Nostalgia & History > PC photos saved from the flood

Early in the 1980's a flood filled my basement. And never thinking it would go as high as the rafters, I only partial removed some items from the darkroom. Just got into 35mm slides and collection was small and in file cases, they went upstairs , I forgot the 2 1/4 X 2 1/4 negatives from my twin lens reflex. During the clean up, I found the negatives soaked in flood water and in envelopes. Spoiled or not they went into a bucket of water and soaked for a week or so. Most were lost, and you see here what's left of photos from a trip to Morristown ( I believe). Still , these are here to share.
Any comments or ID's are welcome.
PRRFan

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sorry for duplication of post photos
PRRFan

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Morrisville, not Morristown

Great shots! Love the Penn-Central.
The scans came out pretty good, considering.



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Great stuff. Trivia: CSX has a "30" 2249 still "operating"

They're great pics and I'm glad you took the time to share them with us!

Great shots - sorry you lost a bunch.
Gary

Lesson learned don't buy a house that's in a 110 year flood plane. Funny how those 100 year floods and storms seem to come more frequent these days.
PRRFan

Great saves.
Bob

I like them. Nice variety of Philly area power. Seems like quite a few of the GP30s seemed to congregate around there.

The location where the very first photograph of this thread was taken is Croydon, PA.

This commuter-only station is at milepost 69.6: 18.4 miles east of Philadelphia's famous ZOO interlocking (MP 88) and 11.3 miles west of MORRIS interlocking (MP 58.3) which provides the NY-Washington mainline access to and from Morrisville.

PRRFan was at the east end of the eastbound passenger platform, looking towards Trenton NJ and New York, with GG1 4914 and her long train heading west.

Croydon station is still in existence today for SEPTA's Trenton service, and now has nice shelters situated upon new full-length high platforms & an improved parking lot on both sides of the tracks. The position-light signals to the east are still going strong in 2018, too, albeit now with color lenses in place of the classic PRR amber lenses.

The 6875 is an RSD12.

Glad you were able to save what you could!
I too had to save my videos, slides and music tapes from a different kind of storm: The Ex-Wife!

Anyway, really like them all, especially #6,
What are those #4400 units with big bulky high noses?

Jim Baker
Riverside, CA



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anthracite Wrote:
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> The location where the very first photograph of
> this thread was taken is Croydon, PA.
>

Nice call. Exactly right. The apartment building in the background survives today, as seen in this Street View https://goo.gl/maps/tWeF3Nxn3Up Rotate that view and you can see the renovated SEPTA Croydon station. Drag the view down the road and you can see the bar that's in the front left of the photo, today called the Dog & Bull.

With the baggage/dorm and no mail car, I'm guessing that that's Train 81, the Silver Star, or perhaps Train 87, the Silver Meteor. The Star picked up its mail car in Washington. In later years the Meteor carried a mail car on the head-end straight out of New York, but who knows what the mail car consists were like in the early 70's when this photo was taken. Beautiful train. Nice photo. Thanks for posting it.

RailRat Wrote:
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> Glad you were able to save what you could!
> I too had to save my videos, slides and music
> tapes from a different kind of storm: The
> Ex-Wife!
>
> Anyway, really like them all, especially #6,
> What are those #4400 units with big bulky high
> noses?

PC ex PRR Class E44. Pennsy had 65 of em. They basically replaced the P5/P5A and the experimental electrics. PC/CR electrics were 4400-4465 for the E44/E44a, 4800-4937 (I believe that was as high as they went) were the GG1's, 4600-4610 were class E33, the ex NYNH&H/N&W/VGN units and the 4940-4979 were ex NYNH&H EP5's. The only other Electrics on CR were the 2 EMD Experimentals, the GM6C 1975 and GM10B 1976. Ben

I like the novelty of the round window on the diesel slugs. Cant identify the manufacturer of the slug.

Jim
Hatboro, PA

Chooch Wrote:
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> I like the novelty of the round window on the
> diesel slugs. Cant identify the manufacturer of
> the slug.
>
> Jim
> Hatboro, PA

Jim, Not slugs. EMD GP9B's. Ben