A weathered ExConrail Dash-8 fills the quiet valley with the unmistakable sound of GE chugging as it leads a newer GEVO and 98 coal loads in 2 month old NS hoppers on the Manor Branch.
A BNSF unit makes an appearance on the NS local coal shuttle train as a replacement for the wreck damaged Maersk unit 3329 that had been involved in an incident earlier in the week.
This particular SD40-2 began it's journey to being NS 3439 over 42 years ago in February 1966 as Pennsylvania Railroad SD40 # PRR 6043. The unit then became the Penn Central 6043 in 1968. PC 6043... (more)