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| Title: |
Backing onto NS |
| Description: |
The P&W originated coal train has arrived at BD and is now backing its train onto NS for delivery to the Goudy power plant in Johnson City. P&W 4002 should feel right at home here. It was NYSW 4002 in a previous life. |
| Photo Date: |
2/23/2006 Upload Date: 11/9/2012 1:27:21 AM |
| Location: |
Binghamton, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
PW 3903(B39-8E) PW 4002(B40-8) PW 3004(B30-7AB) PW 3905(B39-8E) |
| Views: |
610 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
P&W on D&H in the snow |
| Description: |
One of the P&W originated Johnson City coal trains rolls south past the Port Crane detector after a snow squall. |
| Photo Date: |
2/23/2006 Upload Date: 11/9/2012 1:29:27 AM |
| Location: |
Port Crane, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Winter,Action |
| Locomotives: |
PW 3903(B39-8E) PW 4002(B40-8) PW 3004(B30-7AB) PW 3905(B39-8E) |
| Views: |
625 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
P&W power on coal train |
| Description: |
In 2006, the Goudy station in Johnson City NY did a test burn of import coal that came in via Providence RI. The train originated on the Providence & Worcester, whose power ran through to Binghamton. There were four of these trains. Here we see one of the trains passing the northbound home signals at CPF 587 |
| Photo Date: |
1/16/2006 Upload Date: 11/4/2012 3:28:21 AM |
| Location: |
Afton, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Winter,Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
PW 3906(B39-8E) PW 3008(B30-7AB) PW 3004(B30-7AB) PW 3905(B39-8E) |
| Views: |
780 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
P&W at the tunnel |
| Description: |
One of the Johnson City coal trains to come off the P&W rolls south out of Belden Tunnel in typical Southern Tier gloom. |
| Photo Date: |
1/16/2006 Upload Date: 11/4/2012 3:32:19 AM |
| Location: |
Tunnel, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Tunnel,Winter,Action |
| Locomotives: |
PW 3906(B39-8E) PW 3008(B30-7AB) PW 3004(B30-7AB) PW 3905(B39-8E) |
| Views: |
658 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Arriving |
| Description: |
The coal train for Johnson City has arrived at Binghamton. It will cross over to the 2 runner where the power will cut off. An NS unit will take the cars to the power plant on the Vestal Spur. |
| Photo Date: |
1/16/2006 Upload Date: 11/4/2012 3:35:20 AM |
| Location: |
Binghamton, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Yard,Action |
| Locomotives: |
PW 3906(B39-8E) PW 3008(B30-7AB) PW 3004(B30-7AB) PW 3905(B39-8E) CP 5698(SD40-2) |
| Views: |
885 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
P&W on the high bridge |
| Description: |
A Johnson City coal train with P&W power crosses over Wylie Creek on the Harpursville bridge |
| Photo Date: |
1/16/2006 Upload Date: 11/4/2012 3:38:48 AM |
| Location: |
Harpursville, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Bridge,Action |
| Locomotives: |
PW 3906(B39-8E) PW 3008(B30-7AB) PW 3004(B30-7AB) PW 3905(B39-8E) |
| Views: |
735 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
P&W power headed south |
| Description: |
A Johnson City coal train that originated on the P&W in Providence rolls off the Susquhanna River bridge between Sidney and Bainbridge. |
| Photo Date: |
1/16/2006 Upload Date: 11/4/2012 3:41:23 AM |
| Location: |
Bainbridge, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Bridge,Winter,Action |
| Locomotives: |
PW 3906(B39-8E) PW 3008(B30-7AB) PW 3004(B30-7AB) PW 3905(B39-8E) |
| Views: |
660 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
P&W on the D&H |
| Description: |
P&W power leads a coal train bound for the former NYSEG Goudy Station in Johnson City NY over the high bridge over Wylie Creek in Harpursville NY |
| Photo Date: |
2/3/2006 Upload Date: 2/27/2011 2:24:55 AM |
| Location: |
Harpursville, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Bridge,Action |
| Locomotives: |
PW 3906(B39-8E) PW 3008(B30-7AB) PW 3004(B30-7AB) PW 3905(B39-8E) |
| Views: |
861 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Unlikely meet |
| Description: |
An eastbound Conrail train rolls past laying over NYSW power with a set of western units. Woever figured an NYSW unit next to an SP unit.....well, they did buy some SP tunnel motors later on.... |
| Photo Date: |
4/18/1997 Upload Date: 3/30/2014 4:52:03 AM |
| Location: |
Syracuse (Carousel Mall), NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Action |
| Locomotives: |
UP 601(C36-7) SP 7407(SD45R) NYSW 3636(F45) SP 8032(B39-8E) |
| Views: |
602 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Western visitors |
| Description: |
An eastbound behind a trio of western units passes the NYSW Ontrack station at Carousel Mall |
| Photo Date: |
4/18/1997 Upload Date: 3/30/2014 12:18:21 PM |
| Location: |
Syracuse (Carousel Mall), NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Action |
| Locomotives: |
UP 601(C36-7) SP 7407(SD45R) SP 8032(B39-8E) |
| Views: |
477 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Just before dark |
| Description: |
I was heading north along US 59 south of Heavener when I saw this train going the other way. There was just enough light left when I got to Vandervoort to get him, a southbound M train with 23 freight, 21 stack platforms, and an interesting mix of power. |
| Photo Date: |
1/10/2007 Upload Date: 2/4/2017 3:13:45 AM |
| Location: |
Vandervoort, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
KCS 6106(SD40T-2) NREX 8503(B39-8E) KCS 691(SD40-2) |
| Views: |
355 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Northbound mix |
| Description: |
