Midweek Photos 10/30/2013

Glad to see that you visited Front Street Station. That is a favorite of mine. The Pennsy placed historic locomotives in Northumberland Yard. Railfans called them the Northumberland Collection. Eventually they were moved to Strasburg and formed the core of The Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania.

This past weekend I chased the 765 as she retraced the route of the Wabash Cannonball across Indiana.

Southwest of Ft. Wayne.  She was running like a watch.  Very little smoke, mostly steam.  The cool morning air really helped condense the steam producing quite a cloud.

Near Burrows, Indiana, along Rt 25.  Beautiful scenery.  The trees look nice too!

Tom

Very neat, Tom! I'm glad you could catch it, and share your chase with us.

It wasn't so much of a chase as a walk for me this past Saturday.  I positioned myself at the University of Scranton to catch the final weekend of train excursions at Steamtown National Historic Site.

With no steam locomotives running this year, we cut the season short.  Those coaches are not pleasant when you are cold, and the steam engine provides the heat.  

We were down at Cumberland last week, and did a little train watching.

This is at the east end of the CSX Cumberland freight yard, and is across from

the caller's office. The two trainmen are crew waiting for a following westbound

manifest to recrew it.

The building in the background at the front of 188 is the main repair shop at

the Cumberland CSX Locomotive Shops.

E

WMSRR 734 on the turntable at Frostburg:

I didn't make it up to Frostburg State this year for Parent's Weekend, but my daughter, a senior, ran down to the depot and snapped this shot for me of 734 on the turntable before the return run to Cumberland.  Once a train buddy, always a train buddy...thanks Kate.

PD