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Owner: Conrail
Model:EMD SD50Built As:CR 6720 (SD50)
Serial Number:837047-21Order No:837047
Frame Number:837047-21Built:12/1983
Notes:12/1983, became CSX 8651
Other locos with this serial:  CSX 8651(SD50) CR 6720(SD50) CSX 2482(SD50-2)
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CR SD-50 #6720
Title:  CR SD-50 #6720
Description:  One of Conrail's newest six-axle EMDs, SD-50 #6720 on possibly her maiden voyage, arrives at the Conway e/f two days after Christmas.
Photo Date:  12/27/1983  Upload Date: 12/24/2005 11:12:13 PM
Location:  Conway, PA
Author:  Donald Albertson
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CR 6720(SD50)
Views:  648   Comments: 0
CR 6720
Title:  CR 6720
Description:  A cut of EMD's with a pair of new SD50's head out, emerge from undeth the hump at Conway on 27DEC1983
Photo Date:  12/27/1983  Upload Date: 12/5/2018 3:54:50 PM
Location:  Conway, PA
Author:  Donald Albertson
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  CR 6720(SD50) CR 6711(SD50)
Views:  206   Comments: 1
CR SD50 6720
Title:  CR SD50 6720
Description:  A fairly ner Conrail SD50 6720 at Conway yard on 27DEC1983
Photo Date:  12/27/1983  Upload Date: 12/11/2018 4:10:34 PM
Location:  Conway, PA
Author:  Donald Albertson
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  CR 6720(SD50)
Views:  196   Comments: 1
CR SD50 6720
Title:  CR SD50 6720
Description:  Not quite brand new Conrail SD50 6720 is at Conway on 27DEC1983
Photo Date:  12/27/1983  Upload Date: 12/5/2018 5:23:55 PM
Location:  Conway, PA
Author:  Donald Albertson
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  CR 6720(SD50)
Views:  196   Comments: 1
CR 6720
Title:  CR 6720
Description:  Barely one month old, this SD50 unit was one of 135 that Conrail ordered from EMD between 1983-86. After serving CR for nearly 16 years, this loco became part of the CSX roster as their #8651. The color slide was taken by CR conductor Ken Taylor.
Photo Date:  1/1/1984  Upload Date: 5/9/2020 4:34:20 PM
Location:  Conway, PA
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  CR 6720(SD50)
Views:  140   Comments: 0
A pair of Conrail SD50's
Title:  A pair of Conrail SD50's
Description:  A pair of Conrail SD50's, numbers 6727 & 6720, sit in the Conway, PA, yard waiting for their next assignment. These were two of 135 SD50's that Conrail purchased to help ease the power crunch as they retired many of the older inherited units like the Alcos Century models. CR conductor Ken Taylor caught these two in the yard.
Photo Date:  5/1/1984  Upload Date: 5/9/2020 4:34:54 PM
Location:  Conway, PA
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  CR 6727(SD50) CR 6720(SD50)
Views:  168   Comments: 0
"Mountain Railroad Revisited," Page 29, 1985
Title:  "Mountain Railroad Revisited," Page 29, 1985
Description:  Here is page six of a 14-page cover article by Fred W. Frailey entitled "Mountain Railroad Revisited." It was published originally in the January 1985 issue of "Trains" magazine, page 29. Top Photo Caption: "TV-201, 36 cars (2653 tons) of SeaLand TOFC, passes MG uphill at 30 mph behind SD50/SD35 at 3:15 p.m., March 17, 1984."
Photo Date:  1/1/1985  Upload Date: 1/25/2020 1:31:48 PM
Location:  Gallitzin, PA
Author:  Thomas C. Ayers
Categories:  Tunnel,Winter,Signal
Locomotives:  CR 6720(SD50)
Views:  245   Comments: 0
SD 50 6720
Title:  SD 50 6720
Description:  SD 50 6720 Later 1980s
Photo Date:  1/1/1986  Upload Date: 10/10/2004 9:34:32 PM
Location:  Gateway Yard (East St. Louis), IL
Author:  Keith Belk
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CR 6720(SD50)
Views:  494   Comments: 1
CR SD50 #6720
Title:  CR SD50 #6720
Description:  Heading up a freight rolling past the Conway yard tower is CR SD50 #6720 on this snowy November day in 1987. The loco would eventually trade in the CR blue for CSX yellow as their #8651. The slide was taken by CR conductor Ken Taylor who sat in his cab farther over.
Photo Date:  11/1/1987  Upload Date: 5/9/2020 4:34:24 PM
Location:  Conway, PA
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  CR 6720(SD50)
Views:  122   Comments: 0
Block station
Title:  Block station
Description:  BUOI rolls past the "temporary block station"-a MOW truck with a conductor-at MP 236. The train will back through the trailing point crossover onto track 1, then head for Binghamton.
Photo Date:  7/19/1988  Upload Date: 9/2/2015 4:55:42 AM
Location:  Owego, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CR 6720(SD50) CR 6713(SD50)
Views:  478   Comments: 1
Meet of the 20s
Title:  Meet of the 20s
Description:  BUOI behind CR 6720 sits on track 2 as MEBU with NYSW 3620 rolls past.
