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Title: |
Four helpers push hard on the rear of a hopper train |
Description: |
At first I thought it was coal train and then I saw what looked like sand above the top of the cars. Does anyone know what train this is? |
Photo Date: |
5/30/2015 Upload Date: 6/10/2015 12:17:56 PM |
Location: |
Cresson, PA |
Author: |
Jay Epstein |
Categories: |
Action |
Locomotives: |
NS 6300(SD40E) NS 6327(SD40E) NS 6310(SD40E) NS 6306(SD40E) |
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86 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Four SD40E's push hard on the rear of a hopper train |
Description: |
At first I thought it was coal train and then I saw what looked like sand above the top of the cars. Does anyone know what train this is? |
Photo Date: |
5/30/2015 Upload Date: 6/10/2015 12:17:57 PM |
Location: |
Cresson, PA |
Author: |
Jay Epstein |
Categories: |
Action |
Locomotives: |
NS 6306(SD40E) NS 6310(SD40E) NS 6327(SD40E) NS 6300(SD40E) |
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92 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Two SD40E helpers glide downhill |
Description: |
The railroad was still mostly SD40-2 helpers at the time. |
Photo Date: |
4/19/2009 Upload Date: 1/16/2018 3:24:43 PM |
Location: |
Altoona, PA |
Author: |
Jay Epstein |
Categories: |
Action |
Locomotives: |
NS 6306(SD40E) NS 6301(SD40E) |
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216 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Four helpers push hard on the rear of a coal train |
Description: |
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Photo Date: |
5/30/2015 Upload Date: 6/10/2015 12:22:17 PM |
Location: |
Cresson, PA |
Author: |
Jay Epstein |
Categories: |
Action |
Locomotives: |
NS 6324(SD40E) NS 6333(SD40E) NS 6321(SD40E) NS 6301(SD40E) |
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72 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Four SD60E's push hard on the rear of a coal train |
Description: |
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Photo Date: |
5/30/2015 Upload Date: 6/10/2015 12:22:18 PM |
Location: |
Cresson, PA |
Author: |
Jay Epstein |
Categories: |
Action |
Locomotives: |
NS 6301(SD40E) NS 6321(SD40E) NS 6333(SD40E) NS 6324(SD40E) |
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88 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
A helper set heads toward Altoona |
Description: |
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Photo Date: |
5/31/2015 Upload Date: 6/10/2015 12:32:38 PM |
Location: |
Cassandra, PA |
Author: |
Jay Epstein |
Categories: |
Action |
Locomotives: |
NS 6301(SD40E) |
Views: |
47 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Two SD40E's work hard on the rear of an eastbound intermodal |
Description: |
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Photo Date: |
5/30/2015 Upload Date: 6/10/2015 12:13:43 PM |
Location: |
Cresson, PA |
Author: |
Jay Epstein |
Categories: |
Action |
Locomotives: |
NS 6302(SD40E) NS 6325(SD40E) |
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107 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Helpers coming downhill through Altoona. |
Description: |
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Photo Date: |
5/18/2013 Upload Date: 11/27/2013 4:08:03 PM |
Location: |
Altoona, PA |
Author: |
Jay Epstein |
Categories: |
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Locomotives: |
NS 6321(SD40E) NS 6303(SD40E) |
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91 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
A helper set heads upgrade |
Description: |
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Photo Date: |
5/31/2015 Upload Date: 6/10/2015 12:27:24 PM |
Location: |
Altoona, PA |
Author: |
Jay Epstein |
Categories: |
Action |
Locomotives: |
NS 6317(SD40E) NS 6303(SD40E) |
Views: |
87 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Two SD40E's push a manifest through Cassandra |
Description: |
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Photo Date: |
5/31/2015 Upload Date: 6/10/2015 12:27:32 PM |
Location: |
Cassandra, PA |
Author: |
Jay Epstein |
Categories: |
Action |
Locomotives: |
NS 6304(SD40E) NS 6319(SD40E) |
Views: |
