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Class unit |
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By number or by style, the electrics had class, though its hard to say much for style on a unit that was known as a "brick." Still, they did have an aura of raw power when rolling down the ex Pennsy main at speed that was unmatched. This one is at Linden, seen from the southbound Crescent. |
| Photo Date: |
7/30/1979 Upload Date: 12/19/2016 5:25:34 AM |
| Location: |
Linden, NJ |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
CR 4400(E44) |
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306 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Getting underway |
| Description: |
A pair of E 44s rolls past Crystal City in Arlington Va, having just departed Potomac Yard for Jersey. Pot yard was still a happening place at the time, and a lot of freight was interchanged there between B&O, C&O, Southern, RF&P and Conrail. Mergers over the next decade would render the yard redundant in a big way, and what was once a yard several miles long is now strip malls, hotels, and chain food joints. Ah, progress.... |
| Photo Date: |
7/30/1979 Upload Date: 12/19/2016 5:30:33 AM |
| Location: |
Arlington, VA |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
CR 4419(E44) CR 4451(E44) |
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415 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Brick |
| Description: |
The nickname should be self explanatory. Shot from a passing train on the DLW. |
| Photo Date: |
7/30/1979 Upload Date: 12/19/2016 5:34:44 AM |
| Location: |
Kearny, NJ |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Roster,Yard |
| Locomotives: |
CR 4420(E44) |
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281 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Some of each |
| Description: |
CR was still using electric power at that time, but occasionally it would get an assist from diesels. We see such a power set at Kearny as it prepares to head over to Harsimus Cove with a pair of then new SD40-2's. |
| Photo Date: |
6/8/1979 Upload Date: 12/16/2016 5:32:27 AM |
| Location: |
Kearny, NJ |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
CR 6421(SD40-2) CR 6400(SD40-2) CR 4439(E44) |
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567 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
Unusual power |
| Description: |
After CR retired its electric power, GE kept an E44 as a test unit. Here it is seen on the Southern Tier Line at Hillburn, waiting for OIBU to pick it up and forward to Buffalo, and then onto a connection to GE-Erie |
| Photo Date: |
8/7/1984 Upload Date: 1/8/2012 2:19:42 AM |
| Location: |
Suffern, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Yard |
| Locomotives: |
CR 4453(E44) |
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1126 Comments: 3 |
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| Title: |
Well protected |
| Description: |
The tunnels at Baltimore could be a bottleneck especially if a train had a problem while in them. To forestall any delays to Amtrak, as well as keep its own traffic moving, CR stationed a unit outside the tunnel for just such an occasion. Hopefully, he didnt get too much work. We see the E 44 assigned for todays task at Penn Station. |
| Photo Date: |
12/14/1979 Upload Date: 12/20/2016 5:07:29 AM |
| Location: |
Baltimore Penn Stati, MD |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Roster,Station |
| Locomotives: |
CR 4455(E44) |
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281 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Working on the innards |
| Description: |
An electrician works inside the hood of E 44 4464 at Kearny, seen from a passing DLW train. |
| Photo Date: |
5/24/1979 Upload Date: 12/19/2016 5:44:08 AM |
| Location: |
Kearny, NJ |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Roster,Yard |
| Locomotives: |
CR 4464(E44) |
| Views: |
175 Comments: 0 |
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