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Strangers
Title:  Strangers
Description:  A set of Chessie power lays over amid all kinds of Conrail units at Enola
Photo Date:  6/3/1986  Upload Date: 11/30/2014 3:19:00 AM
Location:  Enola, PA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  BO 4118(GP40-2) BO 4033(GP40) BO 3758(GP40)
Views:  1051   Comments: 4
Helpers
Title:  Helpers
Description:  There was a helper district going west out of Point of Rocks, and I saw a couple of sets that day. This is one of them, returning east.
Photo Date:  6/24/1986  Upload Date: 11/26/2014 2:46:19 AM
Location:  Point of Rocks, MD
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BO 4152(GP40-2) CO 7532(SD40) CO 7552(SD40)
Views:  778   Comments: 1
Helpers at the station
Title:  Helpers at the station
Description:  A set of helpers backs past the Point of Rocks station
Photo Date:  6/24/1986  Upload Date: 11/26/2014 2:49:05 AM
Location:  Point of Rocks, MD
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Action
Locomotives:  BO 4152(GP40-2) CO 7532(SD40) CO 7552(SD40)
Views:  699   Comments: 0
Approaching the station
Title:  Approaching the station
Description:  One of the helper sets working past Point of Rocks.
Photo Date:  6/24/1986  Upload Date: 11/26/2014 3:01:57 AM
Location:  Point of Rocks, MD
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CO 7552(SD40) CO 7532(SD40) BO 4152(GP40-2)
Views:  716   Comments: 1
Family power
Title:  Family power
Description:  The CSX merger was still new, and some of the Seaboard power was only starting to mix in. This was the only SBD unit I saw all day there on the B&O.
Photo Date:  6/24/1986  Upload Date: 11/26/2014 3:08:33 AM
Location:  Point of Rocks, MD
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  SBD 6781(GP40) BO 4153(GP40-2)
Views:  544   Comments: 0
Going away
Title:  Going away
Description:  An eastbound off the line to Elkins rolls onto the B&O main in a going away shot of its Chessie power. Note the CPL dwarf signal next to the train.
Photo Date:  9/28/1984  Upload Date: 7/3/2014 3:43:30 AM
Location:  Cumberland - Viaduct, MD
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CO 7558(SD40) CO 3568(GP35) CO 3569(GP35) BO 4164(GP40-2)
Views:  1581   Comments: 2
Roadside shot
Title:  Roadside shot
Description:  The train with the C&O power snuck up on me, so I ran down the road to get a better shot. Sometimes you have to make the best out of what you have.
Photo Date:  9/28/1984  Upload Date: 7/3/2014 3:50:23 AM
Location:  Cumberland - Viaduct, MD
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CO 3569(GP35) CO 3568(GP35) CO 7558(SD40) BO 4164(GP40-2)
Views:  1272   Comments: 0
B&O transfer
Title:  B&O transfer
Description:  B&O 4237, a unit I had seen coming into town at State Line tower the previous day. now works a transfer run on the Harbor Belt.
Photo Date:  3/22/1984  Upload Date: 5/17/2014 3:47:05 AM
Location:  La Grange, IL
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Winter,Action
Locomotives:  BO 4237(GP40-2)
Views:  632   Comments: 0
Westbound pigs
Title:  Westbound pigs
Description:  A westbound trailer train heads for Sand Patch with trailers for Chicago behind a set of Chessie power. The building whose corner is visible at the right of the photo, partly hidden behind the tree, is the Holiday Inn, which on floors higher than the 4th, offers a great view of the action-or at least it did in 1984. Don't know how tall those trees are now, 30 years later.
Photo Date:  9/28/1984  Upload Date: 7/3/2014 3:45:37 AM
Location:  Cumberland - Viaduct, MD
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BO 4253(GP40-2) CO 4404(GP40-2) CO 4067(GP40)
Views:  1081   Comments: 0
Orange Blossoms
Title:  Orange Blossoms
Description:  The Orange Blossom Special, a priority train, rolls past Collier yard behind a typical run through set of Chessie power.
Photo Date:  9/14/1986  Upload Date: 12/12/2014 1:29:59 AM
Location:  Collier Yard, VA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BO 4255(GP40-2) CO 4263(GP40-2) CO 8250(B30-7)
Views:  975   Comments: 0
377 past the station
Title:  377 past the station
Description:  Train 377 rolls 89 cars west off the Metropolitan Sub behind a mix of Chessie power and an ex SCL SD 45. The onset of CSX brought some interesting consists as the fleet mixed.
Photo Date:  10/24/1987  Upload Date: 6/12/2015 2:41:20 AM
Location:  Point of Rocks, MD
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Station,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  BO 4287(GP40-2) CSX 8943(SD45) CSX 8408(SD40-2)
Views:  1174   Comments: 1
Local
Title:  Local
Description:  A B&O unit rolls past the shop complex on the main after dropping a cut of cars. Hey, wait, whats that over on the far track??
Photo Date:  1/28/1985  Upload Date: 9/26/2014 1:15:20 AM
Location:  Huntington, WV
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Winter,Yard,Steam,Action
Locomotives:  BO 4295(GP40-2) CO 614(4-8-4)
Views:  991   Comments: 2
Helpers at work
Title:  Helpers at work
Description:  A helper set trailed by an ever rarer blue units works west.
Photo Date:  6/24/1986  Upload Date: 11/26/2014 2:53:53 AM
Location:  Point of Rocks, MD
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CO 3781(GP40) CO 4183(GP40-2) BO 4330(GP40-2) CO 4267(GP40-2)
Views:  791   Comments: 0
Chessie east
Title:  Chessie east
Description:  A pair of Chessie units lead this 99 car eastbound past Point of Rocks.
Photo Date:  10/24/1987  Upload Date: 6/12/2015 2:46:20 AM
Location:  Point of Rocks, MD
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Station,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  CSX 6621(GP40) BO 4330(GP40-2)
Views:  910   Comments: 1
Pulling it in
Title:  Pulling it in
Description:  B&O 4338 and caboose work the rear of C&O 614s support cars as they pull them and the steamer into the shop.
Photo Date:  1/28/1985  Upload Date: 9/26/2014 1:23:46 AM
Location:  Huntington, WV
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Winter,Yard,Action
Locomotives:  BO 4338(GP40-2)
Views:  717   Comments: 0
Portrait
Title:  Portrait
Description:  B&O 4338 gets its portrait taken as it passes the yard. The unit is surprisingly clean considering the snow and slop it had to work in.
Photo Date:  1/28/1985  Upload Date: 9/26/2014 1:38:51 AM
Location:  Huntington, WV
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Winter,Yard,Action
Locomotives:  BO 4338(GP40-2)
Views:  651   Comments: 0
Taking one south
Title:  Taking one south
Description:  This RF&P train was borrowing a Chessie unit for this van train to Richmond.
Photo Date:  7/26/1987  Upload Date: 5/21/2015 3:57:19 AM
Location:  Alexandria, VA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  RFP 143(GP40-2) BO 4438(GP40-2)
Views:  764   Comments: 0


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