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Tom Beckett's Collection
 
5/7/2024
 
 
 
 
 
Owner: Conrail
Model:EMD SD50Built As:CR 6759 (SD50)
Serial Number:837065-28Order No:837065
Frame Number:837065-28Built:6/1984
Other locos with this serial:  CSX 8669(SD50) CR 6759(SD50) CSX 2492(SD50-2)
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Waiting to go
Title:  Waiting to go
Description:  OIEN poses on the Lehigh Canal bridge as it sets up to roll toward Enola.
Photo Date:  5/20/1986  Upload Date: 11/20/2014 6:01:29 PM
Location:  Allentown Hump Yard, PA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Bridge,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  CR 6797(SD50) CR 6759(SD50)
Views:  337   Comments: 4
Over the river
Title:  Over the river
Description:  OIEN rolls west over the Lehigh River and on to Reading and Harrisburg.
Photo Date:  5/20/1986  Upload Date: 11/20/2014 6:04:49 PM
Location:  Allentown Hump Yard, PA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Bridge,Action
Locomotives:  CR 6797(SD50) CR 6759(SD50)
Views:  284   Comments: 1
They ran freight too
Title:  They ran freight too
Description:  An eastbound merchandise train slips in between the autos and trailers in the glint of afternoon sun.
Photo Date:  7/1/1986  Upload Date: 12/2/2014 4:07:07 AM
Location:  Utica, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Action
Locomotives:  CR 6759(SD50) CR 8020(GP38-2) CR 2023(B23-7)
Views:  312   Comments: 0
Pulled down
Title:  Pulled down
Description:  CGAL is pulled down to MP 270 for headroom as it switches the Sayre yard. It will pick up cars from the Ithaca Branch, as well as pick up and set out for the RELCO contract repair shop, then head for Towanda, Wilkes Barre and Allentown.
Photo Date:  12/7/1988  Upload Date: 9/17/2015 4:27:56 AM
Location:  Sayre, PA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Winter,Action
Locomotives:  CR 6637(C36-7) CR 6776(SD50) CR 6408(SD40-2) CR 6759(SD50)
Views:  647   Comments: 3
BD cabin
Title:  BD cabin
Description:  OIBU rolls past BD as it heads for the yard a mile to the west. There was once a tower here, although it was a one story structure not much bigger than the relay case that replaced it.
Photo Date:  5/21/1989  Upload Date: 10/9/2015 3:54:47 AM
Location:  Binghamton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CR 6015(C39-8) CR 6759(SD50)
Views:  260   Comments: 0
All of town
Title:  All of town
Description:  OIBU rolls past Ted Clarks on the west side of Waverly with 126 cars. This wide view also allows a view of the largest Conrail customer in town, Leprino Foods, their cheese plant seen at right.
Photo Date:  8/3/1990  Upload Date: 1/19/2016 4:56:11 AM
Location:  Waverly, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  CR 6625(C36-7) CR 6595(C30-7A) CR 6759(SD50)
Views:  403   Comments: 2
Second section
Title:  Second section
Description:  BUSE4X, the extra section for the overflow traffic, rolls past Dewitt.
Photo Date:  4/24/1993  Upload Date: 1/27/2015 4:02:50 AM
Location:  Syracuse (Dewitt), NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  CR 6759(SD50) CR 6421(SD40-2) CR 7717(GP38)
Views:  404   Comments: 3
SD 50s
Title:  SD 50s
Description:  Conrail was one of the biggest buyers of SD 50. Here we see two of them on a stack train on the ex PRR
Photo Date:  6/21/1996  Upload Date: 2/27/2012 12:31:15 AM
Location:  Cleveland, OH
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CR 6736(SD50) CR 6759(SD50)
Views:  354   Comments: 0


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