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| Title: |
Holiday spirit |
| Description: |
Decatur shows its holiday spirit by dressing up their own stuffed and mounted F 7 and caboose. The Holiday Express is in the background. |
| Photo Date: |
12/10/2012 Upload Date: 12/11/2012 1:03:39 AM |
| Location: |
Decatur, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Roster,Station,Action |
| Locomotives: |
KCS 73D(F7A) |
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489 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
H and an F |
| Description: |
H-KCSH rolls past the F unit on display at Decatur as it heads south. |
| Photo Date: |
2/4/2016 Upload Date: 2/15/2016 4:21:32 AM |
| Location: |
Decatur, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
KCS 4862(ES44AC) KCS 4866(ES44AC) KCS 73D(F7A) |
| Views: |
449 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
F and caboose display |
| Description: |
The city of Decatur has turned its KCS station into a museum, with a good display of artifacts and equipment inside and out. The anchor for this is this F 7 and caboose. |
| Photo Date: |
2/4/2016 Upload Date: 2/15/2016 4:53:05 AM |
| Location: |
Decatur, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Roster,RollingStock,Station |
| Locomotives: |
KCS 73D(F7A) |
| Views: |
491 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Ringing the Belles |
| Description: |
The southbound grain train passes the stuffed and mounted F 7 at Decatur station, itself in the scheme that inspired the one on the active power passing it. |
| Photo Date: |
12/30/2016 Upload Date: 12/31/2016 5:02:27 AM |
| Location: |
Decatur, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
KCS 4705(ES44AC) KCS 4577(AC44CW) KCS 73D(F7A) |
| Views: |
436 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Old and older |
| Description: |
A southbound oil train led by a KCSM GE in the old gray paint rolls past the displayed F 7 in the older Belle scheme as it passes the Decatur station. The oil train had a real NAFTA consist: a KCSM leader, KCS US unit, an ex TFM unit now in KCS colors, and a pair of CP units for DPU's. |
| Photo Date: |
1/12/2018 Upload Date: 1/17/2018 5:47:54 AM |
| Location: |
Decatur, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Action |
| Locomotives: |
KCSM 4514(AC44CW) KCS 4150(SD70ACe) KCS 3939(SD70MAC) KCS 73D(F7A) |
| Views: |
598 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Side by side |
| Description: |
This side by side view of the dodger passing the displayed F unit is a lesson in comparitive paint schemes. I think both look good. |
| Photo Date: |
9/23/2019 Upload Date: 9/28/2019 4:28:16 AM |
| Location: |
Decatur, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Action |
| Locomotives: |
KCS 2826(GP40-3) KCS 2835(GP40-3) KCS 2969(GP40-3) KCS 73D(F7A) |
| Views: |
288 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Afternoon light |
| Description: |
I drive past this unit often, and its such a part of the landscape that I dont always pay a lot of attention. I was stalking L 102, the Watts based dodger that works most days to Simmons in Decatur, then turns back south, working Little Debbie in Gentry on the way. The light was gorgeous, so I had to get a photo of the "stuffed and mounted" F 7 while I waited for the local to pass, itself in a red/yellow/black scheme. |
| Photo Date: |
9/23/2019 Upload Date: 9/28/2019 4:49:44 AM |
| Location: |
Decatur, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Roster,Station |
| Locomotives: |
KCS 73D(F7A) |
| Views: |
234 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Old and new |
| Description: |
The DPU of an empty TXUX train rolls past the displayed F 7 at the station in Decatur. |
| Photo Date: |
9/23/2019 Upload Date: 11/13/2019 4:54:10 AM |
| Location: |
Decatur, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Action |
| Locomotives: |
BNSF 6074(ES44AC) KCS 73D(F7A) |
| Views: |
263 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Side by side |
| Description: |
The DPU on a northbound empty TXUX train passes the displayed F 7 at the Decatur station. |
| Photo Date: |
9/23/2019 Upload Date: 11/12/2019 3:34:25 AM |
| Location: |
Decatur, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
BNSF 6074(ES44AC) KCS 73(F7A) |
| Views: |
289 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Comparative paint |
| Description: |
The F 7 on display at Decatur shows the old black/rec/yellow scheme, while the new scheme in the same colors passes at left, just after the pair went into shadow. |
| Photo Date: |
11/1/2019 Upload Date: 11/6/2019 5:03:51 AM |
| Location: |
Decatur, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
KCSM 4717(ES44AC) KCS 3952(SD70MAC) KCSM 4597(AC44CW) KCS 73D(F7A) |
| Views: |
308 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Out in the cold |
| Description: |
The F 7 on display at Decatur sits cold and lonely in the snow following a hard week of winter weather. It was -12 here three days earlier. |
| Photo Date: |
2/18/2021 Upload Date: 2/22/2021 6:24:34 AM |
| Location: |
Decatur, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Roster,Station |
| Locomotives: |
