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Railfan Pictures of the Week - 07/03/2011


Things you can't see anymore July 1995
 
A mother/slug combination with slug GP-30 2265 in CSX stealth paint scheme leading mother GP40-2 6482 in yellow nose stealth paint, having just pulled a string of reefers out of the produce terminal in South Philadelphia.
Conrail cabin car Class N5C CR 23089 and Conrail box car Class X72 CR 269892 resting in Morrisville Yard
Amtrak's Race Street Yard engine servicing facility with (left to right) AEM-7 923, GP9 770, F40PH 275 and F40PHR 393, AEM-7 931, E60MA 601 and NJT GP40FH-2 4140.
A SEPTA Chestnut Hill West local with ex-Reading Silverliner IV 9022 on the point passes the crowded Conrail Midvale Yard, filled with cars for Budd's Hunting Park Plant.
An inbound SEPTA Doylestown local pauses for a station stop as the Conrail local with GP38-2 CR 7874 and 7875 sits on Yard Track 2 in Lansdale.
Canadian Pacific SW8 6702, Class DS-8a lettered for the Delaware and Hudson but wearing CP colors, shoves a string of CP and TTX intermodal flats along Delaware Avenue in South Philadelphia.
 
 

All pictures July 1995 Copyright © 2011 John P. Almeida

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