On the train near Elizabethtown, PA, semi out in the boonies, I saw a really beautiful switcher. At the speed I was traveling I didn’t get a good look. It was an SW or S-type or similar. The paint job was like Wisconsin Central–Tuscany red and gold. Only instead of a large stripe along the bottom it was a single narrow stripe a couple feet down from the top of the hood. It was working, pushing two cars onto a siding. And it was clean, spotless, an absolutely beautiful little switcher.
chip,
that could be a number of switchers…it could be that it was not from a big roadname railroad but one of those contract shortline locomotives like CFEX or one’s like here in the Houston area, The Houston Belt and Terminal railroad…there are many what are called “shortline” railroads out there that are contracted by the big guys to handle excess freight or it could have been a company owned locomotive for their own local switching use…it could have been a number of locomotive types like a S-1 S-2 SW1500, MP-15 AC or DC, and so forth…chuck
I figured it was not a class 1, but I was curious if anyone knew what road it was. The thing that stood out was how clean it was. Someone was proud of thier loco.
Any chance you were closer to Middlestown/Hummelstown? It’s closer to Harrisburg up Rt 283. They right freight and passenger service.
I’ll keep looking to see if I find anything else.
Kevin
It could have been, certainly the color is very close. But I’m pretty sure I saw gold and not white. And where I saw it would be about 8 miles from Middletown on the map so that is nothing. Elizabethtown was the next town after I saw it, but it was well outside of town.
This could have been it–with a new shiney paint job in the colors I described.
