Conrail (CR) 6663 - EMD SD45-2

The Cresson service facility is seen from the front side. With no wide angle lens I had to take multiple frames from the same spot and tape them together.

Lacking a wide angle lens for my camera I had to improvise and take multiple pictures from the same spot and tape the pictures together.. The Cresson service facility is seen from the tracks that led to the former Cresson flyover.

17th Street. Here is an original photo by an unidentified photographer that was taken at the old Pennsylvania Railroad engine ladder near the 17th Street Bridge in Altoona, Pennsylvania, in July of 1978. Any hints of the concentrated steam locomotive action that once occurred here are long gone. Now, diesel-electric locomotives rule the rails. Shown here (L to R) is Conrail engine #6663 and four more units whose road numbers are not recorded. Just like in the age of steam, they're lugging an iron-ore train up the Allegheny Mountains to Gallitzin and the steel mills of Western Pennsylvania. Photo taken from the 17th Street Bridge.

Running with sister CR #6654 (EL 3670), this former EL #3678, now CR 6663, is the trailing unit in the lashup. After the CR breakup, this loco would become CSX 8889. The photo was taken by an unknown photographer. No exact date was listed for the photo other than 1979.

A former EL SD45-2 and a Chessie GP40-2 at Enola on 26DEC1984

The helper set is ready to leave and assist one of the westbounds off in the distance while an empty coal train awaits a crew on 21JUN1983

It’s all ex-EL EMD’s at Horseshoe as my railfan buddy captured CR SD45-2 6663(ex-EL 3678) and SDP45 6686 assisting with braking on track 4 in July, 1978. With permission.

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Two former EL SD45-2's shove a w/b at Altoona, PA on 21JUN1983

PICA EB at Horseshoe Curve

US Route 22 in the background

Its just been painted over. A set of SD45-2s works as helpers on the curve. They had also served as helpers over Washington Hill on the Boston Line out of Pittsfileld Mass. Several survive into 2014, working in Jersey on NS

Prior to the wave of GEs that invaded the Boston Line in the mid 80s, former EL SD45-2s found a home there. Here, four of them go east to Washington Hill with an eastbound.

ENPI assaults the Alleghenies.

Two more "Bathtubs" assist ENPI past long-time (but not for much longer) Horseshoe curve resident PRR 1361. The K-4s would be removed within a couple of weeks and begin a rehab back to operating condition.

SEBO passing MP 107 in Westfield.

Colorful CN/Conrail "sandwich" at Bailey Avenue heading into Frontier Yard

Two former EL SD-45-2s get in position to tie onto a w/b empty coal leaving the yard.