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By:Tom Beckett
Dates:1/1/1977 - 1/24/2013
Album Info:Locomotives and rolling stock that have been preserved and set up as displays in parks, museums, etc.
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Trade power
Title:  Trade power
Description:  This ex Buffalo Creek & Gauley 2-8-0 was at what would become the National NYC Museum in Elkhart. Don't know what became of it; the museum traded GG 1 4903 to Dallas for NYC Mohawk 3001, which is at the museum today. Seen from the Lake Shore. Please see the comment from Nicholas Katz below.
Photo Date:  8/18/1978  Upload Date: 11/26/2016 4:35:40 AM
Location:  Elkhart, IN
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Steam
Locomotives:  BCG 13(2-8-0)
Views:  853   Comments: 2
Stripped/down
Title:  Stripped/down
Description:  LIRR G5 39 has been stripped of its cab and boiler jacket, and is up on blocks as it undergoes restoration
Photo Date:  5/16/1981  Upload Date: 1/28/2013 12:45:44 AM
Location:  Riverhead, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Steam
Locomotives:  LI 39(4-6-2)
Views:  1197   Comments: 0
LIRR 39s tender
Title:  LIRR 39s tender
Description:  LIRR 39s tender has been separated+from the engine, and will also undergo restoration
Photo Date:  5/16/1981  Upload Date: 1/28/2013 12:50:12 AM
Location:  Riverhead, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Yard
Locomotives:  LI 39(4-6-2)
Views:  876   Comments: 0
B&M in the park
Title:  B&M in the park
Description:  A Boston & Maine 4-4-0 sits in a park in White River Jct
Photo Date:  8/8/1981  Upload Date: 2/17/2013 12:52:48 AM
Location:  White River Jct., VT
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Steam
Locomotives:  BM 494(4-4-0)
Views:  789   Comments: 0
ATSF 1129
Title:  ATSF 1129
Description:  This engine was in a park near the station in Las Vegas NM. Dont know what became of it, have not been back to check. Hope it did not meet the fate of many "preservation" attempts-mostly neglect and vandalism.
Photo Date:  8/18/1982  Upload Date: 3/10/2013 4:26:37 AM
Location:  Las Vegas, NM
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Steam
Locomotives:  ATSF 1129(2-6-2)
Views:  762   Comments: 0
Denver & Rio Grande
Title:  Denver & Rio Grande
Description:  D&RG 168 preserved in a perk outside the passenger station. The station was at the time a restaurant, good food and a front row seat to the joint line.
Photo Date:  8/18/1982  Upload Date: 3/10/2013 4:29:39 AM
Location:  Colorado Springs, CO
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Station,Steam
Locomotives:  DRG 168(4-6-0)
Views:  527   Comments: 0
Outside Union Station
Title:  Outside Union Station
Description:  DRGW 223 is on display outside Denver Union Station. It's looking a little worse for wear.
Photo Date:  8/23/1982  Upload Date: 3/24/2013 4:34:57 AM
Location:  Denver, CO
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Station,Steam
Locomotives:  DRGW 223(2-8-0)
Views:  721   Comments: 1
Steam on display
Title:  Steam on display
Description:  This switch engine was part of the display with the IC RPO. The RPO looked a lot better.
Photo Date:  3/10/1984  Upload Date: 5/26/2014 4:32:49 AM
Location:  Baton Rouge, LA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  IC 333(0-6-0)
Views:  583   Comments: 0
Stuffed, mounted and caged
Title:  Stuffed, mounted and caged
Description:  PRR 1361 sits behind a chain link fence at the park in the crook of Horseshoe Curve. In a few years it will be turned loose.
Photo Date:  9/27/1984  Upload Date: 7/3/2014 4:06:48 AM
Location:  Horseshoe Curve, PA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Steam
Locomotives:  PRR 1361(4-6-2)
Views:  947   Comments: 0
Big trophy
Title:  Big trophy
Description:  This Santa Fe 2-10-4 was in a park in Santa Fe, a nice display piece, even if a little worse for wear.
Photo Date:  10/5/1984  Upload Date: 7/10/2014 1:48:43 AM
Location:  Santa Fe, NM
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Steam
Locomotives:  ATSF 5030(2-10-4)
Views:  934   Comments: 0
A view from the rear
Title:  A view from the rear
Description:  ATSF 5030 at Santa Fe, seen from the tender end.
