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| Title: |
Unsung heroes |
| Description: |
Even if they are orange. The work train units are relegated to a track away from the main part of the yard. But without the wire train, nobody goes anywhere. This pair of aging GPs keeps the place moving, so all those high speed electrics can run 100 MPH. |
| Photo Date: |
3/8/1988 Upload Date: 7/1/2015 3:41:13 AM |
| Location: |
Sunnyside Yard, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Roster,Yard |
| Locomotives: |
AMTK 783(GP7) AMTK 778(GP7) |
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683 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Stone in winter |
| Description: |
Track maintenance was a full time job on the Corridor, due to the constant pounding the track structure got on this high density railroad. Thus, we have a ballast train in action in December. It is on the run around track at Penn Station, waiting for a shot at the main track. |
| Photo Date: |
12/14/1979 Upload Date: 12/9/2016 3:22:58 AM |
| Location: |
Baltimore Penn Stati, MD |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
AMTK 782(GP7) |
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656 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Minnesota Southern |
| Description: |
Two Minnesota Southern units sit at the Luverne Minn station on a Sunday afternoon |
| Photo Date: |
8/14/2011 Upload Date: 8/27/2011 11:54:26 PM |
| Location: |
Luverne, MN |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Roster,Yard,Station |
| Locomotives: |
MSWY 1365(GP9) MSWY 1379(GP7) |
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455 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
The Red Baron lives!! |
| Description: |
One of the great things about riding past the NJDOT yard in Harrison was that you never knew what youd see, Here is one of the ex CNJ GP7Ps still sporting its red scheme and original number, albeit somewhat worse for wear. Note also the ex GN cars from the Bay Head Builder. |
| Photo Date: |
7/17/1978 Upload Date: 9/5/2012 11:35:04 PM |
| Location: |
Harrison, NJ |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Roster,RollingStock,Yard,Passenger |
| Locomotives: |
CNJ 1523(GP7) |
| Views: |
1283 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
LV and friends |
| Description: |
The Southern RR of New Jersey has accumulated a number of vintage units and painted them in CR predecessor colors. Among the items they have here at Cape May is a pair of LV painted F 7s, a CNJ GP7, a PRR GP 9, some RDCs and a few other items. We see one of the LV Fs along with the PRR and CNJ units. |
| Photo Date: |
9/5/2004 Upload Date: 5/12/2017 4:19:23 AM |
| Location: |
Cape May, NJ |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Roster,Yard |
| Locomotives: |
LV 576(F7A) PRR 7000(GP9) CNJ 1523(GP7) |
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845 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
GP 7 |
| Description: |
B&M first generation power held on well into the 1980s, with some making it into Guilford. Heres a GP 7 at White River Jct in one of the many variatons of the blue scheme. |
| Photo Date: |
8/8/1981 Upload Date: 2/17/2013 3:45:37 AM |
| Location: |
White River Junction, VT |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Roster,Yard |
| Locomotives: |
BM 1559(GP7) |
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668 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Yard job |
| Description: |
GP 7s could still be found hard at work on the B&M in the 1980s, such as this one at East Deerfield. |
| Photo Date: |
9/6/1983 Upload Date: 11/12/2013 1:01:52 AM |
| Location: |
East Deerfield, MA |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Yard,Action |
| Locomotives: |
BM 1560(GP7) |
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425 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
First generation fiesta |
| Description: |
B&M had many first generation units; there are still a few on Guilfords roster today. In 1983 they were all over. Here area several at E Deerfield ayrd. |
| Photo Date: |
9/6/1983 Upload Date: 11/22/2013 1:19:04 AM |
| Location: |
East Deerfield, MA |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Yard,Action |
| Locomotives: |
BM 1562(GP7) BM 1747(GP9) BM 1560(GP7) |
| Views: |
903 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Long way home |
| Description: |
A Binghamton bound train rolls past Susquehanna as it runs the Belden tunnel detour, which took trains from Nineveh Jct to Lanesboro, then to Binghamton on CRs ex Erie main. The heritage of the leader is obvious. |
| Photo Date: |
