Good Morning,
Attached are some shots of Friday’s C91 to Windber’s Rosebud Mine. This is the 5th train to load at the recently re-opened facility.
Darryl
C91 at South Fork:
http://www.railpict ures.net/ viewphoto. php?id=223220
C91 at Salix:
http://www.railpict ures.net/ viewphoto. php?id=223221
And finally, 2 shots from Windber:
http://www.railpict ures.net/ viewphoto. php?id=223222
http://www.railpict ures.net/ viewphoto. php?id=223223
…Hello Darryl:
Haven’t pulled up your photos yet, but glad to hear of new activity in the area…We’re originally from Stoystown.
Wonder if CSX has pulled any more coal consists out of newly opened Shanksville branch that joins the S&C {CSX}, at Coleman…?
Welcome to the forum.
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Welcome to the group. My daughter used to live in an apartment
on that street. We lived in Johnstown from 97-00 (Worked at
National Drug Intel Center). Good to see pics from the area.
Ernie Leggett
El Paso, TX
The pix are not available on the links you gave
…Ernie:
The Avatar photo in my posts was taken at the Johnstown Incline Restaurant. We’re setting at the windows facing the 600-700’ drop down into Johnstown.
Good Morning;
I found that you need to do a bit of editing of the links-there is a space in the word “railpict ures” that needs to be closed, also a space after the foward slash and before the word viewphoto. “/ viewphoto.” and then a space after the period in viewphoto and before php?.
Get rid of the spaces and the links work fine. Not sure how the spaces got in. Try these editied links and see if they work for you.
http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=223220
http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=223221
http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=223222
http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=223223
Jared
That did it just fine…thanks.
Love the last one! SD80s + Street running = [:)]
Thanks everyone for the comments. It’s been a good weekend so far out here.
Darryl
If you are using MS Internet Explorer hit the space bar after the last digit of the URL.
Nice photos…
But that street running gives me the chills sometimes.
…Great photos. Know where most of the shots were taken in the Windber, Central City and Cairnbrook area. Home is not too far from there. {Stoystown}.
As for street running, If my memory serves correctly, that is really not street running, just a long angle street crossing of the main street thru Windber.
I might relate the first photo has the railroad running right thru the break in the Southfork Dam {that occured back in 1889}, and killed over 2000 people in downstream Johnstown. {Referred to as the Johnstown flood}. The first one. Has been 2 more since. {1936 and 1977}.
…Thought we’d see some more Cambria and Somerset Co. railfan comments re: Some rather nice and unique photos of the new mine supplying coal train now in operation.
Quentin, “your” restaurant is one place I’m hoping to visit with Pat on our anniversary trip this spring. We’ve ridden the Incline before, and visited the flood museum.
I remember some of the Berwind-White hoppers that used to call Windber home (note the relationship between those two names). They were pretty old at the time, and were owned by PRR (they had been relettered from BWCX to BWC).
…Carl, I haven’t seen any of the Berwin hoppers for many years…Would you believe not too many years after we relocated to Muncie here, we actually saw some of them go thru here…!
I don’t recall which line it was specifically, but I’m rather sure it was on our double track east-west NYC {at the time}.
We were in Windber just about a year or so ago and I wondered about those hoppers if there were any in use yet…Didn’t see any.
As for the spot up at the top of the Incline Plane there in Johnstown, it is a very interesting place to visit and now with the observation deck built out over the drop, it is an awesome view. Of course it’s our home area {20 miles from there}, and we’ve been up there many times but I still really enjoy each visit we make there. Especially if it is a nice weather day and one can perch on the observation deck and really take the time to really look around. You can see the “old” Pennsylvania station from there and if it’s afternoon a good chance of seeing Amtrak make it’s stop, etc…Lots of east-west freight traffic too on the former PRR and of course now NS.
We hope to be able to make the trip this year as we always do {unless something prevents us from doing so}, as it did last year, over Memorial Day and several days beyond.
There is a Holiday Inn Hotel right in downtown Johnstown we used to stay at all the time. It’s in sight from the spot up at the Incline stop at the top. By the way, that track is lit up at night with colored lights and it used to have a laser light display too…Don’t know if that is still in place or not. The H I had a nice restaurant too…right at sidewalk level with glass enclosement allowing one to look right out on the downtown street from inside it…
It’s been thirty years, probably more, since the BWC(X) cars have disappeared. Conrail finally eliminated the reporting mark in early 1979.
…That makes sense for the time era…It’s been a long time since I’ve seen any.
Good afternoon, I saw in a previous post the Overlook at Johnstown by the incline was mentioned. Attached is a link from a shot from this past summer taken from the spot mentioned.
Darryl
…On a beautiful Spring or Summer day it sure is a nice place to stand and take in the scenery. Have done so quite a few times since the observation deck was put in place. And as I mentioned before, just look at my avatar with this post, we’re sitting right at the windows facing down the 600-700’ or so to downtown Johnstown. Of course we’re seated in the restaurant at the top of the Incline Plane.