#800 in this video is now running in nothern PA in Towanda PA for Shaffers feed service. Runs through my back yard taking feed cars from the main line to shaffers. about a 7 mile trip. Awesome road horn on it.
#800 in this video is now running in nothern PA in Towanda PA for Shaffers feed service. Runs through my back yard taking feed cars from the main line to shaffers. about a 7 mile trip. Awesome road horn on it.
Good to see some rail service still alive in Pottsville. I remember as a kid back in the early 1970's you could hop on an RDC car and take it all the way to Reading Terminal in Phila. That service is sorely missed in the coal region. I recall doing that and hopping on a subway from RDG terminal to catch a Phillies game and all we had to drive were the few miles to Pottsville. Those were the days!
whats great is Pottsville City is Building a 14 floor high rise bus/train terminal that will house a high speed train connecting Reading and Pottsville and also taxi's and city and long distant bus lines all over the country! Once they finish building it pottsville"s popuation which is 18,000 people will rapidily grow in the next couple years,, maybe with good people but most will be drug dealers from philly and reading and new york YAY for the future of schuylkill county.
There aren't tracks in Lambertville anymore, they were abandoned in the mid-1970s. There are still quite a few anthracite coal dealers scattered throughout the country (but particularly in the northeast), but most if not all of them get their coal trucked in now.
@UFO4X sp8553 is right that the Bel Del/Pennsy/Conrail/whatever doesn't run through Lambertville anymore along the Delaware River. The Black River and Western owns about a mile of track in Lambertville... the southern-most mile of their main, but it hasn't seen a train in about 10 years. Furthest south they go anymore is Ringoes.
@UFO4X The tracks between Lambertville and Ringoes New Jersey are out of use and will be returned to service someday for tourist trains and freight for the Black River & Western Railroad. Coal trains will probably never go through there again. The Bel-Del line between Trenton and Lambertville is now a trail as are other sections to the north.
Great video. We almost never see any railfans out on this job. I (Chris Bost) was engineer this day and John Hartman was conductor. Thanks for posting this and come out and see us again sometime!
Thanks! I haven't seen a whole lot of coverage of this job so I thought it would be neat to shoot. Any train with end cab switchers is worth seeing for me, so this was a nice train to chase. Hopefully I can make it up there again in the coming months.
Hey, how do you find out about RBMN freight trains. Can you direct me to a schedule for freight trains or something?
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#800 in this video is now running in nothern PA in Towanda PA for Shaffers feed service. Runs through my back yard taking feed cars from the main line to shaffers. about a 7 mile trip. Awesome road horn on it.
mstng100mph 11 months ago
#800 in this video is now running in nothern PA in Towanda PA for Shaffers feed service. Runs through my back yard taking feed cars from the main line to shaffers. about a 7 mile trip. Awesome road horn on it.
mstng100mph 11 months ago
Good to see some rail service still alive in Pottsville. I remember as a kid back in the early 1970's you could hop on an RDC car and take it all the way to Reading Terminal in Phila. That service is sorely missed in the coal region. I recall doing that and hopping on a subway from RDG terminal to catch a Phillies game and all we had to drive were the few miles to Pottsville. Those were the days!
OttoRax 1 year ago
Man, I gotta find out when they run this train now that I have the ability to get out and take some pictures of teh R&N.
jadebullet 1 year ago
Thanks for posting! Good video, and nice to hear an in-service M3 in the 21st century that's not a collector horn!
cnjgp7 1 year ago
whats great is Pottsville City is Building a 14 floor high rise bus/train terminal that will house a high speed train connecting Reading and Pottsville and also taxi's and city and long distant bus lines all over the country! Once they finish building it pottsville"s popuation which is 18,000 people will rapidily grow in the next couple years,, maybe with good people but most will be drug dealers from philly and reading and new york YAY for the future of schuylkill county.
dsm4g63gst3 2 years ago
Awesome video as usual!!!!!
nhrrman 2 years ago
How close does this train run to Lambertville, New Jersey? I read the PRR used to deliver anthracite coal there many years ago?
UFO4X 2 years ago
There aren't tracks in Lambertville anymore, they were abandoned in the mid-1970s. There are still quite a few anthracite coal dealers scattered throughout the country (but particularly in the northeast), but most if not all of them get their coal trucked in now.
sp8553 2 years ago
@UFO4X sp8553 is right that the Bel Del/Pennsy/Conrail/whatever doesn't run through Lambertville anymore along the Delaware River. The Black River and Western owns about a mile of track in Lambertville... the southern-most mile of their main, but it hasn't seen a train in about 10 years. Furthest south they go anymore is Ringoes.
cnjgp7 1 year ago
@UFO4X The tracks between Lambertville and Ringoes New Jersey are out of use and will be returned to service someday for tourist trains and freight for the Black River & Western Railroad. Coal trains will probably never go through there again. The Bel-Del line between Trenton and Lambertville is now a trail as are other sections to the north.
sgprailfan 1 year ago
5*****!!!!! i just love r&n's colors!!
altoonaPArailfan 2 years ago
Great video. We almost never see any railfans out on this job. I (Chris Bost) was engineer this day and John Hartman was conductor. Thanks for posting this and come out and see us again sometime!
425ENGR 2 years ago
Thanks! I haven't seen a whole lot of coverage of this job so I thought it would be neat to shoot. Any train with end cab switchers is worth seeing for me, so this was a nice train to chase. Hopefully I can make it up there again in the coming months.
sp8553 2 years ago
isnt john the engineer on that job?
conrailqualityguy 2 years ago
Thanks you, Videos very nice, ５★★★★★
vladimir2366fa 2 years ago
great video and awesome horn
DL2045 2 years ago