Hello, folks. Welcome once again to Midweek Photos. Thank you to Paul (Apples55) for taking over and getting a very interesting thread started last week. I hope to bring us up to date for now with some of my recent photos this week.
Here is the view from my front windows. With the use of a telephoto lens, of course. I happened to hear the horns of a Delaware-Lackawanna freight train coming in from the Pocono Line on October 17, and caught some of the power rolling past the former Railway Express Agency building in downtown Scranton. Yes, you are seeing right in that the third unit says "Wabash." In 2009, the D-L acquired this former Wabash C424, and only recently (about March 2020) got the loco back in running order. In September, this unit was lettered Wabash, but not fully re-painted. It was built for a Mexican Railway, and later bought by Wabash. They only used it as a B unit, and is possibly the last one left from that purchase. I have seen it lead trains on the Delaware-Lackawanna, but have not photographed her in the lead.
Since it is Fall foliage season, here are some of the views from the ground of the Steamtown National Historic Site, also in Scranton. Quite a few locomotives and rail cars have been moved around the yard this year to keep the park looking interesting. One piece that has not before faced East while in Scranton is Rahway Valley RR no. 15. This 2-8-0 is now 104 years old. She was added to a short string of freight cars, which include D&H boxcar, DL&W hopper, DL&W gondola, and LV caboose.
Another short freight sits on the opposite end of the yard, and parking lot. Berlin Mills Railway 2-4-2T no. 7 sits with a Pennsylvania RR boxcar, a DL&W hopper, and former Erie caboose.
Already, we have had a few snowstorms in our corner of Pennsylvania. This past Monday, (November 2) we see a light coating of snow on the Canadian pieces in the yard. Left to right, we see CN 4-6-4T no 47, then CN 2-8-2 no 3254, and CP 4-6-2 no 2317.
Sitting on the turntable with the same light coating of snow is Reading Company 4-8-4 no 2124. In the coming weeks, most of these steam locomotives will be placed into the roundhouse or other display spaces for the winter months.
The following two pictures were taken today. Fantastic sunshine glistens off the 2124.
At closing time, I took a number of photos of Rahway Valley 2-8-0 no. 15. This one is the best of them . The bright lights are from the bus station located near the park.
Thank you all for participating in this year, and throughout the years. As usual, please post your recent or not-so-recent pics of the real railroading world here. See you soon.
I stopped getting haircuts after Christmas last year. I was just intending to let it get a little longer, but then COVID-19 closed all the barbers and my wife asked me to let it grow. So, the promise I made is that I will not get it cut until after her birthday in September, next year. 