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Ununsual yard power |
| Description: |
RF&P was one of several roads that used slugs in their yards, though it was not a universal practice. Heres a hump set with a CR caboose at Potomac Yard in Alexandria a few years before the yard would be closed and the area redeveloped. You would not recognize it now. |
| Photo Date: |
6/24/1986 Upload Date: 11/24/2014 11:29:25 PM |
| Location: |
Alexandria, VA |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Yard,Action |
| Locomotives: |
RFP 7(SW1500) RFP S1(Road Slug) |
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835 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Road slug |
| Description: |
B&M had a road slug set consisiting of GP40-2s 300 and 301 sandwiching slug 100. Heres a shot of the slug as it departs E Deerfield yard. |
| Photo Date: |
9/6/1983 Upload Date: 11/22/2013 1:12:26 AM |
| Location: |
East Deerfield, MA |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Yard,Action |
| Locomotives: |
BM 100(Road Slug) BM 300(GP40-2) |
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1237 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
B&M slug set |
| Description: |
B&M slug set 301/100/300 heads west from E Deerfield yard |
| Photo Date: |
9/6/1983 Upload Date: 2/27/2011 6:33:07 PM |
| Location: |
East Deerfield, MA |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Yard,Action |
| Locomotives: |
BM 301(GP40-2) BM 100(Road Slug) BM 300(GP40-2) |
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1520 Comments: 1 |
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Repainted |
| Description: |
In late 1984, Guilford repainted the B&M slug set, Heres the slog in new colors at Mechanicville that December |
| Photo Date: |
12/4/1984 Upload Date: 8/1/2014 3:00:43 AM |
| Location: |
Mechanicville, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Roster,Yard |
| Locomotives: |
BM 100(Road Slug) BM 301(GP40-2) |
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1076 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Slug set in action |
| Description: |
The B&M slug set has a train in tow and is heading for Albany. |
| Photo Date: |
12/4/1984 Upload Date: 8/1/2014 3:09:37 AM |
| Location: |
Mechanicville, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Winter,Yard,Action |
| Locomotives: |
BM 300(GP40-2) BM 100(Road Slug) BM 301(GP40-2) MEC 286(U23B) |
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1227 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
B&M Slug set |
| Description: |
The B&M slug set 300/100/301 leads a Belden tunnel detour train past the Erie station at Susquehanna PA. An NYSW RS watches the proceedings from the set out track east of the station. The RS 3 had been set off due to flat wheels. |
| Photo Date: |
10/8/1985 Upload Date: 11/12/2011 11:33:05 PM |
| Location: |
Susquehanna, PA |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Action |
| Locomotives: |
BM 300(GP40-2) BM 100(Road Slug) BM 301(GP40-2) |
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1013 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Slug set and a semaphore |
| Description: |
The B&M slug set, now repainted into the Guilford scheme, leads three other units past semaphore 251-1 and the Tioga County transfer station as it leads NY 9 toward Buffalo |
| Photo Date: |
8/5/1986 Upload Date: 9/22/2012 2:09:24 AM |
| Location: |
Barton, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
BM 300(GP40-2) BM 100(Road Slug) BM 301(GP40-2) BM 306(GP40-2) DH 7317(GP38-2) BM 338(GP40) |
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1451 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
SLN 3 goes west |
| Description: |
SLN 3, now symbolled DHT9 on Conrail, as it is now a D&H train, rolls west past the Owego station sign at Mc Master St behind, among other things, the B&M road slug set. |
| Photo Date: |
8/5/1986 Upload Date: 12/7/2014 2:57:23 AM |
| Location: |
Owego, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
BM 300(GP40-2) BM 100(Road Slug) BM 301(GP40-2) BM 306(GP40-2) DH 7317(GP38-2) BM 338(GP40) |
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1122 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Short line at work |
| Description: |
A set of WATCO power works at Coffeyville Kan. Once a bustling railroad town, and a division point on the Mopac, it now has UP on the former MP, and WATCO running most of everything else thats left. |
| Photo Date: |
6/14/2015 Upload Date: 12/18/2018 5:52:49 AM |
| Location: |
Coffeyville, KS |
| Author: |
Diane Beckett |
| Categories: |
Yard,Action |
| Locomotives: |
WAMX 503(Road Slug) WAMX 3529(GP35) |
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474 Comments: 3 |
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| Title: |
Local |
| Description: |
A CSX local works at Decatur Alabama. I was making a delivery of lockers to a business adjacent to the yard when the train appeared. |
| Photo Date: |
6/26/2000 Upload Date: 2/5/2014 1:18:54 AM |
| Location: |
Decatur, AL |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Yard,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CSX 6930(GP40-2) CSX 2301(Road Slug) CSX 6080(GP40-2) |
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623 Comments: 0 |
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