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| Title: |
Cotton Belt pigs |
| Description: |
In 1984, Cotton Belt was using this yard next to I 55 in Memphis for its intermodal faciity. Three SP family units wait for their call. Note the Golden Pig trailer head out. |
| Photo Date: |
10/2/1984 Upload Date: 7/10/2014 2:25:00 AM |
| Location: |
Memphis, TN |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Roster,Yard |
| Locomotives: |
SP 9223(SD45T-2) SSW 7654(GP40-2) SP 7412(SD45R) |
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748 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Good power on a grubby day |
| Description: |
As always happens to me, the really good stuff runs in solid overcast, or at night. This days OIBU is true to form, with a pair of SP units ahead of a CR GP 38 with 70 cars westbound at Endwell, in the gloom. So it goes.... |
| Photo Date: |
6/17/1992 Upload Date: 2/9/2015 1:50:23 AM |
| Location: |
Endwell, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
SSW 8042(B40-8) SP 9291(SD45T-2) CR 7903(GP38) |
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463 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Into the night |
| Description: |
An eastbound CSX train rolls away from the setting sun and into the New York state darkness just west of the state line |
| Photo Date: |
9/11/1999 Upload Date: 2/28/2014 12:42:05 AM |
| Location: |
North East, PA |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CSX 8361(SD40-2) SP 9300(SD45T-2) |
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741 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
SP 8594 |
| Description: |
SP 8594 leads auto racks on the former Rock Island Golden State route near Greensburg Kan |
| Photo Date: |
2/26/1998 Upload Date: 2/26/2011 2:57:50 AM |
| Location: |
Greensburg, KS |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
SP 8594(SD40M-2) SP 9310(SD45T-2) |
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678 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
SP too |
| Description: |
The racetrack became an interesting place to watch the action, as besides CN, SP also had trackage rights for a couple of trains per day to Kansas City. Heres one of them, behind a mix of classic SP power. |
| Photo Date: |
1/6/1996 Upload Date: 7/31/2014 3:34:25 AM |
| Location: |
Berwyn, IL |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Winter,Action |
| Locomotives: |
SP 8526(SD40T-2) SP 9330(SD45T-2) SP 7542(SD45R) |
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1058 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Heritage unit |
| Description: |
They were really Conrail diesels then. A newly ex CR SD70 leads an eastbound at Solvay |
| Photo Date: |
9/11/1999 Upload Date: 2/28/2014 12:49:07 AM |
| Location: |
Syracuse CP293, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
CR 2557(SD70) SP 9359(SD45T-2) |
| Views: |
517 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Classic power |
| Description: |
A YP SD40-2 and a pair of SP tunnel motors go west, just like it;s 1979 |
| Photo Date: |
5/26/2000 Upload Date: 2/21/2014 1:26:52 AM |
| Location: |
Cozad, NE |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
UP 3150(SD40-2) SP 9387(SD45T-2) |
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394 Comments: 0 |
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