(SD45)
Views:  622   Comments: 0


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