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4/19/2024
 
 
 
 
 
By:Tom Beckett
Dates:1/1/2011 - 1/1/2011
Album Info:Photos of short lines, regional roads, and industrial power, including grain elevators and other power not included elsewhere
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View from the interstate
Title:  View from the interstate
Description:  A pair of L&I switchers seen from southbound I 65 in one of those "hold up the camera and pray" shots.
Photo Date:  6/4/2000  Upload Date: 2/5/2014 1:25:47 AM
Location:  Jeffersonville, IN
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives: 
Views:  122   Comments: 0
Critters
Title:  Critters
Description:  A fireless cooker and an industrial unit turned up at a mill in Youngstown. Anyone with any info on these, please comment.
Photo Date:  8/13/2000  Upload Date: 1/23/2014 2:17:09 AM
Location:  Youngstown, OH
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives: 
Views:  228   Comments: 0
Ohio Central power lays over
Title:  Ohio Central power lays over
Description:  I was making a delivery in the Youngstown area on a Monday, arrived Saturday night, and had some time to kill. I did the nickel tour of Youngstown as best I could in a bobtail tractor, and found my way to the former EL Brier Hill yard, and some local units waiting on Mondays activity.
Photo Date:  8/13/2000  Upload Date: 1/14/2012 11:51:33 PM
Location:  Youngstown, OH
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  OHCR 7591(GP10) OHCR 7594(GP10)
Views:  423   Comments: 0
Dodge City dinner train
Title:  Dodge City dinner train
Description:  The Dodge City, Ford & Bucklin was a tourist line that ran a dinner train in the former Rock Island Dodge City Branch, a line that left the Golden State Route at Bucklin-hence the inspiration for the short lines name. Their power was an ex US Army S 1. I caught it at Dodge City.
Photo Date:  10/18/2000  Upload Date: 6/13/2012 1:10:11 AM
Location:  Dodge City, KS
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Station,Passenger
Locomotives:  DCFB 6601(S1)
Views:  797   Comments: 3
Lite power
Title:  Lite power
Description:  Reading & Northern units roll lite thru Old Forge PA
Photo Date:  8/5/2001  Upload Date: 12/13/2013 1:26:58 AM
Location:  Old Forge, PA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  RBMN 2301(B23-7) RBMN 1548(SW1500)
Views:  872   Comments: 0
Switching Solvay Paperboard
Title:  Switching Solvay Paperboard
Description:  While waiting for CSX action at the Willis Av bridge in Syracuse, I heard something behind me. Working in the Solvay Paperboard plant was the Finger Lakes RR local. They operate several cast off ex NYC branch lines in their namesake region, using power that has been painted in a scheme that honors the lines ancestor.
Photo Date:  5/19/2002  Upload Date: 10/5/2013 10:58:04 PM
Location:  Syracuse, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  FGLK 2301(B23-7)
Views:  545   Comments: 1
Alcos!!
Title:  Alcos!!
Description:  Delaware Lackawanna now finds itself in an increasingly rare club. As I write this in 2013 Arkansas & Missouri has now taken delivery of three SD70ACes. Back in 2002 we see three of DLs Alcos at Slateford Jct, once a hot spot on the EL. Genesee Valley family member MA&N C425 is head out.
Photo Date:  6/16/2002  Upload Date: 9/28/2013 1:40:45 AM
Location:  Slateford Junction, PA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  DL 6793(C636) MHWA 804(C425)
Views:  1351   Comments: 1
Bath local
Title:  Bath local
Description:  The Bath local heads back from its interchange with NS at Gang Mills behind a newly painted C424 at Savona
Photo Date:  8/13/2003  Upload Date: 10/29/2011 2:32:33 AM
Location:  Savona, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BH 422(C424) NS 5215(GP38-2) WNYP 431(C430)
Views:  1079   Comments: 0
Old number
Title:  Old number
Description:  This RS 3 was upgraded to a "Dewitt Geep" with the engine out of a retired E 8 at Syracuse. After retirement, it wound up here, now sporting what is probably its ex PRR number.
