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| Title: |
Old relic |
| Description: |
This ex PRR N5C was at Passaic Jct, looking forlorn. I never saw it in service; I wonder whatever became of it. |
| Photo Date: |
3/4/1987 Upload Date: 4/16/2015 2:52:09 AM |
| Location: |
Passaic Junction, NJ |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Roster,RollingStock,Yard |
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| Title: |
CV van |
| Description: |
This CV van was at Palmer in the yard, awaiting a trip to St Albans. |
| Photo Date: |
3/23/1987 Upload Date: 4/21/2015 3:31:25 AM |
| Location: |
Palmer, MA |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Roster,RollingStock,Yard |
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294 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Ex Conrail car |
| Description: |
P&W caboose 2117, formerly a CR N7A class car, takes up the rear of NR 2 at Plainfield. |
| Photo Date: |
3/23/1987 Upload Date: 4/19/2015 4:24:56 AM |
| Location: |
Plainfield, CT |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
RollingStock,Action |
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118 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Double your fun |
| Description: |
RF 63 has a pair of bay window cabooses, giving the brakeman lining the switch at far left a choice of accommodations. No parlor cars for the crew, though!! |
| Photo Date: |
4/20/1987 Upload Date: 4/23/2015 1:24:44 AM |
| Location: |
Yaphank, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
RollingStock,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 224(C420) LI 227(C420) |
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231 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Hold out |
| Description: |
A C&O caboose brings up the rear of this CSX local. It will take a while before all the power is repainted. Bet this caboose never does. |
| Photo Date: |
4/29/1987 Upload Date: 4/23/2015 1:22:23 AM |
| Location: |
Elsmere, DE |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
RollingStock,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CSX 6553(GP40) |
| Views: |
335 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
D&H car |
| Description: |
This D&H caboose was on SU 2 at Afton. A southbound would soon pick up SU 2s train, and the van would be mid train. |
| Photo Date: |
5/14/1987 Upload Date: 4/27/2015 3:38:49 AM |
| Location: |
Afton, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
RollingStock,Signal,Action |
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362 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Home again |
| Description: |
An ex Pennsy N5C cabin is on the tail of SEENs 117 cars as it rolls into Enola. |
| Photo Date: |
5/18/1987 Upload Date: 4/25/2015 3:21:42 AM |
| Location: |
Enola, PA |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
RollingStock,Action |
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170 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
ENRO requirement |
| Description: |
This NW car was trailing ENRO, a run through train to Roanoke on NS. Virginia still required cabooses at the time, so this train always had one, usually an NW car. |
| Photo Date: |
5/18/1987 Upload Date: 4/25/2015 3:28:14 AM |
| Location: |
Enola, PA |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
RollingStock,Action |
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116 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
NW car |
| Description: |
This NW caboose was coming into Enola on ROEN from NS-Roanoke. |
| Photo Date: |
5/18/1987 Upload Date: 4/25/2015 3:31:25 AM |
| Location: |
Enola, PA |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
RollingStock,Action |
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120 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Pair of SOOs |
| Description: |
You never knew what you might find on a transfer run in the Chicago area. These two SOO vans were on the rear of a transfer on the IHB that was led by a couple of Chessie units. Go figure |
| Photo Date: |
6/21/1987 Upload Date: 5/6/2015 4:41:11 AM |
| Location: |
La Grange Park, IL |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
RollingStock,Action |
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217 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Rolling out eastbound |
| Description: |
This ex IC car is trailing 26 cars of grain going east from Waterloo on Chicago Central. The overhead bridge is a former CGW line to Oelwein. |
| Photo Date: |
6/22/1987 Upload Date: 5/7/2015 4:33:03 AM |
| Location: |
Waterloo, IA |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
RollingStock,Yard,Action |
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333 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
IC caboose on CC&P |
| Description: |
This was bringing up the rear of an eastbound near Manchester Iowa |
| Photo Date: |
6/22/1987 Upload Date: 5/19/2011 11:29:26 PM |
| Location: |
Manchester, IA |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
RollingStock,Action |
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341 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Rock caboose on display |
| Description: |
This Rock Island caboose was displayed in Manly Iowa |
| Photo Date: |
6/22/1987 Upload Date: 5/19/2011 11:31:14 PM |
| Location: |
Manly, IA |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
RollingStock |
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337 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
Bobbing along |
| Description: |
Cabooses were still fairly common in the late 80s, at least on locals. This train was a 7 car local rolling west from Austin to Albert Lea, with this SOO car. |
| Photo Date: |
6/22/1987 Upload Date: 5/7/2015 4:40:05 AM |
| Location: |
Austin, MN |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,RollingStock,Action |
