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Railfan Pictures of the Week - 01/08/2017 |
CSX Trenton Line Woodbourne Station Langhorne, Pennsylvania July 23 2000 |
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The 2000 Republican National Convention was held in Philadelphia in August of 2000 and Union Pacific brought most of its office car fleet to the city for the event. |
For the trip over CSX trackage, CSX insisted on a pair of B36-7's up front: CSX 5883 and 5903. |
Behind the utilitarian GE's were UP's pristine E9A's 949 and 951. |
The problem for a train with FIVE observation cars is that there can be only one on the very end. |
The rest wound up buried in the consist ... |
a pair of them back to back. |
The lucky winner on this train was UP 115 "Selma". |
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