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By:Tom Beckett
Dates:1/1/1940 - 7/15/2012
Album Info:My dad, Tom Beckett Sr, was not a railfan, but he was an avid photographer of anything that caught his interest, everything from dogs to military aircraft, especially of WW II vintage; occasionally a train found its way in front of his camera. He passed away in March 2012 at the age of 79, at which time I came into possession of his photo collection. Much of this is slides, though he also shot a large volume of black and white, starting in the late 1940's. In this album we'll see some of his work as it turns up. Please note, in most cases, the dates are approximate, and sometimes they're wild guesses. Where I know it, it's correct; sometimes I can approximate by elements in the photo, or family history. Dad did not always mark info on his prints, though the slides most of the time have at least a month and year. He had a lot of slide film processed by private labs in New York, they did not always put a date on the mounts. If anyone looking at these photos can lend insight into a particular scene with a date or more info, please do so. Dad's not here to ask!!
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Kodak display
Title:  Kodak display
Description:  About the only up side to the demolition of Penn Station in the 60s was the drive to preserve Grand Central, an effort spearheaded by, among others, Jackie Kennedy Onassis. Here we see the result, though I have to admit, it may have been a partial victory. Kodak had a large display of a photo taken, of course, with Kodak film. The display dominated the concourse. The photos were often dramatic and beautiful, but to some of us purists, detracted from the grandeur of this beautiful building. The pictures changed monthly, and well see several. Dad was on the balcony of the Vanderbilt Av side of the station.
Photo Date:  3/12/1981  Upload Date: 3/17/2016 5:04:04 AM
Location:  Grand Central Terminal, NY, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger
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Views:  81   Comments: 0
Next to last
Title:  Next to last
Description:  Dad sometimes got off at Plandome, the next to last station on the Port Washington Branch when hed go to visit my grandmother. The station served a high end community between Manhasset and Port, and was a little easier for my grandmother to get to. We see the train dad just got off pulling out for Port.
Photo Date:  3/16/1981  Upload Date: 3/18/2016 5:29:45 AM
Location:  Plandome, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
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Second of a series
Title:  Second of a series
Description:  Dad went up on the Vanderbilt Av balcony periodically to shoot a photo of the Kodak wall on the Lexington Av side of the station. This is how it looked in April 1981
Photo Date:  4/15/1981  Upload Date: 3/18/2016 4:55:44 AM
Location:  Grand Central Terminal, NY, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger
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Familiar sign
Title:  Familiar sign
Description:  The north entrance of Grand Central went up a set of escalators to the Pan Am Building. Who would have guessed that 35 years later, the airline would be gone, and the name would belong to a railroad?? The building is still there, now the Met Life Building. How many of us rode those escalators at either end of our day??
Photo Date:  4/15/1981  Upload Date: 3/18/2016 5:13:25 AM
Location:  Grand Central Terminal, NY, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger
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Shafts of light
Title:  Shafts of light
Description:  A familiar sight to any Grand Central passenger was the way sunlight caught the dust in the air, making these shafts of sunlight through the high windows. Were overlooking what are not yet the Metro North ticket windows.
Photo Date:  4/15/1981  Upload Date: 3/18/2016 5:18:07 AM
Location:  Grand Central Terminal, NY, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Station,Passenger
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Big clock
Title:  Big clock
Description:  One of the other familiar features of Grand Central in that era was the large Newsweek clock over the passage to the 42 St enrance. Between that and the classic gold clock on the information booth, you always knew what time it was.
Photo Date:  4/15/1981  Upload Date: 3/18/2016 5:23:13 AM
Location:  Grand Central Terminal, NY, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger
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Views:  48   Comments: 0
One more time
Title:  One more time
Description:  Another shot dad took of the Kodak wall at Grand Central, this time in June 1981.
Photo Date:  6/15/1981  Upload Date: 3/18/2016 4:58:19 AM
Location:  Grand Central Terminal, NY, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger
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Views:  39   Comments: 0
Tickets
Title:  Tickets
Description:  A look at the Amtrak ticket window in Penn Station as it appeared in June 1982. The Atlantic City casinos had recently opened, and Amtrak was pushing its service to AC, along with NJ Transit. The big ads over the ticketing area were a tie in with that service, if I recall.
