October 26, 2006, photos

[3rdrail]

It's Thursday again, so here are two more:

Shade Gap Electric Rwy. 314 boards passengers for a trip up the ex-East Broad Top Shade Gap branch at Rockhill Furnace, PA:


At the same location as above, EBT 3 foot gauge Mikado No. 14 wyes its train:

[Ed Kapuscinski]

Here's some more central PA goodness, from this past weekend:

"Down Town" Cresson:


Rose Yard in Altoona:


Unit Ethanol Train (ironically, the same type of train responsible for us losing a lot of volume that day) at "the slide" in Tunnel Hill PA (just east of Gallitzen):


There will be many more over the next couple of weeks.

[quadk]

Great pictures Ed!!!

[Mark5]

Seriously. Nice pics ed. I'm jealous that I wasn't there.

[Ed Kapuscinski]

Next year, or in the winter if we go back...

Like I said, I have a slew more that I'll be posting over the next few weeks.

Maybe I'll go post different ones on Atlas.

[tokenbrit]

Unit Ethanol Train...

What's with the single excess height box car ahead of the ethanol tankers - is that standard operating practice for ethanol trains?

[Ed Kapuscinski]

I don't know about it's excess height requirements, but I do know they use a spacer, because accidents happen:

http://www.topix.net/city/beaver-falls-pa

[Wlal13again]

Unit Ethanol Train...

All the ethanol trains I`ve seen going through Macungie have the boxcar spacer on the head end of the tank cars...

[POVC]

Unit Ethanol Train...

What's with the single excess height box car ahead of the ethanol tankers - is that standard operating practice for ethanol trains?

Safety regulations prohibit tank cars carrying flammable liquids or hazardous chemicals from being placed next to the locomotives, necessitating a "spacer" car (and usually there is more than one).

Ed, was that ethonal train headed uphill or downgrade?  Those look like pushers on the back end of the train and if I recall correctly the track on the right is the east bound track, meaning the train is going uphill toward Gallitzen.

Tim

[Ed Kapuscinski]

You got it, those were the helpers.

Because these days, the helpers are 10x more interesting than what's on the point (unless it's more helpers).

[3rdrail]

Are Ed and I the only ones with photographs this week? C'mon, someone's got something interesting out there! 

[MrKLUKE]

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[cr6841]

Here's some more central PA goodness, from this past weekend:

"Down Town" Cresson:


Rose Yard in Altoona:


Unit Ethanol Train (ironically, the same type of train responsible for us losing a lot of volume that day) at "the slide" in Tunnel Hill PA (just east of Gallitzen):


There will be many more over the next couple of weeks.

is that sammy hagar in the red flannel next to the 5620?

[Skip]

Anybody guess where these were taken last weekend?

[John]

Martinsville VA? NASCAR