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Curt Beal's Collection
 
5/6/2024
 
 
 
 
 
Owner: Wheeling & Lake Erie
Model:EMD SD40-2Built As:SP 8451 (SD40)
Serial Number:31532Order No:7861
Frame Number:7861-42Built:4/1966
Other locos with this serial:  GCFX 3097(SD40-2) CITX 3097(SD40-2) WE 6983(SD40-2) SP 7315(SD40R)
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WE 6983 (1)
Title:  WE 6983 (1)
Description:  Bringing up the rear of the train heading east into the Connellsville CSX Yard with seven loaded tank cars. The engineer would move onto this engine when working the yard and also it would be leading going west.
Photo Date:  4/1/2016  Upload Date: 4/2/2016 11:38:02 PM
Location:  Connellsville, PA
Author:  Curt Beal
Categories:  Roster,Yard,Action
Locomotives:  WE 6983(SD40-2)
Views:  156   Comments: 0
WE 6983 (2)
Title:  WE 6983 (2)
Description:  The engineer has boarded 6983 and is ready to shove back in the yard and drop off seven loads for CSX.
Photo Date:  4/1/2016  Upload Date: 4/2/2016 11:39:44 PM
Location:  Connellsville, PA
Author:  Curt Beal
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  WE 6983(SD40-2)
Views:  119   Comments: 0
WE 6983 (3)
Title:  WE 6983 (3)
Description:  Roster shot, working on the west end of the Connellsville CSX Yard. This was built as SP 8451 SD40 in April 1966. Later became SP 7315, GCFX 3097, and CITX 3097. Acquired by W&LE in 2015.
Photo Date:  4/1/2016  Upload Date: 4/2/2016 11:41:18 PM
Location:  Connellsville, PA
Author:  Curt Beal
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  WE 6983(SD40-2)
Views:  113   Comments: 0
WE 6983 (4)
Title:  WE 6983 (4)
Description:  Heading west upgrade out of Connellsville, past MPC 1. The train has empty tankcars so it was not too difficult of a pull.
Photo Date:  4/1/2016  Upload Date: 4/2/2016 11:44:33 PM
Location:  Connellsville, PA
Author:  Curt Beal
Categories:  Roster,Action
Locomotives:  WE 6983(SD40-2)
Views:  105   Comments: 0
WE 3067 and 6983 (1)
Title:  WE 3067 and 6983 (1)
Description:  Going east past the sawmill on the way to Connellsville with more LPG tanker cars for CSX. This is practically the only product that W&LE brings here anymore. But there is a lot of it.
Photo Date:  4/24/2019  Upload Date: 4/24/2019 10:04:48 PM
Location:  Connellsville, PA
Author:  Curt Beal
Categories:  Roster,Action
Locomotives:  WE 3067(SD40-3) WE 6983(SD40-2)
Views:  105   Comments: 0
WE 3067 and 6983 (2)
Title:  WE 3067 and 6983 (2)
Description:  Heading into the Connellsville CSX Yard with a decent sized train of LPG tanker cars.
Photo Date:  4/24/2019  Upload Date: 4/24/2019 10:36:30 PM
Location:  Connellsville, PA
Author:  Curt Beal
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  WE 3067(SD40-3) WE 6983(SD40-2)
Views:  141   Comments: 0
WE 105, 6985. 6983
Title:  WE 105, 6985. 6983
Description:  A GP35 high hood is still going strong on this 56 car train heading West out of Connellsville.
Photo Date:  8/18/2020  Upload Date: 8/18/2020 11:22:23 PM
Location:  Connellsville, PA
Author:  Curt Beal
Categories:  Signal,Action
Locomotives:  WE 105(GP35) WE 6985(SD40-2) WE 6983(SD40-2)
Views:  148   Comments: 0
WE 3102, 6983, 6990
Title:  WE 3102, 6983, 6990
Description:  Doubling up with a train of empty tank cars before heading out of town on Track 3, just before dark.
Photo Date:  12/23/2020  Upload Date: 12/23/2020 9:07:50 PM
Location:  Connellsville, PA
Author:  Curt Beal
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  WE 3102(SD40-3) WE 6983(SD40-2) WE 6990(SD40-2)
Views:  60   Comments: 0
WE 6354, 6982, 6983, 6985
Title:  WE 6354, 6982, 6983, 6985
Description:  A quartet of SD40-2's bringing a train of empty cement cars and loaded LPG tank cars into the Connellsville CSX Yard.
Photo Date:  7/3/2022  Upload Date: 7/4/2022 1:13:34 AM
Location:  Connellsville, PA
Author:  Curt Beal
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  WE 6354(SD40-2) WE 6982(SD40-2) WE 6983(SD40-2) WE 6985(SD40-2)
Views:  95   Comments: 0


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