Photo Date:  6/13/1982  Upload Date: 3/17/2016 4:57:42 AM
Location:  Penn Station, NYC, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger
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Working on the railroad
Title:  Working on the railroad
Description:  During a Tri State fantrip to Selkirk via the West Shore, we took a tour of the Selkirk shop. Dad, always with an eye toward people in action, got this photo of a shop worker looking over his work order as he tended to a GP 38.
Photo Date:  5/29/1983  Upload Date: 12/4/2014 3:50:23 AM
Location:  Selkirk, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  CR 7794(GP38) CR 6450(SD40-2)
Views:  318   Comments: 3
Off the train
Title:  Off the train
Description:  There a numerous shots of the Ringling Bros train, in my collection and elsewhere. We dont typically see the wagons once off the train. Dad caught several outside Madison Square Garden in New York. They would reach here either by staging at an old LIRR float bridge yard in Long Island City and going through the Midtown Tunnel, or staging in Jersey, coming through the Lincoln Tunnel. The train got from Long Island, where the circus usually played first, to Jersey via a convoluted route that involved LIRR, Amtrak, and Conrail.
Photo Date:  6/16/1983  Upload Date: 11/24/2014 11:52:12 PM
Location:  Manhattan, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Passing trains
Title:  Passing trains
Description:  Dad got this shot of an M1 train at the crossing in Little Neck, and exercise in light and reflection.
Photo Date:  3/18/1984  Upload Date: 12/4/2014 3:19:09 PM
Location:  Little Neck, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Night,Passenger,Action
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Views:  83   Comments: 0
View from above
Title:  View from above
Description:  Dad liked to take photos from airplanes, so when I first saw this shot, I thought he was on the plane coming into Toronto. Then I looked a little closer. Hes in the restaurant at the CN Tower, looking down at Mimico Yard. Thats a long way down!!
Photo Date:  3/16/1985  Upload Date: 3/10/2016 4:38:16 AM
Location:  Toronto, ON
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Yard,Track
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Views:  114   Comments: 1
Night light
Title:  Night light
Description:  Dad liked to play with exposures and such, and was fond of experimenting in different conditions. Heres a westbound M 1 train coming into the Douglaston station on the Port Washington Branch.
Photo Date:  5/19/1985  Upload Date: 11/23/2014 3:48:58 AM
Location:  Douglaston, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Night,Station,Passenger,Action
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Views:  51   Comments: 0
Turbo on the Harlem River
Title:  Turbo on the Harlem River
Description:  Dad was across the river in Manhattan, and caught this Amtrak turbo heading upstate. At the time, Amtrak still went into Grand Central.
Photo Date:  7/15/1985  Upload Date: 12/4/2014 3:31:30 AM
Location:  High Bridge, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 155(Turboliner)
Views:  314   Comments: 0
Classic bridge, different view
Title:  Classic bridge, different view
Description:  Dad was always looking for a new angle, and would shoot a photo just because he thought the view was interesting. One such example is here, a long distance view the classic steel arch span of Hell Gate Bridge, seen from La Guardia airport.
Photo Date:  7/27/1985  Upload Date: 1/10/2016 2:20:52 AM
Location:  Hell Gate Bridge, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Bridge
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Views:  83   Comments: 0
Bad day on 5th Avenue
Title:  Bad day on 5th Avenue
Description:  Not exactly a train photo, but so different I thought Id include it. This NYCTA bus seems to have had a problem on its way downown. Ive heard of drivers running hot, but this is extreme.
Photo Date:  7/27/1985  Upload Date: 1/10/2016 2:23:59 AM
Location:  Manhattan, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Wreck
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Views:  271   Comments: 0
Hell Gate view
Title:  Hell Gate view
Description:  Dad was coming in from Toronto, and got this shot of the approaches to Hell Gate as his plane prepared to land at La Guardia. In this view, we see, coming in from the left behind the red building, Amtraks northeast corridor. Entering the frame from the bottom is the Conrail Bay Ridge line to Fresh Pond, where it interchanges with the LIRR. In the distance is Hell Gate Bridge, taking both lines to the Bronx.
Photo Date:  6/1/1986  Upload Date: 4/1/2016 4:41:45 AM
Location:  Queens (Borough), NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Bridge
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Views:  66   Comments: 0
Long time ago
Title:  Long time ago
Description:  The date plate on one of the supports for the Portage Bridge over the Genessee River in Letchworth Park. Yes, 1875 is correct. The Erie built this steel bridge to replace a wooden structure that burned. Only now, 140 years later, is a new bridge being started.
