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| Title: |
Back to the yard |
| Description: |
The eastbound I encountered earlier has dropped its train and returned to Waterloo with their caboose for more action. We see the lite GP 9s rolling under the ex CGW at the east end of the Waterloo yard. Note the "GP 20" model plate on the front of 977. This was once a common EMD feature that had disappeared by the mid 60's. I bet there are a lot of these in railfan attics and basements. |
| Photo Date: |
6/22/1987 Upload Date: 5/8/2015 2:42:45 AM |
| Location: |
Waterloo, IA |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Yard,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CC 977(GP20) CC 975(GP20) |
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517 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Granger classic |
| Description: |
Chicago Central train 20 is seen across a just started field in a classic granger scene on what was until recently the ICGs Iowa Division. They did pretty well with it, as CN eventually bought it back. |
| Photo Date: |
6/22/1987 Upload Date: 5/6/2015 2:14:44 AM |
| Location: |
Independence, IA |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CC 977(GP20) CC 975(GP20) |
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367 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Classic town scene |
| Description: |
Train 20 rolls past the bins in a scene that has not changed in decades across the midwest. |
| Photo Date: |
6/22/1987 Upload Date: 5/6/2015 2:34:02 AM |
| Location: |
Masonville, IA |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CC 977(GP20) CC 975(GP20) |
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355 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Heading to their train |
| Description: |
CCP 977 and 975 take their caboose to get on their train at Waterloo yard. It will soon be headed east on the former IC Iowa Division |
| Photo Date: |
6/22/1987 Upload Date: 1/15/2012 11:43:27 PM |
| Location: |
Waterloo, IA |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Yard,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CC 977(GP20) CC 975(GP20) |
| Views: |
757 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
GP 20 |
| Description: |
Just about everything on the WP roster was at Salt Lake in March 1984, though UP did run some of the GP 35s and 40s for a while. |
| Photo Date: |
3/17/1984 Upload Date: 6/5/2014 1:48:30 AM |
| Location: |
Salt Lake City, UT |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Roster,Yard |
| Locomotives: |
WP 2001(GP20) |
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405 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
WP at Salt Lake |
| Description: |
WP power was stored at Salt Lake City in 1984, This was seen from the passing Cal Zephyr. |
| Photo Date: |
3/17/1984 Upload Date: 6/5/2014 1:45:49 AM |
| Location: |
Salt Lake City, UT |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Roster,Yard |
| Locomotives: |
WP 2004(GP20) WP 710(GP7) |
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380 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
WP 2006 |
| Description: |
Most if not all of the GP 20 fleet was at Salt Lake. I was able to shoot some units from the passing Zephyr. |
| Photo Date: |
3/17/1984 Upload Date: 6/5/2014 1:52:07 AM |
| Location: |
Salt Lake City, UT |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Roster,Yard |
| Locomotives: |
WP 2006(GP20) |
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427 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
WP 2010 |
| Description: |
More WP power, here a pair of GP 20s, at Salt Lake |
| Photo Date: |
3/17/1984 Upload Date: 6/5/2014 1:55:01 AM |
| Location: |
Salt Lake City, UT |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Roster,Yard |
| Locomotives: |
WP 2010(GP20) WP 2252(U23B) |
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491 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
First generation power |
| Description: |
The BN at the time had a lot of first generation power still at work, and there was a good representation of it at Denver. One such was this SD 9 at the turntable. There were a lot of then there that day. |
| Photo Date: |
8/23/1982 Upload Date: 6/27/2014 2:34:46 AM |
| Location: |
Denver, CO |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Roster,Yard |
| Locomotives: |
BN 6149(SD9) BN 119(SW7) BN 6144(SD9) BN 2060(GP20) BN 2050(GP20) |
| Views: |
807 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
GP 20 |
| Description: |
BN still had quite a few of these in the early 80s. They lasted quite a while, despite a reputation for having turbo issues. |
| Photo Date: |
8/23/1982 Upload Date: 3/17/2013 4:27:12 AM |
| Location: |
Denver, CO |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Roster,Yard |
| Locomotives: |
BN 2052(GP20) |
| Views: |
319 Comments: 0 |
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| 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 |
