n the early 1900s, the Pennsylvania Railroad looked to connect their Philadelphia and Erie main line to Pittsburgh with a secondary line that would handle only freight and take some pressure off the main line west over the Alleghenies. This line, the Low Grade Secondary, extended from a connection with the P&E at Driftwood, PA, to Red Bank and a connection with the (original) Allegheny Valley Railroad. The Pittsburg and Shawmut acquired the Low Grade between Lawsonham in the early 1990s, but not long after, the PSR was acquired in turn by Genesee & Wyoming. Today, the line is abandoned west of Brookville, PA, the location of the former P&S shops now used by Brookville Locomotive Works. Lycoming Valley, another operator of a former PRR branch off the P&E, elected to send a pair of GP20s to Brookville for repainting from their former Georgetown (TX) Railroad blue. While some coal and bulk trains travel from Dubois to Driftwood, and the DB locals sometimes work from Dubois to Brookville, the transfer of these former Milwaukee Road GP-9 rebuilds was the first 'through' move on the Low Grade in recent memory.
(0:00) Intro
(0:15) Driftwood, PA
(1:02) Mix Run Road
(1:26) Redwood Ave., Force, PA
(2:16) Bark Camp Road, Penfield, PA
(3:05) Sabula Tunnel
(4:33) CP Falls Creek, Dubois, PA
(6:38) S Pancoast Rd., Reynoldsville, PA
(7:32) Palumbo Rd.
(8:32) Pointview Ave.
(9:21) Burning Gas Road
(9:54) Fuller Road
(11:26) Iowa Road
(12:15) Brookville