8/20/1985 Upload Date: 10/8/2014 1:52:26 AM |
| Location: |
Susquehanna, PA |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
DH 409(C420) BM 1564(GP7) BM 314(GP40-2) MEC 225(U25B) |
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1070 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
A ghost from the past |
| Description: |
A D&H Belden Hill detour train pulls up the connector from the D&H Penn Division to Conrails Southern Tier Line at Jefferson Jct behind a mix of power that looks deceptively like a vision from the past. The reality is that the patch paint over the former road name has worn off, allowing the prior owners name to bleed through. Nobody was complaining!! |
| Photo Date: |
8/20/1985 Upload Date: 10/29/2011 3:23:14 AM |
| Location: |
Lanesboro, PA |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
DH 409(C420) BM 1564(GP7) BM 314(GP40-2) MEC 225(U25B) |
| Views: |
1720 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
B&M power |
| Description: |
Some trains still ran with B&M units. One of them arrives at North Station behinda GP 7. |
| Photo Date: |
7/19/1983 Upload Date: 11/3/2013 2:42:58 AM |
| Location: |
Boston, MA |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
BM 1566(GP7) |
| Views: |
722 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Turning the corner |
| Description: |
PYRP has crossed Conrail at BD and has turned the corner to come up through the D&H Bevier St yard as it starts up Belden Hill with a monster 138 car train. Thats an NYSW eastbound waiting on a crew at right. it will go later tonight. |
| Photo Date: |
9/26/1987 Upload Date: 5/27/2015 3:25:35 AM |
| Location: |
Binghamton, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Yard,Action |
| Locomotives: |
Ct 051() ST 49(GP9) BM 333(GP40) ST 633(SD26) NYSW 6361(SD45) BM 1567(GP7) |
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1210 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
High on the bridge |
| Description: |
PYRP crossed the high bridge over Wylie Creek, seen from the north side of the bridge on NY 235. |
| Photo Date: |
9/26/1987 Upload Date: 5/27/2015 3:29:31 AM |
| Location: |
Binghamton, NY |
| Author: |
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| Categories: |
Scenic,Bridge,Action |
| Locomotives: |
Ct 051() ST 49(GP9) BM 1567(GP7) BM 333(GP40) ST 633(SD26) |
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1193 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Getting started |
| Description: |
PYRP has just been given permission out to BD. For all of Guilfords faults, they could put together an eclectic power consist, as we can see on tkis train. |
| Photo Date: |
9/26/1987 Upload Date: 5/27/2015 3:27:14 AM |
| Location: |
Binghamton, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Yard,Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
Ct 051() ST 49(GP9) BM 1567(GP7) BM 333(GP40) ST 633(SD26) |
| Views: |
1114 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Business end |
| Description: |
The generator end of a GP7P showing the squared off section of the long hood where the steam generator was installed. This one has not heated a passenger train for a long time by this date. |
| Photo Date: |
7/4/1981 Upload Date: 6/4/2014 2:06:41 AM |
| Location: |
Mechanicville, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Roster,Yard |
| Locomotives: |
BM 1577(GP7) BM 202(GP38-2) |
| Views: |
989 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Northern Missouri unit |
| Description: |
On a trip to KC, I ran across northern Missouri. This was a lucky find in Chillicothe. Not sure if the railroad is still operating. It was a segment of the Wabash line to Omaha. |
| Photo Date: |
2/17/1986 Upload Date: 11/9/2014 4:41:21 AM |
| Location: |
Chillicothe, MO |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Roster,Winter,Yard |
| Locomotives: |
CBRM 2348(GP7) |
| Views: |
877 Comments: 4 |
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| Title: |
All kinds of stuff |
| Description: |
A view of the SWRC yard in Hurley reveals some interesting power, among them several GP 30's, what looks like an ex CNW GP 7, and a GP 40. It's a pretty cool roster. |
| Photo Date: |
3/23/2015 Upload Date: 9/3/2018 6:04:08 AM |
| Location: |
Hurley, NM |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Roster,Yard |
| Locomotives: |
SW 2468(GP30) SW 30(GP30) SW 4291(GP7) |
| Views: |
550 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Local with classic power |
| Description: |
A GP 7 rolls a short freight in the Midway area of Minneapolis. |
| Photo Date: |
6/24/1987 Upload Date: 5/11/2015 3:59:40 AM |
| Location: |
