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Tom Beckett's Collection
 
5/7/2024
 
 
 
 
 
Owner: Conrail
Model:GE B36-7Built As:CR 5051 (B36-7)
Serial Number:44402Order No:1443
Frame Number:Built:12/1983
Other locos with this serial:  CR 5051(B36-7) NS 3624(B36-7) EFVM 719(BB36-7)
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Morning westbound
Title:  Morning westbound
Description:  A westboud trailvan speeds past Utica behind what was then typical power, B36-7s and GP40s. The smokestack is for the station power house.
Photo Date:  7/14/1984  Upload Date: 6/27/2014 3:32:24 AM
Location:  Utica, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Action
Locomotives:  CR 5051(B36-7) CR 5054(B36-7)
Views:  395   Comments: 0
Westbound vans
Title:  Westbound vans
Description:  A slightly different angle of a train seen elsewhere. CR had a big stable of 4 axle GEs that were common on these trains, especially on the Chicago Line, which was ideal for them. Three do the honors here on a 65 car TV 79.
Photo Date:  7/15/1988  Upload Date: 8/28/2015 2:46:19 AM
Location:  Syracuse (Dewitt), NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Station,Action
Locomotives:  CR 5081(B40-8) CR 5080(B40-8) CR 5051(B36-7)
Views:  467   Comments: 0
Smokin vans
Title:  Smokin vans
Description:  TV 79 smokes past the station at Dewitt, rolling on into the setting sun behind a typical intermodal power set of that era.
Photo Date:  7/15/1988  Upload Date: 8/26/2015 2:45:41 AM
Location:  Syracuse (Dewitt), NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Action
Locomotives:  CR 5081(B40-8) CR 5080(B40-8) CR 5051(B36-7)
Views:  473   Comments: 1
Even the vans wait
Title:  Even the vans wait
Description:  An eastbound is rolling through CP 285 and into the west end of Dewitt as the TV 79 cools its heels waiting for it to clear.
Photo Date:  7/15/1988  Upload Date: 8/28/2015 2:49:19 AM
Location:  Syracuse (Dewitt), NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  CR 5081(B40-8) CR 5080(B40-8) CR 5051(B36-7)
Views:  400   Comments: 0
TV 200X
Title:  TV 200X
Description:  Its three weeks before Christmas and the rush is on. Conrail has all the stack traffic it can handle, and is running extra sections of stack trains to accommodate the heavy import traffic. This TV 200X is helping out at Great Bend PA, having just crossed from New York, rolling for Croxton.
Photo Date:  12/5/1988  Upload Date: 9/16/2015 1:35:33 PM
Location:  Great Bend, PA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  CR 3357(GP40-2) CR 5048(B36-7) CR 5051(B36-7)
Views:  430   Comments: 0


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