While waiting for the Dock Street switcher to arrive grabbed a couple shots of the activity inside Pier 11.

Bruce

Bruce,

The interior shots at the pier are brilliant! Nicely done!!!!

Ralph,

Thanks, just trying to keep this thread going.

Bruce

An old shoving car awaiting it's next duty on Monday.
IMG_4824 by faraway52, on Flickr

Bruce, great photo

Early merger local comes out of Williams Yard headed by two Geeps, one still in NYC livery.

Great shots so far---sure would be nice to see lots more

Cindys Harbor: This is where the Kennequogue River, flowing East ( From top center to bottom right in the picture ) first meets the Salt water of the Sea.
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The prominent ship,the "Brigantine" W.W. Marsland, up to the right, will "time-share" that part of the sea wall, with the "Tern", the Cruise ship, and I have just started work on the old Aurora kit of the Whale ship "Wanderer", which some time back I realized was, virtually, and HO scale model of that ship. "Wanderer" can often be seen at Mystic Seaport, and I have seen her moored, in Sag Harbor, N.Y.
Last night I got the hull cut, at the waterline. My intention here is when she is not on the modules, at a show, I can connect the upper hull, to the lower ( below the waterline ) part, which will be secured to a display base, mounted in a glass case, for "home display".
The next scheduled show for the modular group, is in Palatine Illinois, at Harper College, March 5 and 6, 2016, 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM.
I'll be there with these modules.

PRT 1582 & crew switching Bulk Commodities Inc. in the Dundee Industrial transload yard , They ship all types of grains from covered hoppers to 20' containers to all over the world !!!! hock:

Some abandoned rails in Chester PA:

During the 50's the Canadian National had a couple of Alco PA demonstators on a trial basis painted in the roads green and gold livery on it's roster.For whatever reasons,the powers that be decided not to keep them.Doctor Wayne and I talked about how good they would have looked painted in the more modern green,yellow and black passenger paint scheme so Wayne created this beauty---just imagine what a sight a pair of these would have made heading the road's Super Continental.

C.N.R. #10 arriving in the town of Martin.

I am told that yesterday was the last time an Amtrak AEM7 turned a wheel in revenue service. From 1980 to 2016, 36 years isn't a bad run. #915 is already at the RR Museum of PA, but I wonder if any of the rebuilt AEM7-ACs will be preserved.

The last 7 or so are the SEPTA AEM7s (they also have the very last single ALP44, a similar model), but SEPTA announced that they are also buying the ACS-64 electrics to replace them.

So, here are my Amtrak AEM7s-

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Charlie

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Charlie

That engine was probably fresh off the assembly line! Its weird to think that as of the other day, they are just a memory, with only one in a museum, and a handful turning their last few wheels on SEPTA (and possibly MARC). Thats progress I suppose!

I makes one wonder if we're not just a few years away from seeing some mainline wide cab six axle diesels in museums as well! I wonder what the life expectancy on a C40-8W is...