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| Title: |
Dark of winter |
| Description: |
A wothbound train on the ex B&O approaches the NS diamond on a dreary day. |
| Photo Date: |
2/15/1986 Upload Date: 11/9/2014 4:23:40 AM |
| Location: |
Leipsic, OH |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Winter,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CO 4278(GP40-2) CO 4169(GP40-2) |
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631 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Turning the power |
| Description: |
This power set was working through the plant at Fostoria, and would shortly head to the yard on the ex B&O Chicago main to pick up train 397 for Detroit. Were looking east on the NS ex NKP line. That's the B&O Fostoria tower at left, which was still active at the time. |
| Photo Date: |
6/26/1987 Upload Date: 5/16/2015 2:09:16 AM |
| Location: |
Fostoria, OH |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
TORCO 7801(SD35) CO 4173(GP40-2) |
| Views: |
672 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Toledo bound |
| Description: |
Train 397 takes the connection track at Fostoria tower as it moves from the B&O east-west main to the line to Toledo with 105 cars. |
| Photo Date: |
6/26/1987 Upload Date: 5/16/2015 2:13:19 AM |
| Location: |
Fostoria, OH |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CO 4173(GP40-2) TORCO 7801(SD35) |
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781 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Too late |
| Description: |
This 396 showed up as the shadows were falling, and I was not able to get it in good sun. Still, a Chessie family portrait was too good to pass up, as the three units represented the three components of the Chessie System, even though the leader has been renumbered, that were slowly disappearing into CSX. The B&O GP 30 was a nice touch too. |
| Photo Date: |
10/24/1987 Upload Date: 6/16/2015 3:17:41 AM |
| Location: |
Harpers Ferry, WV |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
CSX 6267(GP40-2) CO 4173(GP40-2) BO 6927(GP30) |
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563 Comments: 0 |
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| 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: |
667 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Backing past |
| Description: |
The helper units were either hitching a ride on this eastbound, or perhaps aiding with dynamic braking. The train was going past when I arrived, so dont know how heavy it was. |
| Photo Date: |
6/24/1986 Upload Date: 11/26/2014 2:58:05 AM |
| Location: |
Point of Rocks, MD |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CO 3781(GP40) CO 4183(GP40-2) |
| Views: |
533 Comments: 0 |
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| 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: |
871 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Ah, young love |
| Description: |
A local fan and his girl came out to watch the show for a while. Here theyre watching a cab hop behind a couple of Chessie units rolling north as the Silver Star recedes toward Rocky Mount. Gotta love that license plate. |
| Photo Date: |
9/14/1986 Upload Date: 12/13/2014 4:17:28 AM |
| Location: |
Collier Yard, VA |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Yard,Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CO 4263(GP40-2) |
| Views: |
498 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Headed for Charlottesville |
| Description: |
A westbuond C&O train on Southern trackage rights passes Alexandria. The train will run on the SOU to Orange, where it will gain its own rails to head for a crossing of this line at Charlottesville. |
| Photo Date: |
7/15/1983 Upload Date: 11/17/2013 3:19:34 AM |
| Location: |
Alexandria, VA |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CO 4268(GP40-2) CO 4412(GP40-2) CO 8235(B30-7) |
| Views: |
1159 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
C&O train passes the platforms |
| Description: |
While sitting at the Alexandria Amtrak station, I egcountered this C&O train in full Chessie paint just as the light faded. |
| Photo Date: |
7/16/1983 Upload Date: 8/20/2011 2:12:30 AM |
| Location: |
Alexandria, VA |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CO 4268(GP40-2) CO 4412(GP40-2) CO 8235(B30-7) |
| Views: |
964 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Waiting for shop time |
| Description: |
A set of power waits for its turn in the shop. Check out the old tank car at right. |
| Photo Date: |
3/11/1990 Upload Date: 12/26/2015 3:54:23 AM |
| Location: |
Huntington, WV |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Roster,Yard |
| Locomotives: |
CSX 8155(SD40-2) CSX 2616(GP38-2) CO 4271(GP40-2) |
| Views: |
767 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Power in the yard |
| Description: |
Not sure if this is Montgomery-I chased the 614 from Gauley Bridge to Huntington, so it has to be west of Gauley Bridge, but dont think its as far as Charleston. Wherever it is, good to see all that Chessie power 30 years later. The pair of units in the foreground had just come in with a westbound coal train. |
| Photo Date: |
1/28/1985 Upload Date: 9/24/2014 2:58:51 AM |
| Location: |
Montgomery, WV |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Roster,Yard |
| Locomotives: |
CO 4390(GP40-2) CO 8560(SD50) CO 8575(SD50) BO 8590(SD50) |
| Views: |
1300 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Down in the gorge |
| Description: |
In January 1985 I went to West Virginia to shoot C&O 614 while it was running engineering tests for Ross Rowland. While waiting at Gauley Bridge, C&O contributed a coal train to the trip. |
| Photo Date: |
1/28/1985 Upload Date: 9/24/2014 3:11:08 AM |
| Location: |
Gauley Bridge, WV |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Winter,Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CO 8560(SD50) CO 4390(GP40-2) |
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955 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Westbound and rolling |
| Description: |
A westbound with a pair of then new SD50s rolls out of town toward Cincy. Note the facilities: a snd tower to the left of the train, signals, and a train order board at the station. Classic railroading. |
| Photo Date: |
1/28/1985 Upload Date: 9/26/2014 1:51:25 AM |
| Location: |
Huntington, WV |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Winter,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CO 8554(SD50) CO 8564(SD50) CO 4399(GP40-2) |
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1058 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Out of pot Yard |
| Description: |
A westbound that came from Potomac Yard passes the station, and will cross over to take the westbound main. An eastbound waits beyond the next signal west, and will go to Pot Yard as soon as this train clears. |
| Photo Date: |
6/24/1986 Upload Date: 11/30/2014 3:05:22 AM |
| Location: |
Point of Rocks, MD |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Action |
| Locomotives: |
BO 7592(SD40) CO 4399(GP40-2) |
| Views: |
658 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Westbound to a meet |
| Description: |
A westbound rolls past the Point of Rocks station and will cross over, allowing the eastbound in the distance to head toward Washington. |
| Photo Date: |
6/24/1986 Upload Date: 11/28/2014 2:24:10 AM |
| Location: |
Point of Rocks, MD |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CO 7592(SD40) CO 4399(GP40-2) |
| Views: |
617 Comments: 0 |
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| 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: |
916 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Foreign visitors and a hometown surprise |
| Description: |
A set of CSX power, a mix of Chessie and Seaboard units, sits at Enola in a partly blocked view. The surprise?? Amid the sea of Conrail units at Enola shop, is their executive E 8, 4022m the former Erie 833, seen at mid left of the photo. |
| Photo Date: |
9/12/1986 Upload Date: 12/12/2014 2:36:04 AM |
| Location: |
Enola, PA |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Roster,Yard |
| Locomotives: |
SBD 6779(GP40) CO 4412(GP40-2) CR 4022(E8A) SBD 6697(GP40) |
| Views: |
757 Comments: 2 |
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