Merry New Year! hahahaahha 2016 has entered the room.
Another Wednesday has arrived, so let's dive right into another edition of the Midweek Photos.
It was not a very successful chasing week for me, so I went the "old reliable" way of going to the railroad yards to see what I could see on Saturday. It seemed that in some of the local yards, the locomotives that were nearby were parked just out of the way of viewing, or viewable from a location that you couldn't get a parking spot without risking a fender bender. Then I hit paydirt in the Delaware Lackawanna RR shop facility in South Scranton. Above is what you might call the "dead line." Not all of the units are dead, but maybe out of service for the time being. Like the big railroads, shortlines are kind of low on volume lately. So the trio of "D&H" RS3s sit quietly waiting for some action in the Spring. To their left, in Conrail blue, is the DL&W GP7, repowered by Morrison Knudson as a GP8. An RS11 and RS32 are to the far left.
D-L caboose 885 was given back her original number back in the Fall, and a new coat of paint in the D-L's corporate colors, which are similar to the Alco demonstrator colors from the 1960s. This is a lot cleaner looking than the former colors, with the Genessee Valley sticker and the old Mohawk Adirondack & Northern lettering that was still showing long after the letters were pulled off.
5460 is originally Lackawanna 959. There is always talk of repainting her in the original black with gold letters. We shall see.
Another treat in the yard is this former Canadian National FPA4, in VIA colors. Number 6763 is in storage in Scranton waiting for her owner to decide what her next step is. Will she run again? Only time and money will tell.
That does it for me this week. What have you been up to? Did you renew that gym membership? Maybe even better, you received a new camera, lens or tripod you need to break out and capture some more rail action. Whatever you happened to see in the real world of trains is welcome. See you next week.