Photo Date:  10/5/1984  Upload Date: 7/11/2014 2:39:09 AM
Location:  Santa Fe, NM
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Steam
Locomotives:  ATSF 5030(2-10-4)
Views:  577   Comments: 0
Tender behind??
Title:  Tender behind??
Description:  This one looks pretty sturdy!!
Photo Date:  10/5/1984  Upload Date: 7/11/2014 2:55:24 AM
Location:  Santa Fe, NM
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Steam
Locomotives:  ATSF 5030(2-10-4)
Views:  464   Comments: 0
On display
Title:  On display
Description:  UP seemed to donate a lot of steam engines. Seems like quite a few towns I went through on their lines had one in a park. This one was in Columbus Neb.
Photo Date:  10/9/1984  Upload Date: 7/10/2014 1:50:25 AM
Location:  Columbus, NE
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Steam
Locomotives:  UP 561(2-8-0)
Views:  632   Comments: 0
Not exactly museum pieces
Title:  Not exactly museum pieces
Description:  Actually they sorta are, but not really on any kind of official display. These are a line up of Northwestern Steel and Wire steamers that have been retired and are now sitting out in this field. Theyd soon be going to scrap, 25 years after main line steam became a memory in the USA.
Photo Date:  10/10/1984  Upload Date: 7/11/2014 2:59:05 AM
Location:  Sterling, IL
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Steam
Locomotives: 
Views:  328   Comments: 0
On display
Title:  On display
Description:  This B&O engine was on display in a park in Huntington WV
Photo Date:  1/28/1985  Upload Date: 9/25/2014 2:02:04 PM
Location:  Huntington, WV
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Winter,Steam
Locomotives:  BO 4559(2-8-2)
Views:  677   Comments: 0
Fenced in
Title:  Fenced in
Description:  When PRR K4 1361 was removed from display here, it was replaced with another Pennsy alassic, this GP 9, no 7048, which now sitr behind a chain link fence at the park in the crook of the curve.
Photo Date:  2/14/1986  Upload Date: 10/17/2014 4:01:01 AM
Location:  Horseshoe Curve, PA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Winter
Locomotives:  PRR 7048(GP9)
Views:  1740   Comments: 0
Erie model
Title:  Erie model
Description:  One of the residents under Starrucca Viaduct iin Lanesboro PA had this model of a 2-6-6-2 and snort train set up in his yard. Its a nice tribute to a very local landmark.
Photo Date:  4/22/1986  Upload Date: 11/20/2014 4:06:23 AM
Location:  Lanesboro, PA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Model,Bridge
Locomotives: 
Views:  358   Comments: 0
Reading unit
Title:  Reading unit
Description:  Not really stuffed and mounted, since it would return to service, along with its partner, SEPTA 4372, after restoration to its original Reading green scheme, this FP 7 sits at the Strasburg RR in Strasburg PA
Photo Date:  5/20/1986  Upload Date: 11/20/2014 1:33:43 AM
Location:  Strasburg, PA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  RDG 901(FP7A)
Views:  631   Comments: 0
Take a ride on the Reading
Title:  Take a ride on the Reading
Description:  Even if it looks like SEPTA!! This ex Reading FP 7 was a hand me down to SEPTA when it took over the commuter service from Reading in the 70s. Now it sits at Strasburg awaiting restoration to its former glory as Reading 902.
Photo Date:  5/20/1986  Upload Date: 11/20/2014 1:38:28 AM
Location:  Strasburg, PA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  SPAX 4372(FP7A) RDG 901(FP7A)
Views:  947   Comments: 0
Caboose at the LIRR museum
Title:  Caboose at the LIRR museum
Description:  The museum also acquired a bay window caboose. I do not know the history on this car, anyone who knows, please comment.
Photo Date:  10/14/1986  Upload Date: 11/18/2011 7:28:04 PM
Location:  Riverhead, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock
Locomotives: 
Views:  350   Comments: 0
Park steamer
Title:  Park steamer
Description:  CN 6218 and wooden caboose are in a museum in Ft Erie Ontario. I was rolling through on my way back to NY from Toronto and grabbed this shot.
