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Railfan Pictures of the Week - 08/17/2008


CSX Bethlehem Branch Telford PA August 11 2008

 

The East Penn Railway (ESPN) Quakertown Branch has been used in the past few years for car storage, with everything from garbage flat cars, gondolas, tank cars, box cars, even an empty CANX concrete tie flat car train resting on the rails until needed elsewhere. To the list, you can now add LPG tank cars, as CSX B738, here crossing over Main Street from Montgomery County into Bucks County ...
has been bringing tank cars of various lessors up to Telford for interchange with ESPN.
Crossing over Washington Lane, B738 is heading to Meeting House Road where it will leave the cars for ESPN to take north.
As B738 shoves back onto the former southbound main ....
three cars constitutes a traffic jam in the middle of a corn field on Meeting House Road.
 

All pictures August 11 2008 Copyright © 2008 John P. Almeida

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