Photo Date:  8/31/2003  Upload Date: 5/12/2017 4:27:32 AM
Location:  Rio Grande, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  PRR 8481(RS3M)
Views:  453   Comments: 1
Unusual unit in tow
Title:  Unusual unit in tow
Description:  Erie Mining sold some Alcos to the Morristown & Erie in 2003. Heres one of them on CP train 166 at Conklin yard.
Photo Date:  9/9/2003  Upload Date: 2/25/2013 1:28:21 AM
Location:  Conklin, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  ME 7211(RS11)
Views:  317   Comments: 0
Alcos at home
Title:  Alcos at home
Description:  A stop at the WNY&P yard in Falconer found a pair C 424s laying over for the weekend.
Photo Date:  11/9/2003  Upload Date: 6/18/2016 2:58:32 AM
Location:  Falconer, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  WNYP 431(C430) LAL 423(C424)
Views:  509   Comments: 1
Short line power
Title:  Short line power
Description:  This unit was working at Mobile during a family visit.
Photo Date:  4/1/2004  Upload Date: 1/6/2013 2:25:05 AM
Location:  Mobile, AL
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  AGR 4027(GP40)
Views:  489   Comments: 0
GM&O unit
Title:  GM&O unit
Description:  This was parked behind a fence off the service road to I 10. Dont know who owns it now, or why it was there, but its always good to see fallen flag power looking this good. Anyone with info, please comment.
Photo Date:  4/1/2004  Upload Date: 1/6/2013 2:27:15 AM
Location:  Mobile, AL
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  GMO 631(GP35)
Views:  549   Comments: 1
Rolling by
Title:  Rolling by
Description:  Mohawk Adirondack & Northern rolls past Utica union station as it works in the old NYC yard across from the platforms.
Photo Date:  5/12/2004  Upload Date: 10/27/2017 5:11:52 AM
Location:  Utica, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  MHWA 2453(C425)
Views:  226   Comments: 0
Working Alco
Title:  Working Alco
Description:  Always good to see an Alco working now that the youngest of them is almost 50 years old. This on is still gainfully employed at Utica, pulling three cars through the yard.
Photo Date:  5/12/2004  Upload Date: 10/27/2017 5:15:30 AM
Location:  Utica, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  MHWA 2453(C425)
Views:  281   Comments: 0
Museum piece
Title:  Museum piece
Description:  A restored to LV paint F 7 sits at the Southern RR of NJ in Cape May, along with some of the other interesting items in the collection.
Photo Date:  9/5/2004  Upload Date: 5/12/2017 4:16:08 AM
Location:  Cape May, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  LV 576(F7A)
Views:  336   Comments: 0
LV and friends
Title:  LV and friends
Description:  The Southern RR of New Jersey has accumulated a number of vintage units and painted them in CR predecessor colors. Among the items they have here at Cape May is a pair of LV painted F 7s, a CNJ GP7, a PRR GP 9, some RDCs and a few other items. We see one of the LV Fs along with the PRR and CNJ units.
Photo Date:  9/5/2004  Upload Date: 5/12/2017 4:19:23 AM
Location:  Cape May, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  LV 576(F7A) PRR 7000(GP9) CNJ 1523(GP7)
Views:  550   Comments: 0
Matched set
Title:  Matched set
Description:  The other LV F unit is on the south end of this short consist.
Photo Date:  9/5/2004  Upload Date: 5/12/2017 4:22:43 AM
Location:  Cape May, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  LV 578(F7A)
Views:  269   Comments: 0
Looking right at home
Title:  Looking right at home
Description:  Because it is. DL 2461 was originally EL 2461, and spent many hours here at Scranton. Welcome home.
Photo Date:  2/13/2005  Upload Date: 7/19/2017 5:18:13 AM
Location:  Scranton, PA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  DL 2461(C425) DL 645(M420W)
Views:  501   Comments: 0
R&N transfer
Title:  R&N transfer
Description:  The Reading & Northern transfer to CP arrives on the Keyser Valley Branch behind a pair of SD 50s.
