"Techno-Toasted" A rather roasted Dash 9 unit leads a westbound oil can leaving Minot. I hope you liked it well-done.... Or perhaps you would rather have a flambé?
In June of '82 the NYS&W hosted a fantrip that ran the remaining 25 Mile length of the road at the time. The owner of the NYS&W Walter Rich had procured a number of former Auto Train (ex-AT&SF) cars and put them to good use, but at the slow speeds we saw, the A/C system wasn't performing well and the heat was nearly unbearable in the domes.
More fantrip shots. RS-1s in the dead line at NYS&W's Little Ferry, NJ engine terminal. The 230 was built in '44 and the 236 in '45. I don't know what became of these. The beautiful 240 above was later sold to the Tioga Central and scrapped in 2014.
In the early '80s, New Jersey's Black River & Western RR operated a magnificently restored PRR doodlebug on a (now abandoned) segment of its line between Ringoes and Lambertville. She's a J.G. Brill Gas-Electric Model 660 built in 1930. The 4666 now serves on the Allentown & Auburn RR in eastern PA. Departing Ringoes: Waiting for departure at Lambertville. This portion of the line was built in 1851 and the station was built in 1867. That's the Delaware & Raritan Canal in the foreground, opened 1834. It's no longer used of course, but many scenic portions remain as walking trails.
It sounded so nice too. My notes show that power was powered by a Hamilton 6-Cyl (8-3/4" x 12"), 950 RPM, 425 HP engine. It was perhaps a replacement, as the plate on it was dated "1941-01-09 #6489". Not a good shot of it, but here it is. Note the PRR Cab Signal display to the left of the window. I actually got to run it for a few miles under the watchful eye of a friend. Yep, it's still around, but now lives on a different railroad.
"Stacked Ross Local" A healthy-sized Ross Local drifts slowly east into Minot, ND. On the tail of the train is an empty centerbeam car, far around the curve, above the second car.
A section of the Lehigh Canal is open in Easton, PA and that boat rides are offered there. Otherwise, I'm not sure. I have several books packed with photos of NJs various canals and they're really nice to page through and I have a period reproduction posting of the D&H Canal's mileposts posted in my train room. It was such a relaxed mode of transport.
Near as I can tell, it works smaller online industries along the Glasgow Sub main to around Ross, ND. There may not be many online industries that require a local, as the major shippers have their own transload facilities that load entire unit trains.
Several shots from Allentown, PA in the early 1980s. This hump yard was owned by the CNJ, but was transferred to LV ownership when the CNJ quit its operations in PA. It then was absorbed into by CR. It remains an important yard to its newest owner NS, but its hump has been recently removed. Aren't all of those graffiti-free cars a lovely sight?
The very rare SD70ACe-T4 makes an appearance through Cedar Rapids on an eastbound rack train. January 22, 2020 Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk