Logo
Curt Beal's Collection
 
5/3/2024
 
 
 
 
 
Owner: Wheeling & Lake Erie
Model:EMD SD40-2Built As:UP 3651 (SD40-2)
Serial Number:786263-43Order No:786263
Frame Number:786263-43Built:12/1979
Notes:Ex-UP 3651
Other locos with this serial:  UP 3651(SD40-2) LTEX 3651(SD40-2) WE 6356(SD40-2)
  Page Controls   View:  Pics Per Page:
WE 6356 (1)
Title:  WE 6356 (1)
Description:  The "Gray Ghost", acquired in 2010 by the Wheeling and Lake Erie Railway and unveiled for service this year. Former UP UP 3651 built in December 1979. Seen on a loaded coke train waiting for a new crew in Connellsville.
Photo Date:  8/27/2011  Upload Date: 8/27/2011 3:55:03 PM
Location:  Connellsville, PA
Author:  Curt Beal
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  WE 6356(SD40-2)
Views:  254   Comments: 0
WE 6356 (2)
Title:  WE 6356 (2)
Description:  The "Gray Ghost", acquired in 2010 by the Wheeling and Lake Erie Railway and unveiled for service this year. Former UP UP 3651 built in December 1979. Seen on a loaded coke train waiting for a new crew in Connellsville.
Photo Date:  8/27/2011  Upload Date: 8/27/2011 3:56:24 PM
Location:  Connellsville, PA
Author:  Curt Beal
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  WE 6356(SD40-2)
Views:  274   Comments: 1
WE 6356 night (1)
Title:  WE 6356 night (1)
Description:  The "Gray Ghost" idles through the night, with just the number boards lit up, still waiting for a crew for its journey to Baltimore.
Photo Date:  8/30/2011  Upload Date: 8/30/2011 11:46:29 PM
Location:  Connellsville, PA
Author:  Curt Beal
Categories:  Roster,Night
Locomotives:  WE 6356(SD40-2)
Views:  285   Comments: 0
WE 6356 night (2)
Title:  WE 6356 night (2)
Description:  The "Gray Ghost" idles through the night, with just the number boards lit up, still waiting for a crew for its journey to Baltimore.
Photo Date:  8/30/2011  Upload Date: 8/30/2011 11:47:21 PM
Location:  Connellsville, PA
Author:  Curt Beal
Categories:  Roster,Night
Locomotives:  WE 6356(SD40-2)
Views:  240   Comments: 0
WE 6356, 3034, 7377
Title:  WE 6356, 3034, 7377
Description:  Empty coke train K301-27 idling at Milepost 1 on the Wheeling and Lake Erie in Connellsville. It has been here since early on October 28th. WE 6356 the "Gray Ghost", was acquired in 2010 by the Wheeling and Lake Erie Railway and unveiled for service this year. Former UP UP 3651 built in December 1979. It was already in a derailment on 9/25/2011 in Akron, Ohio and still the gray primer paint job has survived a while longer.
Photo Date:  10/30/2011  Upload Date: 11/8/2011 11:46:08 PM
Location:  Connellsville, PA
Author:  Curt Beal
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  WE 6356(SD40-2) WE 3034(SD40-3) WE 7377(SD40-2)
Views:  346   Comments: 1
WE 6310, 6356, 7370 (1)
Title:  WE 6310, 6356, 7370 (1)
Description:  An interesting trio of SD40-2's taking a train west out of the Connellsville CSX Yard. It would only be able to go a few hundred yards before stopping for eastbound traffic.
Photo Date:  1/4/2015  Upload Date: 1/6/2015 4:42:54 AM
Location:  Connellsville, PA
Author:  Curt Beal
Categories:  Roster,Yard,Action
Locomotives:  WE 6310(SD40-2) WE 6356(SD40-2) WE 7370(SD40-2)
Views:  241   Comments: 0
WE 6310, 6356, 7370 (2)
Title:  WE 6310, 6356, 7370 (2)
Description:  A W&LE train using CSX trackage, stopped on Track 3 and waiting for other traffic so that it can go west and get back on home rails. This was rebuilt and repainted in 2011. Former UP 9889, UP 3966, and built as MP 6066 in April 1980.
Photo Date:  1/4/2015  Upload Date: 1/6/2015 4:45:01 AM
Location:  Connellsville, PA
Author:  Curt Beal
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  WE 6310(SD40-2) WE 6356(SD40-2) WE 7370(SD40-2)
Views:  229   Comments: 0
WE 6356
Title:  WE 6356
Description:  Empty tank train leaving the Connellsville CSX Yard, crossing from Track 2 to 1 and then will switch onto Wheeling and Lake Erie rails that are just out of the photo. Spring has finally arrived in the Connellsville area and the trees are starting to fill in with green.
Photo Date:  4/16/2019  Upload Date: 4/17/2019 10:22:01 PM
Location:  Connellsville, PA
Author:  Curt Beal
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  WE 6356(SD40-2)
Views:  76   Comments: 0
WE 3067 and 6356 (1)
Title:  WE 3067 and 6356 (1)
Description:  Loaded LPG tankers heading east past the sawmill to go into Connellsville and get dropped off with CSX.
Photo Date:  4/18/2019  Upload Date: 4/18/2019 11:08:48 PM
Location:  Connellsville, PA
Author:  Curt Beal
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  WE 3067(SD40-3) WE 6356(SD40-2)
Views:  76   Comments: 0
WE 3067 and 6356 (2)
Title:  WE 3067 and 6356 (2)
Description:  A train of loaded LPG tank cars heading into the Connellsville CSX Yard. The blossoming trees in the background almost make it look like fall instead of spring.
Photo Date:  4/18/2019  Upload Date: 4/18/2019 11:12:01 PM
Location:  Connellsville, PA
Author:  Curt Beal
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  WE 3067(SD40-3) WE 6356(SD40-2)
Views:  209   Comments: 0


Site Design ©2001-2020 Tim Huemmer
Photos © respective authors
  Contact: info@rrpicturearchives.net