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By:Tom Beckett
Dates:1/1/1976 - 5/13/2015
Album Info:A variety of non locomotive rolling stock, mostly freight cars, but also trailers and containers, other highway vehicles, snow plows, flangers, spreaders, components and the like. A big tip of the hat to Paul O'Shell, a retired CN man who served in a variety of work equipment supervisory positions over a 48 year career. Paul has provided valuble information on a wide variety of CN and CP MOW equipment, as well as dispositions when known. Thank you sir!!
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Old box
Title:  Old box
Description:  This ex NYC box was being used as storage at Waterbury in the early days of Conrail. At the time, CR was still running the commuter trains out of Grand Central under contract, as well as freight service in southern New England. That would change in a couple of years, withlocal freight work south of the Boston Line going to the Boston & Maine, now Pan Am Railways, and the commuters going to Metro North.
Photo Date:  6/9/1981  Upload Date: 9/6/2021 5:37:18 AM
Location:  Waterbury, CT
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock
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Views:  83   Comments: 1
MOW car
Title:  MOW car
Description:  This ancient caboose was at the MN yard in Danbury. Interesting looking car.
Photo Date:  7/3/1981  Upload Date: 6/26/2014 3:18:50 AM
Location:  Danbury, CT
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock
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Views:  845   Comments: 3
Flanger
Title:  Flanger
Description:  Among other items at Mechanicville was this transfer caboose, an "outhouse on a raft." When editing these slides, I was tempted to crop out the other equipment, then saw there was a variety of now vanished D&H rolling stock, including partial views of an ex Reading box, and one of the 12300 series covered hoppers, as well as a partial view, at left, of another D&H caboose.
Photo Date:  7/4/1981  Upload Date: 2/17/2013 3:11:46 AM
Location:  Mechanicville, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Yard
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Views:  1680   Comments: 3
This one is really old
Title:  This one is really old
Description:  This steam engine tender was at Danbury in 1981. I recall someone saying it was used as a water tank for fighting fires and other uses where water was not readily available. Dont know what it came off. It would be neat if it was from a NH engine.
Photo Date:  7/4/1981  Upload Date: 11/17/2014 4:05:51 AM
Location:  Danbury, CT
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Yard,Steam
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Views:  1039   Comments: 1
GMD truck
Title:  GMD truck
Description:  Detail shot of a Blomberg truck under a VIA FP 9 at London Ont showing the GMD stamping on the axle.
Photo Date:  8/20/1982  Upload Date: 1/15/2012 11:04:56 PM
Location:  London, ON
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Passenger
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Views:  508   Comments: 2
Flanger
Title:  Flanger
Description:  CR often used their plows with a flanger, this one at Springfield Mass Amtrak station.
Photo Date:  3/29/1983  Upload Date: 11/3/2013 2:01:26 AM
Location:  Springfield, MA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Station
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Views:  670   Comments: 1
Erie camp car
Title:  Erie camp car
Description:  One of the things about the early Conrail period was that there was a lot of predecessor road equipment knocking around in various uses-nothing ever got scrapped til it wouldnt hold together. Therefore, some real relics held on for a long time. One such was this Erie camp car at Campbell Hall on the Graham Line, still serving CR in 1984.
Photo Date:  2/7/1984  Upload Date: 5/24/2014 1:28:56 AM
Location:  Campbell Hall, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Yard
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Views:  622   Comments: 1
LV coal
Title:  LV coal
Description:  OK, I had to get it on a truck, but still, its Lehigh Valley. This truck was in Brooklyn in the summer of 1984, making a coal delivery to an apartment building. I was glad to see anything LV at that point.
Photo Date:  7/19/1984  Upload Date: 6/26/2014 3:15:19 AM
Location:  Brooklyn, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  399   Comments: 1
Ancient wheels
Title:  Ancient wheels
Description:  The truck frame from one of DLWs mu cars shows its origin. I dont recall seeing a date on it, but some of those cars dated back to 1907 or so.
Photo Date:  8/19/1984  Upload Date: 6/30/2014 2:11:17 AM
Location:  Gladstone, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  387   Comments: 1
Radio cars
Title:  Radio cars
Description:  Southern had implemented a radio control helper arrangement on some of the trains that ran the Rathole, a precursor to todays distributed power. Some of the control cars were at the Chattanooga yard during our visit, such as the three in mid frame, that look like boxcars.
Photo Date:  9/29/1984  Upload Date: 7/8/2014 3:43:37 AM
Location:  Chattanooga, TN
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Yard
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Views:  849   Comments: 1
Guess he couldnt get an EMD model plate
Title:  Guess he couldnt get an EMD model plate
Description:  Ya know, the kind like the Q had on their diesels that said "E 5" or "SD 9". So he had to improvise. This car was following C&O 614 the day I was chasing, and is seen in Huntington near the yard. I cant really fault the guy though-for a number of years I had a New York plate, "DDA40X". Its displayed in my office nowadays.