Photo Date:  12/30/1986  Upload Date: 12/27/2014 2:48:24 AM
Location:  Fort Erie, ON
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Steam
Locomotives:  CN 6218(4-8-4)
Views:  813   Comments: 0
Jaws
Title:  Jaws
Description:  The LIRR MOW crews painted this Russell plow up with shark teeth, a tribute tl the famous movie that took place on the south shore. Now out of service, its at Slater Supply in Riverhead, stored til the RR Museum of Long Island can make a place for it. Poy Scheider would be proud.
Photo Date:  3/19/1987  Upload Date: 3/19/1987 12:00:00 AM
Location:  Riverhead, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Yard
Locomotives: 
Views:  359   Comments: 0
Returning hero
Title:  Returning hero
Description:  Maryland Midland 1556, originally LIRR 1556 and now repatriated to Long Island, sits at Slater Supply waiti`g for space at the museum.
Photo Date:  3/19/1987  Upload Date: 4/21/2015 3:56:02 AM
Location:  Riverhead, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  MMID 1556(RS3)
Views:  659   Comments: 1
&S car
Title:  &S car
Description:  Im not 100% sure of the heritage of this caboosde at the National NYC Museum in Elkhart, but the "shadow" of a diamond on the side makes me think Minneapolis, Northfield & Southern. Please correct me if Im wrong.
Photo Date:  6/20/1987  Upload Date: 5/7/2015 2:13:04 AM
Location:  Elkhart, IN
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Yard
Locomotives: 
Views:  362   Comments: 0
Enginaers view
Title:  Enginaers view
Description:  What the engineer of a NY@ Mohawk sees from his seat.
Photo Date:  6/20/1987  Upload Date: 5/7/2015 2:17:47 AM
Location:  Elkhart, IN
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  InCab,Yard,Steam
Locomotives:  NYC 3001(4-8-2)
Views:  626   Comments: 0
Nose on
Title:  Nose on
Description:  A front end shot of NYC 3001 at the NYC Museum in Elkhart
Photo Date:  6/20/1987  Upload Date: 5/7/2015 2:37:54 AM
Location:  Elkhart, IN
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Steam
Locomotives:  NYC 3001(4-8-2)
Views:  904   Comments: 0
IHB caboose
Title:  IHB caboose
Description:  The Indianb Harbor Belt was jointly owned by NYC and the Milwaukee Road, but power and cabooses were in NYC colors and numbers. It is, therefore, natural that this IHB caboose is at tke NYC Museum.
Photo Date:  6/20/1987  Upload Date: 5/7/2015 2:41:24 AM
Location:  Elkhart, IN
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Yard
Locomotives:  NYC 3001(4-8-2)
Views:  791   Comments: 0
Wide view
Title:  Wide view
Description:  A wider view of NYB 3001 at the NYC Museum. Here we see the bniler jacketing is off, giving a good view of the firebox.
Photo Date:  6/20/1987  Upload Date: 5/7/2015 2:42:13 AM
Location:  Elkhart, IN
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Yard,Steam
Locomotives:  NYC 3001(4-8-2)
Views:  613   Comments: 0
Milwaukee mar
Title:  Milwaukee mar
Description:  This MILW car was on di}play at Savanna Ill, and looked to be in pretty good shape. Im not sure at this point, almost 30 years later, if there was another purpose for it, or if the name iq correct. See commjnt below-looks like this car was used for a time as an office for the MILW employees credit union.
Photo Date:  6/21/1987  Upload Date: 5/7/2015 2:06:05 AM
Location:  Savanna, IL
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Yard,Passenger
Locomotives: 
Views:  485   Comments: 1
Welcome center
Title:  Welcome center
Description:  This caboose was in a park in Savanna. H believe it was being used as a!welcome center there, though looking at the items in the windows, it may have been a retail establishment of some sort. It did not hawe a number on it, but is obviously of Milwaukee heritage.
Photo Date:  6/21/1987  Upload Date: 5/7/2015 2:09:44 AM
Location:  Savanna, IL
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock
Locomotives: 
Views:  324   Comments: 0
NY&LE caboose
Title:  NY&LE caboose
Description:  This caboose, stenciled for the NY&LE was on display at the Qalamanca Rail Museum.
