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diversity of motive power in Camden's Pavonia Yard Sunday

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diversity of motive power in Camden's Pavonia Yard Sunday

 #50232  by chuchubob
 
I drove past Pavonia Yard on River Road and saw a BNSF engine, so I went home to get my camera and rode the River LINE between 36th Street and Rand to photograph it.

It was a GE C44-9W

http://www.subwayspot.com/gallery/album61/04_09_05_32

and was coupled to an ex-UP SD60:

http://www.subwayspot.com/gallery/album61/04_09_05_25

Tucked in with the usual Conrail and NS locomotives was an Espee Tunnel motor!

http://www.subwayspot.com/gallery/album61/04_09_05_30

Then heading back to 36th Street, I saw a second BNSF engine, so I took another round trip to Rand (free, since there was still more than an hour remaining on my POP ticket) to photograph it:

http://www.subwayspot.com/gallery/album61/04_09_05_35

The quality of the photographs suffered from the day being heavily overcast in addition to photographing through the tinted windows on the River LINE cars.

That enabled me to re-photograph the diverse engines that I had photographed earlier.

http://www.subwayspot.com/gallery/album61/04_09_05_36

http://www.subwayspot.com/gallery/album61/04_09_05_37

telephoto of tunnel motor: http://www.subwayspot.com/gallery/album61/04_09_05_38

http://www.subwayspot.com/gallery/album61/04_09_05_39

http://www.subwayspot.com/gallery/album61/04_09_05_43

http://www.subwayspot.com/gallery/album61/04_09_05_45

 #50240  by OCtrainguy
 
"It was a GE C44-9W and was coupled to an ex-UP SD60"

Looks like that is a coal train! There were some good locomotives in those photos. The two already mentioned, a ex-SP unit and a Conrail Dash-8, would all make me smile if I saw them. :-D

 #50277  by chuchubob
 
OCtrainguy wrote:"It was a GE C44-9W and was coupled to an ex-UP SD60"

Looks like that is a coal train!


It's a stone train, to be delivered to SRNJ at Winslow Junction, for forwarding to Pleasantville.

Bob

 #50324  by OCtrainguy
 
Thanks Bob. I see that it's stone in the hopper now. I hope that stone train travels to the SRNJ today. I'm heading down that way today.

stone train

 #50356  by chuchubob
 
Correction on destination of stone: it went south on CA-90 overnight Sunday night. The power reportedly returned light early Monday morning.

Bob

 #50562  by OCtrainguy
 
Went on a south Jersey venture todat that concluded with a drive by Pavonia Yard. The EMD demonstrator was no longer visible in the late afternoon, but the variety was still good. There was three CSX SD45-2s there that I could see, 8973, 8976 & a DF unit that I could not see the number on. The power from the stone train, the BNSF and ex-UP SD60, was partially tucked under the 27th Street bridge.
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