Reflecting On The Old Line
Another take on this great little scene we stumbled in to.
A little puddle provides a near perfect mirror for my second look at Norfolk Southern local H04. Previously relegated to working overnight under the cover of darkness thanks to pandemic reduced train frequencies on Amtrak's Northeast Corridor they have been working on days starting at 0900 at Baltimore's Bayview Yard and working to the big Clorox plant in Perryman daily and as far north as Havre de Grace at least once a week.
Here they are seen on the old line having just finished working Plastipak Industries they are getting their train back together so they can start back south. The old line is a 1 3/4 mile long stub of the old main line through town that lead to the original 1866 bridge. After the mainline was realigned slightly on the approach to the new and higher 1906 structure still in service the old line into town was retained and more than a century later it still has three rail served customers located on it.
NS 5620 is a GP38-2 that was rebuilt with a chopped nose in 2005 from a Southern high hood GP38AC oroginally blt. Aug. 1971 as CNOTP 2871.
Havre de Grace, Maryland
Friday April 2, 2021
Reflecting On The Old Line
Another take on this great little scene we stumbled in to.
A little puddle provides a near perfect mirror for my second look at Norfolk Southern local H04. Previously relegated to working overnight under the cover of darkness thanks to pandemic reduced train frequencies on Amtrak's Northeast Corridor they have been working on days starting at 0900 at Baltimore's Bayview Yard and working to the big Clorox plant in Perryman daily and as far north as Havre de Grace at least once a week.
Here they are seen on the old line having just finished working Plastipak Industries they are getting their train back together so they can start back south. The old line is a 1 3/4 mile long stub of the old main line through town that lead to the original 1866 bridge. After the mainline was realigned slightly on the approach to the new and higher 1906 structure still in service the old line into town was retained and more than a century later it still has three rail served customers located on it.
NS 5620 is a GP38-2 that was rebuilt with a chopped nose in 2005 from a Southern high hood GP38AC oroginally blt. Aug. 1971 as CNOTP 2871.
Havre de Grace, Maryland
Friday April 2, 2021