Trains on the Norfolk Southern Harrisburg Line Spring 2017

Trains on the Norfolk Southern Harrisburg Line Spring 2017 was shot between Reading and Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, from the end of March to the middle of June, 2017. Train descriptions, and the time they appear in the video are listed below.


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3/31/17 - Two throttling GP38-2's pull a very-mixed freight from Enola to Allentown on a rainy evening.
0:40 - 33A - Enola, PA - Allentown, PA
NS GP38-2 5617
NS GP38-2 5351


4/1/17 - An armor yellow consist leads auto/stack train 290, crossing over 2-to-1 at PRESCOTT just before sunset.
1:50 - 290 - Birmingham, AL - Croxton, NJ
UP SD70ACe 8696
UP ES44AC 8164


4/2/17 - On a sunny morning, the Wabash Heritage unit leads a late-running 294 across Railroad Street.
3:20 - 294 - Chicago, IL - Bethlehem, PA
NS SD70ACe 1070 (Wabash)
NS SD60I 6760


4/6/17 - A chop-nose Admiral cab GP38-2 chugs west with a sizable local out of Reading Yard, including an MW flat car. 3001 is an ex-Reading GP40-2, spending most of its life on home rails.
4:50 - H31 - Reading, PA - Local
NS GP38-2 5070
NS GP40-2 3001


4/16/17 - Greenery is finally starting to show in the rock cut east of Milepost 77, as a trio of EMD motors hauls hot morning TOFC to North Jersey.
5:45 - 20E - Chicago, IL - Croxton, NJ
NS SD70M 2594
NS SD70M-2 2652
NS SD70M-2 2671


4/29/17 - Widecab SD60 variants, including a rebuilt SD60 and ex-BN SD60M "tri-clops" (nick-named for its 3 front cab windows), ease 19G into the Lebanon City limits at Avon, respecting a 40 MPH rule. The feed mill here is very active, and sometimes a nice display of multi-modal action can be seen here.
6:55 - 19G - Oak Island, NJ - Bellevue, OH
NS SD60E 6962
NS SD60M 6810

Later that afternoon, the haze starts to clear a bit, allowing some sun to shine on mid-day intermodal train 21M at Milepost 90 with a mix of different locomotives breaking it's usually streak of solid black GE's.
8:35 - 21M - Croxton, NJ - Chicago, IL
NS SD70 2561
CN ES44DC 2335
NS ES44AC 8062
NS SD70ACe 1016

Heading a few miles west to the Milepost 96, an ex-UP SD90MAC rebuild leads eastbound auto loads 18N past the Reading Company train station.
10:20 - 18N - Fostoria, OH - Doremus, NJ
NS SD70ACU 7326
NS D9-44CW 9529
NS SD70 2565

That evening, the skies clear for a late-running 211 with a trio of Union Pacific locomotives splitting the fields near Milepost 78.
12:00 - 211 - Croxton, NJ - Atlanta, GA (Saturday Edition)
UP AC4400CW 6040
UP ES44AC 5396
UP SD70M 4352


4/30/17 - Sometime this spring, 35Q was moved to an early morning call time. Previously, the train was nocturnal along the Harrisburg Line, but this change allowed for a morning run (not ideal on sunny days), but on this cloudy morning, Tuscan Red leads on competitor rails!
13:25 - 35Q - Allentown, PA - Linwood, NC
NS ES44AC 8102 (Pennsylvania Railroad)
NS D9-44CW 9199


6/4/17 - Fast forward into June, the Virginian Heritage Unit leads westbound manifest train 19G through the large 4-way crossing in the Richland town square.
14:45 - 19G - Oak Island, NJ - Bellevue, OH
NS SD70ACe 1069 (Virginian)
NS D9-44CW 9673


6/17/17 - An eastbound high and wide walks its load through the rock cut at Richland, while 211 hustles westward with a Leslie RS5T horn on the lead unit. A railgrinder just made its way across Main 1 this week, which is why the wheels on 211 sound exceptionally loud on the freshly ground rails. The load on 053 is supposedly a generator for Bayway in North Jersey.
16:15 - 053 - High and Wide - Electrical Generator for Bayway
NS SD70 2529

16:30 - 211 - Croxton, NJ - Atlanta, GA (Saturday Edition)
NS D9-44CW 9921
NS D9-44CW 9777
NS D9-44CW 9025


6/19/17 - A large H31 storms west with a variety of 4-axle General Purpose locomotives, including a high hood behind the 3038, which is notorious among railfans for its exceptional cab-mounted Leslie S3L horn. The style of running with a locomotive on the rear is called "Push-Pull" because the train will change directions en route. Notice, these cars, too, hum louder on the fresh rail grinds.
18:25 - H31 - Reading, PA - Local
NS GP40-2 3038
NS GP38-2 5171
NS GP38-2 5288


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