KCS 73D(F7A) |
| Views: |
178 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
DPU from the new passes the old guard |
| Description: |
The DPU on the northbound oil train passes stuffed and mounted KCS 73D at the Decatur station. |
| Photo Date: |
3/3/2022 Upload Date: 3/20/2022 5:30:37 AM |
| Location: |
Siloam Springs, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Winter,Station,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CP 9756(AC44CW) KCS 73D(F7A) |
| Views: |
99 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Q train DPUs and the old guard |
| Description: |
The DPU on the southbound Q train passes the displayed KCS 73D at the Decatur station. |
| Photo Date: |
3/3/2022 Upload Date: 3/20/2022 5:32:48 AM |
| Location: |
Decatur, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Action |
| Locomotives: |
KCS 4604(AC44CW) KCS 4798(ES44AC) KCS 73D(F7A) |
| Views: |
116 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
My biggest fan |
| Description: |
My wife, Diane, poses with displayed F 7 73D at the Decatur station while we were out enjoying a sunny 70 plus degree day on the KCS. |
| Photo Date: |
3/20/2022 Upload Date: 3/25/2022 4:57:56 AM |
| Location: |
Decatur, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Roster |
| Locomotives: |
KCS 73D(F7A) |
| Views: |
83 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Peeking around the corner |
| Description: |
The Q train slowly rolls into Decatur, making its way around the curve at Roller Av, passing the distant signal for Dorsey siding. |
| Photo Date: |
3/20/2022 Upload Date: 3/25/2022 5:17:43 AM |
| Location: |
Decatur, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
KCS 4833(ES44AC) KCS 73D(F7A) |
| Views: |
89 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
Couple of Belles |
| Description: |
One a princess, one a dowager. The Q train passes the displayed F 7 at the Decatur station. |
| Photo Date: |
3/20/2022 Upload Date: 3/25/2022 5:19:11 AM |
| Location: |
Decatur, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Action |
| Locomotives: |
KCS 4833(ES44AC) KCSM 4554(AC44CW) KCS 73D(F7A) |
| Views: |
128 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
Stuffed and mounted |
| Description: |
The station at Decatur is now a museum, and has the honor of hosting displayed F 7 73D, and caboose KCS 383 there. This is the track side, the station behind the equipment. Note the signal at far left in the background, showing red over red. The Q train is imminent. |
| Photo Date: |
3/20/2022 Upload Date: 3/25/2022 5:00:05 AM |
| Location: |
Decatur, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Roster |
| Locomotives: |
KCS 73D(F7A) |
| Views: |
80 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Caught him |
| Description: |
I heard a horn while I was working outside, and decided to give chase of a northbound. It turned out to be an empty TXUX train, with a pair of BNSF units on the rear. I caught him just south of Decatur, and set up for the shot passing the displayed F 7 at the station. |
| Photo Date: |
4/14/2022 Upload Date: 4/16/2022 5:24:56 AM |
| Location: |
Decatur, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
BNSF 5711(AC44CW) KCS 73D(F7A) |
| Views: |
121 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
Just caught him |
| Description: |
After we saw the light power move, we came out to take a ride in the sun, stopping at nearby Crystal Lake to do some bird watching and enjoy the 60 degree day. As we were heading back to Ark 59, we saw a southbound rolling past. A quick dash into Decatur got me ahead of the train, but just enough to jump and get a grab shot. So we have BNSF 6359 leading a 125 car TXUX train, and a nice shot of a light pole with an F unit behind it, |
| Photo Date: |
1/27/2023 Upload Date: 1/31/2023 5:32:12 AM |
| Location: |
Decatur, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
BNSF 6359(ES44AC) BNSF 6076(ES44AC) KCS 73D(F7A) |
| Views: |
65 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
Delayed chase |
| Description: |
I was dropping my recycling when a northbound empty coal train went past the dump. I was elbows deep in a bin of plastic and glass, and it was already 1515-they close at 1530-so I needed to get the task done. The coal train-led by a KCS unit and a BNSF Grinstein-was moving too fast for me to catch up, and I had things to do at home. After he went by, a track car got track and time to go to Gentry, then clear up by 1600, there was a southbound at Noel. I went to Gentry at 1600, no train, so worked north, finally catching him coming across Roller Av as I got into town. |
| Photo Date: |
4/24/2023 Upload Date: 4/30/2023 6:08:37 AM |
| Location: |
Decatur, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
KCS 4868(ES44AC) KCSM 4752(ES44AC) KCS 73D(F7A) |
| Views: |
55 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
Old and new |
| Description: |
The M KCSH rolls past the stuffed and mounted F 7 and caboose at Decatur. |
| Photo Date: |
4/24/2023 Upload Date: 4/30/2023 6:15:58 AM |
| Location: |
Decatur, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Roster,Action |
| Locomotives: |
