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Tom Beckett's Collection
 
5/1/2024
 
 
 
 
 
Owner: Conrail
Model:GE C40-8Built As:CR 6026 (C40-8)
Serial Number:45907Order No:1877CR
Frame Number:Built:3/1989
Other locos with this serial:  NS 8300(C40-8) CR 6026(C40-8)
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New power
Title:  New power
Description:  The first two units of the new fleet of C40-8s roll BUOI east.
Photo Date:  3/19/1989  Upload Date: 9/29/2015 1:35:07 AM
Location:  Owego, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  CR 6025(C40-8) CR 6026(C40-8) CR 3051(GP40) CR 3370(GP40-2)
Views:  969   Comments: 2
Everything all at once
Title:  Everything all at once
Description:  Seems it never rains but it pours. If theres one train, theres two. OIBU gets rolling west after working Binghamton, as BUME waits for it to clear so it can get up onto the Buffalo Runner, get a new crew, and head for its Guilford connection at Mechanicville.
Photo Date:  5/25/1989  Upload Date: 10/11/2015 3:09:07 AM
Location:  Binghamton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CR 6334(SD40) CR 6618(C32-8) DH 7402(GP39-2) CR 6026(C40-8) NYSW 4030(B40-8) NYSW 4048(B40-8)
Views:  620   Comments: 0
Rolling by BD
Title:  Rolling by BD
Description:  OIBU rolls past BD as it heads on toward downtown and a pick up and set out. The leader is the class unit of the C40-8 fleet.
Photo Date:  6/22/1989  Upload Date: 10/14/2015 4:26:25 AM
Location:  Binghamton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CR 6026(C40-8) CR 6793(SD50)
Views:  211   Comments: 0
Getting out of town
Title:  Getting out of town
Description:  OIBU rolls west past West BD as it heads for its next stop at Elmira.
Photo Date:  7/11/1989  Upload Date: 10/31/2015 4:30:02 AM
Location:  Binghamton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CR 6026(C40-8) CR 6718(SD50)
Views:  306   Comments: 0
Six axles today
Title:  Six axles today
Description:  CR ran whatever was handy on OIBU, though it tended to get six axle power most of the time. There had been a spate of 4 motors on the train at this time, so this pair of big GEs was something of a return to normal.
Photo Date:  7/9/1990  Upload Date: 1/14/2016 3:50:13 AM
Location:  Owego, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  CR 6033(C40-8) CR 6026(C40-8)
Views:  227   Comments: 0
Rolling for Toledo
Title:  Rolling for Toledo
Description:  BUTO, a 94 car train of mostly autoracks rolls west on the Chicago Line.
Photo Date:  8/11/1990  Upload Date: 1/22/2016 3:50:36 AM
Location:  Portland, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CR 6026(C40-8) CR 6066(C40-8W)
Views:  273   Comments: 1
Rolling through the curves
Title:  Rolling through the curves
Description:  TV 26 rolls through the S curve along Airport Rd west of Endicott with an ex NYC unit leading.
Photo Date:  9/28/1992  Upload Date: 2/2/2015 3:47:23 AM
Location:  Endicott, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  CR 3008(GP40) CR 6026(C40-8)
Views:  617   Comments: 0
Original C 40
Title:  Original C 40
Description:  One of Conrails original C40-8s rolls east with 127 cars of BUOI at Hornell.
Photo Date:  7/17/1993  Upload Date: 1/20/2015 6:53:13 PM
Location:  Hornell, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  CR 6026(C40-8) CR 6102(C40-8W) CR 6842(SD60)
Views:  617   Comments: 1


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