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WNOP17 arrives |
| Description: |
The job from Oak Point yard in the Bronx arrives with 69 interchange cars for the LIRR. The five GEs are more than usual-typically the consist was three units, sometimes four. Today we have three of the four U36Bs. |
| Photo Date: |
6/2/1988 Upload Date: 7/16/2015 2:09:17 AM |
| Location: |
Fresh Pond Junction, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
CR 1918(B23-7) CR 2813(B23-7) CR 2972(U36B) CR 2971(U36B) CR 2974(U36B) |
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805 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Headed back |
| Description: |
WNOP17 has dropped its LIRR cars and picked up the 65 cars Long Island set out for them, and is now getting underway back to the Bronx. Of course, the sun dips behind a cloud for the shot I really wanted. |
| Photo Date: |
6/2/1988 Upload Date: 7/16/2015 2:11:00 AM |
| Location: |
Fresh Pond Junction, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
CR 2974(U36B) CR 2971(U36B) CR 2972(U36B) CR 2813(B23-7) CR 1918(B23-7) |
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839 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
Starting back |
| Description: |
The SW 1500 has returned from Bay Ridge, and LISE now starts back for Selkirk. One of the four U36B's leads. |
| Photo Date: |
5/8/1979 Upload Date: 12/17/2016 5:35:24 AM |
| Location: |
Fresh Pond, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
CR 2972(U36B) |
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385 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Long Island connection |
| Description: |
WAOP17, the connection from Oak Point yard in the Bronx crosses over Queens Blvd en route to Fresh Pond, where it will set out for the LIRR, and pick up cars to go back to the rest of the country via Selkirk. This trackage was once the New Havens Bay Ridge line. |
| Photo Date: |
12/16/1986 Upload Date: 6/19/2011 3:13:13 AM |
| Location: |
Elmhurst, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Bridge,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CR 2973(U36B) CR 2810(B23-7) CR 2812(B23-7) |
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712 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
On the bridge |
| Description: |
The Triboro Bridge provided the platform for taking this photo of LISE, on the adjacent Hell Gate. The bridge is a long viaduct over Ward and Randalls Islands, with the famous steel arch crossing the channel where the East River meets the Harlem River. LISE is on the viaduct portion, and will shortly enter the Bronx. One good thing about slow traffic-sometimes you get the shot!! |
| Photo Date: |
2/5/1988 Upload Date: 6/28/2015 4:22:16 AM |
| Location: |
Hell Gate Bridge, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Bridge,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CR 2816(B23-7) CR 2973(U36B) CR 2802(B23-7) |
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313 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
High over the road |
| Description: |
LISE crosses Grand Central Parkway as it approaches the Hell Gate Bridge with 49 cars behind a trio of GEs, one of which is one of CRs four U 36Bs. |
| Photo Date: |
2/5/1988 Upload Date: 6/28/2015 4:17:42 AM |
| Location: |
Astoria, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Bridge,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CR 2816(B23-7) CR 2973(U36B) CR 2802(B23-7) |
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378 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Over mean streets |
| Description: |
LISE is slowly approaching Hell Gate, now off the bridge over the Grand Central Parkway, and passing over Astoria Blvd. How about $1.08 for gas?? |
| Photo Date: |
2/5/1988 Upload Date: 6/28/2015 4:24:08 AM |
| Location: |
Astoria, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Bridge,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CR 2816(B23-7) CR 2973(U36B) CR 2802(B23-7) |
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543 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
All at home |
| Description: |
An eastbound blasts through Utica station with two ex PC units and one CR picked up after Auto Train couldnt pay for it. |
| Photo Date: |
7/20/1978 Upload Date: 12/17/2016 4:54:17 AM |
| Location: |
Utica, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CR 2313(GP35) CR 2612(U25B) CR 2974(U36B) |
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409 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Yard power, and a rare road unit |
| Description: |
Conrail used many of the ex PC SW1500s for local and yard jobs in the New York area. We see one here at Oak Point in company of a much more unusual unit, though a regular visitor to the city. Selkirk was home base to much of CRs GE fleet including the four U36Bs. They were a common sight on SELI/LISE and its occasional modification, SEOP/OPSE, the connection to the Long Island at Fresh Pond. U36B 2974 is on hand today, and will return to Selkirk later in the evening. |
| Photo Date: |
3/22/1983 Upload Date: 11/3/2013 1:36:09 AM |
| Location: |
Bronx, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Roster,Yard |
| Locomotives: |
CR 9508(SW1500) CR 2974(U36B) |
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754 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Rare bird |
| Description: |
Really rare. Conrail had four U36Bs, units built for Auto Train that the car carrier could not pay for, so CR picked them up. They were based at Selkirk and used almost exclusively on the Hudson(I frequently saw them at Fresh Pond on the LIRR) and River Lines. They almost never ran anywhere else. Finding one in Binghamton was highly unusual, but, as sometimes happens with things that "never happen", here it is. |
| Photo Date: |
8/22/1989 Upload Date: 11/24/2015 3:09:13 AM |
| Location: |
Binghamton, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Roster,Yard |
| Locomotives: |
CR 2974(U36B) |
| Views: |
359 Comments: 1 |
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