Logo
 
 
4/17/2024
 
 
 
 
 
Owner: Southern
Model:GE U23BBuilt As:SOU 3906 (U23B)
Serial Number:39216Order No:31772
Frame Number:Built:5/1973
Other locos with this serial:  SOU 3906(U23B)
  Page Controls   View:  Pics Per Page:
SOU 3906
Title:  SOU 3906
Description: 
Photo Date:  4/17/1976  Upload Date: 3/14/2013 6:52:01 PM
Location:  Brunswick, GA
Author:  Philip M. Goldstein
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOU 3906(U23B)
Views:  282   Comments: 0
SOU 3906
Title:  SOU 3906
Description: 
Photo Date:  4/17/1976  Upload Date: 3/14/2013 6:52:02 PM
Location:  Brunswick, GA
Author:  Philip M. Goldstein
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOU 3906(U23B)
Views:  440   Comments: 0
SOU 3906
Title:  SOU 3906
Description: 
Photo Date:  4/17/1976  Upload Date: 3/14/2013 6:52:03 PM
Location:  Brunswick, GA
Author:  Philip M. Goldstein
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOU 3906(U23B)
Views:  257   Comments: 0
SOU 3906 - Builders plate
Title:  SOU 3906 - Builders plate
Description: 
Photo Date:  4/17/1976  Upload Date: 3/14/2013 6:52:04 PM
Location:  Brunswick, GA
Author:  Philip M. Goldstein
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOU 3906(U23B)
Views:  166   Comments: 0
SOU 3906
Title:  SOU 3906
Description: 
Photo Date:  4/17/1976  Upload Date: 3/14/2013 6:52:05 PM
Location:  Brunswick, GA
Author:  Philip M. Goldstein
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOU 3906(U23B)
Views:  215   Comments: 0
SOU 3906
Title:  SOU 3906
Description: 
Photo Date:  4/17/1976  Upload Date: 3/14/2013 6:52:06 PM
Location:  Brunswick, GA
Author:  Philip M. Goldstein
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOU 3906(U23B)
Views:  157   Comments: 0
SOU 3906
Title:  SOU 3906
Description: 
Photo Date:  4/17/1976  Upload Date: 3/14/2013 6:52:07 PM
Location:  Brunswick, GA
Author:  Philip M. Goldstein
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOU 3906(U23B)
Views:  153   Comments: 0
Southern Freight Train
Title:  Southern Freight Train
Description: 
Photo Date:  11/1/1980  Upload Date: 10/19/2002 8:24:13 PM
Location:  Paris, SC
Author:  Ralph Thompson
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOU 3906(U23B)
Views:  867   Comments: 0
Train #156 arriving.
Title:  Train #156 arriving.
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/17/1984  Upload Date: 7/7/2013 4:55:07 PM
Location:  Monroe, VA
Author:  Jim Owens
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  SOU 3906(U23B)
Views:  240   Comments: 1
SOU 3906
Title:  SOU 3906
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/17/1985  Upload Date: 10/30/2020 11:22:34 AM
Location:  Raleigh, NC
Author:  Harold Hodnett
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOU 3906(U23B)
Views:  233   Comments: 0
SOU 3906 switching a busy Glenwood Yard
Title:  SOU 3906 switching a busy Glenwood Yard
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/23/1985  Upload Date: 3/12/2023 11:09:16 AM
Location:  Raleigh, NC
Author:  Harold Hodnett
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOU 3906(U23B)
Views:  59   Comments: 0
SOU 3906
Title:  SOU 3906
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/30/1985  Upload Date: 3/30/2020 3:11:25 PM
Location:  Raleigh, NC
Author:  Harold Hodnett
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOU 3906(U23B)
Views:  480   Comments: 0
SOU 3908 & 3906 sit at the fuel racks
Title:  SOU 3908 & 3906 sit at the fuel racks
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/31/1985  Upload Date: 6/29/2019 8:19:30 PM
Location:  Raleigh, NC
Author:  Harold Hodnett
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOU 3908(U23B) SOU 3906(U23B)
Views:  760   Comments: 1
SOU 3906
Title:  SOU 3906
