October 2019 Locomotives

CSX K160 headed west added some bright color to start of fall on a gloomy day in town

C770 headed back west lite power coming up to Hollow Rd

3rd unit on C770

Q158 headed west along the siding with equipment parked

Trailing unit on Q158

Phone pic of the trailing unit on K160

Q404 comes east thru the Rt.601 crossing in town on a gloomy saturday morning

Trailing unit on Q404

Me running my Ho scale PKP Cargo SM42 around the Harpers Ferry scene

Northlandz yard with the old locomotives sitting on the top of the control room

Q409 coming west before 3 PM with CSX and BNSF power

2nd unit on Q409

3rd unit on Q409

90 spinning around to hook back to its train and back to Strasburg at Paradise Jct

Number 90 is seen pulling 10 coaches to Paradise Jct approaching the Esbenshade Rd crossing

As it turns to 9 am, the famous N&W 611 is seen shuttling back and fourth from Strausburg on a crisp morning

NW 611 the Queen of Steam rumbles the ground past our cameras at the Esbenshade Rd crossing in town

One of the last AMTK AEM-7s rust away at the Museum of PA RR

Number 90 comes through Esbenshade not to far behind 611 with the ten coaches

AMTK #42 rounds the curve at Paradise Jct laying the horn east past our cameras

Amtrak westbound Pennsylvanian 43 zips through the junction at 95 mph with a friendly engineer

At the end of this nice Sunday chase 611 rest one last time with people checking out her cab

90 clearing the switch to head back to its train next to the old PRR signal in front of the main road

"A nice picture" As 611 comes through the Red Caboose motel with the american flags giving an ironic scene to the special train!

A cabcar leading 600 series keystone zooms by Paradise Jct with a nice shave n' a haircut

611 shuttling and then turning the corner back to Strausburg at Esbenshade Rd

90 comes out for the switch at the famous "J" tower interlocking as scene from the main road

90 coming toward the junction to reverse its locomotive

90 finally departing Paradise bound for Strasburg with many coaches

Another NW locomotive sits for display as visitors get to blow the whistle

A beautiful locomotive in the morning light as it pulls into the main station

With nice lighting 90 re-steams herself back up after watering up

90 slowly pulls into the station to couple up to its train right behind my camera

C770 coming west at twilight with these annoying little particles in the air when my flash goes off

Q158 in the evening going by the parked NSSX equipment laying on that classic horn

A super backlit EMD leader on Q300 nice things to see, notice the autoracks and juice block

Q158 going away into the sunset

K162 coming through Rt.601 almost in golden hour

A nice YN2 warrior leads Q158 in the sun

Trailing unit on Q158

K163 hauling east with an SD40-2 leading at the 601 RR crossing

K602 in the rain running west thru Hollow Rd

Trailing unit on K602

Q409 coming up to Hollow Rd with several storage locomotives in tow

A late Q439 comes west thru QA45 with a cool engineer

Trailing unit on Q439

Q158 at Hollow Road

2nd unit on Q409

3rd unit on Q409