Happy MidWeek Photos to you! This past week, many cities in the US "got their green on" to celebrate Saint Patrick's Day with a parade. Scranton, PA has one of the largest, and it has been around over 50 years.
I asked a few revelers to join the Reading FP7s in the celebration at Steamtown. 
Luckily, they were willing to help out.
I have been mentioning lately how my luck with the camera has not been so good. Either no trains come when it is sunny and I have a camera, or they conveniently duck behind signs, and the like. Well, last week my luck changed.
Not only did these cars of transformers get placed in the Steamtown yard, but a D-L grain train came into the yard in perfect late afternoon sun. The transformers are for the building of a new power line in the area.
The grain train runs from the Harvest States mill in Pocono Summit, PA most days of the week. Some times it picks up or drops off propane cars in Tobyhanna, but this one was all grain.
The locomotives are both ALCO. The white one, 3642 (C636) is originally Penn Central, and the red one, 3000 (C630) was once a General Electric unit.
That does it for me this week. Winter is almost over, but snow doesn't necessarily disappear when it becomes Spring. Please feel free to use this thread to post any rail occasions from the real side of railroading. Have a good week. See you next Wednesday!
