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Owner: Conrail
Model:EMD GP40-2Built As:CR 3280 (GP40-2)
Serial Number:766069-1Order No:766069
Frame Number:766069-1Built:4/1977
Other locos with this serial:  NS 3003(GP40-2) CR 3280(GP40-2)
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Conrail GP<0-2's
Title:  Conrail GP<0-2's
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/11/1977  Upload Date: 1/5/2003 8:14:32 AM
Location:  Kearny, NJ
Author:  Unknown Author
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Locomotives:  CR 3280(GP40-2) CR 3283(GP40-2) CR 3300(GP40-2)
Views:  1366   Comments: 0
CR 3280
Title:  CR 3280
Description: 
Photo Date:  11/5/1981  Upload Date: 2/9/2010 1:29:04 PM
Location:  Conway, PA
Author:  C.W. Lahickey
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CR 3280(GP40-2)
Views:  626   Comments: 0
CR 6591, 3280, and 6753
Title:  CR 6591, 3280, and 6753
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/19/1988  Upload Date: 4/23/2011 11:36:16 PM
Location:  Hammond, IN
Author:  Tom Golden
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CR 6591(C30-7A) CR 3280(GP40-2) CR 6753(SD50)
Views:  583   Comments: 0
CNW e/b
Title:  CNW e/b
Description:  A C&NW GP-50 leads two CR GP-40-2's and a C&NW SD-50 east through Melrose Park, Il. Not the town from TV fame.
Photo Date:  3/23/1989  Upload Date: 8/5/2005 10:49:43 AM
Location:  Melrose Park, IL
Author:  Donald Albertson
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CNW 5085(GP50) CR 3280(GP40-2) CNW 7006(SD50) CR 3338(GP40-2)
Views:  1509   Comments: 0
Old style
Title:  Old style
Description:  In todays world of sterile rights of way-pole lines gone, new signals, etc, the Tier was a throwback. As a backwater of a large system, it did not get the attention of the ex Pennsy, or the NYC, and for most of Conrail's existence, except for the power and rolling stock, looked almost exactly like the EL. One such scene is near MP 320 in Adrian, where we see OIEL rolling along the poles-the wires were still active-and theres even a semaphore in the distance.
Photo Date:  12/9/1989  Upload Date: 12/14/2015 3:12:15 AM
Location:  Adrian, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  CR 3332(GP40-2) CR 3197(GP40) CR 3280(GP40-2)
Views:  484   Comments: 1
Good chase
Title:  Good chase
Description:  OIEL was a hard train to get. Sometimes it ran before dawn in the Tier, so photo ops were limited. Another inhibiting factor was that it would often yard at Gang Mills, and a crew would not be called until much later in the day. I was fortunate on this cold(10 degrees) Saturday morning to catch it just as the light got good, and chase to Gang Mills. Here it is passing the semaphore at MP 259.
Photo Date:  12/9/1989  Upload Date: 12/3/2015 3:23:56 AM
Location:  Chemung, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  CR 3332(GP40-2) CR 3197(GP40) CR 3280(GP40-2)
Views:  564   Comments: 2
Cold water
Title:  Cold water
Description:  OIEL rolls along the frozen Canisteo River.
Photo Date:  12/9/1989  Upload Date: 12/15/2015 2:38:47 AM
Location:  Cameron Mills, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Winter,Action
Locomotives:  CR 3332(GP40-2) CR 3197(GP40) CR 3280(GP40-2)
Views:  466   Comments: 2
Down the valley
Title:  Down the valley
Description:  OIEL approaches the signal at MP 325, one of a variety of styles on the Erie, which seemed to be schizophrenic when it came to signal specs. There were these "traffic light" types, targets, and semaphores. The train is leaving the Canisteo valley behind, and will shortly be in Hornell, where it will go west on the ex Erie main to Olean and Jamestown. Still kicking myself for not chasing it there, instead of following the more mundane BUOI east.
Photo Date:  12/9/1989  Upload Date: 12/14/2015 3:15:06 AM
Location:  Canisteo, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  CR 3332(GP40-2) CR 3197(GP40) CR 3280(GP40-2)
Views:  493   Comments: 2
Crossing the Chemung
Title:  Crossing the Chemung
Description:  OIEL and a block of tanks roll across the deck bridge over the Chemung River in downtown Elmira on a cold December morning.
Photo Date:  12/9/1989  Upload Date: 12/15/2015 2:26:06 AM
Location:  Elmira, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Bridge,Winter,Action
Locomotives:  CR 3332(GP40-2) CR 3197(GP40) CR 3280(GP40-2)
Views:  484   Comments: 1
Tight space
Title:  Tight space
Description:  OIEL rolls along the narrow right of way between the cliff, road, and river. The tight proximity of all these features made the Canisteo a photographic dream.
Photo Date:  12/9/1989  Upload Date: 12/15/2015 2:41:09 AM
Location:  Rathbone, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Winter,Action
Locomotives:  CR 3332(GP40-2) CR 3197(GP40) CR 3280(GP40-2)
Views:  460   Comments: 1
Tanks!!
Title:  Tanks!!
Description:  OIEL going away at Waverly, showing the tanks on six wheel truck DODX flats head out.
Photo Date:  12/9/1989  Upload Date: 12/15/2015 2:27:27 AM
Location:  Waverly, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Signal,Action
Locomotives:  CR 3332(GP40-2) CR 3197(GP40) CR 3280(GP40-2)
Views:  842   Comments: 1
Downtown
Title:  Downtown
Description:  OIEL rolls past the model railroad set up in downtown Waverly. This is one of the best in town scenes anywhere.
Photo Date:  12/9/1989  Upload Date: 12/15/2015 2:28:44 AM
Location:  Waverly, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CR 3332(GP40-2) CR 3197(GP40) CR 3280(GP40-2)
Views:  501   Comments: 2
OIBU and an Erie signal
Title:  OIBU and an Erie signal
Description:  OIBU rolls west at Hiawatha Rd, passing an Erie signal that still has its Erie number plate, almost 15 years after EL disappeared.
Photo Date:  7/7/1990  Upload Date: 1/11/2016 3:43:31 AM
Location:  Owego, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  CR 3276(GP40-2) CR 3361(GP40-2) CR 3280(GP40-2)
Views:  462   Comments: 1
TV 12
Title:  TV 12
Description:  One of the other primary van trains was TV 12, here seen late in the afternoon apporaching Rockville Bridge at Marysville. The train would later go to an ex NYC routing via Syracuse.
Photo Date:  7/14/1991  Upload Date: 3/3/2015 3:23:55 AM
Location:  Marysville, PA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CR 3280(GP40-2) CR 3370(GP40-2) CR 3335(GP40-2)
Views:  511   Comments: 0


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