This empty ethanol train has just knocked down a clear signal at Bethlehem and will enter the NS Reading Line about a quarter mile behind the photographer on the bypass of Allentown Yard. Off to ... (more)
NS 69Q had arrived into town several hours earlier and has just finished working Toledo yard. They've got their train back together and are now continuing West on track one at Wenz Road.
A little over 24 hours since it's last visit to the area, a beat up ex Conrail SD60, and its larger KCS EMD cousin return West on Ethanol train 69Q.
A view from atop The Westinghouse Bridge shows the empty westbound ethanol train. Of note would be the CSX leader in NS cab signal territory, I would imagine that she is one of the locomotives tha... (more)
69Q rolls west with it's usual cab signalled leader in front of foriegn units.
69Q rolls West thru Greensburg for a refill.
NS westbound 69Q rounds the curve through more than 15 inches of snow at CP 421 under the NYC signal bridge at the Elkhart passenger station northern Indiana.
NS 69Q heads towards the setting sweet sun at Penn!
An empty ethanol train return west as a crew van waits to assist 261's crew with arming their marker.
69Q passes CP 88 and the River Yard with a train of empty tank cars.
Ethanol empties pop out of the long shadows in Leetsdale. Bman photographed this same train (Photo 201982) a few miles east of here.
Empty ethanol train 69Q rolls west on the Ft. Wayne Line towards its crew change at Conway.
While waiting on the OCS, Cleveland Terminal squeezes the westbound empty ethanol train through.
NS 69Q rolls west thru Geensburg PA with a CSXT(EX CR) C40-8W on the point which has cab signals.