KCS 4868(ES44AC) KCSM 4752(ES44AC) KCS 73D(F7A) |
| Views: |
58 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
Foamers are out |
| Description: |
The train had a dedicated band of followers on it trip south. Decatur, for some reason, had a good cadre of locals who came out to shoot the train. |
| Photo Date: |
11/28/2023 Upload Date: 11/30/2023 6:03:58 AM |
| Location: |
Decatur, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CP 2246(GP20C-ECO) KCS 73D(F7A) |
| Views: |
74 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
Dinner train power |
| Description: |
This ex CNW F unit was the power for a dinner/excursion train that ran on the A&BB. I dont recall the details now, but its always good to see an F unit!! Fred Stuckmann, any thoughts?? |
| Photo Date: |
2/15/1986 Upload Date: 11/14/2014 1:44:10 AM |
| Location: |
Barberton, OH |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Roster,Yard |
| Locomotives: |
CNW 413(F7A) CNW 409(F7A) |
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723 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Dead line |
| Description: |
There were a number of Es and Fs in the California Av yard deadline, including F 7 412, seen here. |
| Photo Date: |
8/15/1982 Upload Date: 5/26/2014 4:16:00 AM |
| Location: |
Chicago, IL |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Roster,Yard |
| Locomotives: |
CNW 412(F7A) |
| Views: |
248 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Commuter power |
| Description: |
California Av yard had a long line of power. Some or all of these units may have been out of service by this time as the F40s had started to take over the CNW commuter trains by this point |
| Photo Date: |
8/15/1982 Upload Date: 3/3/2013 2:51:25 AM |
| Location: |
Chicago, IL |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Roster,Yard |
| Locomotives: |
CNW 412(F7A) CNW 5024B(E8A) |
| Views: |
412 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Commuter power lays over |
| Description: |
A string of E and F units led by one of CNWs unique Crandall cab E 8s waits out the weekend at the California Av yard. |
| Photo Date: |
8/15/1982 Upload Date: 6/11/2011 1:42:19 AM |
| Location: |
Chicago, IL |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Roster,Yard,Passenger |
| Locomotives: |
CNW 506(E9BA) CNW 412(F7A) |
| Views: |
699 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
CNW 416 |
| Description: |
A veteran CNW F unit readies for a trip to the suburbs. These old warriors would soon be replaced by new F40s, some of which were already in service by this time. Note the dwarf signal next to the engine. |
| Photo Date: |
8/25/1982 Upload Date: 3/11/2013 12:34:17 AM |
| Location: |
Chicago, IL |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CNW 416(F7A) |
| Views: |
341 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
F unit at Northwestern Station |
| Description: |
CNW F7 pokes its nose out of the train shed waiting to head for the suburbs |
| Photo Date: |
8/26/1982 Upload Date: 6/11/2011 1:36:39 AM |
| Location: |
Chicago, IL |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger |
| Locomotives: |
CNW 416(F7A) |
| Views: |
304 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
F unit |
| Description: |
NJ Transit acquired a couple of ex CNW Fs from Metra to run shorter trains during rush hour. Here 420 heads out of Hoboken. |
| Photo Date: |
2/23/1984 Upload Date: 12/1/2013 4:05:08 AM |
| Location: |
Hoboken, NJ |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NJT 420(F7A) |
| Views: |
392 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Rolling out with an F |
| Description: |
An F 7 leads this suburban train out of Northwestern Station. Seeing E and F units here was an everyday event in this time period. |
| Photo Date: |
8/15/1978 Upload Date: 11/18/2016 4:47:00 AM |
| Location: |
Chicago, IL |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CNW 424(F7A) |
| Views: |
211 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
CNW 425 |
| Description: |
C&NW 425 at Northwestern Station. I would see it again several years later, in a second act-working out of Hoboken on the ex EL commuter trains. |
| Photo Date: |
8/15/1978 Upload Date: 2/14/2011 11:12:02 PM |
| Location: |
Chicago, IL |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger |
| Locomotives: |
CNW 425(F7A) |
| Views: |
505 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Ex CNW power |
| Description: |
An ex CNW F 7 leads a short train out of Hoboken. This was not my first encounter with this engine. I had seen in on the Northwestern in Chicago two years prior. |
| Photo Date: |
1/31/1984 Upload Date: 5/26/2014 5:08:26 AM |
| Location: |
Hoboken, NJ |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Winter,Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NJT 425(F7A) |
| Views: |
380 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Museum piece |
| Description: |
A restored to LV paint F 7 sits at the Southern RR of NJ in Cape May, along with some of the other interesting items in the collection. |
| Photo Date: |
9/5/2004 Upload Date: 5/12/2017 4:16:08 AM |
| Location: |
Cape May, NJ |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Roster,Yard |
