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5/23/2024
 
 
 
 
 
By:Tom Beckett
Dates:4/1/1976 - 6/1/1999
Album Info:Conrail trains on ex NYC lines, primarily the Chicago, West Shore, and Boston Lines, but other places as well. Also included are trains on ex New Haven lines in New England and the NY City area.
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Sitting on the secondary
Title:  Sitting on the secondary
Description:  The power for the Woodard based local sits on the Fulton Secondary, opposite the ex NYC station used as the base of operations.
Photo Date:  10/23/1995  Upload Date: 8/10/2014 2:59:07 AM
Location:  Woodard, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Station
Locomotives:  CR 1923(B23-7)
Views:  173   Comments: 0
Early in the morning
Title:  Early in the morning
Description:  CR 1923 sits outside the Woodard station waiting to get started on its work on the Fulton Secondary.
Photo Date:  10/23/1995  Upload Date: 8/7/2014 2:26:43 PM
Location:  Woodard, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Station,Action
Locomotives:  CR 1923(B23-7)
Views:  146   Comments: 0
Road train meets local
Title:  Road train meets local
Description:  Conrail kept an engine at Woodard on the Montreal Secondary to work locals on the line to Oswego. Here we see MSBU with a pair of C40-8s and 12 cars passing the B23 holding down the local job there.
Photo Date:  10/23/1995  Upload Date: 8/1/2014 2:41:23 AM
Location:  Woodard, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Action
Locomotives:  CR 1923(B23-7) CR 6073(C40-8W) CR 6062(C40-8W)
Views:  411   Comments: 0
CNSE
Title:  CNSE
Description:  CNSE behind a CN SD40 rebuild and a CR unit pass the Woodard station on the Montreal Secondary.
Photo Date:  11/10/1995  Upload Date: 8/4/2014 2:34:14 AM
Location:  Woodard, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Winter,Station,Action
Locomotives:  CN 6002(SD40-2Q) CR 6755(SD50)
Views:  746   Comments: 0
Strays
Title:  Strays
Description:  A pair of western units leads this 40 car eastbound farther from home territory as it approaches Syracuse
Photo Date:  11/10/1995  Upload Date: 5/15/2014 3:11:23 PM
Location:  Memphis, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Winter,Action
Locomotives:  CNW 6832(SD40-2) UP 4157(SD40-2)
Views:  346   Comments: 0
Local power
Title:  Local power
Description:  As is usual, a B23-7 is todays power for the local at Woodard. The ex NYC station is used as a base of operations there.
Photo Date:  11/10/1995  Upload Date: 8/4/2014 2:37:33 AM
Location:  Woodard, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Station
Locomotives:  CR 1925(B23-7)
Views:  180   Comments: 0
Quad 5s
Title:  Quad 5s
Description:  CR 5555 leads a stack train west at Port Byron
Photo Date:  5/7/1996  Upload Date: 5/8/2014 3:14:37 AM
Location:  Port Byron, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CR 5555(SD60M) CR 6174(C40-8W)
Views:  202   Comments: 1
Westbound and new signals
Title:  Westbound and new signals
Description:  A westbound rolls through Erie and a new set of signals on the Chicago Line
Photo Date:  5/10/1996  Upload Date: 5/8/2014 3:36:16 AM
Location:  Erie, PA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Signal,Action
Locomotives:  CR 6249(C40-8W) CR 6096(C40-8W) SRS 119(Doodlebug)
Views:  561   Comments: 1
Sperry car
Title:  Sperry car
Description:  Once in a while Id catch the Sperry car on the job. Here its at Erie on the Chicago Line. Note the NYC era signal gantry has been replaced by pole mounted signals.
Photo Date:  5/10/1996  Upload Date: 5/8/2014 3:39:09 AM
Location:  Erie, PA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Signal,Action
Locomotives:  SRS 119(Doodlebug)
Views:  357   Comments: 0
From the lock
Title:  From the lock
Description:  An eastbound passes by Barge Canal lock #10 headed for Selkirk
Photo Date:  5/27/1996  Upload Date: 5/8/2014 3:22:38 AM
Location:  Cranesville, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  CR 6727(SD50) CR 6621(C36-7) CR 5535(SD60M)
Views:  303   Comments: 0
Classic yard power
Title:  Classic yard power
Description:  Conrail had a group of U23Cs that were largely captive to yards, and used as hump power. This one is at Selkirk.
Photo Date:  6/9/1996  Upload Date: 5/13/2014 2:19:59 AM
Location:  Selkirk, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  CR 6909(U23C)
Views:  176   Comments: 0
CNW power headed home
Title:  CNW power headed home
Description:  A westbound train on the Chicago Line rolls 74 cars past the NY/PA line behind a pair of CNW units headed back west to the home road.
Photo Date:  6/16/1996  Upload Date: 5/13/2014 2:11:23 AM
Location:  North East, PA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  CNW 8642(C44-9W) CNW 6931(SD40-2)
Views:  290   Comments: 1
Rolling into the night
Title:  Rolling into the night
Description:  An eastbound with the competitors power-the NS is adjacent-rolls into the New York state darkness as the light goes.
Photo Date:  6/16/1996  Upload Date: 5/13/2014 2:15:54 AM
Location:  North East, PA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  CR 6424(SD40-2) NS 6672(SD60)
Views:  325   Comments: 0
Work train
Title:  Work train
Description:  This short train with a section of panel track rolled past just before sunset
Photo Date:  6/16/1996  Upload Date: 5/13/2014 2:18:25 AM
Location:  North East, PA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CR 6970(SD40-2R)
Views:  231   Comments: 1
Meet
Title:  Meet
Description:  Amtrak 709 meets CR 6094 with a short train at the Depew station
Photo Date:  6/20/1996  Upload Date: 5/8/2014 2:50:22 AM
Location:  Depew, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 709(P32AC-DM) CR 6094(C40-8W)
Views:  395   Comments: 0
Approaching Frontier
Title:  Approaching Frontier
Description:  A westbound passes the Amtrak station at Depew as it nears Frontier yard, just a few miles ahead.
Photo Date:  6/20/1996  Upload Date: 5/8/2014 3:28:49 AM
Location:  Depew, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Action
Locomotives:  CR 6788(SD50) CR 6717(SD50)
Views:  342   Comments: 0
Western visitors
Title:  Western visitors
Description:  A westbound, probably SEEL, rolls past lock 10 with a UP unit leading a CNW GE.
Photo Date:  8/20/1996  Upload Date: 5/8/2014 3:25:38 AM
Location:  Cranesville, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  UP 6215(SD60M)
Views:  166   Comments: 0
Splitting the signals
Title:  Splitting the signals
Description:  A westbound intermodal train hammers past the signals at Memphis.
Photo Date:  6/22/1997  Upload Date: 3/30/2014 5:19:17 AM
Location:  Memphis, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  CR 5604(SD60I)
Views:  193   Comments: 0
New power
Title:  New power
Description:  A pair of new UP GEs probably on their first trip, roll east through Memphis NY just before sunset.
Photo Date:  6/22/1997  Upload Date: 3/30/2014 5:14:00 AM
Location:  Memphis, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 6659(AC44CW) UP 6628(AC44CW)
Views:  471   Comments: 0
Rolling along the interstate
Title:  Rolling along the interstate
Description:  A "hold up the camera and pray" shot along I 90 on the east side of Cleveland.
Photo Date:  3/20/1999  Upload Date: 3/4/2014 1:00:04 AM
Location:  Cleveland, OH
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CR 5615(SD60I) CR 6623(C36-7)
Views:  353   Comments: 1


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