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356 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Five aces |
| Description: |
This CNW caboose was trailing a Wisconsin bound coal train. Gotta love that number!! |
| Photo Date: |
6/23/1987 Upload Date: 5/9/2015 3:40:59 AM |
| Location: |
Shakopee, MN |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
RollingStock,Action |
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216 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Caboose and jennies |
| Description: |
An ore train rolls through Hoffman Av under Daytons Bluff with a BN pool caboose trailing. My approach was "get em while you can," since the caboose was an endangered species on class 1 roads by this time. Already they were almost completely gone from road freights in the east. |
| Photo Date: |
6/24/1987 Upload Date: 5/11/2015 2:26:00 AM |
| Location: |
Saint Paul, MN |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,RollingStock,Action |
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137 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Going green |
| Description: |
This eastbound BN train has a standard pool caboose on the rear, making for green up front and behind. It was too far away to get the number, as it is not in my notes. Still, good to see a caboose. There were a surprising number of them out on the road while I was in the upper midwest. I saw a half dozen this day in St Paul. |
| Photo Date: |
6/24/1987 Upload Date: 5/9/2015 3:36:28 AM |
| Location: |
Saint Paul, MN |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,RollingStock,Action |
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64 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Dusty ride |
| Description: |
This bay window car was trailing an empty coal train bound for Wyoming. It must have been a dusty ride back there. |
| Photo Date: |
6/24/1987 Upload Date: 5/11/2015 2:27:40 AM |
| Location: |
Mankato, MN |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
RollingStock,Action |
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171 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Behind the autos |
| Description: |
This bay window caboose was trailing a solid auto rack train. Every train I saw on the CNW that day had a caboose. |
| Photo Date: |
6/24/1987 Upload Date: 5/11/2015 2:32:13 AM |
| Location: |
Mankato, MN |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
RollingStock,Action |
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132 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Home built |
| Description: |
The Milwaukee Road built a lot of their own rolling stock, including some cabooses. One of them is at Winona, now part of the SOO. It appears to be in MOW service. Look at those trucks!! |
| Photo Date: |
6/24/1987 Upload Date: 5/11/2015 2:34:02 AM |
| Location: |
Winona, MN |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Roster,RollingStock |
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747 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Westbound too |
| Description: |
This 88 car westbound seen from Indian Mounds Park also had a caboose-it's occupied, too-proving that the eastbounds didnt grab up all the buggies. |
| Photo Date: |
6/24/1987 Upload Date: 5/9/2015 3:50:07 AM |
| Location: |
Saint Paul, MN |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,RollingStock,Action |
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101 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Mid train car |
| Description: |
This SOO caboose was mid train at the end of a cut of grain hoppers. There were another 30 or so cars of merchandise trailing, and another caboose too. |
| Photo Date: |
6/24/1987 Upload Date: 5/9/2015 3:43:29 AM |
| Location: |
Saint Paul, MN |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,RollingStock,Action |
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218 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Finally |
| Description: |
The end of the mixed grain and merchandise train arrives, and it too, has a caboose, which appears to be occupied. SOO was getting their moneys worth out of them that day. |
| Photo Date: |
6/24/1987 Upload Date: 5/9/2015 3:44:56 AM |
| Location: |
Saint Paul, MN |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,RollingStock,Action |
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144 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Cab hop |
| Description: |
BN was not shy about running freight in with its commuter rush, even a lowly local. This one is returning from Eola caboose light at the tail end of the evening rush. |
| Photo Date: |
6/25/1987 Upload Date: 5/13/2015 4:29:39 AM |
| Location: |
La Grange, IL |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
RollingStock,Station,Action |
| Locomotives: |
BN 2706(GP39-2) |
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315 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Past the station |
| Description: |
A B&O caboose trails this eastbound at the former B&O station. |
| Photo Date: |
6/26/1987 Upload Date: 5/15/2015 3:34:43 AM |
| Location: |
Fostoria, OH |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
RollingStock,Station,Action |
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126 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Strasburg caboose |
| Description: |
This Southern car was trailing the Strasburg Local at Front Royal. Cabooses were typical on locals at this time, though Virginia required them on all trains. |
| Photo Date: |
7/25/1987 Upload Date: 5/18/2015 2:41:13 AM |
| Location: |
Front Royal, VA |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
RollingStock,Action |
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99 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Main line van |
| Description: |