49 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Helpers on the back of an intermodal. |
Description: |
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Photo Date: |
5/18/2013 Upload Date: 11/27/2013 4:07:02 PM |
Location: |
Cresson, PA |
Author: |
Jay Epstein |
Categories: |
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Locomotives: |
NS 6326(SD40E) NS 6305(SD40E) |
Views: |
65 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
NS 6305 waits for its next assignment at Dundee Yard |
Description: |
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Photo Date: |
4/25/2024 Upload Date: 4/30/2024 10:28:51 PM |
Location: |
Danville, VA |
Author: |
Jay Epstein |
Categories: |
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Locomotives: |
NS 6305(SD40E) |
Views: |
9 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
NS 6904 and NS 6305 wait for their next assignments at Dundee Yard |
Description: |
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Photo Date: |
4/25/2024 Upload Date: 4/30/2024 10:28:54 PM |
Location: |
Danville, VA |
Author: |
Jay Epstein |
Categories: |
Yard |
Locomotives: |
NS 6305(SD40E) NS 6904(SD60E) |
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3 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Hot Rail at Dundee Yard |
Description: |
NS 6305 sits idle as a northbound intermodal approaches. |
Photo Date: |
4/25/2024 Upload Date: 4/30/2024 10:29:07 PM |
Location: |
Danville, VA |
Author: |
Jay Epstein |
Categories: |
Action |
Locomotives: |
NS 6305(SD40E) NS 4548(AC44C6M) |
Views: |
11 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Passing the Local Power |
Description: |
A northbound intermodal passes the local power waiting for its next assignment, |
Photo Date: |
4/25/2024 Upload Date: 4/30/2024 10:29:10 PM |
Location: |
Danville, VA |
Author: |
Jay Epstein |
Categories: |
Action |
Locomotives: |
NS 4548(AC44C6M) NS 6305(SD40E) |
Views: |
8 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Lots of power! |
Description: |
Coming upgrade heading east. This train had four helpers on the head end and two more on the rear. |
Photo Date: |
5/30/2015 Upload Date: 6/10/2015 12:17:46 PM |
Location: |
Cresson, PA |
Author: |
Jay Epstein |
Categories: |
Action |
Locomotives: |
NS 6307(SD40E) NS 6326(SD40E) NS 6322(SD40E) |
Views: |
134 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Four helpers lead an eastbound upgrade |
Description: |
Two more were on the rear. |
Photo Date: |
5/30/2015 Upload Date: 6/10/2015 12:17:47 PM |
Location: |
Cresson, PA |
Author: |
Jay Epstein |
Categories: |
Action |
Locomotives: |
NS 6307(SD40E) NS 6322(SD40E) NS 6326(SD40E) |
Views: |
132 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Helpers and railfans. |
Description: |
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Photo Date: |
5/18/2013 Upload Date: 11/27/2013 4:07:43 PM |
Location: |
Cresson, PA |
Author: |
Jay Epstein |
Categories: |
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Locomotives: |
NS 6308(SD40E) |
Views: |
56 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Helpers head back down to Altoona for their next assignment |
Description: |
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Photo Date: |
5/31/2015 Upload Date: 6/10/2015 12:27:25 PM |
Location: |
Altoona, PA |
Author: |
Jay Epstein |
Categories: |
Action |
Locomotives: |
NS 6310(SD40E) |
Views: |
49 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
A helper set works to keep a downgrade intermodal in check |
Description: |
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Photo Date: |
5/31/2015 Upload Date: 6/10/2015 12:32:39 PM |
Location: |
Cassandra, PA |
Author: |
Jay Epstein |
Categories: |
Signal,Action |
Locomotives: |
NS 6310(SD40E) |
Views: |
59 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Two SD40E's work hard on the rear of an eastbound manifest |
Description: |
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Photo Date: |
5/30/2015 Upload Date: 6/10/2015 12:13:36 PM |
Location: |
Cresson, PA |
Author: |
Jay Epstein |
Categories: |
Action |
Locomotives: |
NS 6311(SD40E) NS 6330(SD40E) |
Views: |
120 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
A helper set heads back to Rose Yard |
Description: |
At the "Brickyard" |
Photo Date: |
