10-07-2013, 08:20 AM
I dug up some old photos from the Penvan Railroad Historical Society's archives.
Here's their first diesel locomotive, GE 45 tonner #2 picking up a load of GERN Flux for the RU Ready Mix plant and a B&O wagon top box car for the Whist Manufacturing Company.
![[Image: 10136254563_355c6c8dec_z.jpg]](http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7300/10136254563_355c6c8dec_z.jpg)
Penvan Railroad's GE 45 tonner # 2 drops off the covered hopper of GERN Flux at the RU Ready Mix Plant so that they can produce concrete that's 3% harder.
![[Image: 10136264584_a80694bedc_c.jpg]](http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2837/10136264584_a80694bedc_c.jpg)
Penvan #2 picks up the empty GERN covered hopper 2 days later for a trip back to the interchange.
![[Image: 10137353553_fcea2f884e_c.jpg]](http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5491/10137353553_fcea2f884e_c.jpg)
And here's where the crew sets it out at the interchange back to Clifton Forge, VA with a D&H box car of round tooits (75% right handed and 25% left handed) going in the same general direction to Potomac, MD on the Baltimore & Potomac Railroad.
Here's their first diesel locomotive, GE 45 tonner #2 picking up a load of GERN Flux for the RU Ready Mix plant and a B&O wagon top box car for the Whist Manufacturing Company.
![[Image: 10136254563_355c6c8dec_z.jpg]](http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7300/10136254563_355c6c8dec_z.jpg)
Penvan Railroad's GE 45 tonner # 2 drops off the covered hopper of GERN Flux at the RU Ready Mix Plant so that they can produce concrete that's 3% harder.
![[Image: 10136264584_a80694bedc_c.jpg]](http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2837/10136264584_a80694bedc_c.jpg)
Penvan #2 picks up the empty GERN covered hopper 2 days later for a trip back to the interchange.
![[Image: 10137353553_fcea2f884e_c.jpg]](http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5491/10137353553_fcea2f884e_c.jpg)
And here's where the crew sets it out at the interchange back to Clifton Forge, VA with a D&H box car of round tooits (75% right handed and 25% left handed) going in the same general direction to Potomac, MD on the Baltimore & Potomac Railroad.
![[Image: 10135964404_d3ef2ffe9f_c.jpg]](http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3736/10135964404_d3ef2ffe9f_c.jpg)
Mike Kieran
Port Able Lines
" If the world were perfect, it wouldn't be " - Yogi Berra.
Port Able Lines
" If the world were perfect, it wouldn't be " - Yogi Berra.