Midweek Photos 10/9/2013

Tim O'MalleyOGR Forum Member

Another Wednesday has arrived! Get out your best shots of Real World Rail Action (or inaction as the case might be...)

Midweek Photos begins with this still operating 1952-built GP7. Okay, it's a GP8, being rebuilt by Morrison-Knudsen for Conrail in 1978. But her heritage is of the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad. Photos taken on Monday, Oct 7.

Here is the current DLWR (Depew Lancaster & Western RR) 5460 in blue, along with soulmate RS11 no 1804. It was raining when I took these photos. The location is Scranton, PA and the Delaware-Lackawanna RR was switching out cars in the Steamtown yard.

Alco C636 no. 3642, D-Ls biggest power was doing the switching near Bridge 60 tower.

Get 'em, boys! The conductor on the ground to couple up the cut of cars with the locomotive.

Close-up of the Geep. She was built at EMD's Cleveland OH shop, delivered as DL&W 959.

Now I hand the thread over to you. Enjoy the rest of the week, and we all look forward to seeing your shots of the railroad world.

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SJCOGR Forum Member

Here are my photos from the B&O Museum this past weekend. It was steam weekend and their very large 0-4-0T and Lafayette Replica were in steam and operating. They also had their shop open for tours - and not tours via the "glass booth" observation deck as is often the case. You were (more or less) free to roam the shop floor as long as you didn't touch anything and stayed behind the yellow tape so you didn't fall in the pit or get hurt by the Chessie GP38 which was idling outside. The B&O 600 the JC Davis, William Mason, and SW #1200 were in the shop. The 600 is the last roof collapse victim, the Mason is getting rebuilt after running up its 15 year service cycle, and the SW is getting new wheels. I'm not sure if anything was hiding in the paint booth.