Photo Date:  1/28/1985  Upload Date: 9/25/2014 3:59:00 AM
Location:  Huntington, WV
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Passenger
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Views:  686   Comments: 1
Standard Canadian equipment
Title:  Standard Canadian equipment
Description:  What would Canada be without snow plows?? Heres one of CPs at St Luc yard. I was able to get a release to take photos, something that CP was fairly helpful about in those days. All the equipment photos here were taken with CP's permission to be on the property.
Photo Date:  8/27/1985  Upload Date: 10/10/2014 2:47:16 AM
Location:  Montreal, QC
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Yard
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Views:  592   Comments: 1
Snowplow, firemans side
Title:  Snowplow, firemans side
Description:  The firemans side of a CP snowplow at St Luc
Photo Date:  8/27/1985  Upload Date: 10/10/2014 2:49:24 AM
Location:  Montreal, QC
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Yard
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Views:  621   Comments: 1
Steam heat car
Title:  Steam heat car
Description:  CP had been out of the passenger business for a few years when I took this shot. I suspect this car was left for dead by then, as there would have been no real use for it. Still, a nice catch.
Photo Date:  8/27/1985  Upload Date: 10/10/2014 2:50:52 AM
Location:  Montreal, QC
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Yard
Locomotives:  CP 8037(RS23)
Views:  1444   Comments: 2
Spreader
Title:  Spreader
Description:  One of the basic pieces of MOW equipment is the Jordan spreader. CP had several here.
Photo Date:  8/27/1985  Upload Date: 10/10/2014 2:52:34 AM
Location:  Montreal, QC
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Yard
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Views:  492   Comments: 2
Real find
Title:  Real find
Description:  CP had this former tender in use as a fuel and water car, presumably for MOW equipment, sitting at St Luc. Not sure if it was still in service at this date.
Photo Date:  8/27/1985  Upload Date: 10/10/2014 2:56:31 AM
Location:  Montreal, QC
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Yard
Locomotives:  CP 6612(S10)
Views:  687   Comments: 1
Circus cars to Jersey
Title:  Circus cars to Jersey
Description:  The Ringling Bros train passing through Queens Village on the LIRR, animal cars head out. How did I know they were animal cars?? Breathe deep!!!
Photo Date:  12/6/1985  Upload Date: 10/14/2014 2:30:37 AM
Location:  Queens Village, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
Locomotives:  LI 166(MP15AC) LI 154(MP15AC) LI 159(MP15AC)
Views:  886   Comments: 1
COFC-sort of
Title:  COFC-sort of
Description:  Ringling Bros had a variety of equipment, including a good number of trailer flats they used for carrying the many vehicles they used in their shows. This one is about to go under the East River with a group of circus wagons.
Photo Date:  12/6/1985  Upload Date: 10/14/2014 2:33:29 AM
Location:  Long Island City, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  546   Comments: 1
Centennial
Title:  Centennial
Description:  Well, not exactly. The rolling stock in this case is a GM product, but a Chevy and not an EMD. I had this plate for several years in the late 80s. I kept the combination-New York allows you the option of keeping your plate when the style changes, usually about every 15 years. It's mostly a revenue thing, since they charge for a special registration if you keep it-when New York changed to the "Liberty" plates with the Statue of Liberty on them later that year. I still have both of them.
Photo Date:  1/4/1986  Upload Date: 10/16/2014 2:47:32 AM
Location:  Binghamton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock
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Views:  418   Comments: 1
Track geometry car
Title:  Track geometry car
Description:  This car was working through Lenexa the day I was there. We see the observation end of the car, where the equipment operator works.
Photo Date:  2/19/1986  Upload Date: 11/10/2014 2:56:41 AM
Location:  Lenexa, KS
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Station
Locomotives:  BN 2068(GP20)
Views:  975   Comments: 2
Track geometry car
Title:  Track geometry car
Description:  The opposite end of the track geometry car passing through Lenexa
Photo Date:  2/19/1986  Upload Date: 11/10/2014 3:00:40 AM
Location:  Lenexa, KS
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  594   Comments: 2
Centennial
Title:  Centennial
Description:  Yes, the kind youre thinking of, but not exactly the diesel. I was able to get this special plate when it was blue/yellow. When New York went to the Liberty plate in 1986, this came in the mail when I renewed. I ran into a guy in Utica once who said he tried to get it, but it was taken. Now he knows why. Its on display in my office now.
Photo Date:  7/22/1986  Upload Date: 12/5/2014 4:03:44 AM
Location:  Harriman, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock
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Views:  403   Comments: 1
Ive seen trackless trolleys....
Title:  Ive seen trackless trolleys....
