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Owner: Conrail
Model:EMD SD40Built As:PC 6243 (SD40)
Serial Number:36899Order No:7290
Frame Number:7290-4Built:12/1970
Notes:ex-PC
Other locos with this serial:  CR 802(SD40) IHB 4001(SD40) PC 6243(SD40) CR 6243(SD40) IHB 802(SD40)
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CR 6243, 3262, & 6377
Title:  CR 6243, 3262, & 6377
Description:  CR action at the "Curve"
Photo Date:  6/11/1977  Upload Date: 5/18/2010 8:55:47 AM
Location:  Horseshoe Curve, PA
Author:  Jack Smith
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  CR 6243(SD40) CR 3262(GP40) CR 6377(SD40-2)
Views:  597   Comments: 0
e/b CR TOFC train led by SD40s #6265 + #6243
Title:  e/b CR TOFC train led by SD40s #6265 + #6243
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/8/1979  Upload Date: 8/18/2021 11:52:35 AM
Location:  Columbus, OH
Author:  Gerard Putz
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CR 6265(SD40) CR 6243(SD40)
Views:  142   Comments: 0
CR SD40-2 6437
Title:  CR SD40-2 6437
Description:  CR SD40-2 6437 races a quartet of black and blue power through Morrisville with a hot TV train in June, 1979.
Photo Date:  6/11/1979  Upload Date: 5/27/2015 7:28:01 PM
Location:  Morrisville, PA
Author:  Alan Page
Categories:  Roster,Action
Locomotives:  CR 6437(SD40-2) CR 6243(SD40)
Views:  556   Comments: 0
CR 6243
Title:  CR 6243
Description:  Conrail eastbound at Carson, east of Canisteo
Photo Date:  5/4/1980  Upload Date: 1/10/2010 9:33:26 PM
Location:  Canisteo, NY
Author:  Bob Zimmermann
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CR 6243(SD40)
Views:  572   Comments: 1
CR 6243
Title:  CR 6243
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/24/1980  Upload Date: 3/25/2011 10:50:33 AM
Location:  Harrisburg, PA
Author:  C.W. Lahickey
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CR 6243(SD40) CR 6507(SD40-2)
Views:  448   Comments: 0
CR SD40 6243
Title:  CR SD40 6243
Description:  Conrail SD40 6243 waiting for clearance on the BN at Cicero, Illinois on an unknown day in June 1980, Kodachrome by Chuck Zeiler.
Photo Date:  6/1/1980  Upload Date: 12/6/2012 2:07:18 PM
Location:  Cicero, IL
Author:  Chuck Zeiler
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  CR 6243(SD40)
Views:  444   Comments: 0
CR 6243 SD-40
Title:  CR 6243 SD-40
Description:  A Conrail steel coil train turns off the Red Key and onto the Marion Branch at CP-133 bound for Elkhart.
Photo Date:  9/4/1983  Upload Date: 8/8/2011 6:33:48 PM
Location:  Marion, IN
Author:  Kevin Nelson
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CR 6243(SD40)
Views:  516   Comments: 0
CR 6243 SD-40
Title:  CR 6243 SD-40
Description:  A Conrail steel coil train recrews on the Red Key south Siding at MP-156 prepairing to head for Elkhart.
Photo Date:  9/4/1983  Upload Date: 8/8/2011 7:41:03 PM
Location:  Marion, IN
Author:  Kevin Nelson
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CR 6243(SD40)
Views:  280   Comments: 0
CR w/b going away...
Title:  CR w/b going away...
Description:  A w/b at Leetsdale PA going away on 21APR1984 with a former EL U36C in the consist...
