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Coast to coast
Title:  Coast to coast
Description:  A transcontinental pusher set sits near the old DLW yard tower at East Binghamton. Where else could you see a BAR unit with an ex BN/GN SDP 45??
Photo Date:  4/16/1989  Upload Date: 10/4/2015 2:27:12 AM
Location:  Binghamton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  BAR 98(GP38-3) NRL 6592(SDP45)
Views:  472   Comments: 0
Headed for the yard
Title:  Headed for the yard
Description:  Sometimes MEBU or BUME would go into East Binghamton. Such is the case today as the train has rolled onto track 5 and is headed for BD. In 15 minutes it will be across the river and in the yard. We also have an unusual unit today, ex BN 6592, an SDP 45. This one is ex GN, built in a late pre-Amtrak time when the railroads were planning to use these diesels for freight when finally relieved of running passenger trains.
Photo Date:  5/20/1989  Upload Date: 10/10/2015 3:10:25 AM
Location:  Binghamton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  NYSW 4024(B40-8) NRL 6592(SDP45)
Views:  333   Comments: 0
All 45's.
Title:  All 45's.
Description:  PYRP starts out of East Binghamton, the train having been worked here, and NYSW power put on. The CSX or NS power it came in with from the south will turn here and go back on the next RPPY. The train has a full complement of 45's today, including an F 45 and SDP 45.
Photo Date:  6/8/1989  Upload Date: 10/29/2015 4:36:22 AM
Location:  Binghamton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  NYSW 3622(SD45) NYSW 3636(F45) NRL 6592(SDP45) NYSW 6542(SD45) NRL 6642(F45)
Views:  459   Comments: 0
A 45 and an SDP
Title:  A 45 and an SDP
Description:  MEBU has cut off its train at Bevier St and will take the power to East Binghamton. The NYSW SD 45s were familiar sights in this era, the SDP 45s with actual steam generators(EL had 'em without the passenger equipment, they just wanted the longer frame for a bigger fuel tank), were unusual. The trailing unit is one of them, an ex GN unit now part of NRLs lease fleet.
Photo Date:  8/10/1989  Upload Date: 11/18/2015 1:49:53 AM
Location:  Binghamton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  NYSW 3620(SD45) NRL 6592(SDP45)
Views:  185   Comments: 0
Ready power
Title:  Ready power
Description:  A pair of units at West Burlington, fairly common power for the era. The GP 20s would last a lot longer than anyone would figure, some working into the 90s. The SDP45 would end up in a lease fleet, and I would see it again on the D&H in Binghamton NY. Seen from train 6
Photo Date:  3/18/1984  Upload Date: 5/22/2014 4:26:44 AM
Location:  West Burlington, IA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  BN 2055(GP20) BN 6598(SDP45)
Views:  911   Comments: 0
Going away view
Title:  Going away view
Description:  A train of empty hoppers is rolling west out of the Lamberts Point yard behind a set of power that was already classic by then, including an ex EL SDP45 that had come back to NS from Conrail when the lease expired. It was one of the units financed by Dereco in the late 60s.
Photo Date:  5/9/1985  Upload Date: 10/1/2014 1:56:36 AM
Location:  Lamberts Point, VA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  NS 1704(SD45) CR 6674(SDP45) NW 1579(SD35)
Views:  1096   Comments: 0
Back to the mines
Title:  Back to the mines
Description:  A trio of big units, including an ex EL SDP45, starts back for Roanoke with a couple hundred empties.
Photo Date:  5/9/1985  Upload Date: 10/1/2014 1:58:04 AM
Location:  Lamberts Point, VA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  NS 1704(SD45) CR 6674(SDP45) NW 1579(SD35)
Views:  896   Comments: 0
Ex EL power
Title:  Ex EL power
Description:  I did not see many of the ex EL SDP45s, so was always happy to get one. This one started life as EL 3650. I wish I had been able to get better shots. This one was taken from an NJ Transit train.
Photo Date:  4/23/1984  Upload Date: 6/22/2014 4:42:10 AM
Location:  Newark, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  CR 6681(SDP45)
Views:  416   Comments: 1
Dead line
Title:  Dead line
Description:  There will be a bunch of these. The Enola dead line abounded with all kinds of diesels in the mid 80s. I took several photos from points along US 11/15 hoping to capture some of the power that would soon be going to its final rest. Some nuits still wore their pre Conrail garb-note the ex EL GP 35 to the right rear.
Photo Date:  8/6/1985  Upload Date: 10/4/2014 2:16:54 AM
Location:  Enola, PA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  CR 2172(GP30) CR 6690(SDP45) CR 6081(SD45) CR 3691(GP35) CR 9214(NW2) CR 7463(GP9)
Views:  775   Comments: 0
Dead Line
Title:  Dead Line
Description:  Retired units awaiting the end. That EL hopper in the foreground must be counting its blessings, as two of its former locomotive colleagues, a U36C and SDP45, are headed for the gallows.
Photo Date:  8/6/1985  Upload Date: 10/4/2014 2:26:59 AM
Location:  Enola, PA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  CR 2255(GP35) CR 6892(U36C) CR 6690(SDP45) CR 2960(U33B) CR 2172(GP30) CR 9214(NW2)
Views:  1212   Comments: 0
Ex EL unit
Title:  Ex EL unit
Description:  The Erie Lackawanna bought a group of SDP45s with no steam generators, so they could get the 5000 gallon fuel tanks. They made it into Conrail, but went back to lessor NS when the lease was up. I caught this one from the Cardinal on the way out of Chicago.
Photo Date:  3/20/1984  Upload Date: 6/4/2014 3:44:20 AM
Location:  Chicago, IL
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  CR 6693(SDP45) CR 3215(GP40)
Views:  586   Comments: 0
Dead line on the Reading
Title:  Dead line on the Reading
Description:  The engine tracks at Rutherford yard a full of rusing hulks that will not run again.
Photo Date:  8/6/1985  Upload Date: 10/4/2014 2:41:03 AM
Location:  Rutherford, PA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  CR 6072(SD45) CR 6152(SD45) CR 6086(SD45) CR 6699(SDP45) CR 2844(U30B) CR 6068(SD45)
Views:  1245   Comments: 5


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