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/31/1985  Upload Date: 3/12/2023 3:06:13 PM
Location:  Raleigh, NC
Author:  Harold Hodnett
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOU 3906(U23B)
Views:  56   Comments: 0
Dramatic Pose
Title:  Dramatic Pose
Description:  An unidentified photographer caught this beautiful photo of a typical Southern switcher posed against a dramatic cloud filled sky as it sat in the Princeton, IN, yard.
Photo Date:  6/1/1985  Upload Date: 3/7/2020 6:05:02 AM
Location:  Princeton, IN
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  SOU 3906(U23B)
Views:  283   Comments: 0
Yard and road power
Title:  Yard and road power
Description:  D&H 5017 works a cut of cars as todays prize, the power for RPPY, sits next to the tower. I got lucky today-RPPY went south shortly after this was taken, and I was able to chase to Scranton. Another piece of vanished railroading is in this photo: the D&H box car next to 5017.
Photo Date:  12/28/1989  Upload Date: 12/15/2015 1:11:44 AM
Location:  Binghamton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Winter,Yard,Action
Locomotives:  DH 5017(RS36) SOU 3906(U23B) SOU 2726(GP38) NS 5201(GP38-2) SOU 5186(GP38-2)
Views:  492   Comments: 0
Southern power on 556
Title:  Southern power on 556
Description:  Train 556 is southbound from Binghamton as it passes through a truss bridge on the former DLW in Conklin. This train had three units still painted Southern almost 8 years after the NS merger.
Photo Date:  12/28/1989  Upload Date: 12/31/2011 1:43:58 AM
Location:  Conklin, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Bridge,Winter,Action
Locomotives:  SOU 5186(GP38-2) NS 5201(GP38-2) SOU 2726(GP38) SOU 3906(U23B)
Views:  600   Comments: 0
RPPY and a Lackawanna signal
Title:  RPPY and a Lackawanna signal
Description:  RPPY led by a Southern high hood GP 38 passes under a DLW signal bridge as it descends into Scranton from Clarks Summit.
Photo Date:  12/28/1989  Upload Date: 6/10/2012 3:11:06 AM
Location:  Scranton, PA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Winter,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  SOU 5186(GP38-2) NS 5201(GP38-2) SOU 2726(GP38) SOU 3906(U23B)
Views:  544   Comments: 1
Under the lights
Title:  Under the lights
Description:  In this case, the signals of the DLW, though these were long ago deactivated. RPPY roll south at Cayuga, just north of Scranton, and along the Scranton Expressway, making for an easy shot.
Photo Date:  12/28/1989  Upload Date: 12/15/2015 1:42:43 AM
Location:  Scranton, PA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Winter,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  SOU 5186(GP38-2) NS 5201(GP38-2) SOU 2726(GP38) SOU 3906(U23B)
Views:  482   Comments: 1
Southern and snow
Title:  Southern and snow
Description:  I know there are many parts of Southerns empire where snow is not all that unusual, but I have to love the idea of power from such a typically warm area running up in the snow and cold of NY and PA. This RPPY has just left East Binghamton, and is slowly making its way through Conklin.
Photo Date:  12/28/1989  Upload Date: 12/15/2015 1:55:52 AM
Location:  Conklin, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Bridge,Winter,Action
Locomotives:  SOU 5186(GP38-2) NS 5201(GP38-2) SOU 2726(GP38) SOU 3906(U23B)
Views:  335   Comments: 0
Winter wonderland
Title:  Winter wonderland
Description:  It wasnt so wonderful to us, just a long period of cold and snow that had to be endured, except that it gave us some good photo ops. One of these was off the NY 7 overpass at the south end of Conklin, where RPPY is rolling for a place where the winters arent so bad.
Photo Date:  12/28/1989  Upload Date: 12/15/2015 1:59:02 AM
Location:  Conklin, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Winter,Action
