Midweek Photos 7/12/2017 [Real Trains]

After lunch, it is time to take on the project assignments. Each of the four groups need to study up on one of the pieces in the collection to give a presentation on Friday.  

Mr. Morrison also led some tours of the museum.  

Some of the locomotives were opened for the groups to explore...  Such as Pennsylvania 4-4-2 no. 7002.

Virginia & Truckee 2-6-0 no. 20 was decked out for the summer holidays, sitting alongside PRR 4-6-0 no 5741 and E-7 no 5901.

Not all of the cabs were opened, but the E7 was, and each person posed in the engineer's seat, including group leader Rick Davidson. 

After dinner, it was another night of rail fanning at Newark, DE's train station. This is the south end of the line for Septa, the Philadelphia area commuter line. 

This beautiful old PRR station now serves at the Newark History Museum. 

A city sprinter roars through with a regional train.  

That does it for me this week.  Next week, I will highlight Thursday at the Strasburg Rail Road. 

Pics from a recent trip on the SW Chief from KC to Albuquerque.

The East bound # 4 Southwest Chief rounds a curve near Glorieta NM as a storm looms ahead and the East bound #4 meets the #3.

Occasional encounters on Sunday mornings with Winchester & Western's turn from Corning Yard (near Inwood,WV),
up to Hagerstown are usually worth around 3 GP's and 2-3 dozen freight cars.
Sunday, 7/10/2017, would be different, as I pulled up to the Sterling Rd. crossing in Halfway,MD., a distant headlight meant about a 15 minute wait as the train crawled up grade out of the Potomac River valley at 10mph or less.
As the northbound train roared through the crossing at 10:35a.m., I realized there was twice as many locomotives as usual.

2 GP38-2s and 4 GP9/10s took the usual consist of freight cars north to the NS yard in Hagerstown, where they will spend 2-3 hours exchanging cars.

I wondered about the extra locos, but the answer would come after I concluded my visit to my parents in nearby Williamsport,MD.

Delmarva Central HA-3 is a local freight that runs from Harrington to Frankford, Delaware most weeknights.  This Monday, Norfolk Southern was late to interchange with the DCR, so the decision was made to run HA-3 instead.  They left Harrington at 12 noon, and were on their way back to Harrington when I caught them in Lincoln, where they stopped for dinner at a sandwich shop next to the tracks.

At 1:30p.m., I  pulled up to the Sterling RD. crossing, looked north, and saw a southbound headlight! W&W was headed back south at a very slow pace.
I quickly got ready, even though photos from this angle are obstructed.
I noticed as the train crept by at 5mph 2 things:
There was now 7 engines! GP38-2 #2182 joined the party,the most engines I've ever seen on a W&W train.
Equally surprising was the 25-30 loaded NS coal cars, plus the usual cut of NS interchange, no doubt the reason for the extra power.
Where would W&W be taking this coal?

Engines in southbound consist:
GP38-2 #2689; orig. PC/CR/CSX
GP-9 #459; orig. NKP/N&W
GP9 #709; orig. PRR/PC/CR
GP10 #752; orig.NYC/PC/CR
GP9 #403; orig.T&NO/SP/Precision National Corp./Tidewater Grain.
GP38-2 #2196; orig. IC (GP40R)/ICG/LMTX rebuilt to GP38-2
GP38-2 #2182; orig. IC GP40/ICG/rebuilt by leasor into GP38-2.

All images by Warren W. Jenkins

Here are some pics I took on the way home from the TCA National Convention in Pittsburgh.

Wheeling & Lake Erie 6967 at Rook Yard, on Pittsburgh's west side:

Stopped in at the Lake Shore Railway Historical Society in North East, PA, a couple of miles east of Erie. It's a great place to watch trains on the adjacent CSX and NS mains:

They recently acquired this Chessie System unit:

-Aric

Here are some shots I've taken both recently and over the last couple months. The top photos is one of two switchers for Waste Management Corp. ( Recyclers) located in Annapolis Junction, Md.  The bottom two photos are of a switching locomotive used at Vulcan Mineral Co. also in Annapolis Junction, Md.  Both industries are directly adjacent to the CSX mainline.   The middle pix are from the Virginia Museum of Transportation in Roanoke.... Y6a, Wabash E unit, RF&P boxcar, Chesapeake and Western Baldwin end cab switcher.  Photo under C&W switcher is of trash cars loaded with recyclable garbage for Waste Management Corp, the next photo is of part of the CSX yard in Annapolis Junction.   There is a large automobile unloading facility with lots of auto racks nearby, hence the yard rolling stock is basically auto racks.  

A rare sight. This is CSX B902 (A Sunday version of the B702) with BNSF engines on the former Western Maryland at Highfield Md. A local auction was taking place and there were cars parked everywhere and people walking up and down the tracks.

interesting