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Eastern Railroad Discussion > West Slope from the Back of Amtrak 42Date: 08/28/16 04:22 West Slope from the Back of Amtrak 42 Author: MILW86A Hello All:
I made a trip out to Altoona and environs via Amtrak last week. It was a good time. Ill have more to post later from the trip. But thought I would share some pics from the rear of Amtrak 42 from Pittsburgh to Horseshoe. Was surprised to see a number of Position Lights still left as well as some ex NYC type signals too. 1. Leaving the station at CP Pitt 2. CP Traff 3. CP Conpit More to come.......    Date: 08/28/16 04:31 Re: West Slope from the Back of Amtrak 42 Author: MILW86A 4. Westbound at Conpit
5. SO Interlocking. 6. 4 pack of lite helpers on #2 at Summerhill More to come....    Date: 08/28/16 04:47 Re: West Slope from the Back of Amtrak 42 Author: MILW86A 7. Cassandra Overlook....a place I spent a little time at on this trip.
8. Lilly, PA Signal Bridge 9. MO at Cresson. As you can see we are going down the mountain on Track 1 More to come....    Date: 08/28/16 04:59 Re: West Slope from the Back of Amtrak 42 Author: cutboy2 A great train ride in spring or fall, also.
Date: 08/28/16 05:01 Re: West Slope from the Back of Amtrak 42 Author: MILW86A 10. Route 53 Signal Bridge
11. AR Tower. Surprised its still standing. 12, Headed down the slide into New Portage Tunnel More to come....    Date: 08/28/16 05:11 Re: West Slope from the Back of Amtrak 42 Author: RFandPFan Fantastic photos, thanks for sharing!
Date: 08/28/16 05:17 Re: West Slope from the Back of Amtrak 42 Author: MILW86A 13. East Portal of the New Portage Tunnel
14. East portal of the Twin Tunnels 15. MG Tower and signal bridge More to come....    Date: 08/28/16 05:35 Re: West Slope from the Back of Amtrak 42 Author: MILW86A 16. Coming down the Mountain
17. Spectators at the Park view our train 18. Going away from the curve Thank you all for looking. Like I said I will have more to post from my trip., MILW86A    Date: 08/28/16 06:10 Re: West Slope from the Back of Amtrak 42 Author: VFPNSFAN Awesome series of photos, thanks for getting and posting!
Date: 08/28/16 06:31 Re: West Slope from the Back of Amtrak 42 Author: NKP715 Dave,
Great shots showing the physical plant. On the Cassandra shot, can clearly see the "pots" that once supported the westbound signals. Date: 08/28/16 06:42 Re: West Slope from the Back of Amtrak 42 Author: bluesboyst Nice.....spent a lot of time at Conpit...
Date: 08/28/16 08:33 Re: West Slope from the Back of Amtrak 42 Author: coach Great photos, especially of the signals. The first photo is very interesting, as the cantilever signal bridge has the same span of tracks as the modern bridges, but it has far less construction associated with it. It's surprising that the long arm is braced by such a skinny diagonal arm, but it works.
The last cantilver shown, the new one at Horseshoe Curve, has the longest reach I've ever seen on one of these "single tower" models. Date: 08/28/16 09:08 Re: West Slope from the Back of Amtrak 42 Author: stevelv VFPNSFAN Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > Awesome series of photos, thanks for getting and > posting! Ditto on that. And you got the bonus of riding over the mountain on track 1 which only happens occasionally at least from my observations. Date: 08/28/16 12:14 Re: West Slope from the Back of Amtrak 42 Author: boejoe Happy to see that the crew didn't object to you being at the rear for the trip.
Date: 08/28/16 18:02 Re: West Slope from the Back of Amtrak 42 Author: MC6853 I love shot #12; gives you a good idea of the severity of the grade... Great views of some of those signals, too; thanks for sharing these...
Date: 08/29/16 08:58 Re: West Slope from the Back of Amtrak 42 Author: boilertube A great set of photos. Very interesting.
Date: 08/29/16 10:25 Re: West Slope from the Back of Amtrak 42 Author: mbrotzman Was Business Class on the front or rear of your train?
Date: 08/29/16 10:33 Re: West Slope from the Back of Amtrak 42 Author: MILW86A It was up front this time. Normally like on the Illinois Zephyr its on the rear.
Date: 08/29/16 16:25 Re: West Slope from the Back of Amtrak 42 Author: raydrs Thanks for a great series of photos. I miss the then PRR line that I knew as a kid. So many memories...
Date: 09/01/16 13:34 Re: West Slope from the Back of Amtrak 42 Author: easternrailvideos east bound its up front. going west it will be on the rear.... thats normal for 42/43 on the Pittsburgh line. great photos
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