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| Title: |
WM unit |
| Description: |
I normally dont shoot mid consist units, but anything lettered Western Maryland was getting rare by this time. A Chessie painted WM unit is trailing on this 172 at North Collier. Wish I'd shot the unit behind it-a GP 30 in Seaboard paint. |
| Photo Date: |
5/14/1988 Upload Date: 7/14/2015 2:10:48 AM |
| Location: |
Collier Yard, VA |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
CSX 6253(GP40-2) |
| Views: |
471 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
PYRP arrives |
| Description: |
PYRP arrives at Binghamton behind a mix of CSX, NS and D&H power that typified the era. |
| Photo Date: |
7/9/1990 Upload Date: 11/27/2011 2:08:32 AM |
| Location: |
Binghamton, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Yard,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CSX 6278(GP40-2) NS 6119(SD40-2) NS 3210(SD40-2) DH 7312(GP38-2) |
| Views: |
1479 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
PYRP arrives |
| Description: |
PYRP crosses Terrace Drive and enters the East Binghamton yard. Power is typical, but today we have something different, rebuilt GP 38-2 7312, just in from M-K in Mountain Top PA. Note the railfan chase vehicle in the foreground. This was a Canadian built Chevy Celebrity for the Canadian market-the speed read in kilometers per hour, and the odometer counted kilometers. It took some adjusting to figure out how far and fast you were going. I got pretty good at multiplying everything by 5/8ths. |
| Photo Date: |
7/9/1990 Upload Date: 1/16/2016 3:12:04 AM |
| Location: |
Binghamton, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Yard,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CSX 6278(GP40-2) NS 6119(SD40-2) NS 3210(SD40-2) DH 7312(GP38-2) |
| Views: |
1038 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
New arrival |
| Description: |
Not only todays PYPR, but this rebuilt GP38-2. It looks good, and will be one of the last survivors in that scheme.!It was still wearing it in 2015, a full 25 years after it was rebuilt. |
| Photo Date: |
7/9/1990 Upload Date: 1/16/2016 3:14:12 AM |
| Location: |
Binghamton, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Yard,Action |
| Locomotives: |
DH 7312(GP38-2) NS 3210(SD40-2) NS 6119(SD40-2) CSX 6278(GP40-2) |
| Views: |
1026 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Power to the house |
| Description: |
The power of just arrived PYRP has cut off its train and is now going to the shop for servicing before going back south on tomorrows RPPY. |
| Photo Date: |
7/9/1990 Upload Date: 1/16/2016 3:16:55 AM |
| Location: |
Binghamton, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Yard,Action |
| Locomotives: |
DH 7312(GP38-2) NS 3210(SD40-2) NS 6119(SD40-2) CSX 6278(GP40-2) |
| Views: |
981 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Whod believe it?? |
| Description: |
Power from NYSW, NS, CSX, and even New Jersey short line Rahway Valley is at the East Binghamton engine house. Ten years earlier, if you told someone you would see this set up, theyd be checking your meds. |
| Photo Date: |
7/9/1990 Upload Date: 1/16/2016 3:26:22 AM |
| Location: |
Binghamton, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Roster,Yard |
| Locomotives: |
RV 17(70Tonner) CSX 6278(GP40-2) NS 6119(SD40-2) NS 3210(SD40-2) NYSW 3632(SD45) NYSW 2010(C420) |
| Views: |
996 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Fall color |
| Description: |
Not only are the trees in color, the consists on trains riding the former B&O are looking colorful as well. This 137 car westbound is crossing the Potomac after passing through the Harpers Ferry Tunnel. The gent in the river seems more intent on the fish than the train. |
| Photo Date: |
10/24/1987 Upload Date: 6/12/2015 2:49:36 AM |
| Location: |
Harpers Ferry, WV |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Bridge,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CSX 6317(GP40-2) CSX 2712(GP38-2) CSX 2093(GP38) |
| Views: |
691 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
TV 201 |
| Description: |
TV 201 rolls west with a couple of visitors. |
| Photo Date: |
7/11/1998 Upload Date: 3/17/2014 1:45:05 AM |
| Location: |
Waverly, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
CR 6480(SD40-2) CSX 7883(C40-8W) CSX 6327(GP40-2) |
| Views: |
897 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Five units north |
| Description: |
There's a surprise in there too-the 4th unit is a BQ 23-7. The spot I had there at Collier was excellent-nice little pull off to park in, shaded by pines, easy to sit and have a soda and read the paper. The only drawback was that the trains often came on you so fast you could not really set up. The afternoon was not so bad-the parking area was on the west side of the tracks-but the morning was a challenge, as you could not get over to the sun side fast enough. So this is a dark side shot. So it goes. |
| Photo Date: |
9/14/1986 Upload Date: 12/12/2014 1:52:50 AM |
| Location: |
Collier Yard, VA |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
