Providence and Worcester FPCH at Southport, Connecticut
One from the hard drive. Before the aggregate business took off for the P&W in the New York market, the P&W would make two trips to Queens a week. Usually Friday night with a 30 car train for Prima Asphalt, occasionally with a cut of ballast if the LIRR had any major track project going on, with the return on Saturday light engine or with a short cut of empties. On Tuesday nights another light engine move would head for Queens to retrieve the now empty 30 car train for a Wednesday return to the Tilcon quarry at Reeds Gap. The Wednesday train ran the length of the New Haven Line in daylight, and owning a night job at the time I took advantage of shooting a freight in daylight under the wire. So much has changed.....a pair of orange a brown B39-8's leading the train, the old floating span catenary and running in daylight, a regular move back then. Increased passenger train frequency along with a huge increase of tonnage moved these jobs to night runs on both sides of the job. I was always surprised on how these runs were overlooked by the railfan community at the time.
Providence and Worcester FPCH at Southport, Connecticut
One from the hard drive. Before the aggregate business took off for the P&W in the New York market, the P&W would make two trips to Queens a week. Usually Friday night with a 30 car train for Prima Asphalt, occasionally with a cut of ballast if the LIRR had any major track project going on, with the return on Saturday light engine or with a short cut of empties. On Tuesday nights another light engine move would head for Queens to retrieve the now empty 30 car train for a Wednesday return to the Tilcon quarry at Reeds Gap. The Wednesday train ran the length of the New Haven Line in daylight, and owning a night job at the time I took advantage of shooting a freight in daylight under the wire. So much has changed.....a pair of orange a brown B39-8's leading the train, the old floating span catenary and running in daylight, a regular move back then. Increased passenger train frequency along with a huge increase of tonnage moved these jobs to night runs on both sides of the job. I was always surprised on how these runs were overlooked by the railfan community at the time.