Is Hershey on the mainline of the NSRR? [:)]
On the NS harrisburg line. Pretty busy.
i can say with 99% surity…no…but ive been wrong before
i checked my 1965 Rand McNally RR atlas and it is indeed the Reading main from Reading Pa to Harrisburg that goes thru Hersey Pa
Yep, former Reading main line. Also is where the Hershey Shifter trolls. That makes runs to West Hershey with an old Conrail cabin car. (caboose for you non-Pa people).
Mostly all NS’s traffic to NYC and Philly from the west rip thrugh Hershey in the evenings. At Wyomissing Junction the New York and Philly lines from RDG’s old Lebanon Valley (NS’s H’burg line) split and the train action is fast and furious.
You will probably never find my campsite above the action, but if you do, we’ll do bacon and eggs and pass some campfire espresso to the engineer. No, he’ll roll through but you can eyeball him.
My OWN son hated the one night we spent together there. Didn’t like the westbounders’ headlights lighting up our yellow tent like a light bulb with us in it.
For myself, didn’t miss a train.
Let me tell you about Perryville with the midnight Port Road trains…no, I’ll save that for later
see i was wrong…guess the NS got most of the old RDG…sigh…to live in the 70’s again
Yes, Hershey is he NS mainline from Philly to Pittsburgh. It is VERY busy. It is only a few mils from Harrisburg where 3 divisions join. The line north from Hagerstown, west to Pittsburgh, east to Philadelphia and north to Buffalo run out of there. Accross the river is Enola yard, a very busy place. I live nearby and know the area well.
I monitor the Harrisburg sub on ATCS. Where does Hershey fall on the layout?
Should be on the east side of the River, a few miles hence.
Where in Harrisburg do those 3 subs connect? [:)]
Yes I was in Wyomissing. You can see the pix from there by going to my site myrailpix.com & then the Pennsylvania gallery. Thanks for the info I will be up there late May & my son wants to go to some lind of tail fin show & I will pack my lunch, chair, scanner, book, cameras & enjoy myself watching the trains roll by [:)]
Harrisburg has a stone bridge. This stone bridge is north of a very big yard on the west bank.
I think somewhere between this stone bridge that carries rail traffic and I-83 is where all the rails meet. I have not been in the area since 9-11 so Im out of date.
There are a number of rail lines rolling into Harrisburg from all directions so it is difficult for me to pin down just one place where all meet.
From Enola (on the west side of the river) the line runs south into Hagerstown, Maryland. Just north of the Enola yard on the west side of the river the line goes north and then splits, going west following the Juniata River toward Pittsburgh, or north to Buffalo. At htat point there is a wye where the 3 divisions meet with the Rockville Bridge crossing the river eastward into Harrisburg.
No, from enola south - that is the port road down towards baltimore. You can only get to hagerstown from the east shore, after crossing the river bridge. (to get from enola to hagerstown, you have to cross the river twice - first at rockville, then across the reading bridge further south)
clear as mud?