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Home > Wheeling & Lake Erie > Locomotives > EMD SD40-2 > WE 6991
Pictures of WE 6991
 
Owner: Wheeling & Lake Erie
Model:EMD SD40-2Built As:GTW 5929 (SD40)
Serial Number:36895Order No:7289
Frame Number:7289-9Built:9/1970
Other locos with this serial:  GTW 5929(SD40) GCFX 3068(SD40-2) CITX 3068(SD40-2) WE 6991(SD40-2)
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WE 6991 (5)
Title:  WE 6991 (5)
Description:  Parting shot going back west on the W&LE near milepost 1. It is now the trailing engine instead of the leader. The trestle is over Narrows Road on the border of Connellsville and Connellsville Township.
Photo Date:  3/23/2016  Upload Date: 3/23/2016 11:46:13 PM
Location:  Connellsville, PA
Author:  Curt Beal
Categories:  Roster,Bridge,Action
Locomotives:  WE 6991(SD40-2)
Views:  142   Comments: 0
WE 6991 (1)
Title:  WE 6991 (1)
Description:  Z564-23 waiting to get onto CSX and deliver four loaded tank cars to the Connellsville Yard. W&LE 6991 SD40-2 was purchased by Wheeling and Lake Erie in December 2015 and was only put into service in February 2016. It is former CITX 3068/GCFX 3068/GTW 5929 built in December 1970.
Photo Date:  3/23/2016  Upload Date: 3/23/2016 11:38:23 PM
Location:  Connellsville, PA
Author:  Curt Beal
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  WE 6991(SD40-2)
Views:  170   Comments: 0
WE 6991 (2)
Title:  WE 6991 (2)
Description:  Train Z564-23 going east on CSX in Connellsville to deliver four loaded tank cars to the yard. CSX had nothing to give for the return trip so they only went back with the two buffer cars. W&LE 6991 SD40-2 was purchased by Wheeling and Lake Erie in December 2015 and was only put into service in February 2016. It is former CITX 3068/GCFX 3068/GTW 5929 built in December 1970.
Photo Date:  3/23/2016  Upload Date: 3/23/2016 11:40:38 PM
Location:  Connellsville, PA
Author:  Curt Beal
Categories:  Roster,Action
Locomotives:  WE 6991(SD40-2)
Views:  253   Comments: 0
WE 6991 (3)
Title:  WE 6991 (3)
Description:  Stopping at the west end of the Connellsville CSX Yard waiting for a switch to be thrown. It is almot exactly mid-day and the sun is starting to shift over the other way. W&LE 6991 SD40-2 was purchased by Wheeling and Lake Erie in December 2015 and was only put into service in February 2016. It is former CITX 3068/GCFX 3068/GTW 5929 built in December 1970.
Photo Date:  3/23/2016  Upload Date: 3/23/2016 11:42:13 PM
Location:  Connellsville, PA
Author:  Curt Beal
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  WE 6991(SD40-2)
Views:  224   Comments: 0
WE 6991 (4)
Title:  WE 6991 (4)
Description:  Heading back west onto the interchange (away from the photo). After dropping off four tank cars the only thing they have to take back are the buffer cars. WE 6350 is leading and has exactly the same paint. W&LE 6991 SD40-2 was purchased by Wheeling and Lake Erie in December 2015 and was only put into service in February 2016. It is former CITX 3068/GCFX 3068/GTW 5929 built in December 1970.
Photo Date:  3/23/2016  Upload Date: 3/23/2016 11:44:15 PM
Location:  Connellsville, PA
Author:  Curt Beal
Categories:  Roster,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  WE 6991(SD40-2) WE 6350(SD40-2)
Views:  342   Comments: 0
WE 3068 and 6991
Title:  WE 3068 and 6991
Description:  A train of loaded tank cars heading East past the sawmill in Connellsville on a hot humid afternoon. It would start pouring rain only 15 minutes later.
Photo Date:  6/27/2019  Upload Date: 6/27/2019 7:23:33 PM
Location:  Connellsville, PA
Author:  Curt Beal
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  WE 3068(SD40-3) WE 6991(SD40-2)
Views:  69   Comments: 0
WE 300, 6354, 6991
Title:  WE 300, 6354, 6991
Description:  Coming into Connellsville past the sawmill with more loaded tanker cars. They also were in town the night before, but had to go back for the rest of the cars because there were too many.
Photo Date:  3/7/2021  Upload Date: 3/7/2021 11:48:48 PM
Location:  Connellsville, PA
Author:  Curt Beal
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  WE 300(GP40-3) WE 6354(SD40-2) WE 6991(SD40-2)
Views:  126   Comments: 0
WE 6991 (5)
Title:  WE 6991 (5)
Description:  The lead engine of three, on a westbound empty tanker train. It is former CITX 3068/GCFX 3068/GTW 5929 built in December 1970.
Photo Date:  3/7/2021  Upload Date: 3/8/2021 12:29:56 AM
Location:  Connellsville, PA
Author:  Curt Beal
Categories:  Roster,Action
Locomotives:  WE 6991(SD40-2)
Views:  120   Comments: 0
WE 6991, 6354, 300 (1)
Title:  WE 6991, 6354, 300 (1)
Description:  Leaving Connellsville with empty tankers on a cloudless March day. Spring must be coming soon when the weather breaks like this.
Photo Date:  3/7/2021  Upload Date: 3/8/2021 12:15:43 AM
Location:  Connellsville, PA
Author:  Curt Beal
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  WE 6991(SD40-2) WE 6354(SD40-2) WE 300(GP40-3)
Views:  119   Comments: 0
WE 6991, 6354, 300 (2)
Title:  WE 6991, 6354, 300 (2)
Description:  Westbound empty tanker train at Eannotti Road near Owensdale, moving at track speed.
Photo Date:  3/7/2021  Upload Date: 3/8/2021 12:12:07 AM
Location:  Owensdale, PA
Author:  Curt Beal
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  WE 6991(SD40-2) WE 6354(SD40-2) WE 300(GP40-3)
Views:  91   Comments: 0
WE 6312, 6353, 6991
Title:  WE 6312, 6353, 6991
Description:  Coming down the hill past the sawmill in Connellsville. 6312 is only one of two engines on the W&LE remaining in blue GM / EMD paint.
Photo Date:  8/1/2021  Upload Date: 8/1/2021 8:15:17 PM
Location:  Connellsville, PA
Author:  Curt Beal
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  WE 6312(SD40-2) WE 6353(SD40-2) WE 6991(SD40-2)
Views:  91   Comments: 0
WE 6354, 6991, 6312, 3016
Title:  WE 6354, 6991, 6312, 3016
Description:  A colorful quartet of locomotives slowly heading West out of Connellsville with a boxcar buffer and a mix of covered hoppers and tankers.
Photo Date:  8/25/2021  Upload Date: 8/26/2021 7:44:13 AM
Location:  Connellsville, PA
Author:  Curt Beal
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  WE 6354(SD40-2) WE 6991(SD40-2) WE 6312(SD40-2) WE 3016(SD40-3)
Views:  107   Comments: 0
WE 6982, 6991, 3048
Title:  WE 6982, 6991, 3048
Description:  Three engines going west with practically no train. The gondola was just a buffer car that will be brought back to Rook Yard. I appreciated the nice friendly wave.
Photo Date:  7/27/2023  Upload Date: 7/28/2023 12:27:36 AM
Location:  Connellsville, PA
Author:  Curt Beal
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  WE 6982(SD40-2) WE 6991(SD40-2) WE 3048(SD40-3)
Views:  45   Comments: 0

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