#sd40e

Saturday, Kris and I went shopping for garden plants in Lancaster, Pa. We were just a short walk from Norfolk Southern’s Dillerville Yard, so after loading our car, I went over to see if I could get a view of where the locomotives are stored between runs. Most local freights are out on weekdays. By contrast Saturday is relatively quite. From the Dillerville Roadbridge, I made these very…

I spied a pair of Norfolk Southern’s SD40E working west with the Steelton Local near the old Harris Tower. In the distance were the train sheds of Amtrak’s Harrisburg Station. I saw relics everywhere! And yet, the pending surprise was something new. In this short freight’s consist were several nearly new Norfolk Southern gondolas. These days, seeing new Class-1 carload freight cars is a real…

Helpers at Gallitzin, Pennsylvania.

July 1, 2010.

Norfolk Southern’s 17G, a very heavy westward manifest freight, has crested the summit of the Allegheny Divide and is beginning its long descent of the ‘West Slope’.

I made this trailing view of the SD40E helpers from the hill above the Gallitzin Tunnels using my Canon EOS 7D with 28-135mm zoom set at 85mm.

On July 1, 2010, a pair of recently remanufactured Norfolk Southern ‘SD40Es’…