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5/6/2024
 
 
 
 
 
Owner: Southwest Pennsylvania Railroad
Model:Rebuilt EMD GP40-3Built As:MILW 170 (GP40)
Serial Number:32487Order No:7936
Frame Number:7936-18Built:1/1967
Other locos with this serial:  SOO 2043(GP40) MILW 2043(GP40) NREX 2043(GP40-2) KCS 4737(GP40-3) SWP 4006(GP40-3)
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SWP 406 and 4006 (5)
Title:  SWP 406 and 4006 (5)
Description:  A 14-car train is soutbound and crossing Route 31 in Tarrs. You know it is September when the goldenrod is out!
Photo Date:  9/4/2016  Upload Date: 9/7/2016 11:36:07 PM
Location:  Ruffsdale (Westmoreland), PA
Author:  Curt Beal
Categories:  Roster,Action
Locomotives:  SWP 406(Road Slug) SWP 4006(GP40-3)
Views:  219   Comments: 0
SWP 4006 and 406 (2)
Title:  SWP 4006 and 406 (2)
Description:  A GP40-3 and slug combination taking a train north past a nice lush cornfield on the grounds of Sand Hill Berries/ Greendance Winery. They obviously grow a bit of corn too! The train was headed to the Safe Handling terminal in East Huntington.
Photo Date:  9/4/2016  Upload Date: 9/7/2016 10:42:51 PM
Location:  Standard Shaft, PA
Author:  Curt Beal
Categories:  Roster,Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  SWP 4006(GP40-3) SWP 406(Road Slug)
Views:  232   Comments: 0
SWP 406 and 4006 (4)
Title:  SWP 406 and 4006 (4)
Description:  A train of 14 cars is southbound at the Bridge Street crossing in Hunker.
Photo Date:  9/4/2016  Upload Date: 9/7/2016 11:22:58 PM
Location:  Hunker, PA
Author:  Curt Beal
Categories:  Roster,Action
Locomotives:  SWP 406(Road Slug) SWP 4006(GP40-3)
Views:  232   Comments: 0
SWP 4006, 406, AVR 4002 (1)
Title:  SWP 4006, 406, AVR 4002 (1)
Description:  The Southwest Pennsylvania Railroad making a Sunday morning run in Everson, PA with four covered hoppers that will go to Safe Handling near New Stanton.
Photo Date:  11/6/2016  Upload Date: 11/7/2016 10:12:35 PM
Location:  Everson, PA
Author:  Curt Beal
Categories:  Roster,Action
Locomotives:  SWP 4006(GP40-3) SWP 406(Road Slug) AVR 4002(GP40-3)
Views:  309   Comments: 0
SWP 4006, 406, AVR 4002 (2)
Title:  SWP 4006, 406, AVR 4002 (2)
Description:  Southwest Pennsylvania Railroad with a small train of four covered hoppers at Iron Bridge, almost exactly halfway between Scottdale and Mount Pleasant.
Photo Date:  11/6/2016  Upload Date: 11/7/2016 10:19:31 PM
Location:  Iron Bridge, PA
Author:  Curt Beal
Categories:  Roster,Action
Locomotives:  SWP 4006(GP40-3) SWP 406(Road Slug) AVR 4002(GP40-3)
Views:  319   Comments: 0
SWP 4006 406 AVR 4002 (3)
Title:  SWP 4006 406 AVR 4002 (3)
Description:  The Southwest Pennsylvania Railroad doing some switching of hopper cars at the Savage Transloading facility between New Stanton and Mount Pleasant.
Photo Date:  11/6/2016  Upload Date: 11/7/2016 10:22:32 PM
Location:  Mount Pleasant, PA
Author:  Curt Beal
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  SWP 4006(GP40-3) SWP 406(Road Slug) AVR 4002(GP40-3)
Views:  437   Comments: 0
Marooned
Title:  Marooned
Description:  An empty sand train of 80 cars and eight locomotives (SWP 406, SWP 4006, AVR 4005, AVR 405, CN 8813, CN 8942, CN 8897, NS 9886) coming to a stop at O&B Junction in Wheeler Bottom, Dunbar Township. The crew had to leave the train here because CSX was going to make them wait too long to get onto their tracks across the river. Up above the train the Sheepskin bike/hike trail runs along the hillside, which used to the the lead track for Western Maryland Railways Bowest Yard.
