Passenger Trains > Train 43 on Keystone Line

Heading west at Parkesburg, PA. 7/6/2020

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Any of the trackage leading to the OOS Atglen & Susquehanna Low Grade still in use ? When I was working NS served a Green Giant Warehouse at Parkesburg. 

hogr Wrote:
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> Any of the trackage leading to the OOS Atglen &
> Susquehanna Low Grade still in use ? When I was
> working NS served a Green Giant Warehouse at
> Parkesburg. 

Amazing to think about all the "fly-overs" and "cut-offs" that the PRR built EAST of Harrisburg to keep the PRR freight and passenger traffic moving. Course the "collapse of NE railroading by the early 1970s, allowed mergers and consolidations so that freight trains could be routed off of key lines and the NEC and Harrisburg line made practically passenger only! But that also came at a price of getting rid of the engineering marvels that the PRR built for "freight only" rail lines (e.g. track abandonment, downgrades, returning freight to diesel powered trains, taking down the catenary etc.)