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| Title: |
BN 2058 |
| Description: |
A GP 20 2058 sits at the Denver roundhouse. Note the "GP 20" plate on the cab side. Many years and a merger later, its still on the unit. To look at this scene, you would not know BN owned a second generation diesel. |
| Photo Date: |
8/23/1982 Upload Date: 6/27/2014 2:32:11 AM |
| Location: |
Denver, CO |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Roster,Yard |
| Locomotives: |
BN 2058(GP20) BN 6149(SD9) BN 246(SW1200) BN 113(SW7) BN 6144(SD9) |
| Views: |
822 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
GP 20 |
| Description: |
GP 20s were common in local service into the late 1980s on BN, among other roads. Heres one at Centralia Ill. |
| Photo Date: |
2/22/1986 Upload Date: 1/8/2012 3:53:43 AM |
| Location: |
Centralia, IL |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
BN 2058(GP20) |
| Views: |
647 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
BH 1 |
| Description: |
BH 1 rolls past the Kattelville Rd crossing in Chenango Bridge in the charge of one of the TP&W GP 20s. |
| Photo Date: |
11/19/2001 Upload Date: 10/26/2013 2:16:57 AM |
| Location: |
Chenango Bridge, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
NYSW 2062(GP20) |
| Views: |
387 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
BH 1 and the TP&W |
| Description: |
One benefit NYSW got from its brief stewardship of the TP&W was a trio of GP 20s. We see one of them at the signals-its not really an interlocking-at Chenango Forks with 16 cars going up whats left of the Utica Branch. |
| Photo Date: |
6/17/2003 Upload Date: 6/23/2016 4:55:48 AM |
| Location: |
Chenango Forks, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NYSW 2062(GP20) |
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254 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Line up in the yard |
| Description: |
A line of NYSW units sits at Binghatmon. Most will not see the road again on the Susie Q. The 2062 was one of the GP20's that came from the TP&W; the 4006 is one of the original four units from 1988, and was sold to the P&W along with the others. |
| Photo Date: |
7/17/2003 Upload Date: 8/4/2013 2:58:46 AM |
| Location: |
Binghamton, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Roster,Yard |
| Locomotives: |
NYSW 2062(GP20) NYSW 4006(B40-8) |
| Views: |
347 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Headed for home |
| Description: |
NYSW BH 1 has done its interchange work with CP, and is now headed back to its yard downtown with its transfer cars behind a pair of GP 20s from the TP&W, which it operated for a few years in the 1990s. The view is from St Clair Av, at the old bridge abutment for Conklin Av, left in place when the new overpass was built. |
| Photo Date: |
8/10/2003 Upload Date: 6/9/2016 5:14:40 AM |
| Location: |
Binghamton, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Yard,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NYSW 2066(GP20u) NYSW 2062(GP20) |
| Views: |
454 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Good mix |
| Description: |
BH 2 arrives at Binghamton from the Syracuse Branch with an interesting trio of units. We see it easing through the south end of Bevier St, the famous Agway mill as a backdrop. |
| Photo Date: |
11/14/2004 Upload Date: 5/21/2017 5:15:22 AM |
| Location: |
Binghamton, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Yard,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NYSW 3040(GP40) NYSW 2062(GP20) NYSW 4006(B40-8) |
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267 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Old guard |
| Description: |
An unlikely set of power for the 21st century, a NYSW GP18 and GP 20 work at Binghamton |
| Photo Date: |
4/26/2006 Upload Date: 10/6/2011 12:13:35 AM |
| Location: |
Binghamton, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Yard,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NYSW 1802(GP18) NYSW 2062(GP20) |
| Views: |
438 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
BH 2 |
| Description: |
BH 2, in the charge of a pair of older units, an original NYSW GP 18, and a GP 20 that came east from the TP&W, pull 47 cars through BD. |
| Photo Date: |
4/26/2006 Upload Date: 5/25/2018 5:52:55 AM |
| Location: |
Binghamton, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
NYSW 1802(GP18) NYSW 2062(GP20) |
| Views: |
146 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
At the yard |
| Description: |
BH 2 pulls down into QD yard, where it will drop its train, then work it to separate the cars for H 88 from the locals. |
| Photo Date: |
4/26/2006 Upload Date: 5/25/2018 5:58:08 AM |
| Location: |
Binghamton, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Yard,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NYSW 1802(GP18) NYSW 2062(GP20) |
| Views: |
137 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Ft Scott Sub north |
| Description: |
