On May 25, 2006 a Lancaster and Chester Railway crew iis heading toward downtown Lancaster to access the former Southern Railway interchange to get on their original trackage. They have just worked the Gerdau Ameristeel plant on the former Southern Railway SB Line alongside Riverside Driver. This photograph was captured off of the West Meeting Street Bridge.
The crew is using GMTX 2661, a leased EMD GP38-2 from GATX Rail Locomotive Group. It was built in 1970 for the Pennsylvania Reading Seashore as PRSL 2011, a straight GP38, before becoming Conrail (CR) 7631 and then CSX 1945. This was the first time I saw the railroad using this locomotive. It was thw first of four GMTC GP38-2s that they would lease. They woukd return them to the leasor when Gulf & Ohio Railways bought the line from the Springs family.
