Eastern Railroad Discussion > How Many NS Locomotives Can You Fit in One Photo?

I believe there are 16 locomotives in this shot, taken from the "Iron Bridge" (Version 2), spanning the north end of Enola Yard near Harrisburg, Pa.

The lashup in the foreground included nine locomotives, all on line, that scanner chatter revealed was about to take a train west.

Art House
Gettysburg, Pa.



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 11/20/12 16:18 by aehouse.

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Lots of horses waiting to get out of the gate : )
John

WOW, nice shot

Close, by the air on my chatty chatty chin.......

16 is that all ? LOL

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foofighter Wrote:
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> 16 is that all ? LOL


You win!

Art

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aehouse Wrote:
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> I believe there are 16 locomotives in this shot,
> taken from the "Iron Bridge" (Version 2), spanning
> the north end of Enola Yard near Harrisburg, Pa.
>
> The lashup in the foreground included nine
> locomotives, all on line, that scanner chatter
> revealed was about to take a train west.
>
> Art House
> Gettysburg, Pa.

I assure you the 33A (train in the foreground) did NOT have all nine engines on line. Since the train was small only two engines were needed for power to maintain track speed.

How ever many that is sitting at Bellevue on New Years Eve 1996

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Quite a few. Mostly GP9s and 7s at Cumberland, MD, October 15, 1983.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 11/21/12 02:22 by GM50.

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Very cool...this whole thread is fab.
Craig H

anti-hammie Wrote:
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> I assure you the 33A (train in the foreground) did
> NOT have all nine engines on line. Since the train
> was small only two engines were needed for power
> to maintain track speed.


And I assure you that I heard the engineer and dispatcher discussing the fact that all nine engines were on line and would remain so. There was even some jocular back and forth about the amount of smoke the older engines would put out when they went to make their pull.

Exchange:

Dispatcher: "Can you give me your engine numbers?"

Engineer: "They're nine of them!" (and he proceeded to enumerate each).

Dispatcher: "They're not all on line are they?"

Engineer: "Yup, all nine of them, and you can bet they'll be a lot of white smoke when we crank up the junkers."

Dispatcher: "You got that right."

Art



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aehouse Wrote:
> And I assure you that I heard the engineer and
> dispatcher discussing the fact that all nine
> engines were on line and would remain so. There
> was even some jocular back and forth about the
> amount of smoke the older engines would put out
> when they went to make their pull.
>
> Exchange:
>
> Dispatcher: "Can you give me your engine
> numbers?"
>
> Engineer: "They're nine of them!" (and he
> proceeded to enumerate each).
>
> Dispatcher: "They're not all on line are they?"
>
> Engineer: "Yup, all nine of them, and you can bet
> they'll be a lot of white smoke when we crank up
> the junkers."
>
> Dispatcher: "You got that right."
>
> Art

Again, let me reiterate we only had the first two online, the whole thing that sparked that conversation which you misquoted was somebody else decided to put their two cents in saying "put em all on line!"

They couldn't be all online because it would be too many powered axles. Being that most of the local units were just being shuttled to Allentown normally the crew just uses the two road units for power and the rest just go along for the ride.

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Here is another moldy oldy, not NS but you get the idea. Thanksgiving Weekend 1994, this is Enola.

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GREAT pics to everyone!!!!! Thanks for sharing.

The Bellevue is my favorite but they are all terrific.
Craig H