Description:  But this is ridiculous!! Sumitomo Rail in Elmira Heights was rebuilding cars for the NYCTA, and trucking them to and from the city. This IRT car was on a flat bed trailer near Apalachin. Sumirail had a contract for several other models as well, and for the next few years, it was not uncommon to see subway cars out on the highway.
Photo Date:  8/5/1986  Upload Date: 12/5/2014 4:07:24 AM
Location:  Apalachin, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  NYCTA 7847(Electric M.U.)
Views:  496   Comments: 1
What??
Title:  What??
Description:  This Northern Pacific tender was sitting in the Minnesota Transfers yard near Midway. What it was doing there, I cant figure.
Photo Date:  6/24/1987  Upload Date: 5/11/2015 2:35:46 AM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Yard
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Views:  314   Comments: 2
Good thing to have
Title:  Good thing to have
Description:  Especially up here in the Great White North. This CN plow is enjoying a Labour Day weekend in Quebec. It will get called to work all too soon up here, where the snow comes early. CN will be glad they have it.
Photo Date:  9/5/1987  Upload Date: 5/25/2015 1:19:05 AM
Location:  La Prairie, QC
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Yard
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Views:  311   Comments: 1
Strange visitor
Title:  Strange visitor
Description:  This B&M plow was at Bevier St in Binghamton while I was shooting a couple of freights. It was unusual to see such equipment this far off line, even during Guilfords tenure.
Photo Date:  3/19/1988  Upload Date: 7/3/2015 4:47:03 AM
Location:  Binghamton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Yard
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Views:  357   Comments: 1
Old car
Title:  Old car
Description:  Railroads use all kinds of old equipment for all kinds of purposed. This CN 40 foot box was no longer in interchange service, but provided a useful place for company material at Edmundston yard.
Photo Date:  5/28/1988  Upload Date: 3/8/2015 5:03:12 AM
Location:  Edmundston, NB
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Yard
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Views:  384   Comments: 1
Maine snowplow
Title:  Maine snowplow
Description:  The CP kept this Jordan spreader ready at Brownville Jct. Here it is waiting for the winter, which will come too soon in these parts.
Photo Date:  5/29/1988  Upload Date: 3/6/2015 3:26:07 AM
Location:  Brownville Junction, ME
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Yard
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Views:  390   Comments: 2
Speno train
Title:  Speno train
Description:  The July 4 weekend found the Speno ballast cleaner tied up on the siding at Owego. This is the view from Erie St of the east end of the train.
Photo Date:  7/2/1988  Upload Date: 8/29/2015 1:55:50 AM
Location:  Owego, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock
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Views:  192   Comments: 1
South side
Title:  South side
Description:  The view of the east end of the Speno train from across the main tracks.
Photo Date:  7/2/1988  Upload Date: 8/29/2015 2:04:50 AM
Location:  Owego, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock
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Views:  188   Comments: 1
Where it happens
Title:  Where it happens
Description:  The west end of the train, showing the conveyor and dump car that takes the dirt and other crud the cleaner picks up. The ballast is returned to the track.
Photo Date:  7/2/1988  Upload Date: 8/29/2015 2:06:27 AM
Location:  Owego, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock
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Views:  178   Comments: 1
West end
Title:  West end
Description:  The converted coach that serves as control and quarters, looks like an ex MILW car.
Photo Date:  7/2/1988  Upload Date: 8/29/2015 2:09:31 AM
Location:  Owego, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock
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Views:  266   Comments: 1
Ex MILW
Title:  Ex MILW
Description:  This car on the west end of the Speno train looks like it came from the Milwaukee Road. Many cast off cars wound up in such service. Makes an interesting genealogy project to figure out where they came from, though some are easier to figure out than others.
Photo Date:  7/2/1988  Upload Date: 8/29/2015 2:13:56 AM
Location:  Owego, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock
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Views:  183   Comments: 2
Ballast cleaner
Title:  Ballast cleaner
Description:  The Speno ballast cleaner rolls toward me as it works the Southern Tier near Waverly.
Photo Date:  7/7/1988  Upload Date: 9/2/2015 3:04:54 AM
Location:  Waverly, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  159   Comments: 1
Scooping it up
Title:  Scooping it up
Description:  The Speno ballast cleaner scoops up the ballast in this conveyor, sifts out the dirt and other debris, then returns the stone to the track, shooting the dirt into a trailing dump car.
Photo Date:  7/7/1988  Upload Date: 9/2/2015 3:07:41 AM
Location:  Waverly, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Track,Action
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Views:  160   Comments: 2
Dirt into the dump
Title:  Dirt into the dump
Description:  This Difco Air Dump car was where the dirt and other contaminants were disposed of after the ballast had been sifted.
