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NS SD-40-2 Beats the Hill rollinswitch 136 views Forced to stop on a steep grade to throw a switch, this SD-40-2 and the engineer manage to start again with a dead GP59 and 14 cars pulling it back downhill, barely.
First Portland Turn over the repaired Bells Bridge on the Delaware Lackawanna rollinswitch 155 views It's been months since an Alco has made it's way to Slateford for the NS exchange. A trackmobile was the only connection to the isolated paper mill customer, just beyond th...
High and Wide Air Products Heat Exchanger on the Lehigh Line rollinswitch 266 views Produced near Wilkes-Barre Pa, this big heat exchanger for LNG production needs 5 railroads to get to the port in Philadelphia for shipping. This huge and expensive mechani...
SU 99 May 4 2011 rollinswitch 170 views NYS&W SU 99 plunges west late in the afternoon of May 6, 2011. Led by locos 3018, 3012, 4052, 3016 and followed by 44 cars on their way to Binghamton, NY. Here we see the t...
Pennsylvania E8's Coatesville to Lewistown,Pa rollinswitch 447 views The Bennet Pennsylvania E8's hauled a special to Chicago starting from Philadelphia, Pa on May 4th, 2011. They ran as an Amtrak train through Harrisburg to Pittsburgh on We...
Norfolk Southern moves historical locomotives up Portland Secondary rollinswitch 1,513 views The Anthracite Railroad Historical Society had three of their locomotives moved from Winslow Junction, NJ to Scranton,PA via Allentown Yard and Slateford Yard. The run on t...
Steam Train to the Ice Harvest 2011 rollinswitch 1,589 views Steamtown's CN 3254 pulled passengers from Scranton to the Tobyhanna Ice Harvest Festival on January 15th. With the temperatures rising into the 20's the steam cloud was gr...
ALCO locomotives in HD rollinswitch 596 views The Delaware-Lackawanna SPG is seen here bringing in grain and hauling empty propane tankers. The four Century series locomotives have that characteristic smoke when thrott...
How It's Done - Railroad MOW -Maintenance of Way rollinswitch 800 views Railroad Maintenance of Way is an extremely important part of running a railroad. Without maintenance the rails system soon falls apart and those huge loads go into the dir...
Steam and diesel FP7 to DWG Founders Day rollinswitch 452 views The town of Delaware Water Gap celebrates its founder's day and usually a steam powered train arrives from Scranton's Steamtown during the event. This year (2010), the stea...

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