Trains from the Sky!

[Green_Elite_Cab]

While looking for photos of strasburg from the sky, I came across an incredible website! Several overhead shots of locations across the northeast, including many rail related areas.

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Is it cheating if you railfan from the sky?

Altoona, PA

This one is cool, there are several unusual and special units. High-hood SD40-2s, a Super-7 U-boat rebuild, a Norfolk Southern Executive F7As, a VRE F40PH, a UP SD70, and SD80MACs, a Special painted Dash-9. Don't forget the turntable! If I were a kid, i'd be on that trampoline ALL DAY LONG.

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While we're in the area, GG1 amongst other things at the Altoona Railroader's Memorial.

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Wish this were your layout?

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Then Again, there is always Selkirk, NY. I might be wrong, but I think this was one of the eariler Hump Yards, devised by the New York Central back in the day.

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Some former New Jersey Transit SW1500s, a few conrail engines and a Primer White SD40 break up the CSX monotony. the Conrail SW started as a Reading SW1001, with a special low height cab.

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End of the line for the PATCO Lindenwold High Speed line, which goes from South Jersey to Philadelphia. This is nothing compared to....

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... The Coney Island Subway Overhaul center in New York City. I pass this occaisionally on the Long Island Expressway. It is INTENSE. Several "eras" of subway are visible here if you look.

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Speaking of commuter trains, here are three of the last remaining MP54 "owl eye" cars, along with a DL&W MU (two pantographs) and some other coaches. The URHS is keeping the deep red MP54 that is cut off on the left side of the picture, and selling the other three MP54s framed in the picture, as well as the DL&W car. Fingers crossed that they don't get scrapped!

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Meanwhile, at Strasburg, stuff is being moved around. Don't be fooled, though there is indeed an MP54 on one of the tracks, its long gone. Many MP54s were saved, but most were scrapped. being from 1915 and having PCB laden transformer tanks tends to get you destroyed. Another victim of PCB cleaning is old rivets, in the fore ground. She is not so shiny now. The Silverliner MUs (just below the Pennsy Steamers) are the first lightweight MUs, the first attempt to dethrone the MP54.

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the whole place

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Back in the Modern day, some New Jersey Transit

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Gargantuan industrial park! Seems to be the new popular thing to model, but looks liek a bunch of rectangles to me!

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Then again, they are everywhere, even on the Northeast Corridor. Johnson & Johnson recieved freight at one time. There is an industrial track that runs on the other side of the trees from the NEC.

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interesting stuff!

[MasonJar]

Barney Secord eat your heart out...! Actually, they're kina long range for Barney...

Andrew

[e-paw]

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They even have the flea market in my town

[rrinker]

Lot of neat stuff there, I just spent WAY too long going through some of it. Couple of mixups on some of the road interchange pictures, but he's not from the Lehigh Valley so I'll give a pass there. Especially since most people seme to not share this sort of thing. What a great resource. Modern-day updates to some of the stuff found at the Penn Pilot site.

--Randy