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Viewing Album:  Short lines, regionals, and industrial units.
 
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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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:  549   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:  605   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:  297   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:  361   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:  399   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:  676   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:  343   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:  623   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:  108   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:  176   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:  332   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:  526   Comments: 0
Tradition
Title:  Tradition
Description:  For many years, D&H and B&M ran their power through onto the other road, aod 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:  483   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:  545   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:  478   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:  347   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:  318   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 wc 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:  331   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:  425   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 lor 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:  197   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:  662   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. J 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:  219   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:  519   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:  180   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:  273   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:  219   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:  217   Comments: 0
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:  391   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:  387   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:  196   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:  278   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:  355   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:  284   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:  404   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:  364   Comments: 1
Look what I found hiding in the woods
Title:  Look what I found hiding in the woods
Description:  While returning from our son't wedding-his wife was originally from the Ashland, Wis area-I found this along US 63 near Hayward.
Photo Date:  7/11/2010  Upload Date: 1/23/2011 3:00:20 AM
Location:  Hayward, WI
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  DMIR 200(SD38AC)
Views:  892   Comments: 3
MN&A Harrisonville MO
Title:  MN&A Harrisonville MO
Description:  MN&A SD 40s lead southbound train ne}r Harrisonville MO
Photo Date:  1/23/2011  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:  247   Comments: 1
Georgia Midland power
Title:  Georgia Midland power
Description:  Georgia Midland GP 9 at Midville
Photo Date:  3/31/2011  Upload Date: 5/13/2011 11:18:40 PM
Location:  Midville, GA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  PREX 1602(GP16)
Views:  619   Comments: 1
GP 30
Title:  GP 30
Description:  Georgia Midland GP 30 at Midville GA
Photo Date:  3/31/2011  Upload Date: 5/13/2011 11:13:40 PM
Location:  Midville, GA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  GMR 4215(GP30)
Views:  503   Comments: 1
Caught this at Blue Earth Minn
Title:  Caught this at Blue Earth Minn
Description:  Industrial unit used at the grain elevator in Blue Earth Minn. If anyone know model, please advise.
Photo Date:  8/13/2011  Upload Date: 8/27/2011 11:58:22 PM
Location:  Blue Earth, MN
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  BEFX 651(65Tonner )
Views:  361   Comments: 1
Minnesota Southern
Title:  Minnesota Southern
Description:  Two Minnesota Southern units sit at the Luverne Minn station on a Sunday afternoon
Photo Date:  8/14/2011  Upload Date: 8/27/2011 11:54:26 PM
Location:  Luverne, MN
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Yard,Station
Locomotives:  MSWY 1365(GP9) MSWY 1379(GP7)
Views:  361   Comments: 0
AEP unit
Title:  AEP unit
Description:  This American Electric Power unit was at Alliance
Photo Date:  9/18/2011  Upload Date: 1/20/2012 2:20:45 AM
Location:  Alliance, NE
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  AEPX 1101(SL-136)
Views:  525   Comments: 0
Elevator power
Title:  Elevator power
Description:  An old geep now in its new life sits at a grain elevator in Nebraska
Photo Date:  9/18/2011  Upload Date: 1/20/2012 2:23:13 AM
Location:  Maywood, NE
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  AGVX 7517(GP10)
Views:  454   Comments: 0
Elevator power
Title:  Elevator power
Description:  What appears to be a former CNW unit works at a grain elevator in Nebraska
Photo Date:  9/18/2011  Upload Date: 1/20/2012 2:16:49 AM
Location:  Cozad, NE
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  DBGX 6634(SD18M)
Views:  501   Comments: 3
Ex CNW unit
Title:  Ex CNW unit
Description:  An ex CNW GP 7 lives out a second life as a grain elevator unit in Nebraska
Photo Date:  9/18/2011  Upload Date: 1/20/2012 2:19:01 AM
Location:  Silver Creek, NE
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  CNW 4162(GP7R)
Views:  463   Comments: 0
IMRL 612
Title:  IMRL 612
Description:  This I&M Rail Link unit was parked at a grain elevator. May now belong to them, and not ICE.
Photo Date:  9/18/2011  Upload Date: 1/20/2012 2:14:25 AM
Location:  Lexington, NE
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  IMRL 612(SD9)
Views:  1097   Comments: 0
NKCR units wait out the weekend
Title:  NKCR units wait out the weekend
Description:  NKCR power sits at Wallace Neb waiting for Mondays activity
Photo Date:  9/18/2011  Upload Date: 1/20/2012 2:09:09 AM
Location:  Wallace, NE
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  NKCR 5102(GP50) NKCR 5005(SD40)
Views:  1258   Comments: 1
NKCR herald
Title:  NKCR herald
Description:  A close up of the hood on NKCR 5102-very attractive paint scheme
Photo Date:  9/18/2011  Upload Date: 1/20/2012 2:10:54 AM
Location:  Wallace, NE
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  NKCR 5102(GP50)
Views:  558   Comments: 0
Peavey unit
Title:  Peavey unit
Description:  An SW type sits at a Peavey elevator in Nebraska
Photo Date:  9/18/2011  Upload Date: 1/20/2012 2:24:42 AM
Location:  Lexington, NE
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives: 
Views:  166   Comments: 0
Trackmobile
Title:  Trackmobile
Description:  One of the more useful pieces of equipment for industrial switching is the trackmobile, basically a powered truck with a cab. Cobb Industries in Siloam Springs uses one to move grain hoppers in and out of their feed mill here at Siloam Springs
Photo Date:  7/25/2012  Upload Date: 7/25/2012 11:57:28 PM
Location:  Siloam Springs, AR
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock
Locomotives: 
Views:  230   Comments: 0

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