Minneapolis, MN |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Yard,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CNW 4439(GP7) |
| Views: |
322 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Going to the torch |
| Description: |
A large group of CSX power is lined up at Conrails Allentown yard, probably en route to Naporano Iron & Metal in Newark for a date with the scrappers. Note the Ma & Pa and Maryland Midland box cars in the foreground. Allentown yard was always a colorful place to see power and rolling stock. |
| Photo Date: |
5/20/1986 Upload Date: 11/20/2014 5:59:22 PM |
| Location: |
Allentown Hump Yard, PA |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Roster,Yard |
| Locomotives: |
BO 5606(GP7) CO 5201(NW2) CO 5212(NW2) CO 5219(SW7) CO 5216(SW7) CO 5264(SW9) |
| Views: |
1702 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Put power |
| Description: |
The Putnam Division was still a going concern in the late 70s, though its days were numbered. Service at the time went as far as an A&P warehouse in, I think, Tuckahoe. The power requirements were not extensive, and this GP 7 was more than up to the task. Seen at the Putnam Division yard in the Bronx, where the Hudson Line follows the Harlem River, and the Put goes north. Note the small Conrail lettering and can opener on the long hood. And how about those PC trailers at left!! |
| Photo Date: |
8/18/1978 Upload Date: 12/18/2016 6:22:11 AM |
| Location: |
Bronx, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Yard,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CR 5638(GP7) |
| Views: |
828 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Ex CNJ power |
| Description: |
A pair of ex CNJ units readies for the evening rush at Harrison. The heritage is obvious on the trailing unit, CR 5679, as it still carries the CNJ "toothpaste" scheme. The lead unit is not as obvious-you have to look at the end of the long hood to see the squared off section housing the steam generator to see it's a former CNJ GP7P. |
| Photo Date: |
11/28/1979 Upload Date: 8/8/2012 1:46:56 AM |
| Location: |
Harrison, NJ |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Yard,Passenger |
| Locomotives: |
NJT 5905(GP7) CR 5679(GP7) |
| Views: |
962 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
West end |
| Description: |
In August 1978 I rode the Broadway from New York to Chicago. At the time, it was still a main freight route to the Windy City for Conrail, and I recall a number of things from that trip. One was outrunning a white Firebird that was pacing us on adjacent US 30. The other was that we seemed to meet an eastbound every 30 minutes or so. There also was some local traffic on the route, as we see here. A solo GP 7 works a siding near Valpo. |
| Photo Date: |
8/15/1978 Upload Date: 12/16/2016 5:45:12 AM |
| Location: |
Valparaiso, IN |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
CR 5700(GP7) |
| Views: |
631 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Ancient mariner |
| Description: |
This relic was at the Selkirk shop during the Hudson River Streamliner visit. Looking pretty good for a 35 year old diesel. |
| Photo Date: |
8/11/1985 Upload Date: 10/7/2014 2:09:13 AM |
| Location: |
Selkirk, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Roster,Yard |
| Locomotives: |
CR 5711(GP7) |
| Views: |
308 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
North on the B&OCT |
| Description: |
A train rolls past Forest Hill on the B&OCT. Some trains would pass the tower, then back down the connecting track to access C&Os Rockwell St yard. Ya can't beat a pair of geeps!! |
| Photo Date: |
3/22/1984 Upload Date: 6/4/2014 3:23:36 AM |
| Location: |
FOREST HILL, IL |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
CO 5826(GP7) BO 6454(GP9) |
| Views: |
911 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
NJ Transit 5902 |
| Description: |
Among the units NJ Transit inherited from Conrail were a group of GP7Ps that came from CNJ. They lasted into the mid 80s along with the hand me down cars, everything from the ex BN Empire Builder cars to original CNJ coaches from 1925. Here, 5902, a former CNJ GP7P is at Newark Penn Station. |
| Photo Date: |
8/17/1981 Upload Date: 11/6/2011 2:12:27 AM |
| Location: |
Newark, NJ |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NJT 5902(GP7) |
| Views: |
921 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Borrowed power |
| Description: |
A straight GP 9-CR had not started rebuilding them into the 7500 series GP 10's yet-assitts a Raritan train as it gets ready to roll into Newark to take on passengers. |
| Photo Date: |
11/15/1978 Upload Date: 1/5/2014 3:42:57 AM |
