After waiting a few minutes for the Ashland Security Guard (who was really chill with us being there also, might I add) to show up and open the gate for the YPSP20, the 20 has come in Lite and started bunching up it's tanks to pull on the outbounds, back in early 2018, this scene was easily doable with a beautiful Norfolk Southern SW1001, usually 2104 or 2105, which now I think are in Reading Yard or Allentown, one of the 2. Sometimes, a CSX SW1001 would show up on it as well, usually 1123 or 1124, but sadly that has all changed, back in Mid 2018, I forget the exact reason, but it had to due with something stupid probably, Conrail & Railroad Construction decided to rebuild the Ashland Curve, Ashland was a SW1001 restricted industry due to the extremely tight curve off the Ashland Lead, it was in fact the last Conrail Shared Assets SW1001 or Critter required Job in South Jersey Division, just before all this, Morrisville Based Local YPBS-02, which ran with a GP40 or 38, and a SW1001 Push Pull down to Croydon, had gone to just a 40 or 38 with a shove platform, this was the second to last job running with a SW1001 as well, due to tight curves and clearances inside DOW Chemical in Bristol, but apparently Conrail decided along with DOW that a TrackMobile would be better after Conrail Employees had complained about the tight clearances and conditions within DOW, so DOW bought a TrackMobile and the 2 got a shove platform and a single engine, that left South Philly Jons YPSP20 & YPSP33 as the final stand for SW1001’s. As I said, in Mid to Late 2018, Conrail and RRC rebuilt the Ashland Switch/Curve, they killed off the Ashland Lead and rebuilt it off the Belt Line instead which made it easier and less of curve for the job, and ultimately killed the final SW1001 Operation.