Photo Date:  12/10/2016  Upload Date: 12/11/2016 6:26:04 PM
Location:  Wheeler, PA
Author:  Curt Beal
Categories:  Roster,Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  SWP 406(Road Slug) SWP 4006(GP40-3) AVR 4005(GP40-3) AVR 405(Road Slug) CN 8813(SD70M-2) CN 8942(SD70M-2) CN 8897(SD70M-2) NS 9886(C40-9W)
Views:  918   Comments: 0
Eight is great
Title:  Eight is great
Description:  An epic eight locomotive lineup of SWP 406, SWP 4006, AVR 4005, AVR 405, CN 8813, CN 8942, CN 8897, and NS 9886 that has just picked up a train of 80 empty sand cars in Lemont Furnace, PA. That was after they ran a loaded train down to Smithfield, PA early in the morning in the dark. SWP 406-4006 and AVR 4005-405 work together as slug sets, giving a rare chance to get both of them together on one train.
Photo Date:  12/10/2016  Upload Date: 12/11/2016 6:23:07 PM
Location:  Lemont Furnace, PA
Author:  Curt Beal
Categories:  Roster,Action
Locomotives:  SWP 406(Road Slug) SWP 4006(GP40-3) AVR 4005(GP40-3) AVR 405(Road Slug) CN 8813(SD70M-2) CN 8942(SD70M-2) CN 8897(SD70M-2) NS 9886(C40-9W)
Views:  599   Comments: 0
SWP 406, SWP 4006, AVR 3001
Title:  SWP 406, SWP 4006, AVR 3001
Description:  Southwest Pennsylvania Railroad using CSX rails as train Z687-25, seen going west out of Connellsville with 19 cars. The AVR 3001 was the one making all the smoke.
Photo Date:  3/25/2017  Upload Date: 3/27/2017 1:53:30 AM
Location:  Connellsville, PA
Author:  Curt Beal
Categories:  Roster,Scenic,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  SWP 406(Road Slug) SWP 4006(GP40-3) AVR 3001(SD40-3)
Views:  412   Comments: 0
SWP 406, 4006, AVR 3001
Title:  SWP 406, 4006, AVR 3001
Description:  Slug set and SD40-3 showing the end of a loaded sand train in Mount Braddock, PA.
Photo Date:  4/8/2017  Upload Date: 4/13/2017 9:09:08 PM
Location:  Mount Braddock, PA
Author:  Curt Beal
Categories:  Roster,Action
Locomotives:  SWP 406(Road Slug) SWP 4006(GP40-3) AVR 3001(SD40-3)
Views:  701   Comments: 0
AVR 3001, SWP 4006, SWP 406
Title:  AVR 3001, SWP 4006, SWP 406
Description:  Light power coming into Connellsville to pick up 51 cars out of the CSX Yard.
Photo Date:  4/9/2017  Upload Date: 4/13/2017 9:59:45 PM
Location:  Connellsville, PA
Author:  Curt Beal
Categories:  Roster,Action
Locomotives:  AVR 3001(SD40-3) SWP 4006(GP40-3) SWP 406(Road Slug)
Views:  431   Comments: 0
SWP 406, 4006, AVR 3001
Title:  SWP 406, 4006, AVR 3001
Description:  Train Z687-09 going west in Broadford with 51 cars that were picked up at the CSX Yard in Connellsville. The train is approaching the signal to cross over from Track 2 to 1 to get back onto their own railroad.
Photo Date:  4/9/2017  Upload Date: 4/13/2017 10:07:54 PM
Location:  Broadford, PA
Author:  Curt Beal
Categories:  Roster,Action
Locomotives:  SWP 406(Road Slug) SWP 4006(GP40-3) AVR 3001(SD40-3)
Views:  795   Comments: 0
AVR 3001, SWP 4006, SWP 406
Title:  AVR 3001, SWP 4006, SWP 406
Description:  Southwestern Pennsylvania Railroad running through Connellsville on CSX with some loaded sand cars for Smithfield, PA.
Photo Date:  5/7/2017  Upload Date: 5/10/2017 4:12:04 PM
Location:  Connellsville, PA
Author:  Curt Beal
Categories:  Roster,Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  AVR 3001(SD40-3) SWP 4006(GP40-3) SWP 406(Road Slug)
Views:  541   Comments: 0
SWP 3503, 3501, 4006, 406
Title:  SWP 3503, 3501, 4006, 406
Description:  Train Z685-17 crossing over track 2 to 1 on CSX in Broadford to get back onto home rails at the interchange just west of here. This is the entire current SWP roster, besides the engines that are still over in Delaware.