Photo Date:  6/27/1987  Upload Date: 7/24/2012 3:06:15 PM
Location:  Salamanca, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Yard
Locomotives: 
Views:  358   Comments: 0
Pittsburgh car
Title:  Pittsburgh car
Description:  This Pittsburgh & West Virginia car was at the Salamanca Rail Museum when I was on the way through that June day.
Photo Date:  6/27/1987  Upload Date: 5/14/2015 3:10:29 PM
Location:  Salamanca, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Yard
Locomotives: 
Views:  284   Comments: 0
Hammerhead
Title:  Hammerhead
Description:  This RS 2 was delivered to LV with both a steam generator and dynamic brakes. The space required by having both made this extra high short hood necessary, giving the unit its obvious nickname. It is now at the Rochester & Genesee Valley museum in Industry NY, and will eventually be repainted into LV colors.
Photo Date:  10/10/1987  Upload Date: 6/9/2015 3:03:46 AM
Location:  Industry, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  LV 211(RS3)
Views:  802   Comments: 1
Rare unit
Title:  Rare unit
Description:  A long hood view of ex LV 211, the "hammerhead", so called for its full height short hood to accommodate a steam generator and dynamic brakes. Fortunately, it kept the high hood when it went through the Dewitt Geep program when CR had it.
Photo Date:  10/10/1987  Upload Date: 6/9/2015 3:09:00 AM
Location:  Industry, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  LV 211(RS3)
Views:  681   Comments: 0
SVRHS display
Title:  SVRHS display
Description:  The Susquehanna Valley NRHS had some equipment on display bt the ex DLW station for a number of years. This ex Southern E 8 was the feature, but more local items included several Erie cars and EL caboose 316. The equipment was moved to Elmira when the new baseball stadium was built in 1992 on the site of the former DLW freight house. The station stub tracks, once used for set out sleepers and mail, were removed.
Photo Date:  10/1/1988  Upload Date: 9/5/2015 3:47:27 AM
Location:  Binghamton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Station
Locomotives:  NJT 4334(E8A)
Views:  710   Comments: 1
Classic B&O
Title:  Classic B&O
Description:  Which is why its in a museum. This is one of two cabooses at the museum during a visit while waiting for OIEL.
Photo Date:  3/24/1990  Upload Date: 12/28/2015 3:40:50 AM
Location:  Salamanca, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock
Locomotives: 
Views:  438   Comments: 0
P&WV car
Title:  P&WV car
Description:  This Pittsburgh & West Virginia caboose was also at the Salamanca Rail Museum. Its a good place to visit, housed in the former BR&P station. It has good displays and helpful staff.
Photo Date:  3/24/1990  Upload Date: 12/28/2015 3:44:19 AM
Location:  Salamanca, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock
Locomotives: 
Views:  294   Comments: 0
Restoration candidate
Title:  Restoration candidate
Description:  NJT 4334, a former Southern E 8, sits at the Susquehanna Valley RHS display on the set out tracks at the Binghamton DLW station. The original plan was to!restore the unit to Erie or EL paint, with the hope of eventually getting it into running condition. As happens all too often, funding and available/hands fell short. The engine was eventually moved to Elmira, but not til after the new ballfield was built on the site of the DLW freight house, leaving the equipment on the set out tracks land
Photo Date:  10/21/1990  Upload Date: 2/1/2016 4:44:25 AM
Location:  Binghamton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  NJT 4334(E8A)
Views:  465   Comments: 1
ATSF 1024
Title:  ATSF 1024
Description:  This 2-6-2 was posed in a park next to US 50 in La Junta Colorado.
Photo Date:  10/27/1996  Upload Date: 5/6/2014 1:59:50 AM
Location:  La Junta, CO
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Steam
Locomotives:  ATSF 1024(2-6-2)
Views:  572   Comments: 0
You find the strangest things
Title:  You find the strangest things
Description:  I came across this 2-8-2 at Georgetown Miss, displayed at a gravel pit. I do now know the original owner of this engine, or how it got there.
Photo Date:  5/12/1997  Upload Date: 4/15/2014 11:35:15 PM
Location:  Georgetown, MS
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Steam
Locomotives: 
Views:  338   Comments: 2
Surprise find
Title:  Surprise find
Description:  I was checking out northwest Arkansas for a move I would take six months later, and found myself in Decatur, where I discovered their KCS F 7 displayed by the old station. Compare to the shot taken ten years later.
