Passing Penobscot
The fifth and final stop on my chase of Reading and Northern's northbound NRFF was the only one where I got 'Coud F---ed' so an 80% success rate isn't too bad. Regardless I do kind of like the shots I got here so figured I'd edit up and file and post a few.
This Independence Day edition of 'America's Freight Train' with a healthy sized train behind five green and yellow EMDs led by RBMN 3053 (an SD40-2 blt. Apr. 1980 as MP 3321) is seen curling by Penobscot Yard that was partially rebuilt and reopened by RBMN after they took over the Lehigh Line from Conrail in 1996.
They are wheeling around the curve at speed on Main 1 while stored units sit in a deadline on track 4 in the yard. This is about MP LS 155.6 on modern day RBMN's Lehigh Division mainline and the tracks are on flat ground here, with the grade having leveled off at Crestwood, three miles behind them. They have climbed 800 ft in the 28 or so miles from Jim Thorpe with the grade reaching 1.17% at its steepest, and just ahead they will pass through the rock cut at Solomons Gap and begin the 23 mile or so descent from 1500 ft elevation down to about 650 ft at Pittston Yard alongside the Susquehanna River having crossed over the mountains from the Delaware River watershed.
Mountain Top, Pennsylvania
Monday July 4, 2022
Passing Penobscot
The fifth and final stop on my chase of Reading and Northern's northbound NRFF was the only one where I got 'Coud F---ed' so an 80% success rate isn't too bad. Regardless I do kind of like the shots I got here so figured I'd edit up and file and post a few.
This Independence Day edition of 'America's Freight Train' with a healthy sized train behind five green and yellow EMDs led by RBMN 3053 (an SD40-2 blt. Apr. 1980 as MP 3321) is seen curling by Penobscot Yard that was partially rebuilt and reopened by RBMN after they took over the Lehigh Line from Conrail in 1996.
They are wheeling around the curve at speed on Main 1 while stored units sit in a deadline on track 4 in the yard. This is about MP LS 155.6 on modern day RBMN's Lehigh Division mainline and the tracks are on flat ground here, with the grade having leveled off at Crestwood, three miles behind them. They have climbed 800 ft in the 28 or so miles from Jim Thorpe with the grade reaching 1.17% at its steepest, and just ahead they will pass through the rock cut at Solomons Gap and begin the 23 mile or so descent from 1500 ft elevation down to about 650 ft at Pittston Yard alongside the Susquehanna River having crossed over the mountains from the Delaware River watershed.
Mountain Top, Pennsylvania
Monday July 4, 2022