Hello, everyone. I hope you are "enjoying," if that is the word to describe it, the way our lives are going the pas couple of weeks. I don't have much to add, and was going to post these pics last week. Unfortunately, other distractions took me away from the Midweek state of mind. 
On Sunday, March 8, the return to Daylight Savings Time gave me a chance to catch "midday" lighting while on my way home from work. Delaware Lackawanna had this train idling along Mifflin Ave. in downtown Scranton. The crew was in the cab, and probably drilling sand cars on this line,
The sand cars go to Carbondale for loading to trucks, and are used in the gas fracking business in the Northern regions of Pennsylvania.
If you look closely, you can see two strings of cars, going under the Linden St. Bridge. The higher line is the former DL&W Diamond Branch, while the lower one is a steep decline called the Strawberry Hill line. I am in the general area where the Delaware & Hudson railroad passenger station once stood. Strawberry Hill book off the mainline, so that passenger trains could climb the grade to reach the station. This is the territory that D-L has to switch cars in. I don't know if they have any flat land to do their work. It is possible the train was resting here while the conductor walked to set one of the switches at the very end of the cars.
One of the more interesting locomotives in the D-L Alco fleet is this high nose RS11. They have another one based in New York state, and two MLW RS18s.
I shot this over the broken chain link fence, and it came out better than I though. This was the fourth unit in the consist. Lehigh Valley RR 414, a C420 was in the lead.
If you have caught any cool pics of trains lately, then please add. If we all go into lockdown during the COVID-19 times, we might need to reach into our treasure chest of trains to post in the coming weeks. I hope you are all staying healthy. See you soon.
