The holidays provided ample opportunity for photographing various trains on CONUS Lines. Here is an eastbound CSX double stack train, led by ES44AC #953. A CSX SD50 and UP ES44AC complete the motive power trio required to take the heavy train up the 2.1% grade to Armstrong. In the first view, #953 departs Ellison. The train passes the depot at Allen in the second view. The final two images have the train approaching Georges Creek Junction (that a Bakkan oil shale train westbound trailing a NS caboose clearing the Junction) and passing the tower at the Junction.
Excellent photos! I like the Bakken shall oil train. They are drilling Marcellus shale oil here in Western Pennsylvania. My favorite uncle's last name was Bakken. He had some HO trains when I was little and gave me my first Kalmbach books and some building kits after I bought my first HO train set.