5/31/2015 Upload Date: 6/10/2015 12:27:24 PM |
Location: |
Altoona, PA |
Author: |
Jay Epstein |
Categories: |
Action |
Locomotives: |
NS 6312(SD40E) |
Views: |
49 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Pushing hard. |
Description: |
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Photo Date: |
5/18/2013 Upload Date: 11/27/2013 4:07:01 PM |
Location: |
Cresson, PA |
Author: |
Jay Epstein |
Categories: |
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Locomotives: |
NS 6313(SD40E) NS 6328(SD40E) |
Views: |
71 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
One helper set assists a stack train while another waits |
Description: |
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Photo Date: |
5/30/2015 Upload Date: 6/10/2015 12:09:37 PM |
Location: |
Cresson, PA |
Author: |
Jay Epstein |
Categories: |
Action |
Locomotives: |
NS 6332(SD40E) NS 6313(SD40E) NS 6318(SD40E) |
Views: |
119 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Helpers gliding downhill. |
Description: |
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Photo Date: |
5/18/2013 Upload Date: 11/27/2013 4:07:02 PM |
Location: |
Cresson, PA |
Author: |
Jay Epstein |
Categories: |
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Locomotives: |
NS 6314(SD40E) NS 6327(SD40E) |
Views: |
77 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Helpers of the EB oil train. |
Description: |
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Photo Date: |
5/18/2013 Upload Date: 11/27/2013 4:06:52 PM |
Location: |
Altoona, PA |
Author: |
Jay Epstein |
Categories: |
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Locomotives: |
NS 6314(SD40E) |
Views: |
73 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Helper Set on the middle track in Cresson |
Description: |
He was wating for the stacker in the background to clear |
Photo Date: |
5/30/2015 Upload Date: 6/10/2015 12:09:30 PM |
Location: |
Cresson, PA |
Author: |
Jay Epstein |
Categories: |
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Locomotives: |
NS 6318(SD40E) |
Views: |
111 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Helper sets meet |
Description: |
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Photo Date: |
5/30/2015 Upload Date: 6/10/2015 12:09:39 PM |
Location: |
Cresson, PA |
Author: |
Jay Epstein |
Categories: |
Action |
Locomotives: |
NS 6332(SD40E) NS 6318(SD40E) |
Views: |
145 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
The helper set continues to wait as a westbound work train approaches |
Description: |
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Photo Date: |
5/30/2015 Upload Date: 6/10/2015 12:09:43 PM |
Location: |
Cresson, PA |
Author: |
Jay Epstein |
Categories: |
Action |
Locomotives: |
NS 6318(SD40E) |
Views: |
133 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
C40-8W meets SD40E |
Description: |
The C40-8W is on a work train while the SD40E belongs to a helper set. |
Photo Date: |
5/30/2015 Upload Date: 6/10/2015 12:09:48 PM |
Location: |
Cresson, PA |
Author: |
Jay Epstein |
Categories: |
Action |
Locomotives: |
NS 6318(SD40E) NS 8315(C40-8W) |
Views: |
103 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
A ramp car with a truck brings up the rear |
Description: |
What a cool train! |
Photo Date: |
5/30/2015 Upload Date: 6/10/2015 12:10:03 PM |
Location: |
Cresson, PA |
Author: |
Jay Epstein |
Categories: |
RollingStock,Action |
Locomotives: |
NS 6318(SD40E) |
Views: |
99 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Cresson engine terminal |
Description: |
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Photo Date: |
5/31/2015 Upload Date: 6/10/2015 12:27:27 PM |
Location: |
Cresson, PA |
Author: |
Jay Epstein |
Categories: |
Roster |
Locomotives: |
NS 7216(SD80MAC) NS 7208(SD80MAC) NS 6318(SD40E) |
Views: |
112 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
A helper set drifts downgrade |
Description: |
The Staion Inn is in the background. |
Photo Date: |
5/30/2015 Upload Date: 6/10/2015 12:13:44 PM |
Location: |
Cresson, PA |
Author: |
Jay Epstein |
Categories: |
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Locomotives: |
NS 6320(SD40E) |
Views: |
108 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Two SD40E's help a westbound get down the mountain safely |
