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Railfan Pictures of the Day - 11/21/2007


NS Morrisville Line Langhorne PA November 18 2007

 

Part One on the CSX Trenton Line is here.
 
To paraphrase Douglas Adams: "This heat exchanger is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is," for a railroad flat car load, that is.
 
After sitting on the Wood Connecting Track at CP West Lang for about an hour, dimensional move CSX W991 pulled up onto the NS Morrisville Line, which allowed for some broadside shots of the two monstrous pieces. The longer of the two, looking a lot like a Saturn V, was reportedly built onto the flat cars at the factory in upstate Pennsylvania ...
Air Products ATPX 206
and ATPX 207, with the cars uncoupled and an air hose connecting the two ...
while the shorted one rode on a two piece flat car that was basically all truck, APTX 201.
 

All pictures November 18 2007 Copyright © 2007 John P. Almeida

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