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CSX 2479 |
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This was my first train photo in the U.S. in a long time. I took this in Fonda, NY, because"I noticed that the gates at the Broadway crossing were activated and walked over to see if I could get something. I took video initially, and this is a still capture that my Panasonic can do. Shis was a work train, sitting in the siding, and the crossing gates kept going on a off, which Im hoping CSX dealt with eventually. The locomotive is an EMD SD50-2, which is a rebuilt SD50 downgraded wo 3,000 horsepower (from the stock 3,500). CSX primarily uses these on MOW (work) trains at the moment. |
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8/29/2010 Upload Date: 12/4/2010 10:07:33 AM |
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Fonda, NY |
| Author: |
Jon Searles |
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Yard |
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CSX 2479(SD50-2) |
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Conrail GP38 |
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This is my latest, and maybe last, photo of a locomotive still in Conrail colors pulling a regular freight train. This is in PRR (in the sense of Norfolk Southern, I dont know historically speaking) territory near (or in) Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Because I took this from a car its slightly blurred and so I cant get the number, but I think that this locomotive is a GP38, as it has two radiator fans, and Conrail had few GP38-2s, and no SD38s (which would have longer frames anyway). |
| Photo Date: |
12/26/2010 Upload Date: 3/11/2011 7:37:03 AM |
| Location: |
Harrisburg, PA |
| Author: |
Jon Searles |
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Action |
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Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Bridge, Edited Version, |
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This concrete viaduct is in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and carries a railroad line over the Susquehanna River. Incidentally, this isnt the famous Rockville Bridge where an accident occurred (containers blown off a freight train in a blizzard) the day after I took this. That bridge is considerably north of this one, and stone, in addition to having three fewer arches. It probably isnt visible in this photo. Therefore, this would be the Philadelphia & Reading bridge, built in 1924 named for the railroad that built it, which became the Reading Company later that year, being merged into Conrail in 1976, passing to Norfolk Southern in the Conrail breakup of 1997, meaning that Norfolk Southern are the current operators. Visible behind this bridge in the water are the ruins of some piers from the South Pennsylvania Railroad Bridge, started, but never completed, in 1884. |
| Photo Date: |
12/26/2010 Upload Date: 3/11/2011 7:36:24 AM |
| Location: |
Harrisburg, PA |
| Author: |
Jon Searles |
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Bridge |
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