Delaware & Hudson (DH) 7324 - EMD GP38-2
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As the winter setting sun casts a golden glow on the scene, Delaware & Hudson GP38-2 #7324 is in lead position as it works its way up the mountain near Nescopeck, PA. EMD - 11/1972 - serial #7386-11 - nee-LV 324. This is an original Frank Spieles color photo now in my collection.
Power backing towards train.
D&H GP38-2 #7324 & C420 #412 tied down on siding at FT Cabin, Forest City, Pa.
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D&H GP38-2 #7324 at E. Binghamton yd.
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D&H GP38-2 #7324 at E. Binghamton yd.
RW 6 is getting his yarding instructions as he passes through Neawha Park behind an ex LV unit and a couple of B&M units, which were a common sight here at the time. Note the red, white and blue striping on the nose of the first B&M unit.
One of the good things about the Cut Off was the grade separation. There were no crossings from Clarks Summit to Halstead. There were a number of overhead bridges, such as this one on PA 706 just south of New Milford, which provided good vantage points for photos. PYRP rolls under behind a we-ain't-mad-at-nobody consist on a gloomy Sunday.
PYRP rolls past the ex DLW station at Kingsley. Built during the construction of the famed Cut Off around 1912, the building was recently updated to serve as the northern end point of Steamtown excursions, which would start running here the following month.
An NYSW B40 leads PYRP into Hop Bottom, in the midst of the late June greenery that i so prevalent in Pennsylvania, one of the worlds largest hardwood forests.
PYRP rolls through BD, and will momentarily be on the diamond. Todays power is divided between ex LV and RDG units, letting everyone in on the act.
This was down a side road off NY17C. There was a water supply plant there, but the road was often gated. It was open this day, and I took the opportunity to get BUME rolling through the pair of signals there.
An ex LV unit, now D&H, looks on at the remains of its old home as it passes between the semaphores at Tioga Center with a 53 car BUME. Standing orders were to run NYSW power head out when practicable. Sometimes it just wasn't.
PYRP has reached Belden tunnel, and the pushers that have assisted from Bevier St, one each from Reading and LV, will cut off and head back home.
MEBU rolls through Bevier St behind D&H 7314, and ex LV unit that is blue for the moment. As the years pass, the engine will show more and more of its original paint, so that it will eventually look like its former self.
A coal train for the Mt Tom power plant in Massachusetts rolls up to Bevier St to get its pushers for the trip up Belden Hill.
PYRP rolls north along the Susquehanna behind D&H 7412, and ex Reading unit that(along with 7410) is not about to give up its heritage. The large building in the distance is the NYSEG Jennison Station.
The pushers seen at BD have trailed PYRP through Bevier St and are now getting started toward the tunnel.
When pushers were needed for a train going north, whatever was handy was drafted for the job. Today its an ex Chessie GP 30 pushing PYRP. No one here is complaining!!
Lighting stripe 7601 leads PYRP by Abrams Yd.on main one
KL 1 sits at the south end of Bevier St waiting to go west on the Souther Tier. Todays power gives no cliue about the interesting units that will appear on this train in the coming months, among them an M 630, M 636, and SOO power.
B&M power was not uncommon on the D&H, and only became more prevalent after Guilford acquired the road, along with those of Maine Central. Here are a pair of B&M GP38-2s, former Bicentennial 200 leading, with a like pair of ex LV units from the D&H northbound at Bainbridge. Note the D&H "I Love NY" boxcar back in the train.
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at "BD"
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Almost beat the crew member with the lantern!
BUME behind a Guilford painted GP 38 and NYSW power splits the ex Erie semaphores at Tioga Center.
BM331 (ex-PC 3248 / ex-CR 3248); BM 325 (ex-PC 3235 / ex-CR 3235); DH 7324 (ex-LV 324 / CP 7311)
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Some assortment of colors showing this day.
A little more cleaning and .......
LASE's power after having dropped the 209.
LASE, ALL of him, arrives at East Deerfield East over the Connecticut River bridge.
Bow coal train rounds the curve approaching Greenfield East.