Photo Date:  7/5/1986  Upload Date: 4/1/2016 4:27:57 AM
Location:  Portageville, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Bridge
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South side
Title:  South side
Description:  The south side of the Portage Bridge. At the time, Conrail was using it for OIBU/BUOI and several stack trains, as well as D&H trains on trackage rights, a couple of merchandisers, as well as a stack each way at least three days per week, as well as coal trains on both roads. Too bad he didnt catch one of them.
Photo Date:  7/5/1986  Upload Date: 4/1/2016 4:30:40 AM
Location:  Portageville, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Bridge
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View from below
Title:  View from below
Description:  A look at the underside and structure of one of Eries famous steel bridges. By the time dad shot this, the nearby Belfast bridge, on the abandoned River Line that diverged just east of here going to Cuba Jct, had been dynamited. I think the concrete footings are still in place.
Photo Date:  7/5/1986  Upload Date: 4/1/2016 4:33:02 AM
Location:  Portageville, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Bridge
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Views:  55   Comments: 0
Not sure where this is
Title:  Not sure where this is
Description:  My grandfather, Frank Beckett, took this, Im guessing around 1940. It does not look like any station I recognize from Long Island-and the mountain in the distance eliminates the Island anyway. I see an Erie box car at right., making me think this is somewhere in Orange County or possibly near Suffern, or maybe even north Jersey somewhere. There are no other photos with this one to give me other hints.
Photo Date:  7/19/1986  Upload Date: 5/14/2016 4:27:04 AM
Location:  Suffern, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger
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Down under
Title:  Down under
Description:  Grand Central Terminal has a lower level, which originally served only commuter trains on the NYC, as all the long distance trains used only the upper level, along with a good number of commuter runs. This is the ramp to the lower level, as seen in 1986
Photo Date:  7/19/1986  Upload Date: 5/14/2016 4:16:19 AM
Location:  Grand Central Terminal, NY, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger
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Views:  108   Comments: 0
Montauk Manor
Title:  Montauk Manor
Description:  Dad would spend a week most years at Montauk out on the east end of Long Island. On one trip in the mid 80s-a guess, theres no date on the slide mount, but the paint scheme on the passenger car would bear that out-he shot a LIRR GP38-2 under the big hotel on the bluff, \Montauk Manor, which appears to be undergoing some work
Photo Date:  8/21/1986  Upload Date: 9/21/2014 1:28:24 AM
Location:  Montauk, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Scenic,Passenger
Locomotives:  LI 274(GP38-2)
Views:  378   Comments: 0
Union Station
Title:  Union Station
Description:  A look at Union Station from across the park.
Photo Date:  9/14/1986  Upload Date: 4/1/2016 4:54:32 AM
Location:  Washington Union Station, DC
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Station,Passenger
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Views:  32   Comments: 0
West Side Line
Title:  West Side Line
Description:  This is the ex NYC West Side freight line before Amtrak took it for access to Penn Station from the Hudson Line, seen from Inwood. In a few years, it would be welded rail and heavy ballast. For now, a single track in the trees.
Photo Date:  5/10/1987  Upload Date: 4/14/2016 4:14:25 AM
Location:  Inwood, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Track
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Views:  73   Comments: 1
From the plane
Title:  From the plane
Description:  I dont think dad was trying for a train photo when he took this shot of northeastern Queens from the window of a flight into La Guardia, but he caught a Port Washington train-see the glint off the silver streak near the water at the top right of the photo-but there it is. Were looking at Little Neck Bay in the distance. The train will shortly be stopping in Douglaston
Photo Date:  7/15/1987  Upload Date: 4/14/2016 3:34:21 AM
Location:  Douglaston, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Passenger,Action
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Views:  71   Comments: 0
Night at the end of the line
Title:  Night at the end of the line
Description:  LIRR 259 waits to head east with a train from Montauk to Jamaica.
Photo Date:  7/17/1988  Upload Date: 12/4/2014 4:04:01 AM
Location:  Montauk, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Night,Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 259(GP38-2)
Views:  255   Comments: 0
Open platform
Title:  Open platform
Description:  Dad caught the obs end of car 10 at Newark. The theater car was on the rear, which is where everyone rode.
Photo Date:  10/10/1991  Upload Date: 3/26/2016 3:57:54 AM
Location:  Newark Penn Station, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Station,Passenger
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Views:  203   Comments: 0
Office cars
Title:  Office cars
Description:  Dad purchased newsprint for the NY Times, and as such, was an important Conrail customer. I dont recall him mentioning this trip, but he was aboard this OCS train in Jersey. He got a few shots before the train left Newark Penn Station.