SBD 6766(GP40) SCL 5141(B23-7) SBD 5133(BQ23-7) SBD 6359(GP40-2) SBD 2558(GP38-2) |
| Views: |
1029 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Getting along |
| Description: |
A CSX leader rolls west with SLN 5 at West BD with an NS and D&H unit on the team. The signal at right is on Track 3, the connection from the former D&H. |
| Photo Date: |
12/17/1988 Upload Date: 9/18/2015 12:59:28 AM |
| Location: |
Binghamton, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CSX 6402(GP40-2) NS 6620(SD60) DH 7419(GP39-2) |
| Views: |
841 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Passing the freight house |
| Description: |
SLN 5 with a stealth leader passes the old Erie freight house. It was a huge structure, largely empty by this time. It would be demolished in about five more years. The signal, the intermediate between BD and West BD, would also come down in a few years. |
| Photo Date: |
12/17/1988 Upload Date: 9/18/2015 1:02:45 AM |
| Location: |
Binghamton, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CSX 6402(GP40-2) NS 6620(SD60) DH 7419(GP39-2) |
| Views: |
774 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Coal in the fog |
| Description: |
An eastbound coal train on the B&O is changing crews, seen from the passing Lake Cities. Four units, four paint schemes. |
| Photo Date: |
3/10/1990 Upload Date: 12/23/2015 5:00:07 AM |
| Location: |
Gary, IN |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
CSX 6662(GP40) CSX 8554(SD50) CSX 6511(GP40) CSX 6404(GP40-2) |
| Views: |
965 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
In the yard |
| Description: |
An ex DT&I unit is head out at the Port Huron yard. |
| Photo Date: |
6/19/1987 Upload Date: 5/4/2015 12:29:14 AM |
| Location: |
Port Huron, MI |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Roster,Yard |
| Locomotives: |
GTW 6414(GP40-2) GTW 5836(GP38-2) |
| Views: |
661 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Always a pole |
| Description: |
This pair of units was sitting at the GTW yard, nicely posed behind a light pole. Never fails. At least the trailing unit, a former DT&I in patch paint, isnt blocked. |
| Photo Date: |
6/19/1987 Upload Date: 5/5/2015 2:34:19 AM |
| Location: |
Port Huron, MI |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Roster,Yard |
| Locomotives: |
GTW 5812(GP38-2) GTW 6416(GP40-2) |
| Views: |
773 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Odd sight |
| Description: |
An eastbound with power that is misnamed for the conditions rolls through Laurel Mont on the MRL. |
| Photo Date: |
10/30/1996 Upload Date: 5/6/2014 3:18:40 AM |
| Location: |
Laurel, MT |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Winter,Action |
| Locomotives: |
SP 7124(GP40M-2) SSW 7245(GP40-2) |
| Views: |
761 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Clean SP units!! |
| Description: |
Two years after the UP took over the SP, I came across these two SP units on a local in Denver while waiting to get a dispatch out of town. Clean SP units were always a find, more so now that the fleet was scattering. Of course, my luck being what it is, I see them on a cloudy day. Figures. |
| Photo Date: |
4/25/1997 Upload Date: 6/13/2012 1:21:22 AM |
| Location: |
Denver, CO |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
SP 7613(GP40-2) SP 7124(GP40M-2) |
| Views: |
801 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
SP power |
| Description: |
A southbound on the ex C&EI roll throught Tuscola with a pair of untouched SP units |
| Photo Date: |
9/13/1999 Upload Date: 2/23/2014 4:45:12 AM |
| Location: |
Tuscola, IL |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
SP 9607(GP60) SSW 7647(GP40-2) |
| Views: |
533 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Cotton Belt pigs |
| Description: |
In 1984, Cotton Belt was using this yard next to I 55 in Memphis for its intermodal faciity. Three SP family units wait for their call. Note the Golden Pig trailer head out. |
| Photo Date: |
10/2/1984 Upload Date: 7/10/2014 2:25:00 AM |
| Location: |
Memphis, TN |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Roster,Yard |
| Locomotives: |
SP 9223(SD45T-2) SSW 7654(GP40-2) SP 7412(SD45R) |
| Views: |
921 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
A pair of SP units |
| Description: |
A pair of SP GP 40s waits on a westbound stack train, looking for all the world like the merger never happened. |
| Photo Date: |
1/21/2001 Upload Date: 7/15/2012 2:49:31 AM |
| Location: |
Fabens, TX |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
SSW 7655(GP40-2) SP 7947(GP40-2) |
| Views: |
540 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
High number |
| Description: |
UP has so many engines they are numbered up almost to 9999. This one is close, at the ex MKT yard. |
| Photo Date: |
2/14/2019 Upload Date: 2/20/2019 4:57:05 AM |
| Location: |
Muskogee, OK |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Roster,Yard |
| Locomotives: |
UP 9990(GP40-2) |
| Views: |
676 Comments: 0 |
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