Photo Date:  7/7/1988  Upload Date: 9/2/2015 3:14:25 AM
Location:  Waverly, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  166   Comments: 1
Scale car
Title:  Scale car
Description:  Most railroads maintain a group of scale test cars, such as this one. The weights are carefully calibrated, so that they can be weighed and get an accurate reading for track scales, which are used to calculate freight charges. This one was on BUOI at Campville.
Photo Date:  9/26/1988  Upload Date: 8/30/2015 4:21:06 AM
Location:  Campville, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  185   Comments: 1
Crawling
Title:  Crawling
Description:  The crane, the train was moving right along. The crane on the gondola is mounted so that it can move along the car as it completes its work, and can also move from car to car, an operation that is really interesting to watch. This one is on an eastbound tie train. Check the EL gon!!
Photo Date:  3/21/1989  Upload Date: 9/28/2015 4:18:32 AM
Location:  Johnson City, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  224   Comments: 1
The business end
Title:  The business end
Description:  The rear of the CN track equipment shows the working components as it passes Dorval. See Paul O'Shell's comment below for details.
Photo Date:  6/15/1989  Upload Date: 10/13/2015 2:05:03 AM
Location:  Dorval, QC
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  222   Comments: 3
Grinding through BD
Title:  Grinding through BD
Description:  The LORAM rail grinding train rolls through BD on the Southern Tier. It will go out to West BD, then come back through town on track 3, and tie up on the D&H.
Photo Date:  6/22/1989  Upload Date: 10/27/2015 2:43:26 AM
Location:  Binghamton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  127   Comments: 1
Tied up
Title:  Tied up
Description:  The LORAM rail grinding train has finished its day on the former Erie Delaware Division, and is now tied up at Port Jervis, having come in behind TV 200.
Photo Date:  7/9/1989  Upload Date: 10/31/2015 3:42:18 AM
Location:  Port Jervis, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Yard
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Views:  150   Comments: 1
Day is done
Title:  Day is done
Description:  The LORAM train rolls past CP Sparrow as it runs off the last few miles to tie up at Port Jervis.
Photo Date:  7/9/1989  Upload Date: 10/31/2015 3:48:21 AM
Location:  Sparrow Bush, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Signal,Action
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Views:  166   Comments: 1
Spreader
Title:  Spreader
Description:  This D&H Jordan Spreader looked pretty good in its MOW red paint. It will see action again this winter. For now, its enjoying the sun at Bevier St.
Photo Date:  7/11/1989  Upload Date: 10/31/2015 3:39:50 AM
Location:  Binghamton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Yard
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Views:  326   Comments: 2
Track equipment
Title:  Track equipment
Description:  This set of track equipment passed the Moncton station mid day, most likely en route to Mondays assignment, or possibly to the yard for service.
Photo Date:  10/1/1989  Upload Date: 12/1/2015 4:59:44 AM
Location:  Moncton, NB
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  210   Comments: 3
"Road" power
Title:  "Road" power
Description:  CN had a large fleet of MOW road vehicles, one of which we see here. All were in CN red. Check out the number boards. Look like they belong on an SW1200RS
Photo Date:  10/1/1989  Upload Date: 12/2/2015 4:55:18 AM
Location:  Moncton, NB
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Yard
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Views:  934   Comments: 3
Upside down
Title:  Upside down
Description:  Not in the real estate sense, but in reality. This D&H ilmenite hopper had some kind of mishap, and is now being returned to the D&H for correction. Seen at East Binghamton.
Photo Date:  10/7/1989  Upload Date: 12/4/2015 4:28:50 AM
Location:  Binghamton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Yard,Wreck
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Views:  796   Comments: 1
Camp cars
Title:  Camp cars
Description:  Camp cars are stored on the siding at Thendara during a summer 1990 visit. The future of this line was(again) in question at the time. There was some equipment there, most of it looked derelict, and probably never ran again.
Photo Date:  7/1/1990  Upload Date: 1/17/2016 3:34:04 AM
Location:  Thendara, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock
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Views:  209   Comments: 1
Old coach
Title:  Old coach
Description:  This old coach looks like it had a second life in MOW service, judging by the color.
Photo Date:  7/1/1990  Upload Date: 1/17/2016 3:35:21 AM
Location:  Thendara, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Passenger
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Views:  214   Comments: 1
P 70 in the last place youd expect it
Title:  P 70 in the last place youd expect it
Description:  Deep in NYC country-and you cant get much deeper than the central Adirondacks. These P 70s were part of the Adirondack Railway fleet, though it looks doubtful if they will ever see the road again.
Photo Date:  7/1/1990  Upload Date: 1/17/2016 3:37:36 AM
Location:  Thendara, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Passenger
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Views:  296   Comments: 1
Scale test car
Title:  Scale test car
Description:  This scale test car was in train on OIBU.
Photo Date:  7/26/1990  Upload Date: 1/14/2016 4:26:59 AM
Location:  Owego, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  115   Comments: 1


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