Locomotives:  SOU 5186(GP38-2) NS 5201(GP38-2) SOU 2726(GP38) SOU 3906(U23B)
Views:  399   Comments: 0
Slogging along
Title:  Slogging along
Description:  RPPY rolls south-slowly, there was a 10 MPH slow order here-through the heavy snow left from a few days earlier.
Photo Date:  12/28/1989  Upload Date: 12/15/2015 2:01:15 AM
Location:  Conklin, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Winter,Action
Locomotives:  SOU 5186(GP38-2) NS 5201(GP38-2) SOU 2726(GP38) SOU 3906(U23B)
Views:  275   Comments: 0
Wide view
Title:  Wide view
Description:  RPPY rolls south approaching the PA line, as seen from high above on NY 7, showing the panoramic beauty of winter in Broome County.
Photo Date:  12/28/1989  Upload Date: 12/15/2015 2:05:10 AM
Location:  Conklin, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Winter,Action
Locomotives:  SOU 5186(GP38-2) NS 5201(GP38-2) SOU 2726(GP38) SOU 3906(U23B)
Views:  314   Comments: 0
Almost there
Title:  Almost there
Description:  The 10 MPH slow order ended at the end of double track just south of here. RPPY near Stillwater crossing in Conklin getting a little bit of sun.
Photo Date:  12/28/1989  Upload Date: 12/15/2015 2:08:34 AM
Location:  Conklin, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Winter,Action
Locomotives:  SOU 5186(GP38-2) NS 5201(GP38-2) SOU 2726(GP38) SOU 3906(U23B)
Views:  351   Comments: 0
Iced
Title:  Iced
Description:  RPPY rolls south along the iced over rocks at Hop Bottom, passing the DLW station as it goes. This was a Christmas card the following year.
Photo Date:  12/28/1989  Upload Date: 12/15/2015 1:44:40 AM
Location:  Hop Bottom, PA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Winter,Station,Action
Locomotives:  SOU 5186(GP38-2) NS 5201(GP38-2) SOU 2726(GP38) SOU 3906(U23B)
Views:  400   Comments: 0
Cold day
Title:  Cold day
Description:  RPPY behind all Southern power, rolls south toward the PA 706 overpass on a cold day during Christmas week.
Photo Date:  12/28/1989  Upload Date: 12/14/2015 4:53:27 AM
Location:  New Milford, PA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Winter,Action
Locomotives:  SOU 5186(GP38-2) NS 5201(GP38-2) SOU 2726(GP38) SOU 3906(U23B)
Views:  373   Comments: 0
Getting out
Title:  Getting out
Description:  RPPY has just left East Binghamton, and is passing BLS Shaws. By this time, trains have usually cleared the south limit of the yard. There is still a slow slog to the end of the double track south of Conklin, as there is a 10 MPH speed restriction in place. Its a drag for the crews, but a great opportunity for photographers.
Photo Date:  12/28/1989  Upload Date: 12/15/2015 2:10:38 AM
Location:  Conklin, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Winter,Action
Locomotives:  SOU 5186(GP38-2) NS 5201(GP38-2) SOU 2726(GP38) SOU 3906(U23B)
Views:  329   Comments: 0
First stop
Title:  First stop
Description:  RPPY has run down from Binghamton, and now makes its first stop. It will set off and pick up here, then head on toward warmer places.
Photo Date:  12/28/1989  Upload Date: 12/15/2015 1:49:51 AM
Location:  Taylor, PA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Winter,Yard,Station,Action
Locomotives:  SOU 5186(GP38-2) NS 5201(GP38-2) SOU 2726(GP38) SOU 3906(U23B)
Views:  472   Comments: 0
RPPY with Southern power
Title:  RPPY with Southern power
Description:  RPPY heads past the former DL&W station at Hop Bottom PA
Photo Date:  12/30/1989  Upload Date: 11/11/2011 1:37:07 AM
Location:  Hop Bottom, PA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Winter,Station,Action
Locomotives:  SOU 5186(GP38-2) NS 5201(GP38-2) SOU 2726(GP38) SOU 3906(U23B)
Views:  678   Comments: 1


Site Design ©2001-2020 Tim Huemmer
Photos © respective authors
  Contact: info@rrpicturearchives.net