Photo Date:  2/13/2005  Upload Date: 7/19/2017 5:25:54 AM
Location:  Taylor, PA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  RN 5014(SD50)
Views:  80   Comments: 0
At the office
Title:  At the office
Description:  The Reading & Northern transfer rolls past the CP Taylor yard office with its CP cars
Photo Date:  2/13/2005  Upload Date: 7/19/2017 5:30:36 AM
Location:  Taylor, PA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  RN 5014(SD50) RN 5022(SD50)
Views:  150   Comments: 1
Alco cab end
Title:  Alco cab end
Description:  The cab end of Alco #5, their one time plant switcher, on the turntable at North Creek
Photo Date:  7/31/2005  Upload Date: 11/11/2012 4:23:08 AM
Location:  North Creek, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  ALCO 5(S1)
Views:  288   Comments: 0
On the turntable
Title:  On the turntable
Description:  Alco #5 sits on the turntable at North Creek on the Upper Hudson River RR
Photo Date:  7/31/2005  Upload Date: 11/11/2012 4:26:19 AM
Location:  North Creek, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  ALCO 5(S1)
Views:  473   Comments: 0
Tradition
Title:  Tradition
Description:  For many years, D&H and B&M ran their power through onto the other road, and it was not uncommon to see D&H power in Deerfield, or B&M units in Oneonta or Binghamton, years before both roads came under the Guilford umbrella. That practice remains in 2005, even if the colors have changed some. Portland-Mohawk train POMO is led by a set of CP and lease power on the B&M at Pownal.
Photo Date:  7/31/2005  Upload Date: 8/30/2017 6:02:21 AM
Location:  Pownal, VT
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Signal,Action
Locomotives:  CP 5993(SD40-2) CP 5419(SD40-2) CEFX 2787(SD40M-2)
Views:  358   Comments: 0
D&H lives-sorta
Title:  D&H lives-sorta
Description:  Ex D&H 5019, at this time on the Upper Hudson River RR, sits at North Creek
Photo Date:  7/31/2005  Upload Date: 11/11/2012 4:34:56 AM
Location:  North Creek, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  UHRR 5019(RS36)
Views:  499   Comments: 0
Lease units
Title:  Lease units
Description:  A pair of lease units sits at Bellows Falls
Photo Date:  9/5/2005  Upload Date: 11/11/2012 4:11:59 AM
Location:  Bellows Falls, VT
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  HATX 402(GP40) HLCX 3610(GP38)
Views:  419   Comments: 1
Back onto the his train
Title:  Back onto the his train
Description:  EDWJs power rolls back across this through truss after dropping cars to the Vermont Railway.
Photo Date:  9/5/2005  Upload Date: 11/5/2017 3:51:04 AM
Location:  Bellows Falls, VT
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Bridge,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  ST 207(GP35) MEC 315(GP40)
Views:  255   Comments: 0
EDWJ heads north
Title:  EDWJ heads north
Description:  EDWJ head out of Bellow Falls en route to White River Jct behind a pair of hand me downs.
Photo Date:  9/5/2005  Upload Date: 11/5/2017 3:46:34 AM
Location:  Bellows Falls, VT
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  MEC 315(GP40) ST 207(GP35)
Views:  215   Comments: 1
Hand me down, needs paint
Title:  Hand me down, needs paint
Description:  This second hand unit-looks like an ex SBD GP 16-needs a new coat of paint. All the other power we saw that day was in the L&Is attractive green and yellow. Old gray units still switch cars, though!!
Photo Date:  10/8/2005  Upload Date: 8/30/2017 5:19:59 AM
Location:  Jeffersonville, IN
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  LIRC 1608(GP16)
Views:  275   Comments: 1
Switching
Title:  Switching
Description:  A pair of L&I units work the yard at Jeffersonville Ind, just across the river from Louisville. I have noted these units at GP 16's. If anyone can confirm that model, please comment. Corrections are welcome.
Photo Date:  10/8/2005  Upload Date: 10/15/2012 2:03:35 AM
Location:  Jeffersonville, IN
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  LIRC 1801(GP11) LIRC 1802(GP11)
Views:  346   Comments: 0
Down at the yard
Title:  Down at the yard
Description:  There was an assortment of power at the L&I yard. The great thing about a lot of regionals is their second hand power, which makes for some interesting sights.