Photo Date:  10/10/1991  Upload Date: 3/26/2016 3:56:39 AM
Location:  Newark Penn Station, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Station,Passenger
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Views:  181   Comments: 0
Es
Title:  Es
Description:  As usual, the train was pulled by a pair of E 8s. CR 4021 was the trailing unit. Im going to hazard a guess that 4020 was the leader, though I cant find where dad got a photo of the lead unit.
Photo Date:  10/10/1991  Upload Date: 3/26/2016 4:03:07 AM
Location:  Newark Penn Station, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  CR 4021(E8A) CR 4020(E8A)
Views:  779   Comments: 0
Where the action is
Title:  Where the action is
Description:  Dad, along with a group of other customers, rode in the glassed in theater car on the rear of the train. I dont know who else was on board, or what the occasion was. The atmosphere appears festive.
Photo Date:  10/10/1991  Upload Date: 3/26/2016 4:08:59 AM
Location:  unknown, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Passenger
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Rear window
Title:  Rear window
Description:  This is the view out the rear of the theater car. Im not sure exactly where they are, though Im guessing from the double track with catenary and the fact they started from Newark Penn, its probably on NJ Transit between Union tower in Rahway and Wood Tower in Perth Amboy. Wherever they are, the train is making a good 60 per.
Photo Date:  10/10/1991  Upload Date: 3/26/2016 4:16:28 AM
Location:  Woodbridge, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Passenger,Action
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Quiet night
Title:  Quiet night
Description:  Dad was prone to walking around the city at night, seeing what he could capture on film. Tonights excursion was into Grand Central, where he caught the markers of a train disappearing out of the station, with a New Haven Line train waiting for its next departure.
Photo Date:  9/12/1992  Upload Date: 10/22/2015 3:22:19 AM
Location:  Grand Central Terminal, NY, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  MNCR 8507(M-2 Cosmopolitan)
Views:  142   Comments: 0
Lonesome rider
Title:  Lonesome rider
Description:  This lone passenger lights a cigarette(remember when you could do that in public?? Most trains even had smoking cars.) while waiting to get on one of these New Haven trains.
Photo Date:  9/12/1992  Upload Date: 10/22/2015 3:23:40 AM
Location:  Grand Central Terminal, NY, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  MNCR 8431(M-2 Cosmopolitan) MNCR 8927(M-2 Cosmopolitan)
Views:  176   Comments: 0
Parlors for morning
Title:  Parlors for morning
Description:  A Sunday afternoon finds a couple of trains carrying parlors in the yard at Montauk, seen in this view from Montauk Manor, the large building seen up on the hill above the station. Thats Fort Pond Bay beyond the yard, and Hither Hills State Park in the distance. Twenty years earlier, this scene would have been filled with cars from the heavyweight and streamline era, pulled by C 420s. Thirty years earlier, same cars, mostly, but FM C Liners. Forty years prior, G 5s and K 4s.
Photo Date:  9/20/1992  Upload Date: 4/1/2016 4:52:19 AM
Location:  Montauk, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Yard,Passenger,Action
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Views:  141   Comments: 0
The wait is over
Title:  The wait is over
Description:  A big crowd of Manhattan bound riders take in the arrival of their Port Washington branch train on a Sunday night. Work tomorrow....
Photo Date:  10/18/1992  Upload Date: 5/14/2016 4:45:55 AM
Location:  Manhasset, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Night,Station,Passenger,Action
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Views:  58   Comments: 0
Waiting....
Title:  Waiting....
Description:  A New York bound Babylon branch train approaches the station at Rockville Centre. It was not too many years before this that the stations on this line were at grade level. A program to grade separate the line was done in stages, starting in the early 60s. The last segment, near Massapequa, was completed in the late 70s.
Photo Date:  5/25/1996  Upload Date: 4/1/2016 4:45:31 AM
Location:  Rockville Centre, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
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North Bergen from the air
Title:  North Bergen from the air
Description:  Dad was coming into Newark Airport, and was taking photos on the approach, as he commonly did. We see here CRs North Bergen yard, much reduced from its NYC days.