Photo Date:  7/17/2017  Upload Date: 7/19/2017 8:29:40 PM
Location:  Broadford, PA
Author:  Curt Beal
Categories:  Roster,Action
Locomotives:  SWP 3503(SD40-2) SWP 3501(SD40-2) SWP 4006(GP40-3) SWP 406(Road Slug)
Views:  266   Comments: 0
AVR 4004, SWP 406, SWP 4006
Title:  AVR 4004, SWP 406, SWP 4006
Description:  Heading into Connellsville to pick up 9 freight cars from CSX.
Photo Date:  8/17/2017  Upload Date: 8/17/2017 11:25:13 PM
Location:  Connellsville, PA
Author:  Curt Beal
Categories:  Roster,Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  AVR 4004(GP40-3) SWP 406(Road Slug) SWP 4006(GP40-3)
Views:  179   Comments: 0
SWP 4006 SWP 406 AVR 4004
Title:  SWP 4006 SWP 406 AVR 4004
Description:  Leaving Connellsville with 9 freight cars retrieved from the Connellsville CSX Yard. I also photographed them coming into town, and the total amount of time to come and go was only 17 minutes!
Photo Date:  8/17/2017  Upload Date: 8/17/2017 11:27:35 PM
Location:  Connellsville, PA
Author:  Curt Beal
Categories:  Roster,Scenic,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  SWP 4006(GP40-3) SWP 406(Road Slug) AVR 4004(GP40-3)
Views:  293   Comments: 0
Train Meet
Title:  Train Meet
Description:  SWP 4006 and 406 are heading west with a train on Track 45 in the Connellsville CSX Yard while the GP40PH-2 on the CSX office-car special train is getting a crew change. The brick building in the background is VI tower, and only the bottom portion is used now.
Photo Date:  8/30/2017  Upload Date: 8/31/2017 11:05:17 PM
Location:  Connellsville, PA
Author:  Curt Beal
Categories:  Roster,Yard,Action
Locomotives:  SWP 4006(GP40-3) SWP 406(Road Slug) CSX 9999(F40PH-2)
Views:  652   Comments: 0
AVR 4004, SWP 406, SWP 4006
Title:  AVR 4004, SWP 406, SWP 4006
Description:  The SWP railroad is in Connellsville to drop off two KRL depressed oversize load flatcars and also two TEXX cabeese. They would leave them on the mainline for the CSX B252 job to pick up, and then go get some cars that CSX had for them in the yard.
Photo Date:  10/18/2017  Upload Date: 10/18/2017 9:13:58 PM
Location:  Connellsville, PA
Author:  Curt Beal
Categories:  Roster,Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  AVR 4004(GP40-3) SWP 406(Road Slug) SWP 4006(GP40-3)
Views:  223   Comments: 0
SWP 4006 and 406
Title:  SWP 4006 and 406
Description:  Heading over the swollen Jacobs Creek back to Scotdtale, after doing some switching of freight in Everson, PA.
Photo Date:  2/20/2018  Upload Date: 2/22/2018 8:21:00 PM
Location:  Scottdale, PA
Author:  Curt Beal
Categories:  Roster,Bridge,Action
Locomotives:  SWP 4006(GP40-3) SWP 406(Road Slug)
Views:  438   Comments: 0
AVR 3002, SWP 3504, SWP 4006, SWP 406
Title:  AVR 3002, SWP 3504, SWP 4006, SWP 406
Description:  A mactching fleet of four engines provide more than enough power on a mixed freight train at Kings Road in Owensdale.
Photo Date:  5/7/2018  Upload Date: 5/20/2018 8:59:58 PM
Location:  Owensdale, PA
Author:  Curt Beal
Categories:  Roster,Action
Locomotives:  AVR 3002(SD40-3) SWP 3504(SD40-2) SWP 4006(GP40-3) SWP 406(Road Slug)
Views:  625   Comments: 0
SWP 4006, 406, 3504
Title:  SWP 4006, 406, 3504
Description:  A three pack of locomotives from Southwest Pennsylvania Railroad heading west with a small cut of cars picked up from the Connellsville CSX Yard.
