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Curt Beal's Collection
 
4/25/2024
 
 
 
 
 
Owner: Wheeling & Lake Erie
Model:Rebuilt EMD SD40-3Built As:UP 3048 (SD40)
Serial Number:32400Order No:7932
Frame Number:7932-1Built:10/1966
Notes:ex-UP
Other locos with this serial:  WC 3048(SD40) UP 3048(SD40) WE 3048(SD40-3)
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WE 3048
Title:  WE 3048
Description:  One of three engines on layover from the previous nights Q249 autorack train in Connellsville. It originally had gone to Balitmore, Maryland on an iron ore train. This SD40-3 was built in 1966 as Union Pacific 3048 (SD40).
Photo Date:  4/16/2011  Upload Date: 4/16/2011 2:02:09 PM
Location:  Connellsville, PA
Author:  Curt Beal
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  WE 3048(SD40-3)
Views:  478   Comments: 0
WE 6350, 6381, and 3048
Title:  WE 6350, 6381, and 3048
Description:  The dynamic trio still sits in the Connellsville CSX yard, not running. The Wheeling and Lake Erie must not miss them very much.
Photo Date:  4/17/2011  Upload Date: 4/17/2011 9:30:51 PM
Location:  Connellsville, PA
Author:  Curt Beal
Categories:  Roster,Yard,Track
Locomotives:  WE 6350(SD40-2) WE 6381(SD40-2) WE 3048(SD40-3)
Views:  393   Comments: 1
WE 3046, 6347, and 3048
Title:  WE 3046, 6347, and 3048
Description:  K110-20 ore train idles facing eastbound on 41 track in South Connellsville. The dog days of summer are here. Hot, humid, and miserable. Here it is about 95 degrees with track temps well over 100.
Photo Date:  7/20/2011  Upload Date: 7/20/2011 9:54:26 PM
Location:  South Connellsville, PA
Author:  Curt Beal
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  WE 3046(SD40-3) WE 6347(SD40-2) WE 3048(SD40-3)
Views:  166   Comments: 1
WE 3048, 6347, 3046
Title:  WE 3048, 6347, 3046
Description:  K111-26 empty ore train idling near the Narrows Hill Road crossing just outside Connellsville, waiting for a new crew.
Photo Date:  7/28/2011  Upload Date: 7/28/2011 7:39:20 PM
Location:  Connellsville, PA
Author:  Curt Beal
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  WE 3048(SD40-3) WE 6347(SD40-2) WE 3046(SD40-3)
Views:  152   Comments: 1
Wheeling & Lake Erie Train Z564-27
Title:  Wheeling & Lake Erie Train Z564-27
Description:  SD40-3's bookend this short 4 car train that is headed east to the interchange with CSX about a half mile from here. The local Little League field cleared the trees from this hillside just last year, making this photo possible now.
Photo Date:  1/27/2013  Upload Date: 2/3/2013 11:26:14 PM
Location:  Connellsville, PA
Author:  Curt Beal
Categories:  Roster,Scenic,Winter,Action
Locomotives:  WE 3048(SD40-3) WE 4025(SD40-3)
Views:  100   Comments: 1
WE 3048 (2)
Title:  WE 3048 (2)
Description:  The lead engine on a a short four-car Z564-27 train that is waiting for a new crew to take it the rest of the way into Connellsville later on. Built in October 1966 as WC 3048 SD40. Later became UP 3048. Acquired by W&LE in 1992 and rebuilt to an SD40-3 in December 1998.
Photo Date:  1/27/2013  Upload Date: 1/27/2013 11:33:08 PM
Location:  Connellsville, PA
Author:  Curt Beal
Categories:  Roster,Winter
Locomotives:  WE 3048(SD40-3)
Views:  114   Comments: 3
WE 3048 (3)
Title:  WE 3048 (3)
Description:  The lead engine on a a short four-car Z564-27 train that is waiting for a new crew to take it the rest of the way into Connellsville later on. Built in October 1966 as WC 3048 SD40. Later became UP 3048. Acquired by W&LE in 1992 and rebuilt to an SD40-3 in December 1998.
Photo Date:  1/27/2013  Upload Date: 1/27/2013 11:34:28 PM
Location:  Connellsville, PA
Author:  Curt Beal
Categories:  Roster,Winter
Locomotives:  WE 3048(SD40-3)
Views:  118   Comments: 1
WE 3048
Title:  WE 3048
Description:  An SD40-3 brings up the rear of a 53 car tank train in Southview. This is where the Westland Branch meets the mainline, that I was photographing from.
Photo Date:  8/20/2016  Upload Date: 8/31/2016 11:09:25 PM
Location:  Southview, PA
Author:  Curt Beal
Categories:  Roster,Bridge,Action
Locomotives:  WE 3048(SD40-3)
Views:  74   Comments: 0
WE 3048
Title:  WE 3048
Description:  An SD40-3 is pushing hard on the back of 53 loaded tank cars with a gondola buffer on the steep Westland Branch grade. 6982, 6349, and 6967 worked the front of the train. The train number was the 643 crew. The Montour Trail is in the foreground next to the train.
Photo Date:  8/20/2016  Upload Date: 8/31/2016 10:11:31 PM
Location:  Westland, PA
Author:  Curt Beal
Categories:  Roster,Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  WE 3048(SD40-3)
Views:  86   Comments: 0
WE 3048, 6984, 6312, 3016
Title:  WE 3048, 6984, 6312, 3016
Description:  Going west out of Connellsville with a rather long train but more than enough power. The day was perfectly cloudless, very different from a day before when the remnants of Hurricane Ida came through here.
Photo Date:  9/2/2021  Upload Date: 9/4/2021 12:56:39 AM
Location:  Connellsville, PA
Author:  Curt Beal
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  WE 3048(SD40-3) WE 6984(SD40-2) WE 6312(SD40-2) WE 3016(SD40-3)
Views:  128   Comments: 0
WE 3048, 3016
Title:  WE 3048, 3016
Description:  A matching SD40-3 pair taking a long train west out of Connellsville.
Photo Date:  9/10/2021  Upload Date: 9/10/2021 11:49:25 PM
Location:  Connellsville, PA
Author:  Curt Beal
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  WE 3048(SD40-3) WE 3016(SD40-3)
Views:  89   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:  44   Comments: 0


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