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Owner: Conrail
Model:EMD SD40Built As:PRR 6043 (SD40)
Serial Number:31288Order No:7862
Frame Number:7862-4Built:2/1966
Notes:Former PRR/PC 6043
Other locos with this serial:  CR 6296(SD40) NS 3439(SD40-2) CSX 8906(SD40-2) CR 6985(SD40-2R)
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When the Curve had 4 tracks...
Title:  When the Curve had 4 tracks...
Description:  Eastbound freight heading downgrade to Altoona
Photo Date:  6/26/1977  Upload Date: 8/17/2014 9:14:32 PM
Location:  Horseshoe Curve, PA
Author:  Bob Kise
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CR 6296(SD40)
Views:  325   Comments: 0
CR SD-40 6296
Title:  CR SD-40 6296
Description:  Ex-Penn-Central, exx-Pennsylvania Railroad
Photo Date:  8/24/1978  Upload Date: 3/16/2008 10:19:34 AM
Location:  Elizabethport Yard, NJ
Author:  andrew koenigsberg
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CR 6296(SD40)
Views:  1023   Comments: 0
CR SD-40 6296
Title:  CR SD-40 6296
Description:  Actual day unknown.
Photo Date:  5/1/1981  Upload Date: 1/15/2009 5:10:19 PM
Location:  Fort Wayne, IN
Author:  Alan Gaines
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CR 6296(SD40)
Views:  264   Comments: 0
CR 6296 west
Title:  CR 6296 west
Description:  In the middle of the curve
Photo Date:  6/19/1982  Upload Date: 3/6/2013 5:08:24 PM
Location:  Horseshoe Curve, PA
Author:  Bob Kise
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CR 6296(SD40)
Views:  452   Comments: 0
CR 6296
Title:  CR 6296
Description:  Westbound on to the Cleveland Line
Photo Date:  10/15/1983  Upload Date: 8/17/2014 4:05:15 PM
Location:  Alliance, OH
Author:  Robert Farkas
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CR 6296(SD40)
Views:  404   Comments: 4
Selkirk bound
Title:  Selkirk bound
Description:  TOSE rolls 122 cars under the bridge at state line, and will pass into New York in a half mile.
Photo Date:  6/27/1987  Upload Date: 5/14/2015 3:20:37 PM
Location:  North East, PA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  CR 6296(SD40) CR 6373(SD40-2) CR 8194(GP38-2)
Views:  812   Comments: 0
CR 6296 helper on the fan trip
Title:  CR 6296 helper on the fan trip
Description:  Randy Curlin Collection
Photo Date:  11/1/1987  Upload Date: 3/24/2024 4:17:28 PM
Location:  ALTOONA (HORSESHOE C, PA
Author:  Randy Curlin Collection
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  CR 6296(SD40) CR 6290(SD40) PRR 5898(E8A)
Views:  221   Comments: 1
"Altoona Sunday," Page 22, 1988
Title:  "Altoona Sunday," Page 22, 1988
Description:  Here is page one of a three-page article by Denis Connell entitled "Altoona Sunday!" It was published originally in the January 1988 issue of "Railpace Newsmagazine," page 22. Partial Caption: "Conrail SD40 helpers 6296-6290 assist restored PRR E8's 5898-5706 on a seventeen-car consist around Horseshoe Curve on November 1, 1987." From here, it's up to Gallitzin, through one tunnel, around the wye, through the New Portage Tunnel, down "The Mountain" and around the Curve to Altoona.
Photo Date:  1/1/1988  Upload Date: 1/25/2025 8:15:56 AM
Location:  ALTOONA (HORSESHOE C, PA
Author:  Thomas C. Ayers
Categories:  Passenger
Locomotives:  CR 6296(SD40) CR 6290(SD40) PRR 5898(E8A) PRR 5706(E8A) PRR 7048(GP9)
Views:  5   Comments: 0
"Keystones On The Curve," Page 25, 1988
Title:  "Keystones On The Curve," Page 25, 1988
Description:  Here is page one of a two-page article by Steve Barry entitled "Keystones On The Curve." It was published originally in the January 1988 issue of "Railpace Newsmagazine," page 25. Bottom Photo, Partial Caption: "The excursion train is still rounding the curve as Amtrak 46, the 'Pennsylvanian,' roars by with F40PH 258 on the point of a five car consist."
Photo Date:  1/1/1988  Upload Date: 11/26/2022 10:05:29 PM
Location:  ALTOONA (HORSESHOE C, PA
Author:  Thomas C. Ayers
Categories:  Signal,Passenger
Locomotives:  AMTK 258(F40PHR) CR 6296(SD40) CR 6290(SD40) PRR 5898(E8A) PRR 5706(E8A) PRR 7048(GP9)
Views:  576   Comments: 0


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