A through train rolls north toward Kansas City. There was not much in the area at the time I took this. You would not recognize it now, and you can hardly get to the tracks. |
| Photo Date: |
2/19/1986 Upload Date: 11/10/2014 1:26:28 AM |
| Location: |
Olathe, KS |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
BN 5329(U30C) BN 7058(SD40-2) BN 6369(SD40-2) BN 4050(B30-7AB) BN 2068(GP20) BN 8174(SD40-2) |
| Views: |
606 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Track geometry car |
| Description: |
This car was working through Lenexa the day I was there. We see the observation end of the car, where the equipment operator works. |
| Photo Date: |
2/19/1986 Upload Date: 11/10/2014 2:56:41 AM |
| Location: |
Lenexa, KS |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Roster,RollingStock,Station |
| Locomotives: |
BN 2068(GP20) |
| Views: |
927 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
Geometry train |
| Description: |
One of the trains I saw during the couple of days I was in Kansas City was this track geometry train, behind of all things, a GP 20. |
| Photo Date: |
2/20/1986 Upload Date: 11/10/2014 1:06:00 AM |
| Location: |
Lenexa, KS |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
BN 2068(GP20) |
| Views: |
468 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Unusual unit on the corridor |
| Description: |
The GP 20 was an unusual unit anywhere on Conrail. They only had ten, ex NYC. Heres one of them at Wilmington Del, seen from the passing Crescent. |
| Photo Date: |
3/6/1984 Upload Date: 5/22/2014 4:32:02 AM |
| Location: |
Wilmington, DE |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Yard,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CR 2109(GP20) |
| Views: |
420 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Love/hate |
| Description: |
I love and hate short lines all at the same time. There are some interesting operations, and in days past, a lot of interesting power, especially back in the late 70's when the likes of Conrail were selling off underused and unprofitable branch lines, and they were also casting off a lot of odd and obscure power. At the same time, a lot of them run on an erratic basis, often tied to one or two customers, or when the connecting Class 1 brings some cars to the connection. This makes them hard to catch, especially if you're an outlander, though, as photographer Ken Karlewicz noted about the NYSW years ago, "living near the tracks doesn't guarantee you'll see trains." So it was with great joy I found this Pioneer Lines train rolling slowly on an old Wabash branch toward Napoleon as we were driving east on US 24, headed toward Toledo and the Ohio Turnpike. Once in a while, you get lucky!! |
| Photo Date: |
10/16/2023 Upload Date: 11/2/2023 4:55:04 AM |
| Location: |
Napoleon, OH |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
PREX 3001(GP20) |
| Views: |
54 Comments: 5 |
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| Title: |
Long time, no change |
| Description: |
Sometimes, when a Class 1 sells or abandons a line, the infrastructure or signage stays in place for a long time. Such is the case with this long time sold off Wabash line from Toledo to Fort Wayne, now active for a short distance in Ohio. Pioneer Rail 3001 rolls 12 cars east toward the end of track and a connection to CSX-ex B&O in Napoleon, passing a sign that is at least 40 years old, and possibly a lot older, given that the N&W merged the Wabash in 1964. |
| Photo Date: |
10/16/2023 Upload Date: 11/2/2023 5:13:15 AM |
| Location: |
Napoleon, OH |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
PREX 3001(GP20) |
| Views: |
47 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Short line herald |
| Description: |
The herald of Pioneer Rail, emblazoned on the side of their diesel. |
| Photo Date: |
10/16/2023 Upload Date: 11/2/2023 5:16:52 AM |
| Location: |
Napoleon, OH |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
PREX 3001(GP20) |
| Views: |
45 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Rickety |
| Description: |
One of the features of long sold off branch lines is often the lack of track maintenance. This is not nearly as bad as some, but still, the stick rail is showing its age as the train rolls away through a tunnel of trees. |
| Photo Date: |
10/16/2023 Upload Date: 11/2/2023 5:21:47 AM |
| Location: |
Napoleon, OH |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Track,Action |
| Locomotives: |
PREX 3001(GP20) |
| Views: |
47 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
Cotton Belt GP 20 |
| Description: |
A Cotton Belt GP 20 seen from Amtraks Sunset. There were quite a few of these units still in service on western roads in the mid 80s. |
| Photo Date: |
3/10/1984 Upload Date: 12/3/2011 12:27:14 AM |
| Location: |
Lake Charles, LA |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Yard |
| Locomotives: |
SSW 4134(GP20) SP 4108(GP20E) |
| Views: |
1270 Comments: 0 |
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