| Community Response |
Locomotive Details |
Location/Date of Photo |
 | | Views: 4,823 Favorited: 18 | | Since added on January 30, 2023 | |
|
» Norfolk Southern (more..)
» EMD SD70ACe (more..) |
» Feather River Canyon
» Pulga, California, USA (more..)
» January 21, 2023 |
| Locomotive No./Train ID |
Photographer |
» NS 1073 (more..)
» INPOA 13 (more..) |
» Jake Miille (more..)
» Contact Photographer · Photographer Profile |
| Remarks & Notes |
| An eerie silence in the Feather River Canyon is broken by the sound of Norfolk Southern 1073 leading a lengthy intermodal train through Pulga, California. The NS 1073 is dedicated to the failed Penn Central Railroad. The Penn Central was created by the merger of the Pennsylvania and New York Central Railroads. The Penn Central Railroad only operated between 1968 and 1976 before declaring bankruptcy. It was then merged into the ConRail Company, which was later merged into the Norfolk Southern and CSX networks.
Recent heavy rains wreaked havoc on the Feather River Canyon. Due to a rock slide and derailment near Belden, Union Pacific’s Canyon Subdivision had been out of service for nearly a week. Highway 70 was also closed due to rock slides. Union Pacific and BNSF were forced to detour all trains via Donner Pass and the Shasta Route. The NS 1073 was one of the first trains to run through the canyon once the derailment was mitigated. |
|
Photo Comments (2) |
|
|
