Eastern Railroad Discussion > W&LE all Tiger Stripes on the Westland Branch

Yesterday I went for another walk along the Westland Branch where the W&LE hauls Marcellus gas products out of Mark West Liberty's Houston Rail yard ( Westland, PA. ). WE 643 was getting ready to leave the yard. A little later in the day than usual. After a "S" turn coming up out of the yard there is a long strait uphill climb with great lighting in the late afternoon. Train is slow and the lead units are working pretty good up this grade. I really like the sound of these older EMD's. I cut some out of the middle of the video. Sorry about the shake at the beginning, hard to hold my iPhone steady with the wind blowing. This run sure is a hard run to nail down as to when it will show up. This was a pretty long string of tank cars for this run. I guess at least 50 plus cars. By the time the end unit, W&LE #101 got to me the front end was already over the summit near Johnson road and heading downgrade towards the route 50 RR crossing..
Enjoy, John

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Cool video John, like the clouds and the helper at the end.

Not helping much at an idle.

Hi Jim
Mam what a tiger you are with all of those stripes
Very nice good job
Tom Boylan

nice vid John

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Howard at MP 195

Nice video!!!

Nice video indeed. I believe there is a hint of wheel slippage going on...

Awesome video John. W&LE has been trying a new arrangement for the Westland trains. Eastbound train 212 had 4018, 6385, and around 120 tankcars, and they met a Rook Yard crew at the George transfer, which had the 112, 101, and two buffer cars. They then assembled the train at George to go down the branch to Westland, without taking the tankcars to Rook, where there is very little room at the moment.

hwb36604 Wrote:
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> Nice video. Here's a link to a product that Amazon
> sales that hold your phone on a tripod. I have one
> and it works great. Its a Square Jellyfish phone
> holder.
>
> http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00C7J5ZC0/ref=oh
> _details_o08_s00_i02?ie=UTF8&psc=1
>
> Howard at MP 195


Thank you Howard

Poker2662 Wrote:
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> Awesome video John. W&LE has been trying a new
> arrangement for the Westland trains. Eastbound
> train 212 had 4018, 6385, and around 120 tankcars,
> and they met a Rook Yard crew at the George
> transfer, which had the 112, 101, and two buffer
> cars. They then assembled the train at George to
> go down the branch to Westland, without taking the
> tankcars to Rook, where there is very little room
> at the moment.

Thank you for the HU, I was not aware .

Thank you all, glad you enjoyed the video.
John

dcfbalcoS1 Wrote:
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> Not helping much at an idle.


Indeed along for the ride. Of all the trains I have seen leaving I believe I have seen the helper out of idle just once.
john

If most of the train is over the top of the grade, the momentum would probably keep it's speed up and the helper might not be required then. It would be set to idle and just be along for the ride, as you said.

BTW, Nice video!

Tim

Neat video.
Jim

In this case, the engine on the end is primarily used for leading the train east toward Rook so they don't have to shove the train east with a conductor riding on the last car the whole 30 miles.