Horseshoe Curve 10.12.08: Herzog's Traveling Hard Rock Show

The crickets chirped, the fall colors blazed, and the ground shook as SD70M 2618 and SD70M-2 2770 slogged upgrade through Horseshoe Curve with 60-odd cars of Herzog ballast on October 12, 2008. The 2618 and 2770 got by with more than a little help from their friends - shoving hard on the rear was a four-unit SD40-2 helper set, with blue 3338 leading 3427, 3348, and black-but-with-a-blue-cab-signal-box 3373.

Repost of an earlier clip, now in HD.

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• Conrail
• Norfolk
• Southern
• Herzog
• rock
• train
• SD70M
• SD70M-2
• SD40-2
• helper
• Horseshoe
• Curve
• Pennsylvania
• HD

[eeeman07]

what kind of locomotive is on the point?

[FastFlyingVirginian]

SD70M. I try to work the info into the description where possible.

[eeeman07]

oh. wow. i forgot how to read, the flared radiators are almost as wide as an SD45's I guess i never saw one like thatbefore

[FastFlyingVirginian]

I had seen them before a few times, but I had to look up the model by its number this time; I just didn't notice the nose bump and the radiator flare until later.

[hhp8]

i think it's a SD70MAC, btw, nice catch 4 helpers, wow

[FastFlyingVirginian]

I don't know; NS being - well, NS, they were death on AC traction until the recent ES44AC order (8000-8023). Other than that I thought the only exceptions were the 80MACs they inherited from Conrail. I'm pretty sure they avoided ACs in the 70 series.

[PaulPeirceFan]

have you ever seen the herzog train dumping bassalt it awesome