Photo Date:  10/8/2005  Upload Date: 8/30/2017 5:26:10 AM
Location:  Jeffersonville, IN
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  LIRC 1803(GP11)
Views:  151   Comments: 1
Louisville & Indiana
Title:  Louisville & Indiana
Description:  LIRC runs the former PRR line between the two towns. Here we see power at their engine facility.
Photo Date:  10/8/2005  Upload Date: 10/15/2012 2:02:33 AM
Location:  Jeffersonville, IN
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  LIRC 221(GP38-3) LIRC 2376(GP39-2) LIRC 1610(GP16)
Views:  548   Comments: 0
Havent seen one of these in a while.
Title:  Havent seen one of these in a while.
Description:  A GP 39-2 sits at the engine facility at L&Is yard just north of Louisville. I used to see these a lot on the D&H-they had their own as well as some ex Reading units-but it was not a common model elsewhere.
Photo Date:  10/8/2005  Upload Date: 8/30/2017 5:29:46 AM
Location:  Jeffersonville, IN
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  LIRC 2376(GP39-2)
Views:  166   Comments: 1
Rail America power
Title:  Rail America power
Description:  A pair of Rail America family units in southern Indiana, neither on the road they are lettered for.
Photo Date:  10/15/2005  Upload Date: 11/11/2012 4:16:53 AM
Location:  Switz City, IN
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  TPW 4054(GP40-2LW) ISRR 3814(GP38-2)
Views:  422   Comments: 0
Short line catch
Title:  Short line catch
Description:  I like short lines, but I dont always have the patience to wait out an operation Im not familiar with, and may run sporadically, especially in an area Im not familiar with, so getting short line power at a yard is a good catch. Such was the case on a roll through Fort Smith as part of a larger trip in May 2006, when I still lived in NY. I caught this unit taking some sun at their yard downtown. It looks good in relatively fresh paint. Compare the same unit elsewhere in this album, shot in 2014.
Photo Date:  5/10/2006  Upload Date: 1/12/2018 5:14:34 AM
Location:  Fort Smith, AR
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  PREX 2038(GP20u)
Views:  121   Comments: 1
High above
Title:  High above
Description:  The tail end of a northbound empty coal train on the Missouri & North Arkansas rolls away across the White River on a tall bridge spanning the wide valley. M&NA owns the line, but the UP runs coal trains from KC to Diaz Ark, on it, gaining their ex MP main at Diaz.
Photo Date:  1/17/2007  Upload Date: 2/3/2017 4:20:15 AM
Location:  Cotter, AR
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Bridge,Action
Locomotives:  UP 8042(SD9043MAC)
Views:  215   Comments: 1
Through the park
Title:  Through the park
Description:  There is a small city park at the south end of the Cotter bridge. I caught this empty UP coal train as the DPU approached the White River bridge.
Photo Date:  1/17/2007  Upload Date: 2/3/2017 4:36:43 AM
Location:  Cotter, AR
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  UP 8042(SD9043MAC)
Views:  171   Comments: 1
Peeking out
Title:  Peeking out
Description:  The DPU on this northbound empty coal train is just visible as it rolls across the White River.
Photo Date:  1/17/2007  Upload Date: 2/3/2017 4:27:47 AM
Location:  Cotter, AR
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Bridge,Action
Locomotives:  UP 8042(SD9043MAC)
Views:  176   Comments: 0
Rocks ghost
Title:  Rocks ghost
Description:  A pair of Arkansas-Oklahoma units in a scheme reminiscent of Rocks last red scheme wait to go east at Mc Alester yard.
Photo Date:  1/26/2007  Upload Date: 10/7/2012 12:03:00 AM
Location:  McAlester, OK
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  AOK 4098(B23-S7) AOK 4061(B23-7)
Views:  639   Comments: 0
Rock lives in the panhandle
Title:  Rock lives in the panhandle
Description:  Even if not on the Choctaw or Golden State routes. This SW 1 was at a feed mill in Plainview, along with an Alco S type.
