Passenger Trains > Amtrak train 42 at Lancaster, PA.

At Lancaster station 7/24/16. 
Looks like Alco smoke coming out of the P42 in the third photo.

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3rd photo: what is that signal indication? Too lazy to look up NORAC signal rules....

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Signal went from Clear on 2nd photo to Stop and Proceed indication on 3rd photo.

NS4271 Wrote:
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> Signal went from Clear on 2nd photo to Stop and
> Proceed indication on 3rd photo.

Is that what the white light is for?

I don't recall seeing any signals with a white light used 
for signal indication

Jerry Martin
Los Angeles, CA
Central Coast Railroad Festival

The white light indicates that the block is occupied.

Its just white instead of yellow, which was used in the PRR days.  since they changed the Vertical/slanted/horizontal lights to green/yellow/red, they decided to use white on the single "stop and proceed" indication.  2 horiz red lights is stop and stay.  with the white light below, its stop and proceed.


GP25 Wrote:
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> NS4271 Wrote:
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> > Signal went from Clear on 2nd photo to Stop
> and
> > Proceed indication on 3rd photo.
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> Is that what the white light is for?
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> I don't recall seeing any signals with a white
> light used 
> for signal indication

Nice photos.  And nice to see the new track configuration in Lancaster station.  Thanks for taking and posting them.

Interesting line-up.  Just looking at the window widths, it looks like it's an Amfleet-I coach, Amfleet-I food car, 3 Amfleet-II coaches and an Amfleet-I coach on the rear.

Does anyone know what The Pennsylvanian's trainset becomes when it arrives in New York.  Does it still turn to The Palmetto the next day, with a baggage car added, or does it turn back to the westbound Pennsylvanian?

Speaking of baggage cars, wasn't Amtrak talking a few years ago about adding a baggage car to The Pennsylvanian since it handles so many connecting passengers at Pittsburgh with the Capitol Limited?  Now that Amtrak has all of its Viewliner baggage cars, does it have enough baggage cars to provide that service?