Photo Date:  4/21/1984  Upload Date: 12/1/2018 7:04:50 AM
Location:  Leetsdale, PA
Author:  Donald Albertson
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CR 6243(SD40) CR 6890(U36C) CR 2759(U23B)
Views:  418   Comments: 2
CR w/b
Title:  CR w/b
Description:  SD40 6243 leads a U36C and a U23B on this w/b crossing Ferry St at Leetsdale PA on 21APR1984
Photo Date:  4/21/1984  Upload Date: 12/1/2018 7:04:27 AM
Location:  Leetsdale, PA
Author:  Donald Albertson
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CR 6243(SD40) CR 6890(U36C) CR 2759(U23B)
Views:  318   Comments: 1
CR 6243
Title:  CR 6243
Description:  TV1 WB at Hoseshoe Curve
Photo Date:  6/16/1984  Upload Date: 3/23/2018 7:46:09 PM
Location:  ALTOONA (HORSESHOE CURVE), PA
Author:  Bruce Gage
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  CR 6243(SD40)
Views:  122   Comments: 0
CR 6243
Title:  CR 6243
Description:  EB at Hoseshoe Curve
Photo Date:  6/16/1984  Upload Date: 3/24/2018 8:07:49 AM
Location:  ALTOONA (HORSESHOE CURVE), PA
Author:  Bruce Gage
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CR 6243(SD40)
Views:  184   Comments: 1
Local caboose
Title:  Local caboose
Description:  OIBU passes Campbell Hall, where it will set out cars for the local based there. The locals caboose is in the small yard. This operation is now handled by East Penn Railways.
Photo Date:  10/3/1987  Upload Date: 5/31/2015 3:19:06 AM
Location:  Campbell Hall, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  CR 6356(SD40) CR 6243(SD40)
Views:  539   Comments: 0
OIBU off the bridge
Title:  OIBU off the bridge
Description:  OIBU rolls off the big bridge over the East Branch at Hancock about an hour or so running time to Binghamton.
Photo Date:  10/3/1987  Upload Date: 5/31/2015 3:24:47 AM
Location:  Hancock, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Bridge,Action
Locomotives:  CR 6356(SD40) CR 6243(SD40)
Views:  480   Comments: 0
By the pad
Title:  By the pad
Description:  There is nothing left of the station at Lackawaxen but a concrete pad. A sad sight, brought home by the gloomy weather, although fall color is brightening the Delaware valley.
Photo Date:  10/3/1987  Upload Date: 5/31/2015 3:47:59 AM
Location:  Lackawaxen, PA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  CR 6356(SD40) CR 6243(SD40)
Views:  494   Comments: 0
Waiting
Title:  Waiting
Description:  OIBU waits at West OV, just east of the tunnel, for first a Port Jervis scoot, then TV 301.
Photo Date:  10/3/1987  Upload Date: 5/31/2015 3:28:01 AM
Location:  Otisville, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CR 6356(SD40) CR 6243(SD40)
Views:  420   Comments: 0
Scooped again
Title:  Scooped again
Description:  OIBU holds at the west end of Port Jervis yard while NYSW SLN 5 rolls past. Just not his day.
Photo Date:  10/3/1987  Upload Date: 5/31/2015 3:30:04 AM
Location:  Sparrow Bush, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  CR 6356(SD40) CR 6243(SD40) NYSW 6509(SD45) BN 6515(SD45) BN 6503(SD45)
Views:  860   Comments: 0
Low down
Title:  Low down
Description:  An eastbound 100 car XWM grain train rolls into Enola on the riverside track that ducks under the west end of Rockville Bridge.
Photo Date:  4/22/1988  Upload Date: 7/10/2015 2:50:39 PM
Location:  Enola, PA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  CR 6429(SD40-2) CR 6243(SD40) CR 7692(GP38)
Views:  484   Comments: 2
CR 6243
Title:  CR 6243
Description: 
Photo Date:  4/8/1989  Upload Date: 12/1/2016 10:28:48 AM
Location:  Oak Island, NJ
Author:  andrew koenigsberg
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CR 6243(SD40)
Views:  291   Comments: 1
Busy spot
Title:  Busy spot
Description:  TOSE with 6791 waits at CP 434 while SLSE with 80 cars behind 6801, rolls past on the adjacent track. The cars beyond TOSE are on the Frontier lead.
Photo Date:  8/16/1991  Upload Date: 2/27/2015 3:23:18 AM
Location:  Cheektowaga, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  CR 6791(SD50) CR 6831(SD50) CR 6801(SD50) CR 6243(SD40)
Views:  781   Comments: 1


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