The trains keep getting better and better as the long days of summer open up some great photo angles. As usual, a variety of trains and locations will be shown throughout this program, including an excessive display of foreign power and rare locomotives thrown into the mix. These videos take place on the Norfolk Southern Harrisburg Line between Reading and Harrisburg, Pennsylvania and was shot between the first day of summer, throughout July 2014. Train descriptions, as well as the time they appear in the video, are listed below. 6/20/14 - Intermodal train 20R has recently departed Harrisburg, bound for North Jersey, passing the former Reading train station in Lebanon early in the morning. The train is slowing down for a 25 MPH speed restriction within PRESCOTT interlocking on the eastern side of the city. 0:00 - 20R - Chicago, IL (Calumet) - Elizabeth, NJ NS SD70ACe 1038 NS C44-9W 9521 6/23/14 - Long and heavy manifest train 10N with a variety of locomotives in consist, slows for trackwork as it rolls through the quiet railroad town of Myerstown. I like this location for the two red brick houses next to the tracks. 1:40 - 10N - Conway, PA - Allentown, PA NS SD70 2562 BNSF SD70MAC 9530 CSX ES44AC 3011 7/3/14 - Shorter manifest train 16T is on the last leg of its journey as it too passes over Railroad Street in Myerstown, with a storm building to the west. This time the more industrious building on the opposite side of the tracks looms in te background. 4:00 - 16T - Birmingham, AL (Irondale) - Allentown, PA UP SD70M 4705 CREX ES44AC 1305 Just 20 minutes later and a few miles east, the sun was still shining as MOW gons were heading east toward Reading by a farm outside of Newmanstown. 5:05 - 93M - Maintenance of Way NS SD40-2 3421 NS SD40-2 3365 7/4/14 - On a beautiful Fourth of July evening, an appriopriate locomotive consist, with a flag unit leading, celebrates America Day at Ramona Road. 5:35 - 15T - Allentown, PA - Birmingham, AL (Irondale) UP AC45CCTE 7656 UP SD70M 4417 UP SD70M 4560 7/7/14 - A few days later on another beautiful summer evening, 15T passes the train station in Annville as it slows down for a Stop Signal at MILLARDS. 7:30 - 15T - Allentown, PA - Birmingham, AL (Irondale) NS SD60E 6961 NS C44-9W 9720 UP AC45CCTE 5475 Just before sunset, 33A, with CN power on the point, with yard power for Allentown in tow (offline), slows down for a 10 MPH speed restriction, passing the site where the old Hershey Chocolate factory once stood, which was recently torn down last year. 9:10 - 33A - Baltimore, MD (Bayview) - Allentown, PA CN ES44DC 2344 CN SD60 5408 NS GP40-2 3010 NS GP38-2 5613 NS SD60 6715 NS GP40-2 3013 7/9/14 - Another rare engine finds its way across the Harrisburg Line in the form of a CN/IC "smurf" Dash-8 trailing on a loaded crude oil train for South Jersey. I'm glad I got this shot when I did, because the corn is now too tall to see the tracks from here. 11:30 - 64W - Bakkan Region, ND - Westville, NJ NS SD60M 6793 IC C40-8W 2466 7/18/14 - 15T rounds the curve and passes some cows in the pasture with an ex-Conrail Dash-8 leading. 13:20 - 15T - Allentown, PA - Birmingham, AL (Irondale) NS C40-8W 8362 NS C44-9W 9824 7/23/14 - Early morning hot shot intermodal 20E passes by a farm just outside of Newmanstown. 15:20 - 20E - Chicao, IL - Croxton, NJ NS C44-9W 9885 NS C44-9W 9246 NS SD60 6607 Following not far behind another train, 20W runs at approach speed past through Richland. 17:25 - 20W - Chicago, IL - Croxton, NJ NS C44-9W 9433 CSX AC6000CW 604 That afternoon, a loaded ethanol train roars through PRESCOTT with an SD40-2 leader that was added for cab signals across former Pennsylvania Railroad territory. 19:25 - 64E - Chicago, IL - Linden, NJ NS SD40-2 3401 UP AC45CCTE 8035 UP AC45CCTE 7895 7/25/14 - A second section of 262 heads past DORF with the newest GE power from two different railroads on the point. This was a lengthy roadrailer compared to recent trains I have seen, but they are becoming shorter and will soon be a thing of the past because the Triple Crown trailers will be hauled on flat cars. 20:55 - I62 - Rutherford, PA - Bethlehem, PA NS ES44AC 8088 BNSF ES44C4 7158 That afternoon, stone empties head back to the quarry in Annville with a nice pair of toasty SD40-2's leading the way. The 94M is a utility symbol for the train, which also sometimes runs as H48, H60, or 69N, depending on the crew. 22:35 - 94M - Camden, NJ - Annville, PA NS SD40-2 3394 NS SD40-2 3338 7/28/14 - A rare locomotive leads 15T past the Triple M Farms feed mill in Avon. The SOO SD60's are in the process of being rebuilt and renumbered into the CP 6200 series. 23:55 - 15T - Allentown, PA - Birmingham, AL (Irondale) SOO SD60 6044 NS C40-8W 8458

• published: 31 Jul 2014
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