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Curt Beal's Collection
 
4/19/2024
 
 
 
 
 
Owner: Wheeling & Lake Erie
Model:Rebuilt EMD GP40-3Built As:DRGW 3085 (GP40)
Serial Number:35581Order No:7201
Frame Number:7201-5Built:10/1969
Notes:ex-DRGW 3085
Other locos with this serial:  DRGW 3085(GP40) WE 303(GP40-3)
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WE 303 and 304
Title:  WE 303 and 304
Description:  Seen on the famous 160 feet high Banning Bridge, heading back towards Pittsburgh with mainly empty hopper cars.
Photo Date:  4/19/2010  Upload Date: 4/22/2010 10:02:55 PM
Location:  Banning, PA
Author:  Curt Beal
Categories:  Roster,Bridge,Action
Locomotives:  WE 303(GP40-3) WE 304(GP40-3)
Views:  953   Comments: 1
WE 303 (2)
Title:  WE 303 (2)
Description:  Life is Grande when something like this can be found in full sunlight. Seen on a short freight train waiting for a crew to take it the rest of the way east into Connellsville. This rebuilt EMD GP40-3 was built as PC 3114 (GP40) in October 1969. Later became CR 3114, MKT 239, and DRGW 3085 (The paint scheme it is in right now).
Photo Date:  3/20/2012  Upload Date: 3/22/2012 10:00:46 PM
Location:  Connellsville, PA
Author:  Curt Beal
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  WE 303(GP40-3)
Views:  131   Comments: 2
WE 303 (1)
Title:  WE 303 (1)
Description:  Life is Grande when something like this can be found in full sunlight. Seen on a short freight train waiting for a crew to take it the rest of the way east into Connellsville. This rebuilt EMD GP40-3 was built as PC 3114 (GP40) in October 1969. Later became CR 3114, MKT 239, and DRGW 3085 (The paint scheme it is in right now).
Photo Date:  3/20/2012  Upload Date: 3/22/2012 9:58:52 PM
Location:  Connellsville, PA
Author:  Curt Beal
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  WE 303(GP40-3)
Views:  306   Comments: 3
Dream Lineup
Title:  Dream Lineup
Description:  Five locomotives consisting of AVR 4003, WE 301, WE 303, AVR 3001, AVR 3003 are waiting in Everson for a coal/freight train to be added on. The tracks are of the SWP Railroad.
Photo Date:  5/1/2012  Upload Date: 5/6/2012 1:39:05 AM
Location:  Everson, PA
Author:  Curt Beal
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  AVR 4003(GP40-3) WE 301(GP40-3) WE 303(GP40-3) AVR 3001(SD40-3) AVR 3003(SD40-3)
Views:  1017   Comments: 1
WE 303 (3)
Title:  WE 303 (3)
Description:  Part of a lineup of five engines that are waiting to take a coal/freight train out of Everson, Pa. I think this was the best one in the bunch. This was built as PC 3114 (GP40) in October 1969. Later became CR 3114, MKT 239, and DRGW 3085. Rebuilt to a GP40-3 in June 2005.
Photo Date:  5/1/2012  Upload Date: 5/6/2012 1:44:08 AM
Location:  Everson, PA
Author:  Curt Beal
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  WE 303(GP40-3)
Views:  145   Comments: 0
CSX 335 and WE 302
Title:  CSX 335 and WE 302
Description:  It's a meeting of trains in Connellsville. A coal train sits on Track 2 Main waiting for a crew while a Wheeling Lake Erie train bookended by former Rio Grande engines comes down the interchange.
Photo Date:  7/14/2012  Upload Date: 7/14/2012 11:50:15 PM
Location:  Connellsville, PA
Author:  Curt Beal
Categories:  Roster,Scenic,Track
Locomotives:  CSX 335(AC44CW) WE 302(GP40-3) WE 303(GP40-3)
Views:  240   Comments: 3
WE 303 (4)
Title:  WE 303 (4)
Description:  The trailing engine on a three-car train going east into Connnellsville to pick up some tank cars. This was built as PC 3114 (GP40) in October 1969. Later became CR 3114, MKT 239, and DRGW 3085. Rebuilt to a GP40-3 in June 2005.
Photo Date:  7/14/2012  Upload Date: 7/15/2012 8:50:12 PM
Location:  Connellsville, PA
Author:  Curt Beal
Categories:  Roster,Action
Locomotives:  WE 303(GP40-3)
Views:  120   Comments: 0
WE 303 (5)
Title:  WE 303 (5)
Description:  Working the east end of the CSX yard in Connellsville. It will be the leader when the train leaves. This was built as PC 3114 (GP40) in October 1969. Later became CR 3114, MKT 239, and DRGW 3085. Rebuilt to a GP40-3 in June 2005.
Photo Date:  7/14/2012  Upload Date: 7/15/2012 8:54:00 PM
Location:  Connellsville, PA
Author:  Curt Beal
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  WE 303(GP40-3)
Views:  141   Comments: 0
WE 303 (6)
Title:  WE 303 (6)
Description:  Working the east end of the CSX yard in Connellsville. It will be the leader when the train leaves. This was built as PC 3114 (GP40) in October 1969. Later became CR 3114, MKT 239, and DRGW 3085. Rebuilt to a GP40-3 in June 2005.
Photo Date:  7/14/2012  Upload Date: 7/15/2012 8:57:02 PM
Location:  Connellsville, PA
Author:  Curt Beal
Categories:  Roster,Scenic,Yard,Track
Locomotives:  WE 303(GP40-3)
Views:  120   Comments: 1
WE 303 (7)
Title:  WE 303 (7)
Description:  Working the east end of the CSX yard in Connellsville. It will be the leader when the train leaves. This was built as PC 3114 (GP40) in October 1969. Later became CR 3114, MKT 239, and DRGW 3085. Rebuilt to a GP40-3 in June 2005.
Photo Date:  7/14/2012  Upload Date: 7/15/2012 9:00:09 PM
Location:  Connellsville, PA
Author:  Curt Beal
Categories:  Roster,Scenic,Yard,Track
Locomotives:  WE 303(GP40-3)
Views:  122   Comments: 1
WE 303 (8)
Title:  WE 303 (8)
Description:  The train of boxcars and tank cars has finished its work in the CSX yard and is ready to pull west and cross over once the coal train on the left has passed. This was built as PC 3114 (GP40) in October 1969. Later became CR 3114, MKT 239, and DRGW 3085. Rebuilt to a GP40-3 in June 2005.
Photo Date:  7/14/2012  Upload Date: 7/15/2012 9:02:37 PM
Location:  Connellsville, PA
Author:  Curt Beal
Categories:  Roster,Scenic,Yard,Track
Locomotives:  WE 303(GP40-3)
Views:  129   Comments: 1
WE 303 (9)
Title:  WE 303 (9)
Description:  Train Z564-08 is waiting for a new crew to go west out of Connellsville, with a backdrop of some changing leaves. This is the trailing engine. This was built as PC 3114 GP40 in October 1969. Later became CR 3114, MKT 239, and DRGW 3085. Rebuilt to a GP40-3 in June 2005.
Photo Date:  10/8/2012  Upload Date: 10/21/2012 6:15:11 PM
Location:  Connellsville, PA
Author:  Curt Beal
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  WE 303(GP40-3)
Views:  144   Comments: 1
WE 301 and 303
Title:  WE 301 and 303
Description:  Train Z564-17 is idling here at mile 1 on the W&LE line, on another beautiful November day. It had only two steel coil cars for freight. #301 was built as PC 3153 GP40 in September 1968. Later became Conrail 3153, DRGW 3153, and DRGW 3142. It was repainted in 2011 after an accident.
Photo Date:  11/18/2012  Upload Date: 11/18/2012 10:50:23 PM
Location:  Connellsville, PA
Author:  Curt Beal
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  WE 301(GP40-3) WE 303(GP40-3)
Views:  340   Comments: 3
WE 303 (10)
Title:  WE 303 (10)
Description:  Early morning sun highlights this beauty of an engine on what was the overnight train Z564-17. Thankfully the crew ran out of hours and left it here. This was built as PC 3114 GP40 in October 1969. Later became CR 3114, MKT 239, and DRGW 3085. Rebuilt to a GP40-3 in June 2005.
Photo Date:  11/18/2012  Upload Date: 11/18/2012 10:47:25 PM
Location:  Connellsville, PA
Author:  Curt Beal
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  WE 303(GP40-3)
Views:  220   Comments: 1
WE 303 (11)
Title:  WE 303 (11)
Description:  Early morning sun highlights this beauty of an engine on what was the overnight train Z564-17. Thankfully the crew ran out of hours and left it here. This was built as PC 3114 GP40 in October 1969. Later became CR 3114, MKT 239, and DRGW 3085. Rebuilt to a GP40-3 in June 2005.
Photo Date:  11/18/2012  Upload Date: 11/18/2012 10:58:14 PM
Location:  Connellsville, PA
Author:  Curt Beal
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  WE 303(GP40-3)
Views:  182   Comments: 0
WE 303 (12)
Title:  WE 303 (12)
Description:  Bringing up the rear on today's Z564-25 train. Seen on the trestle over Mountz Creek just before the interchange with CSX.
Photo Date:  4/25/2013  Upload Date: 4/25/2013 8:13:51 PM
Location:  Connellsville, PA
Author:  Curt Beal
Categories:  Roster,Bridge
Locomotives:  WE 303(GP40-3)
Views:  111   Comments: 0
WE 303 and 300
Title:  WE 303 and 300
Description:  A pair of GP40-3 engines are leaving Connellsville with just two buffer cars on the train after dropping off some loaded tanker cars for CSX. The crew was almost out of time and stopped at a road crossing a few miles west of here to get picked up. These trains now seem to be running in daylight hours again.
Photo Date:  6/20/2017  Upload Date: 6/21/2017 8:09:02 PM
Location:  Connellsville, PA
Author:  Curt Beal
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  WE 303(GP40-3) WE 300(GP40-3)
Views:  348   Comments: 0
WE 303 and 109
Title:  WE 303 and 109
Description:  A GP40-3 and GP35-3 have brought some tank car loads for CSX in Connellsville. The 303 engine is literally a real heritage unit. It never lost the Denver Rio Grande and Western paint scheme.
Photo Date:  10/20/2017  Upload Date: 10/22/2017 10:51:53 PM
Location:  Connellsville, PA
Author:  Curt Beal
Categories:  Roster,Action
Locomotives:  WE 303(GP40-3) WE 109(GP35)
Views:  220   Comments: 0


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