A northbound train with a mix of KCS, TFM, and lease power passes the team track at Siloam. The second unit is a former LMX B39 that spent a number of years on BN. |
| Photo Date: |
3/2/2007 Upload Date: 10/22/2012 12:46:31 AM |
| Location: |
Siloam Springs, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
KCS 6615(SD40-3) RLCX 8507(B39-8E) KCS 665(SD40-2) TFM 1302(SD40) |
| Views: |
948 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Cooking!! |
| Description: |
A northbound H train rolls under US 412 as seen from Kenwood St, pulling hard to get its train up out of the Illinois River valley, finally at the top of a five mile climb. The second unit, a former GE lease unit, appears to have turbo trouble. |
| Photo Date: |
8/6/2007 Upload Date: 7/3/2016 5:16:55 AM |
| Location: |
Siloam Springs, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
TFM 1429(SD40-2) NREX 8509(B39-8E) HLCX 6075(SD40M-3) |
| Views: |
738 Comments: 3 |
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| Title: |
By the hour |
| Description: |
The big new thing at this time was "power by the hour", where railroads would lease diesels, with payment based on horsepower hours. Since technology now allowed for a real time record of actual usage, it was possible for this type of billing, more accurate than a HP times how long the engine was gone billing. BN leased a group of B39-8s on this basis, and we see two of them at Cicero, under the mercury vapor lamps, making the colors a little off. |
| Photo Date: |
3/11/1990 Upload Date: 12/23/2015 4:18:47 AM |
| Location: |
Cicero, IL |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Roster,Yard |
| Locomotives: |
LMX 8546(B39-8E) LMX 8526(B39-8E) BN 3133(GP50) |
| Views: |
621 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Out of the shadows |
| Description: |
A northbound H train rolls 82 cars around the curve, past MP 239 and out of the shadow cast by the trees along US 59 as it makes for Watts behind a mix of older power. This location is now opened up, US 59 now having been widened to four lanes here in 2016. |
| Photo Date: |
5/31/2007 Upload Date: 7/5/2016 5:23:50 AM |
| Location: |
Watts, OK |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
KCS 3222(SD40-2) NREX 8534(B39-8E) KCS 702(SD40X) |
| Views: |
616 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
Second life for a leaser |
| Description: |
In the late 1980s, power by the hour was the big new thing, with GE and EMD both maintaining fleets of that nature, both going to work on BN. The GE fleet had LMX reporting marks, with the units numbered in the 8500 series. After they came off lease, the fleet scattered, and the engines were found all over, among other places, on the KCS, and here on a New Mexico short line. This one is at Hobbs. |
| Photo Date: |
4/7/2014 Upload Date: 7/4/2018 5:04:07 AM |
| Location: |
Hobbs, NM |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Roster |
| Locomotives: |
SLRG 8539(B39-8E) |
| Views: |
234 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
SLRG unit on the Texas-New Mexico |
| Description: |
I rolled into Hobbs and found this ex LMX unit lettered SLRG sitting with a train along the road on a Monday Morning. |
| Photo Date: |
4/7/2014 Upload Date: 6/20/2014 1:43:21 AM |
| Location: |
Hobbs, NM |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
SLRG 8539(B39-8E) |
| Views: |
453 Comments: 4 |
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| Title: |
Holding out |
| Description: |
This southbound was holding for a meet north of Gentry, waiting to move down the siding til the nortbound was at the south end. This way the trains would not block the several crossings in town more than needed for the meet. An NREX lease unit, formerly a GE lease fleet unit, leads, followed by two more GE's and a rebuilt SD 45. |
| Photo Date: |
12/15/2006 Upload Date: 3/5/2017 4:14:49 AM |
| Location: |
Gentry, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
NREX 8545(B39-8E) |
| Views: |
519 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
M train north |
| Description: |
The northbound M train, 94 cars of it, is in the siding at Watts. Besides the head end power, he has a pair of GEs pushing. |
| Photo Date: |
3/2/2007 Upload Date: 2/4/2017 3:21:40 AM |
| Location: |
Watts, OK |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
KCS 647(SD40-2) NREX 8545(B39-8E) KCS 6026(SD40-2) |
| Views: |
725 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
MMA on the bridge |
| Description: |
A pair of MMA units work Brownsville Jct yard. |
| Photo Date: |
9/3/2005 Upload Date: 11/11/2012 4:02:04 AM |
| Location: |
Brownville Junction, ME |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Bridge,Action |
| Locomotives: |
MMA 8560(B39-8E) MMA 100(GP7) |
| Views: |
902 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
Waiting for light power |
| Description: |
A CSX transfer headed for Clearing waits for a set of BN power at Forest Hill |
| Photo Date: |
4/28/1996 Upload Date: 5/10/2014 2:26:28 AM |
| Location: |
Chicago, IL |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CSX 8627(SD50) CSX 6025(GP40-2) BN 7301(SD40R) LMX 8573(B39-8E) |
| Views: |
607 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
M train on the creek |
| Description: |
Before there was the Q train, there was the M train. This is it, behind a mix of EMD and GE power, crossing Baron Creek with 51 cars and 8 stack platforms. |
| Photo Date: |
3/8/2007 Upload Date: 1/25/2017 3:41:22 AM |
| Location: |
Baron, OK |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Bridge,Action |
| Locomotives: |
KCS 6102(SD40-2) NREX 8587(B39-8E) KCS 682(SD40-2) |
| Views: |
681 Comments: 1 |
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