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Eastern Railroad Discussion > 611 at Strasburg and the Columbia SecondaryDate: 08/21/19 17:49 611 at Strasburg and the Columbia Secondary Author: eastpenn23 611 wrapped up its journey to Strasburg RR today. Photos are at Columbia and Strasburg. Great company during the whole chase! Edit - video wouldn't upload but its on my YouTube with clips at Lancaster and Strasburg
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/21/19 18:24 by eastpenn23.    Date: 08/21/19 18:08 Re: 611 at Strasburg and the Columbia Secondary Author: sparky52t Watched it go by in the dark last night two hours late. We were trackside just west of Harrisburg on the Lurgan branch. Your photos are great! Thanks for sharing.
Date: 08/21/19 18:40 Re: 611 at Strasburg and the Columbia Secondary Author: rkap10 Great photos. Thanks.
Date: 08/22/19 03:02 Re: 611 at Strasburg and the Columbia Secondary Author: dschlegel #1 is IOTD material!!
Posted from iPhone Date: 08/22/19 09:52 Re: 611 at Strasburg and the Columbia Secondary Author: JPB Great captures! Guess Strasburg doesn’t have PTC installed! ;-)
Posted from iPhone Date: 08/22/19 10:30 Re: 611 at Strasburg and the Columbia Secondary Author: PRR1361 What / whose loco hauled it Lancaster to Leaman place Jct.? NS's locos are not ACSES equipped for the Keystone Line; were they able to get a waiver?
Date: 08/22/19 11:00 Re: 611 at Strasburg and the Columbia Secondary Author: HotWater PRR1361 Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > What / whose loco hauled it Lancaster to Leaman > place Jct.? NS's locos are not ACSES equipped for > the Keystone Line; were they able to get a waiver? No waiver. The NS had diesels appropriately equipped with PTC, cab signals, and that special stuff that Amtrak uses. Diesel on the point, all the way from Roanoke to Leaman Place Jct. Date: 08/22/19 11:35 Re: 611 at Strasburg and the Columbia Secondary Author: eastpenn23 PRR1361 Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > What / whose loco hauled it Lancaster to Leaman > place Jct.? NS's locos are not ACSES equipped for > the Keystone Line; were they able to get a waiver? GP38-2s were in front. They are assigned to Lancaster and work lots of local jobs on Amtrak Posted from iPhone Date: 08/22/19 13:20 Re: 611 at Strasburg and the Columbia Secondary Author: PRR1361 That certainly makes sense; they do have to use Amtrak trackage rights to reach several of their yards in the Lancaster area, so it stands to reason that they have ACSES-equipped a couple of locos. They are likely the only ones on the entire system, however. Amtrak has overlaid I-ETMS on portions of the Baltimore-Newark NEC that NS traverses, so that they do not have to dual-equip their main line locos.
Date: 08/22/19 14:53 Re: 611 at Strasburg and the Columbia Secondary Author: ns1000 Very nice..!!
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