| Locomotives: |
LV 576(F7A) |
| Views: |
337 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
LV and friends |
| Description: |
The Southern RR of New Jersey has accumulated a number of vintage units and painted them in CR predecessor colors. Among the items they have here at Cape May is a pair of LV painted F 7s, a CNJ GP7, a PRR GP 9, some RDCs and a few other items. We see one of the LV Fs along with the PRR and CNJ units. |
| Photo Date: |
9/5/2004 Upload Date: 5/12/2017 4:19:23 AM |
| Location: |
Cape May, NJ |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Roster,Yard |
| Locomotives: |
LV 576(F7A) PRR 7000(GP9) CNJ 1523(GP7) |
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551 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Matched set |
| Description: |
The other LV F unit is on the south end of this short consist. |
| Photo Date: |
9/5/2004 Upload Date: 5/12/2017 4:22:43 AM |
| Location: |
Cape May, NJ |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Roster,Yard |
| Locomotives: |
LV 578(F7A) |
| Views: |
271 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Past the grain bins |
| Description: |
Cadillac and Lake City was a Michigan short line that for a while had the contract to run part of the Rock Island route to Colorado. They had a pair of ex BN F units they used in this service. Here we see them passing the grain bins at Arriba on their way west. |
| Photo Date: |
8/16/1982 Upload Date: 5/26/2014 3:32:56 AM |
| Location: |
Arriba, CO |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CLK 752(F7A) CLK 716(F7A) |
| Views: |
605 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
High plains F units |
| Description: |
One of the operators of the Rock Island Colorado line was the Cadillac & Lake City, a Michigan short line that ran there for a couple of years in the early 80s. Here we see a pair of former BN F 7s from I 70. |
| Photo Date: |
8/16/1982 Upload Date: 6/12/2011 2:15:40 AM |
| Location: |
Arriba, CO |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
CLK 752(F7A) CLK 716(F7A) |
| Views: |
1057 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Headed for Tulsa |
| Description: |
A road train on the ex SLSF heads for Tulsa along US 60 |
| Photo Date: |
11/14/1997 Upload Date: 3/24/2014 12:43:21 AM |
| Location: |
Aurora, MO |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
ATSF 7437(B40-8) BN 738(F7A) |
| Views: |
756 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Good to see |
| Description: |
This B&M F 7 was rescued from a future as a bunch of refrigerators and landed here at Conway. As much as I liked the blue dip paint scheme, I think it looks better in its original paint. |
| Photo Date: |
7/5/2004 Upload Date: 9/19/2017 4:40:41 AM |
| Location: |
North Conway, NH |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Roster,Yard |
| Locomotives: |
BM 4268(F7A) |
| Views: |
281 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Excursion power |
| Description: |
B&M once had a sizeable fleet of F units. This is one of the few survivors, now on the Conway Scenic in New Hampshire. |
| Photo Date: |
7/5/2004 Upload Date: 6/20/2018 5:22:18 AM |
| Location: |
Conway, NH |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Roster |
| Locomotives: |
BM 4268(F7A) |
| Views: |
285 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
Going for a ride |
| Description: |
We went up to North Conway on the way to Mt Washington in July 2004. It was a convenient place to overnight, and we got to ride a few miles on the old Maine Central Mountain Division. Sadly, gone are the days of harvest gold GP 38s lugging real tonnage over the White Mountains to Vermont. The weather, as it always is for me, is dismal. |
| Photo Date: |
7/5/2004 Upload Date: 9/19/2017 4:51:03 AM |
| Location: |
North Conway, NH |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
MEC 573(GP7) BM 4268(F7A) |
| Views: |
456 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Future power cars |
| Description: |
A pair of ex B&O F7s sit outside the Morris Park diesel shop, along with the Caterpillar power plants that will be used for train HVAC and light. The power plants for the "new" cab cars are wrapped in plastic behind the units. One unit will become LIRR 622. |
| Photo Date: |
1/26/1981 Upload Date: 2/12/2012 7:38:01 PM |
| Location: |
Jamaica, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Roster,Yard |
| Locomotives: |
BO 4524(F7A) BO 4535(F7A) |
| Views: |
956 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Power cars in the making |
| Description: |
A pair of B&O F7s, 4535 and 4524, sit outside the LIRR Morris Park shops awaiting conversion to power cars 623 and 622. The flat car behind the units holds the sleds that carry the engine/generator sets that will provide hotel power for trains. Number 4535 was never converted but scrapped instead. |
| Photo Date: |
1/26/1981 Upload Date: 7/2/2014 4:01:09 PM |
| Location: |
Morris Park, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Roster,Yard |
| Locomotives: |
BO 4535(F7A) BO 4524(F7A) |
| Views: |
707 Comments: 1 |
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