Virginia required cabooses on trains, so every train in the state had one. The railroads were not so keen on this, now that EOT technology had become cost effective and practical. The fans liked it, as we got to see this vestige of another era for a while longer. This train on the Southern main arriving at Pot Yard had this Southern car trailing. Look at the gons full of phone poles. Classic southern load. |
| Photo Date: |
7/25/1987 Upload Date: 5/18/2015 2:44:17 AM |
| Location: |
Front Royal, VA |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
RollingStock,Yard,Action |
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90 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
C&O on the RF&P |
| Description: |
An omen of things to come for the RF&P, a Chessie caboose rolls south on the rear of a train bound for Richmond. In a few years, the Commonwealth of Virginia will sell its stake in the railroad, and CSX will take it over. How about that ACL box, 20 years after it went into SCL?? |
| Photo Date: |
7/26/1987 Upload Date: 5/23/2015 2:29:14 AM |
| Location: |
Alexandria, VA |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
RollingStock,Action |
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135 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
C&O caboose on the RF&P |
| Description: |
This Chessie van was headed south on an RF&P train to Richmond. |
| Photo Date: |
7/26/1987 Upload Date: 5/21/2015 3:15:08 AM |
| Location: |
Alexandria, VA |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
RollingStock,Action |
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81 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
RF&P car |
| Description: |
This caboose was tucked in behind the power on a local headed toward Pot Yard. |
| Photo Date: |
7/26/1987 Upload Date: 5/21/2015 3:40:32 AM |
| Location: |
Alexandria, VA |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
RollingStock,Action |
| Locomotives: |
RFP 123(GP40) |
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363 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Virginia is for caboose lovers |
| Description: |
Virginia still had a caboose law in the 1980s, and every train had one. This Seaboard car was on a southbound RF&P train. |
| Photo Date: |
7/26/1987 Upload Date: 5/25/2015 1:24:23 AM |
| Location: |
Alexandria, VA |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
RollingStock,Action |
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74 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Connection caboose |
| Description: |
This Seaboard System car was southbound to Richmond, and will get on its own rails there. CSX now surrounded the RF&P, and cabooses from all the component roads ran over it from one side to the other. And a Clinchfield box car!!! |
| Photo Date: |
7/26/1987 Upload Date: 5/23/2015 2:42:54 AM |
| Location: |
Alexandria, VA |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
RollingStock,Action |
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104 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Gone to Pot |
| Description: |
Pot-or Potomac-Yard, a large facility shared by B&O, C&O, Conrail, RF&P, and NS as a tenant. This Southern car trails a northbound through AF. |
| Photo Date: |
7/26/1987 Upload Date: 5/21/2015 3:48:01 AM |
| Location: |
Alexandria, VA |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
RollingStock,Action |
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313 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Double shot |
| Description: |
A southbound NS train rolls through AF with a pair of cabooses. If one is good, two is better!! |
| Photo Date: |
7/26/1987 Upload Date: 5/21/2015 3:50:51 AM |
| Location: |
Alexandria, VA |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
RollingStock,Action |
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223 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Short car |
| Description: |
LIRR had a group of these short cabooses, almost as small as an ore jenny-a box on wheels. This one is tucked in behind the power on an RF Extra passing Bellerose. |
| Photo Date: |
8/9/1987 Upload Date: 5/23/2015 2:39:53 AM |
| Location: |
Bellerose, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 225(C420) |
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154 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Any ideas?? |
| Description: |
This possibly B&O caboose was parked at a restaurant in New Jersey. Im guessing somewhere in the Little Ferry/Ridgtefield Park area. I have no information on it, so dont know if its even a real B&O caboose, or something else, but the restaurant owner liked the B&O, so painted it that way. |
| Photo Date: |
8/22/1987 Upload Date: 5/23/2015 2:48:39 AM |
| Location: |
Little Ferry, NJ |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Roster,RollingStock |
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61 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
TTX caboose |
| Description: |
Besides the railroads, a number of other operations had cabooses for various purposes. Amont them was Trailer Train, which assigned this one to Conrails TV 301, seen at Hancock NY. Usually this meant someone from the company was riding the train for any of a number of purposes, either as an escort for a load, or to observe, among other things. |
| Photo Date: |
9/26/1987 Upload Date: 5/27/2015 3:49:29 AM |
| Location: |
Hancock, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
RollingStock,Action |
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745 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Wagon top |
| Description: |
This ex B&O wagon top caboose was a hand me down to the Rochester & Southern, which hastily renumbered with a can of spray paint. Still, at this point in history, it was good to see such a car still in service. |
| Photo Date: |
10/11/1987 Upload Date: 6/9/2015 2:58:47 AM |