Photo Date:  7/19/1988  Upload Date: 9/2/2015 4:50:36 AM
Location:  Owego, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CR 6720(SD50) NYSW 3620(SD45)
Views:  558   Comments: 1
ALCA
Title:  ALCA
Description:  SD50 leads Camden bound ALCA
Photo Date:  8/8/1988  Upload Date: 3/19/2018 7:29:11 PM
Location:  West Conshohocken, PA
Author:  A Benedict
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  CR 6720(SD50) CR 6426(SD40-2)
Views:  215   Comments: 0
CR 6720
Title:  CR 6720
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/11/1988  Upload Date: 10/12/2016 10:34:48 PM
Location:  Allentown, PA
Author:  andrew koenigsberg
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CR 6720(SD50)
Views:  220   Comments: 0
Coal east and a special signal
Title:  Coal east and a special signal
Description:  A UNG coal train bound for NYSEG at Johnson City rolls east at Campville. The signal at right is notable for its hot box warning light, which is seen below the signal head. There was a hot box detector a mile to the east at MP 230.48 on track 1. If there was a hit, it would change the signal here to yellow, and the light underneath would light up with "hot box". It would also change the next signal, 233-1, at Hiawatha Road about 1.5 mile west, to red. That signal also had a hot box light. This detector predated the radio alarm detectors common nowadays, and the axle temps would read out on a tape in the Hornell dispatchers office. The train would have to call the dispatcher, who would review the tape, and tell the crew which axles to check. I saw this about a month after this photo. I was chasing TV 201 here when the signal dropped to approach, and the hot box light went on. Interesting system.
Photo Date:  10/12/1988  Upload Date: 9/11/2015 3:15:58 AM
Location:  Campville, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Signal,Action
Locomotives:  CR 6720(SD50) CR 6806(SD50)
Views:  357   Comments: 1
Work train
Title:  Work train
Description:  The guys who make it possible for the coal train to run go east on track 1 at Campville in a blaze of color as the JC coal train waits. The railfan chase vehicle is at far right. I was a route driver for a commercial laundry, which allowed me some freedom to watch the action while working. I didn't waste an opportunity.
Photo Date:  10/14/1988  Upload Date: 9/11/2015 3:18:26 AM
Location:  Campville, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  CR 7706(GP38) CR 6720(SD50)
Views:  506   Comments: 1
CR 6625 at Steel Tower
Title:  CR 6625 at Steel Tower
Description:  Randy Curlin Collection
Photo Date:  9/3/1989  Upload Date: 12/31/2023 5:10:20 PM
Location:  Bethlehem, PA
Author:  Randy Curlin Collection
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CR 6625(C36-7) CR 6720(SD50)
Views:  40   Comments: 2
Coal empties
Title:  Coal empties
Description:  Conrail symbolled the moves to the Ithaca Branch with a variety of numbers, depending on what job had the task of running the trains to the NYSEG plant in Ludlowville. Typically, it would be a Corning based crew, but sometimes it was called WAIT 2. Today, its WACG02 bringing the train off the Lehigh Secondary and through the crossovers onto the Tier.
Photo Date:  9/23/1989  Upload Date: 11/24/2015 3:47:07 AM
Location:  Waverly, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CR 6366(SD40-2) CR 6402(SD40-2) CR 6720(SD50)
Views:  511   Comments: 2
CR 6720
Title:  CR 6720
Description: 
Photo Date:  1/1/1990  Upload Date: 3/2/2003 11:48:57 PM
Location:  Ayer, MA
Author:  Harry Frye
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CR 6720(SD50)
Views:  427   Comments: 1
CR 6720
Title:  CR 6720
Description:  not sure of location...lots of photos on this roll were taken at Terre Haute
Photo Date:  3/1/1990  Upload Date: 6/15/2022 8:35:52 PM
Location:  Terre Haute, IN
Author:  Brian Knight
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CR 6720(SD50)
Views:  59   Comments: 0
CR SD50 6720
Title:  CR SD50 6720
Description:  Actual day unknown
Photo Date:  6/1/1990  Upload Date: 4/15/2018 10:18:25 AM
Location:  South Bend, IN
Author:  Alan Gaines
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CR 6720(SD50)
Views:  107   Comments: 0
Going west in the gloom
Title:  Going west in the gloom
Description:  OIBU has done its work and is now ready to head west into the rain.
Photo Date:  7/9/1990  Upload Date: 1/16/2016 2:24:54 AM
Location:  Binghamton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  CR 6772(SD50) CR 6720(SD50) CR 6329(SD40)
Views:  328   Comments: 1
CR 6718
Title:  CR 6718
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/1/1993  Upload Date: 8/11/2009 4:44:27 AM
Location:  Weedsport, NY
Author:  Sam Botts
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CR 6718(SD50) CR 6720(SD50)
Views:  376   Comments: 0
CR 6720
Title:  CR 6720
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/19/1995  Upload Date: 6/10/2015 11:52:20 AM
Location:  Pittstown, NJ
Author:  andrew koenigsberg
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CR 6720(SD50)
Views:  138   Comments: 0
CR 6720
Title:  CR 6720
Description:  Westbound stacks at CP 359.
Photo Date:  4/26/1997  Upload Date: 7/4/2011 11:55:01 AM
Location:  Perinton, NY
Author:  Mike Stellpflug
Categories:  Roster,Action
Locomotives:  CR 6720(SD50)
Views:  260   Comments: 1
CR 6720
Title:  CR 6720
Description: 
Photo Date:  7/1/1997  Upload Date: 7/26/2009 2:40:52 AM
Location:  Galesburg, IL
Author:  Larry Gholson
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CR 6720(SD50) CR 6793(SD50)
Views:  491   Comments: 0
CR 6720 on TV24PX
Title:  CR 6720 on TV24PX
Description:  Its a short time after the Conrail split, but it still looks like Conrail, Unpatched locomotives running trains with Conrail symbols. Conrail 6720 is on TV24PX at Ridgefield Park, NJ 6/1999.
Photo Date:  6/5/1999  Upload Date: 3/3/2021 12:41:38 AM
Location:  Ridgefield Park, NJ
Author:  Elena M Durant
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  CR 6720(SD50) CR 6391(SD40-2)
Views:  285   Comments: 0


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