Photo Date:  7/29/2020  Upload Date: 7/29/2020 8:55:10 PM
Location:  Connellsville, PA
Author:  Curt Beal
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  SWP 4006(GP40-3) SWP 406(Road Slug) SWP 3504(SD40-2)
Views:  231   Comments: 0
SWP 4006
Title:  SWP 4006
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/2/2020  Upload Date: 5/5/2023 7:45:13 PM
Location:  Scottdale, PA
Author:  Matt Petersen
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SWP 4006(GP40-3)
Views:  12   Comments: 0
SWP 4006, 406, 3504, 3503
Title:  SWP 4006, 406, 3504, 3503
Description:  Heading West out of Connellsville on Track 1 with a string of cars picked up from CSX and from their own railroad. The weather could not have been more perfect.
Photo Date:  10/13/2020  Upload Date: 10/13/2020 10:24:37 PM
Location:  Connellsville, PA
Author:  Curt Beal
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  SWP 4006(GP40-3) SWP 406(Road Slug) SWP 3504(SD40-2) SWP 3503(SD40-2)
Views:  160   Comments: 0
SWP 3504-4006
Title:  SWP 3504-4006
Description:  Engines parked around headquarters
Photo Date:  2/6/2021  Upload Date: 2/6/2021 6:51:09 PM
Location:  Scottdale, PA
Author:  Bob Zimmermann
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SWP 3504(SD40-2) SWP 4006(GP40-3)
Views:  92   Comments: 0
SWP 4006-3504
Title:  SWP 4006-3504
Description:  Engines parked around headquarters
Photo Date:  2/6/2021  Upload Date: 2/6/2021 6:53:12 PM
Location:  Scottdale, PA
Author:  Bob Zimmermann
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SWP 4006(GP40-3) SWP 3504(SD40-2)
Views:  86   Comments: 0
SWP 406 4006 3504
Title:  SWP 406 4006 3504
Description:  Engines parked around headquarters in late afternoon
Photo Date:  2/6/2021  Upload Date: 2/6/2021 6:56:02 PM
Location:  Scottdale, PA
Author:  Bob Zimmermann
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SWP 406(Road Slug) SWP 4006(GP40-3) SWP 3504(SD40-2)
Views:  129   Comments: 0
Carload storage line
Title:  Carload storage line
Description:  Carload storage line in Hazelwood yard
Photo Date:  5/25/2022  Upload Date: 6/29/2022 11:14:52 AM
Location:  Hazelwood, PA
Author:  Alex Piechowski
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SWP 4006(GP40-3) SWP 406(Road Slug) SWP 2002(GP11) OT 1503(SW1500) AVR 3001(SD40-3) CLXX 1554(MP15)
Views:  291   Comments: 0
SWP 406
Title:  SWP 406
Description:  Southwest Pennsylvania 406 4006 & AVR 4001 are parked on the main after bringing sand cars for a facility in the Logans Ferry section of Plum.
Photo Date:  5/21/2023  Upload Date: 6/1/2023 9:45:33 PM
Location:  Plum, PA
Author:  Matt Provenza
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SWP 406(Road Slug) SWP 4006(GP40-3) AVR 4001(GP40-3)
Views:  32   Comments: 0
AVR 4001
Title:  AVR 4001
Description:  Allegheny Valley Railroad 4001 & Southwest Pennsylvania 4006 & 406 are parked on the main after bringing sand cars for a facility in the Logans Ferry section of Plum.
Photo Date:  5/21/2023  Upload Date: 6/1/2023 10:17:10 PM
Location:  Plum, PA
Author:  Matt Provenza
Categories: 
Locomotives:  AVR 4001(GP40-3) SWP 4006(GP40-3) SWP 406(Road Slug)
Views:  35   Comments: 0
SWP 406
Title:  SWP 406
Description:  Southwest Pennsylvania 406 4006 & AVR 4001 are parked on the main after bringing sand cars for a facility in the Logans Ferry section of Plum.
Photo Date:  5/21/2023  Upload Date: 6/1/2023 10:11:55 PM
Location:  Plum, PA
Author:  Matt Provenza
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SWP 406(Road Slug) SWP 4006(GP40-3) AVR 4001(GP40-3)
Views:  52   Comments: 0


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