Photo Date:  10/14/2005  Upload Date: 9/18/2017 4:57:38 AM
Location:  Decatur, AR
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives: 
Views:  247   Comments: 3
Original Warbonnet
Title:  Original Warbonnet
Description:  This ATSF Warbonnet FP45 is on display at the Wichita Union Station, now a museum. It is one of the original FP45s used by the Santa Fe in the 1960s, and went into freight service once Amtrak took over the trains in 1971.
Photo Date:  12/29/2006  Upload Date: 2/3/2017 4:04:17 AM
Location:  Wichita, KS
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Bridge
Locomotives:  ATSF 93(FP45)
Views:  540   Comments: 1
Not exactly revenue equipment
Title:  Not exactly revenue equipment
Description:  The city of Neosho MO has put this gon in a park on the east side of town on US 60. Its billed as the worlds largest flower box. That may or may not be true, but it is an interesting use of an old railway car.
Photo Date:  2/20/2007  Upload Date: 1/5/2018 5:33:26 AM
Location:  Neosho, MO
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock
Locomotives: 
Views:  148   Comments: 1
A long way from home
Title:  A long way from home
Description:  This Erie S 1 somehow wound up in Galena Kan. It sits behind a small restaurant on a piece of panel track. The area was once home to several lead and zinc mines, and was covered with a spider web of tracks. Almost all of them are now gone.
Photo Date:  10/15/2007  Upload Date: 10/13/2012 11:38:24 PM
Location:  Galena, KS
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  EL 315(S1)
Views:  722   Comments: 1
Former MILW unit
Title:  Former MILW unit
Description:  Fomer MILW FP 7 lettered South Dakota Central now sits at a tourist trap museum off I 90. Anyone with more info on the unit or South Dakota Central, please comment.
Photo Date:  9/23/2011  Upload Date: 1/21/2012 1:53:34 AM
Location:  Wall, SD
Author:  Tom!Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  MILW 103C(FP7A)
Views:  1157   Comments: 1
Peeking out
Title:  Peeking out
Description:  KCS 34, a display piece at Kansas City Union Station, peeks out from beneath the buidling as the late day sun shines in on the nose of the engine.
Photo Date:  10/18/2014  Upload Date: 11/8/2014 2:16:20 AM
Location:  Kansas City, MO
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Station
Locomotives:  KCS 34(FP9A)
Views:  259   Comments: 0
SP blades
Title:  SP blades
Description:  This album was originally envisioned to cover rolling stock, but these signals, now removed to the grounds at the Rock/SP station at Tucumcari, have been nicely restored as display pieces, and thus meet the definition. A set of SP lower quadrant semaphores, which until fairly recently-the last 20 years or so-protected traffic on the line from here to El Paso.
Photo Date:  3/22/2015  Upload Date: 9/4/2018 3:51:34 AM
Location:  Tucumcari, NM
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Signal
Locomotives: 
Views:  171   Comments: 0
Tourist info
Title:  Tourist info
Description:  Quite a few communities were able to prevail upon local railroads for a caboose when they were being phased out 25 years ago. Many wound up in parks, some, such as this one, became local tourist information centers. This ex Santa Fe car was performing that task at Medicine Lodge.
Photo Date:  10/17/2015  Upload Date: 10/25/2015 2:14:22 AM
Location:  Medicine Lodge, KS
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock
Locomotives: 
Views:  134   Comments: 1
F and caboose display
Title:  F and caboose display
Description:  The city of Decatur has turned its KCS station into a museum, with a good display of artifacts and equipment inside and out. The anchor for this is this F 7 and caboose.
Photo Date:  2/4/2016  Upload Date: 2/15/2016 4:53:05 AM
Location:  Decatur, AR
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Station
Locomotives:  KCS 73D(F7A)
Views:  574   Comments: 1
Pacific in the park
Title:  Pacific in the park
Description:  This Santa Fe pacific was in a park in Great Bend Kan. Looks good for being off the road 60 years.
Photo Date:  10/15/2016  Upload Date: 10/26/2016 4:27:29 AM
Location:  Great Bend, KS
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Steam
Locomotives:  ATSF 3416(4-6-2)
Views:  547   Comments: 1


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