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4/26/2024
 
 
 
 
 
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Old habits
Title:  Old habits
Description:  You gotta be real careful along the right of way and I find my old Pennsy brakeman instincts serve me well over the years insofar as keeping alert. The old electric motors were silent and could creep up on you with little warning; and newer diesels are so well muffled that they may also sneak up upon one. Traffic moves briskly and relatively silently through the narrows between Mifflin and Lewistown. The slope of Shade Mountain has allowed the setting sun to illuminate the depths of the gorge at Hawstone as NS 7500 races west with empty hoppers - scattering the leaves.
Photo Date:  10/21/2010  Upload Date: 11/8/2010 10:43:38 AM
Location:  Hawstone, PA
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Scenic,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  NS 7500(ES40DC)
Views:  530   Comments: 3
Black diamonds
Title:  Black diamonds
Description:  Coal is precious to the revenue department. NS 7500 slams through Huntingdon on a Saturday morning.
Photo Date:  10/23/2010  Upload Date: 11/9/2010 11:43:19 AM
Location:  Huntingdon, PA
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  NS 7500(ES40DC)
Views:  168   Comments: 1
In The Narrows
Title:  In The Narrows
Description:  NS 7519 booms downgrade through the narrows at Hawstone, PA between Lewistown and Denholm.
Photo Date:  6/24/2009  Upload Date: 3/30/2010 11:56:20 PM
Location:  Hawstone, PA
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  NS 7519(ES40DC)
Views:  260   Comments: 0
Hustling down the valley
Title:  Hustling down the valley
Description:  NS 7522 has got em rockin and rollin down the Juniata Valley.
Photo Date:  10/17/2010  Upload Date: 11/6/2010 1:29:56 PM
Location:  Huntingdon, PA
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  NS 7522(ES40DC)
Views:  107   Comments: 0
Two if by land, three if by air
Title:  Two if by land, three if by air
Description:  BNSF 8301 brings a westbound manifest into Gillette, WY
Photo Date:  8/13/2010  Upload Date: 8/31/2010 8:23:19 AM
Location:  Gillette, WY
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 8301(SD75I) NS 7549(ES40DC)
Views:  323   Comments: 1
Headed for the plains
Title:  Headed for the plains
Description:  BNSF 756 has cut its helpers off at Summit and is moving past Bison.
Photo Date:  8/20/2009  Upload Date: 4/2/2010 2:19:11 PM
Location:  Bison, MT
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 756(C44-9W) NS 7558(ES40DC) CP 9512(AC44CW) BNSF 2103(GP38-2)
Views:  650   Comments: 0
A photographic cliche
Title:  A photographic cliche
Description:  It is a well visited location - for obvious reasons; and the snowless peaks lessen the dramatic appeal. BNSF 756 heads over Two Medicine viaduct between East Glacier and Spotted Robe along US 2.
Photo Date:  8/20/2009  Upload Date: 4/2/2010 2:22:03 PM
Location:  East Glacier Park, MT
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 756(C44-9W) NS 7558(ES40DC) CP 9512(AC44CW) BNSF 2103(GP38-2)
Views:  641   Comments: 1
Good Juju
Title:  Good Juju
Description:  I was goofing off, sipping coffee and enjoying the exhilarating Montana air while packing the bike in the morning when this outfit came rambling through the pines west of Essex. There was an MW gang waiting to get on after Amtrak so I hurriedly packed and headed east on US 2, hoping the train would stop for helpers at Essex. It did, thus allowing me to follow the train up Marias Pass. Here BNSF 756, decidedly outside of traditional warbonnet territory, is resplendent amongst the tall pines.
Photo Date:  8/20/2009  Upload Date: 4/1/2010 1:07:55 PM
Location:  Java, MT
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 756(C44-9W) NS 7558(ES40DC) CP 9512(AC44CW) BNSF 2103(GP38-2)
Views:  683   Comments: 0
Nearing the summit
Title:  Nearing the summit
Description:  BNSF 756 nears the top of the grade at Marias Pass.
Photo Date:  8/20/2009  Upload Date: 4/2/2010 2:17:40 PM
Location:  Marias Pass, MT
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 756(C44-9W) NS 7558(ES40DC) CP 9512(AC44CW) BNSF 2103(GP38-2)
Views:  669   Comments: 3
Ethanol loads
Title:  Ethanol loads
Description:  The 9833 has an ethanol train passing Horningford, PA.
Photo Date:  10/17/2010  Upload Date: 11/6/2010 1:36:55 PM
Location:  Horningford, PA
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  NS 9833(C40-9W) NS 7601(ES40DC) NS 7144(GP60)
Views:  259   Comments: 0
In the lap of Blue Mountain
Title:  In the lap of Blue Mountain
Description:  NS 7613 leads another intermodal consist past the position light signals at Horningford Road crossing on a pleasant afternoon in the Juniata valley..
Photo Date:  9/17/2011  Upload Date: 9/21/2011 3:54:15 PM
Location:  Horningford, PA
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Signal
Locomotives:  NS 7613(ES40DC)
Views:  91   Comments: 0
NS 7650
Title:  NS 7650
Description:  A coal train negotiates the tight curves of the Pokey in the deepening shade of evening as it prepares to enter Hatfield Tunnel.
Photo Date:  9/1/2009  Upload Date: 4/3/2010 12:41:24 PM
Location:  Sprigg, WV
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  NS 7650(ES40DC)
Views:  185   Comments: 0
Countdown
Title:  Countdown
Description:  NS 7654 passes Horningford with the impressive backdrop of Blue Mountain.
Photo Date:  10/20/2012  Upload Date: 11/1/2012 10:51:36 AM
Location:  Horningford, PA
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Scenic,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  NS 7654(ES40DC)
Views:  79   Comments: 1
NS 7692
Title:  NS 7692
Description:  Along one of the oldest arteries of commerce in the land, NS 7692 walks a grain train through Lilly, PA.
Photo Date:  6/8/2012  Upload Date: 7/17/2012 1:21:17 AM
Location:  Lilly, PA
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Scenic,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  NS 7692(ES40DC)
Views:  91   Comments: 4
The right moment
Title:  The right moment
Description:  A little bit of sunlight at the right moment contrasted with a dramatic sky makes for an appealing view of NS 7698 East.
Photo Date:  10/20/2012  Upload Date: 11/1/2012 10:55:05 AM
Location:  Horningford, PA
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Scenic,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  NS 7698(ES40DC)
Views:  342   Comments: 0


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