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Tom Beckett's Collection
 
1/7/2025
 
 
 
 
 
Owner: Canadian Pacific Railway
Model:EMD SD40-2Built As:CP 5629 (SD40-2)
Serial Number:72657-1Order No:72657
Frame Number:72657-1Built:11/1972
Notes:DRF-30j
Other locos with this serial:  CP 5629(SD40-2)
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Frozen swamp
Title:  Frozen swamp
Description:  Youd never know it, but theres a small wetland here. Ot was so cold, it all froze over. CP 277 rolls past Goodrich Settlement Rd as we wait for the thaw.
Photo Date:  2/5/1994  Upload Date: 1/5/2015 12:58:50 AM
Location:  Owego, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Winter,Action
Locomotives:  CP 5604(SD40-2) CP 5629(SD40-2)
Views:  460   Comments: 0
Passing through
Title:  Passing through
Description:  Train 277 rolls through Waverly on its hopefully uninterrupted trip to Buffalo with 77 cars in tow.
Photo Date:  2/5/1994  Upload Date: 1/5/2015 1:19:05 AM
Location:  Waverly, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Winter,Action
Locomotives:  CP 5604(SD40-2) CP 5629(SD40-2)
Views:  418   Comments: 0
413
Title:  413
Description:  413 gets underway, passing the Binghamton Agway mill as it heads for the tunnel.
Photo Date:  10/8/2001  Upload Date: 10/27/2013 3:17:02 AM
Location:  Binghamton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  CP 5620(SD40-2) SOO 781(SD40-2) CP 5701(SD40-2) CP 5629(SD40-2)
Views:  689   Comments: 0
413 on high
Title:  413 on high
Description:  413 crosses the high bridge at Harpursville on its way to Mohawk
Photo Date:  10/8/2001  Upload Date: 10/27/2013 3:21:29 AM
Location:  Harpursville, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Bridge,Action
Locomotives:  CP 5620(SD40-2) SOO 781(SD40-2) CP 5701(SD40-2) CP 5629(SD40-2)
Views:  747   Comments: 0
166
Title:  166
Description:  166 arives East Binghamton seen from standing atop the guardrail along Conklin Av.
Photo Date:  3/11/2002  Upload Date: 10/13/2013 3:52:38 AM
Location:  Binghamton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Bridge,Action
Locomotives:  SOO 6615(SD40-2) SOO 6057(SD60) CP 5629(SD40-2)
Views:  611   Comments: 1
Climbing to the top
Title:  Climbing to the top
Description:  Train 165 slowly pounds its way to Belden Tunnel, 72 cars behind a quartet of red SDs.
Photo Date:  8/21/2003  Upload Date: 4/12/2017 3:26:57 AM
Location:  Tunnel, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  CP 5869(SD40-2) CP 5629(SD40-2) CP 6046(SD40-2)
Views:  690   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:  SOO 6003(SD60) CP 5629(SD40-2) CP 5643(SD40-2)
Views:  706   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:  SOO 6003(SD60) CP 5629(SD40-2) CP 5643(SD40-2)
Views:  710   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) SOO 6601(SD40-2)
Views:  2188   Comments: 0
160
Title:  160
Description:  CP train 167 approaches Waverly in a spash of fall color.
Photo Date:  10/16/2004  Upload Date: 12/5/2011 12:15:36 AM
Location:  Waverly, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  CP 6031(SD40-2) SOO 6612(SD40-2) CP 5629(SD40-2)
Views:  543   Comments: 1
167
Title:  167
Description:  CP train 167 for Toronto catches the last sun of the day as it rolls around%the sweeping curve west of Barton. It was here that the LV Auburn Branch passed under the Erie to reach its yard in Sayre PA.
Photo Date:  10/16/2004  Upload Date: 12/10/2012 1:22:47 AM
Location:  Barton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  CP 6031(SD40-2) SOO 6612(SD40-2) CP 5629(SD40-2)
Views:  487   Comments: 0
Ready to go west
Title:  Ready to go west
Description:  CP train 167 approachcs the north end crossovers with 99 cars and is about to pass under Conklin Av as it heads for BD and the Southern Tier
Photo Date:  10/16/2004  Upload Date: 12/10/2012 1:24:47 AM
Location:  Binghamton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  CP 6031(SD40-2) SOO 6612(SD40-2) CP 5629(SD40-2)
Views:  533   Comments: 1
Catching the sun
Title:  Catching the sun
Description:  Skies in the Southern Tier are famously cloudy, and days on end of solid overcast are not uncommon. Some dbys are hit and miss, wiith gaps in the clouds providing a glimpse of sun. Here train 167 catches one of the holes and a burst of sun as it approaches Devils Elbow, a section along the Shsquehanna River that passes around a rock outcrop between Owego and Tioga Center.
Photo Date:  10/16/2004  Upload Date: 12/10/2012 1:27:50 AM
Location:  Tioga Center, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  CP 6031(SD40-2) SOO 6612(SD40-2) CP 5629(SD40-2)
Views:  486   Comments: 0
Close up
Title:  Close up
Description:  Train 413 rolls north, a telephoto lens bringing in the length of 110 cars of train stretched out toward Crocker Hill Rd as the train approaches Depot Hill Rd.
Photo Date:  3/23/2005  Upload Date: 12/18/2017 5:52:53 AM
Location:  Port Crane, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Winter,Action
Locomotives:  STLH 5690(SD40-2) SOO 6010(SD60) CP 5960(SD40-2) CP 5629(SD40-2)
Views:  622   Comments: 1
Shooting wide
Title:  Shooting wide
Description:  The same 110 car 413, with a wider view this time, allowing a better look at the power, a mix of CP in several schemes, and a classic SOO white unit. Leader 5690 will be repainted yet again, this time into a bright red "golden rodent" scheme.
Photo Date:  3/23/2005  Upload Date: 12/18/2017 5:55:42 AM
Location:  Port Crane, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Winter,Action
Locomotives:  STLH 5690(SD40-2) SOO 6010(SD60) CP 5960(SD40-2) CP 5629(SD40-2)
Views:  528   Comments: 0


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