Photo Date:  6/21/1997  Upload Date: 5/19/2016 4:14:25 AM
Location:  North Bergen, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,RollingStock,Yard,Track
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Meadows Maintenance Complex
Title:  Meadows Maintenance Complex
Description:  Almost on the runway at Newark, dad caught this view of Harrison and Kearny, and NJ Transits MMC. Its an impressive view, with the MMC at far left, the Amtrak Northeast Corridor down the center-note the signal bridge at bottom center-and the ex DLW Morris & Essex line(3 tracks) at right.
Photo Date:  6/21/1997  Upload Date: 5/19/2016 4:18:04 AM
Location:  Kearny, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Yard,Passenger
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Views:  106   Comments: 1
Canadian mail
Title:  Canadian mail
Description:  Dad and his wife were up the Maritimes in 1997, where they came across this relic at an old station-turned-museum on Prince Edward Island(not Nova Scotia-RRPA does not give me that option for a location).
Photo Date:  7/12/1997  Upload Date: 5/14/2016 4:50:11 AM
Location:  elmira, NS
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Passenger
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Views:  746   Comments: 1
BN local
Title:  BN local
Description:  Actually, BNSF by this time. Dad went to the northwest in July 1997. The slides dont have notes with location, so all of the Washington photos are "best guess" for location. If anyone knows, please comment.
Photo Date:  7/16/1997  Upload Date: 2/14/2016 2:59:42 AM
Location:  Seattle, WA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Bridge,Action
Locomotives:  BN 2185(GP38) BN 2725(GP39-2)
Views:  238   Comments: 0
Ex BN car
Title:  Ex BN car
Description:  Some hand me down box cars were on this siding in the Seattle area.
Photo Date:  7/16/1997  Upload Date: 2/14/2016 3:02:01 AM
Location:  Seattle, WA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock
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One short line to another
Title:  One short line to another
Description:  This box was formerly an LNAC car.
Photo Date:  7/16/1997  Upload Date: 2/14/2016 3:03:23 AM
Location:  Seattle, WA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock
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Interesting find
Title:  Interesting find
Description:  Im sure this must have been a park or museum. There was quite a line up of old steam engines, Shays and Heislers, as well as at least one Weyerhaeuser steeple cab.
Photo Date:  7/16/1997  Upload Date: 2/14/2016 3:06:35 AM
Location:  Seattle, WA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Steam
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Logger power
Title:  Logger power
Description:  This geared locomotive was at the same location as the Shay.
Photo Date:  7/16/1997  Upload Date: 2/14/2016 3:08:38 AM
Location:  Seattle, WA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Steam
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Old Wyerhaueser power
Title:  Old Wyerhaueser power
Description:  This Weyerhaeuser logging engine was at the park in Washington.
Photo Date:  7/16/1997  Upload Date: 2/14/2016 3:11:48 AM
Location:  Seattle, WA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Steam
Locomotives:  WTC 108(0-6-0)
Views:  70   Comments: 0
Electrics too
Title:  Electrics too
Description:  This Weyerhaeuser steeple cab was in the line with the steam power.
Photo Date:  7/16/1997  Upload Date: 2/14/2016 3:14:58 AM
Location:  Seattle, WA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  KENC 704(Steeple Cab)
Views:  110   Comments: 0
RDCs
Title:  RDCs
Description:  A BC Rail train with RDCs is seen at Vancouver. Dont know exactly where dad was to get this shot, Im thinking some kind of restaurant, because he caught a freight here too.
Photo Date:  7/18/1997  Upload Date: 5/18/2016 4:57:00 AM
Location:  Vancouver, BC
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  BCR 33(RDC3) BCR 30(RDC4)
Views:  467   Comments: 0
Bringing up the rear
Title:  Bringing up the rear
Description:  Cabooses were still very much in use in Canada in the late 90s, as on this northbound BC Rail train.
Photo Date:  7/18/1997  Upload Date: 5/18/2016 5:15:00 AM
Location:  Vancouver, BC
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  101   Comments: 0
Dad had no idea
Title:  Dad had no idea
Description:  Dad, as I have mentioned, was not a railfan, so did not go after the trains as I would have. Nonetheless, once in a while he nailed one. This mid train helper set was going past a restaurant where dad and his wife were having dinner. A BC Rail Alco-whod have guessed he'd catch one of the more obscure units on any roster in North America, and in good light, too??
Photo Date:  7/18/1997  Upload Date: 5/18/2016 5:18:20 AM
Location:  Vancouver, BC
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BCOL 725(M630W) BCOL 742(SD40-2)
Views:  802   Comments: 0


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