HiDef: Trains Racing Side-By-Side on the NS Harrisburg Line

Two races on two seperate days, happenings like this are not uncommon on the Harrisburg Line due to the stack of unidirectional traffic at different times of the day.

3-15-09 at Richland we see hot trailers overtaking a freight.
20W
NS SD70M-2 2752
NS SD60I 6739

10N
NS D9-40CW 9663
NS D9-40CW 9424
(Again I apologize for the choppy look because I taped in interlaced mode rather than progressive)

Then on 3-21-09 (this time in progressive format thankfully)... 34A leads a soon-to-overtake 21M through the downtown rough-track of Lebanon, PA.
34A
NS SD60I 6750
NS D9-40C 8853
NS GP40-2 3010
NS RP-E4 Slug 912 (one of two in existence)
NS GP40-2 3004

21M
NS D9-40CW 9884
NS SD60I 6757 "Conrail Quality"

Unfortunately I had to go to the "dark-side" for this shot to work out, but it didn't turn out bad at all.

Enjoy, and I'll try my best to catch some more of these during the day, it happens mostly at night.

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[conrailbuff]

Thats soo kewl to see the cars and trailers "hoppin" along going thro town. lol

every time I come up there or go to Richland I end up seeing 2 or less trains. xI dont go up there alot, so maybe I should come up more often in order to see something like this eh?

[o00o00ozy]

@conrailbuff

This doesn't happen often. But 2 trains or less? How long are you there? We got about 40+ daily and about 15-20 run in daylight over the summer.

[adelgado75]

what caused the cars to 'hop'?

[m301]

Very nice work again! Glad to see the CR unit mixed in there..like old times on the Harrisburg/Reading lines.

8899896: cabooses are still used, but on locals and work trains now.

[GlennaMedakp406]

ehm hab was geiles entdeckt haha

[8899896]

Cabooses are extinct they don't have any cabooses any more OR i haven't seen any where I live any way ! LOVED this video A lot it was awesome to see 2 train @ once. J.BOAN

[DrRenaldo]

i could never live there thats too much train action,

[buckshideout]

@StallFiveProductions I agree, needs a tampen bad

[buckshideout]

Run 8 by both trains! Nice toot from both engineers.

[westernkyrail]

wonder what happens when they reach single track or have to cross over? Dispatcher: first one to the light gets the switch.

Engineer 1: GAME TIME B!TCHES!!!!!!!

[SuperNJTRANSIT]

nice 

[gvtuber]

Dude you freakin rock!

5 min. before both of those shots, when you looked down the rails at the CTCs and saw green lights on both rails, you musta sprinted to the car to get set-up. Still there was no guarantee that they'd run that closely together. Born under a luck star, or sumpin.

Your NS is some of the best year round. Keep it coming.