Timing is everything. No sooner than I put the 4 ways on and hop out of the car 8829 and 3426 get underway. Wait a second! 3426? An SD45-2 is usually lashed up with 8829. Hmmm?
This bright and shiny Geep 15 won't stay in Ohio long. It will join one other on the Utah Central--a 34 mile short line in and around Ogden, Utah. It was former NS 1401 nee Conrail.
Last shot of the evening.
Built in October of 1941, this WWII vet is a JLB Type 2 18 ton switcher; gasoline fueled and made 150 horsepower.
Steamtown excursion, led by CNR 3254 coasts into Tobyhanna station.
New York & Atlantic's SW1200 #9321 is next up for new paint. I hope they sand well; this unit was Conrail 9321, E-L 457, DLW 562, and EMD 3763.
"Rocky" (left) and Bullwinkle sit OOS in Owego,NY. 1216 is an SW1200RS built by GMD. 1811 has since been sold to Livonia Avon & Lakeville.
An SD45 and a tunnel motor sit along side the Susquehanna yard office. Nice touch with the D&H recognition. I believe this was the old freight house.
Getting out of the cold are CSX SD70 ACes. Just after I took this shot a CSX employee stopped and said, "Now this removes all doubt about railfans being crazy." Temperatures were near zero with ... (more)
After a conversation with the crew of the evening yard job, they have the GP9, slug, GMD1 consist ham it up for the picture with a nice plume of smoke.
One of the many locomotives at the Portola Railroad Museum that one can operate.
Baltimore & Ohio heritage unit leads I007 this Sunday morning.
The slugs that graced Northtown in the past have been replaced with this trio os SD40-2s and a similar set.
A view of Rice's Point from Skyline Drive. All is quiet this Sunday afternoon. GP28M and mate rest. If you look top left, SOO locos try to hide.
CP power waiting their fate: MP15ACs 1433, 1404, 1540; GP38-2s 4414, 4417,4420 and 4429. Look close, 8756 is in the shop.
