Another NS detour the next day came in the form of manifest 16M, seen heading west down the Lurgan Branch with one of the few remaining ex-Conrail SD50s in the consist.
Unit autorack train 274 heads west under the main road that leads to Messiah College on a late August afternoon. This train was detoured this way for reasons still unknown.
After discussing a work by John Bunyan in my Seminar class and scoring a 92 on my percussion playing test, I decided to head out trackside for a while. My first train was westbound 11R with quite ... (more)