GEC's Layout Progress

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And the high-priority auto parts trains to Linden and Edison I believe bypassed Enola on the Harrisburg station freight bypass tracks, so I believe you'd be looking for destinations other than EN. My memory -- and in fact the Pentrex NEC cab ride videos from the 1980s -- show the Newark Chrysler yard quite full of auto parts cars.

Well, that opens some questions. If they bypassed Enola, did they ever exchange diesels for electrics on their way to New Jersey? Do you know the train symbols?

I was told that towards the end, and certainly during 1979, an increasing number of Northeast Corridor trains that normally ran with electric locomotive began operating in all diesel consists. This is reflected to some extent on the photos I've seen online, but its difficult to guess from online photos, since they are subject to bias of the photographer, since people seem more interested in photographing the unusual than the mundane.

I was told trains like SEEN (which was VE-1 on the Penn Central) normally ran straight through with diesels. Right now, I've been trying to match trains up with their photos. Some are easy, since they say what train they are right on the photo, but others have me trying to guess the time of day in the photograph, and then cross my fingers the train is not an unusually late train running near the same time as a "normal" scheduled freight.