Photo Date:  12/28/2007  Upload Date: 7/15/2016 2:50:32 AM
Location:  Plainview, TX
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  CRIP 536(SW1)
Views:  183   Comments: 1
Unidentified Alco
Title:  Unidentified Alco
Description:  This S 2 was at the feed mill in Plainview, sharing a siding with the Rock unit.
Photo Date:  12/28/2007  Upload Date: 7/15/2016 2:52:12 AM
Location:  Plainview, TX
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  CRIP 536(SW1) DBGX 42(S2)
Views:  266   Comments: 2
Portrait of a foamer
Title:  Portrait of a foamer
Description:  My wife shot this photo of me next to the closest thing Ill find to a real Rock Island unit in todays world.
Photo Date:  8/1/2008  Upload Date: 8/15/2016 4:21:11 AM
Location:  McAlester, OK
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  AOK 4061(B23-7)
Views:  333   Comments: 1
Not what youd have expected....
Title:  Not what youd have expected....
Description:  back in the 70s. Where once the MKT and Rock Island crossed, now its UP and short line Arkansas & Oklahoma, the successor on the segment of the Choctaw Route from Howe to McAlester, with an operation in OKC as well. At least the AOK unit looks almost authentic.
Photo Date:  8/1/2008  Upload Date: 8/8/2016 4:28:43 AM
Location:  McAlester, OK
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  AOK 4061(B23-7) UP 7711(AC45CCTE) UP 4945(SD70M)
Views:  285   Comments: 0
Rock revisited
Title:  Rock revisited
Description:  The AOK has painted its power in this scheme reminiscent of the Rocks red with yellow lettering of the late 60s.
Photo Date:  8/1/2008  Upload Date: 8/8/2016 4:34:36 AM
Location:  McAlester, OK
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  AOK 4061(B23-7)
Views:  150   Comments: 1
UP and the Rock
Title:  UP and the Rock
Description:  A northbound on the ex MKT, a UP line since 1988, rolls past power sitting just west of the diamond on the ex Rock Choctaw Route. Go back 40 years, and it could be F units on both sides.
Photo Date:  8/1/2008  Upload Date: 8/15/2016 4:18:00 AM
Location:  McAlester, OK
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  AOK 4061(B23-7) UP 7711(AC45CCTE)
Views:  192   Comments: 0
Amarillo by...never
Title:  Amarillo by...never
Description:  Looking for all the world like a modern day Rock train, this AOK stone train sits at their yard in Wilburton. Sadly, its unlikely they will ever make Amarillo, as much of the line is pulled up. Note the ex SBD B23 at right.
Photo Date:  8/1/2008  Upload Date: 8/8/2016 4:49:10 AM
Location:  Wilburton, OK
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  AOK 4093(B23-S7) AOK 4098(B23-S7)
Views:  256   Comments: 2
Done for the week
Title:  Done for the week
Description:  This AOK train has tied up at Wilburton, its week finished, and ready to go back out on Monday.
Photo Date:  8/1/2008  Upload Date: 8/8/2016 4:51:20 AM
Location:  Wilburton, OK
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  AOK 4093(B23-S7) AOK 4098(B23-S7)
Views:  199   Comments: 1
Things wind up in the oddest places
Title:  Things wind up in the oddest places
Description:  This former Alton & Southern unit was at a mill in Eunice LA. Dont know the owner, it was not lettered.
Photo Date:  10/10/2009  Upload Date: 9/1/2016 4:18:18 AM
Location:  Eunice, LA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  ALS 1503(SW1500)
Views:  357   Comments: 0
Engineers side
Title:  Engineers side
Description:  The engineers side of the former A&S unit. This line is the south end of the Rock Island line that came down from El Dorado.
Photo Date:  10/10/2009  Upload Date: 9/1/2016 4:19:39 AM
Location:  Eunice, LA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  ALS 1503(SW1500)
Views:  323   Comments: 1
MN&A Harrisonville MO
Title:  MN&A Harrisonville MO
Description:  MN&A SD 40s lead southbound train near Harrisonville MO
Photo Date:  6/20/2010  Upload Date: 1/23/2011 9:23:40 PM
Location:  Harrisonville, MO
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  MNA 4077(SD40-2) MNA 4081(SD40-2)
Views:  214   Comments: 1


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