| Location: |
Rochester, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Roster,RollingStock,Yard |
| Locomotives: |
RSR 107(SW1200) |
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561 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
In the new station |
| Description: |
RF 62 with one of LIRR's bay window cabooses rolls through the new Ronkonkoma station on the first day of electrified service. |
| Photo Date: |
1/18/1988 Upload Date: 6/22/2015 4:16:12 AM |
| Location: |
Ronkonkoma, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
RollingStock,Station,Action |
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340 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Doubling up |
| Description: |
A pair of cabooses rest at Pinelawn for the next days work. |
| Photo Date: |
1/23/1988 Upload Date: 6/22/2015 4:09:56 AM |
| Location: |
Pinelawn, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Roster,RollingStock,Yard |
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151 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Well, its easy to see |
| Description: |
This D&H caboose was repainted by Guilford into this sort of orange color, a departure from the red and some former EL painted cabooses that had been standard for many years. We see it bringing up the rear of a Taylor Turn on its return to Binghamton, here crossing Terrace Dr at the south end of the yard. |
| Photo Date: |
3/5/1988 Upload Date: 6/30/2015 5:11:59 AM |
| Location: |
Conklin, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
RollingStock,Yard,Action |
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221 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Short car |
| Description: |
LIRR had some of these small cabooses that youd think would be used primarily on peddler freights and short trips on the west end, with the bay window cars going "on the road" as it were, but all of them were used systemwide. This short car is trailing RF 7 at Fresh Pond a job it i well suited for. |
| Photo Date: |
4/21/1988 Upload Date: 7/8/2015 4:31:48 AM |
| Location: |
Fresh Pond, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
RollingStock,Yard,Action |
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109 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Ex PC car |
| Description: |
This ex PC bay window car was not quite at the end of the train coming into Enola on ALEN. There was a block of auto frames and empty racks behind. Still good to see a caboose at this time. |
| Photo Date: |
4/22/1988 Upload Date: 7/10/2015 3:26:12 AM |
| Location: |
Enola, PA |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
RollingStock,Action |
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134 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Pan shot |
| Description: |
This C&O caboose was trailing 100 cars of coal along the James River. |
| Photo Date: |
4/23/1988 Upload Date: 7/12/2015 3:18:53 AM |
| Location: |
Big Island, VA |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,RollingStock,Action |
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86 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Drinking up the juice |
| Description: |
The OJT has this B&O car bringing up the rear as it passes AF en route to Jersey. |
| Photo Date: |
4/30/1988 Upload Date: 7/8/2015 1:16:48 AM |
| Location: |
Alexandria, VA |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
RollingStock,Action |
| Locomotives: |
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221 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
C&O on the RF&P |
| Description: |
Not only did power run through on the RF&P, so did cabooses. In fact, I probably saw more off line buggies than RF&P cars. This C&O car is trailing train 171 at AF |
| Photo Date: |
4/30/1988 Upload Date: 7/8/2015 1:11:34 AM |
| Location: |
Alexandria, VA |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
RollingStock,Action |
| Locomotives: |
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90 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Southern caboose |
| Description: |
Virginia was one of the last states to require cabooses. This one marking the end of an NS local at Alexandria |
| Photo Date: |
4/30/1988 Upload Date: 5/19/2011 11:34:41 PM |
| Location: |
Alexandria, VA |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
RollingStock,Action |
| Locomotives: |
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392 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Patched |
| Description: |
This is looking like an ex L&N car, but with all L&N markings painted out. Its now on its second post L&N owner, so not much of a surprise. What is something of a surprise is its position in the train, about mid way back. |
| Photo Date: |
4/30/1988 Upload Date: 7/8/2015 1:14:13 AM |
| Location: |
Alexandria, VA |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
RollingStock,Action |
| Locomotives: |
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122 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Southern car in the late day sun |
| Description: |
This Southern caboose was bringing up the rear on train 355, a reliable late afternoon run, at Manassas. |
| Photo Date: |
4/30/1988 Upload Date: 7/5/2015 3:15:15 AM |
| Location: |
Manassas, VA |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
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RollingStock,Action |
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| Title: |
B&O bay window |
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This B&O car was trailing train 461 at North Collier. |
| Photo Date: |
5/14/1988 Upload Date: 7/15/2015 2:37:21 AM |
| Location: |
Collier Yard, VA |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
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RollingStock,Action |
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