Description: |
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Photo Date: |
5/30/2015 Upload Date: 6/10/2015 12:13:39 PM |
Location: |
Cresson, PA |
Author: |
Jay Epstein |
Categories: |
Action |
Locomotives: |
NS 6321(SD40E) |
Views: |
123 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
The westbound clears just in time |
Description: |
I could hear the westbound blowing for Carney's Crossing so I knew it was going to be close! |
Photo Date: |
5/30/2015 Upload Date: 6/10/2015 12:13:39 PM |
Location: |
Cresson, PA |
Author: |
Jay Epstein |
Categories: |
Action |
Locomotives: |
NS 6321(SD40E) NS 9476(C40-9W) |
Views: |
124 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
An eastbound reveals itself from behind a westbound |
Description: |
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Photo Date: |
5/30/2015 Upload Date: 6/10/2015 12:13:40 PM |
Location: |
Cresson, PA |
Author: |
Jay Epstein |
Categories: |
Action |
Locomotives: |
NS 6321(SD40E) NS 9476(C40-9W) NS 8794(C40-9) |
Views: |
92 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Two helpers run up the middle track |
Description: |
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Photo Date: |
5/31/2015 Upload Date: 6/10/2015 12:32:37 PM |
Location: |
Cassandra, PA |
Author: |
Jay Epstein |
Categories: |
Action |
Locomotives: |
NS 6321(SD40E) |
Views: |
57 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
A helper set overtakes an intermodal |
Description: |
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Photo Date: |
5/31/2015 Upload Date: 6/10/2015 12:32:38 PM |
Location: |
Cassandra, PA |
Author: |
Jay Epstein |
Categories: |
Action |
Locomotives: |
NS 6321(SD40E) |
Views: |
49 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Two SD40E's on the rear of a westbound intermodal |
Description: |
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Photo Date: |
5/30/2015 Upload Date: 6/10/2015 12:13:42 PM |
Location: |
Cresson, PA |
Author: |
Jay Epstein |
Categories: |
Action |
Locomotives: |
NS 6324(SD40E) |
Views: |
109 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
The next day my first stop was the Altoona Shops |
Description: |
Note the freshly repainted ex-CSX SD80MAC |
Photo Date: |
5/31/2015 Upload Date: 6/10/2015 12:22:19 PM |
Location: |
Altoona, PA |
Author: |
Jay Epstein |
Categories: |
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Locomotives: |
NS 7218(SD80MAC) NS 6329(SD40E) |
Views: |
270 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Two triclops lead a manifest east |
Description: |
Part of the lashup on an eastbound manifest on the Cleveland District. |
Photo Date: |
7/15/2017 Upload Date: 8/1/2017 10:47:02 AM |
Location: |
Huron, OH |
Author: |
Jay Epstein |
Categories: |
Action |
Locomotives: |
NS 6807(SD60M) NS 6808(SD60M) NS 6343(SD40E) |
Views: |
192 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
That'll buff right out |
Description: |
NS 6349 was working Cement Secondary local H75 on May 27th, 2021 when it was struck by a large quarry dump truck at the New Enterprise blacktop plant near Tatamy Road on the border of upper Nazareth and Lower Nazareth Township, PA. Both the train crew and truck driver were uninjured. |
Photo Date: |
7/31/2021 Upload Date: 8/7/2021 8:20:39 PM |
Location: |
Altoona, PA |
Author: |
Jay Epstein |
Categories: |
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Locomotives: |
NS 6349(SD40E) |
Views: |
109 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Looking through the turntable |
Description: |
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Photo Date: |
7/31/2021 Upload Date: 8/7/2021 8:20:43 PM |
Location: |
Altoona, PA |
Author: |
Jay Epstein |
Categories: |
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Locomotives: |
NS 6349(SD40E) |
Views: |
82 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Helper Engineer looking pretty cool. |
Description: |
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Photo Date: |
5/18/2013 Upload Date: 11/27/2013 4:07:41 PM |
Location: |
Cresson, PA |
Author: |
Jay Epstein |
Categories: |
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Locomotives: |
NS 6351(SD40E) |
Views: |
250 Comments: 0 |
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