Midweek Photos 5/20/2015

 

All right.  I am back with some more photos.  The people who took the train were impressed with the town and the turnout of spectators.  While it may not seem a lot, many patriotic parades just don't seem to draw large crowds.  The parade lasted an hour. 

 

Walking back to Steamtown, I was able to catch the Electric City Trolley Museum's car 80 from Philadelphia Suburban Transportation Company.  The car will head 5 miles to Moosic, PA and then return.  It runs four trips from Thursdays to Sundays.

 

And there she goes.

 

Our train waits patiently for the riders to re-board for the return to Tobyhanna.  Almost every weather condition from sunshine to rain and hail was experienced on that day.  Another reason why you should take the train.  Leave the driving to us.  

BN Caboose. Appears to be a "working" caboose 2004

BN #2916 is a rebuilt GP35 reclassified as a GP39-E 2004

Abandoned cabbose from the Lehigh and Hudson River Railroad

 

I took this out the window while riding Amtrak's California Zephyr - UP ES44DC slowly passes in the morning fog 

CSX and Maryland Midland on 5/15/2015:

1. MMID train UBHF pumps air before leaving Highfield,MD. Train is on x-WM tracks, now CSX.
2. CSX Hanover-Hagerstown turn waits east of Highfield on former WM "Dutch line" tracks for MMID to clear.

3. MMID comes east around Sabillasville,MD. Horseshoe curve, fast becoming overgrown.
4. MMID enters Thurmont,MD. approaching Altamont St. xing. Lumber car will be switched out at NVR Homes plant at east end of town, empty cement cars will go to Union Bridge.
All images by Warren W. Jenkins

This weeks contribution.

 

Not the usual "artistic" enhancement of rolling stock.

 

 

 

 

More equipment than I have ever seen here before.

 

 

 

 

Just another meet.

 

 

Nice pics, really like the old caboose triple crowns.  I don't have much for this week. Juse a few pis by the Havelock yards. The last photo I did not take but just found. Norfolk Southern pain't ed a SD60e for a tribute to first responders, I hope MTH copies it. It was just finished May 6th. Nick  .

Caught a lot of action on Detroit's east side today

ADBF 863 on the Detroit Connecting

Conrail job

Conrail North Yard

GTW 4907 switching CN East Yard

CN 451

Amtrak 350

Amtrak 359

CN 385

Conrail 176

CN 533

Power for Conrail 121

Conrail NY60

Conrail 121

Conrail NY21

CN 502

CN 533

The B&B Gang completed a bridge replacement in Whittier & here is 1 of their cranes.  They used 2 cranes on the project.  Other end of their equipment has a caboose.  Not sure why they parked their stuff on the old Sawmill track - it is about 1 1/2 from town.  Guess they needed the yard space.

It's been a busy past two weeks for me, with my kid graduating from high school and everything else.  I still managed to get out a few times though.  I've been poking around the Minnesota/Iowa border, southwest corner of MN.  It's an area pretty much skipped by railfans, including local ones.  There are few railroads there with only sporadic trains during the week.  Go chasing down there, you take your chances.  I've been working out that way, and when I'm done I've exited I-90 and went looking.  Lots of "odds & ends" down there.

 

1. GE critter, built 1962, found along the ICE (CP) line in Alpha, MN.  The dark green stains are algae.  Looks like it's been awhile since this engine has run.  Most of the corn grown in this area ends up going to the ethanol refinery in Superior IA or Jackson MN.  This line now ends in Jackson, where there's a circle track at the newer elevator and ethanol plant.

 

2. From inside an abandoned excursion train near MN border.  Cars are lettered "Algoma Central," and have both English and French lettering inside.  I think they originally came from Canada for an excursion/dinner train that ran near Spirit Lake, IA.  Cars have been sitting there for years, maybe decades, at the end of an abandoned line.

 

3,4,5. Minnesota Southern train, at Rushmore MN.  Train makes several runs per week from Luverne MN to Worthington MN on old Rock Island track.  Speed is 10 mph.  They mostly haul about 5 to 8 tankers back and forth for interchange with UP.  I would describe this operation as both quirky and tenuous.  They make money from storing hoppers and tankers on the west end of their line.

 

 

I have a new camera I want to try out this weekend.  Last week was windy, cold, and sometimes snowy.  I didn't get out along the tracks too much.  The new Nikon has me itching to get out tomorrow, despite the threat of more rain into the night.  

 

 

Kent in SD