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This was just around the time of the NS takeover of Conrail -
June 1st
1999. This loaded coal train is rolling east on the Conemaugh Line,
near Apollo. |
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Coal loads about to roll under the 31st St. Bridge,
approaching Etna
Yard. The signals in the background are CP Herr. This was one of those
hazy days with almost contrastless sunshine. June 1999. |
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Eastbound RoadRailer crosses the Allegheny River on the Ft.
Wayne
Bridge. The view was from my apartment in the Pennsylvanian, the former
Pennsylvania Railroad station.
During my stay in Pittsburgh from May 1999 to June 2000 I stayed in
various corporate apartments. Most of them in an apartment complex on
the North Side, seen along the river under the tail of the train. None
with a view as good as this, but almost all of the time with at least
some view of the Pittsburgh Line. |
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Many evenings I went to
Emsworth after work. There used to be a group
of people gathering there in the evening to watch trains or boats going
through the locks. Here an eastbound stacker approaches the locks in
the late afternoon light in September 1999. Photography is no longer
allowed by the locks. |
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Emsworth again, a foggy October morning in 1999. A westbound
stacker rumbles by. |
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A little later that same October morning, same spot. The
train to the
right was tied down, waiting to yard in Conway Yard. I believe this was
while the NS was backed up all over Pittsburgh, this train being the
6th or 7th in a line stretching all the way down from Conway. Behing
this train another 3 trains sat side by side east of CP Bell, and yet
more on the Mon Line. |
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Jumping ahead to early February 2000, a snowy day made a neat
scene
here in West Park on the North Side. The train to the left is the local
to Etna, powered by an old 4-axle GE in each end to ease switching
along the way. The signals are CP Penn, where the Pittsburgh Line (the
outermost tracks) merge with the Conemaugh Line. |
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The Ohio Connecting Bridge is an impressive structure, which
includes a
junction (CP Isle) on the north end. This northbound mixed freight is
approaching CP Bell, where it will become westbound on the Ft. Wayne
Line towards Conway Yard. The track branching off to the left connects
with CP Penn and primarily takes loaded coal trains to go east on the
Conemaugh Line. |
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Back at Emsworth in March 2000. Coal empties roll towards the
coal fields in the last light of the day. |