| Location: |
Harrison, NJ |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Yard,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CR 7301(GP9) NJT 5904(GP7) |
| Views: |
782 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Two units to Phillipsburg |
| Description: |
NJ Transit continued running two rush hour trains to Phillipsburg NJ, as well as a mid day run, until 1983. Here one of the rush hour trains is ready to go from Newark Penn Station behind a GP7P-note the squared off end on the long hood of the lead unit-and a GP40P. NJ Transit adopted the paint scheme used on the EL U34CHs until it came up with the "disco" scheme in the mid 80s. Many of the fans thought this was an elegant paint scheme, and that the new scheme was not an improvement. |
| Photo Date: |
5/7/1982 Upload Date: 11/6/2011 2:18:58 AM |
| Location: |
Newark, NJ |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NJT 5905(GP7) NJT 4103(GP40P) |
| Views: |
888 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
NJ DOT 5906 |
| Description: |
NJ DOT 5906, a former CNJ GP7P, heads toward Newark with a Raritan Valley train |
| Photo Date: |
11/8/1979 Upload Date: 3/6/2011 1:28:29 AM |
| Location: |
Cranford, NJ |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NJT 5906(GP7) |
| Views: |
659 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
NJT 5907 |
| Description: |
Except for the paint on the diesel, this train looks just like what it is, a CNJ train from Raritan that has just dropped its New York passengers at Newark Penn Station, and is now heading for the layup tracks at Harrison. The power is an ex CNJ GP7P-note the squared off lower portion of the long hood. The cars are vintage 1925. |
| Photo Date: |
7/14/1980 Upload Date: 12/29/2013 4:11:12 AM |
| Location: |
Harrison, NJ |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NJT 5907(GP7) |
| Views: |
810 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
Unusual power |
| Description: |
There was not a lot of crossover from one line to another. Thus it was very unusual to see former CNJ power on the EL, or vice versa. This pair of ex CNJ GP7Ps was a rare find at Hoboken at that time. |
| Photo Date: |
8/19/1984 Upload Date: 7/2/2014 1:53:30 PM |
| Location: |
Hoboken, NJ |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Roster,Station,Passenger |
| Locomotives: |
NJT 5907(GP7) |
| Views: |
415 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
CNJ units |
| Description: |
Another day at Harrison, we see a different GP7P, and a GP40P in the rain. Note the coach behind 5908. It's one of the BN cars acquired by CNJ that ran on the Bay Head Builder, now repainted in the last CNJ passenger car scheme. |
| Photo Date: |
10/15/1979 Upload Date: 8/8/2012 1:48:34 AM |
| Location: |
Harrison, NJ |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Yard,Passenger |
| Locomotives: |
NJT 5908(GP7) NJT 4102(GP40P) |
| Views: |
1174 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
First generation goodies |
| Description: |
Were passing the Chicago engine facility just outside Union Station, where first generation power is holding sway. A pair of Es, a GP 7 from the PC Valpo train, and an SW 1 shop switcher dominate the scene, quite typical of the time. Note the building in the background, the Continental Paper Grading Co. I had no idea my teachers were sending my term papers here to get graded. I thought they did it all themselves :-) |
| Photo Date: |
8/15/1978 Upload Date: 12/8/2016 4:58:50 AM |
| Location: |
Chicago, IL |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Roster,Yard |
| Locomotives: |
AMTK 412(E9A) AMTK 473(E9B) CR 8420(SW1) CR 5959(GP7) |
| Views: |
1080 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
Parked |
| Description: |
Probably permanently. This geep was outside the shop at Coffeyville. |
| Photo Date: |
6/14/2015 Upload Date: 10/25/2015 3:19:13 AM |
| Location: |
Coffeyville, KS |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Roster,Yard |
| Locomotives: |
WAMX 7008(GP7) |
| Views: |
384 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Oddball |
| Description: |
This GP 7 was parked outside the former MP shop in Coffeyville Kan, now used by Watco. Most of Watcos power is second generation, so this was something of a surprise. Note the bleed through on the paint, giving away the unit as former Meridian & Bigbee. |
| Photo Date: |
6/14/2015 Upload Date: 8/16/2018 5:14:31 AM |
| Location: |
Coffeyville, KS |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Roster |
| Locomotives: |
WAMX 7008(GP7) |
| Views: |
377 Comments: 2 |
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