WX-1 Working Polar
Just a vertical I really liked of this scene with some nice long old school telecompression.
After switching in the hump yard for a bit Providence and Worcester's local switcher WX-1 and found them working the 'hump yard' headed down the Norwich Branch side to work long time customer Polar Beverage. This long telephoto view looks north from near the Hope Ave. crossing at about MP 68.5 on the Norwich Branch main as traffic flies by overhead on I290. The train is technically on Track 6 in the Norwich South Yard as main track officially begins about 500 ft. behind me on the other side of the crossing at Sword.
On the point is PW 2010 which was built new for Penn Central in Oct. 1969 as PC 7808. It passed to Conrail 7 years later and was sold to the PW in 1984, and then rebuilt in 1999 at Paducah and is now classified as a GP38-3. Trailing is 2009 an EMD GP38-2 purchased new by the then only 9 year newly independent PW in Sep. 1982.
Worcester, Massachusetts
Wednesday December 21, 2022
WX-1 Working Polar
Just a vertical I really liked of this scene with some nice long old school telecompression.
After switching in the hump yard for a bit Providence and Worcester's local switcher WX-1 and found them working the 'hump yard' headed down the Norwich Branch side to work long time customer Polar Beverage. This long telephoto view looks north from near the Hope Ave. crossing at about MP 68.5 on the Norwich Branch main as traffic flies by overhead on I290. The train is technically on Track 6 in the Norwich South Yard as main track officially begins about 500 ft. behind me on the other side of the crossing at Sword.
On the point is PW 2010 which was built new for Penn Central in Oct. 1969 as PC 7808. It passed to Conrail 7 years later and was sold to the PW in 1984, and then rebuilt in 1999 at Paducah and is now classified as a GP38-3. Trailing is 2009 an EMD GP38-2 purchased new by the then only 9 year newly independent PW in Sep. 1982.
Worcester, Massachusetts
Wednesday December 21, 2022