RailPictures.Net Photo: 6390 Conrail EMD SD40-2 at MG Block Station west of Altoona, Pennsylvania by Rick Erben
 
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» EMD SD40-2 (more..)
» CR Pittsburgh Line 
» MG Block Station west of Altoona, Pennsylvania, USA (more..)
» April 22, 1993
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The standard helper set of the era, a pair of SD40-2s, shove a westbound manifest past the block station (as Pennsy referred to its towers) at MG on an April day that yielded quite a snowstorm. This block station controlled a set of universal crossovers between the three main tracks and was open part-time as necessitated by MofW work or other irregularities - in this case, the weather. MG was quite the attractive structure, indicative of the status the Pennsylvania Railroad placed upon its block stations. It was constructed during the WWII years.
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