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| Title: |
The friendly car attendant opened a Dutch-door for me! |
| Description: |
Downgrade, near MG Tower on No. 2 Track |
| Photo Date: |
10/23/1977 Upload Date: 8/19/2014 4:27:46 PM |
| Location: |
MG Tower, PA |
| Author: |
Bob Kise |
| Categories: |
Signal,Passenger,Action |
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88 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
MG Tower as seen from the Dutch door |
| Description: |
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| Photo Date: |
10/23/1977 Upload Date: 8/19/2014 4:28:24 PM |
| Location: |
MG Tower, PA |
| Author: |
Bob Kise |
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108 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
CR 8139 Rear helper |
| Description: |
Jim Olmstead photo |
| Photo Date: |
5/13/1984 Upload Date: 2/1/2025 4:07:47 PM |
| Location: |
MG Tower, PA |
| Author: |
Jim Olmstead |
| Categories: |
Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CR 8139(GP38-2) |
| Views: |
80 Comments: 3 |
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| Title: |
CR 6420 West ENIN 7 |
| Description: |
H E Brouse photo |
| Photo Date: |
9/27/1989 Upload Date: 1/14/2025 1:21:59 PM |
| Location: |
MG Tower, PA |
| Author: |
H E Brouse |
| Categories: |
Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CR 6420(SD40-2) CR 3274(GP40) |
| Views: |
89 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Mid-Grade: MG Tower on the "Hill" west of Altoona |
| Description: |
Taken from the rear vestibule of the Leonard Buxton; private varnish carrying the markers on the westbound Pennsylvanian. |
| Photo Date: |
9/30/1989 Upload Date: 2/11/2012 10:09:58 PM |
| Location: |
MG Tower, PA |
| Author: |
Bob Krug |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Passenger,Track,Action |
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415 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
CR "whitenose" 5083 westbound |
| Description: |
Passing through MG Interlocking |
| Photo Date: |
3/3/1990 Upload Date: 3/6/2013 5:22:33 PM |
| Location: |
MG Tower, PA |
| Author: |
Bob Kise |
| Categories: |
Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CR 5083(B40-8) |
| Views: |
454 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
CR 6028 West |
| Description: |
West end of MG Interlocking |
| Photo Date: |
3/3/1990 Upload Date: 9/23/2013 6:30:11 PM |
| Location: |
MG Tower, PA |
| Author: |
Bob Kise |
| Categories: |
Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CR 6028(C40-8) |
| Views: |
395 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
CR 6292 shoving westbound |
| Description: |
Just beyond MG Interlocking |
| Photo Date: |
3/3/1990 Upload Date: 9/23/2013 6:32:37 PM |
| Location: |
MG Tower, PA |
| Author: |
Bob Kise |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
CR 6292(SD40) |
| Views: |
327 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
CR 6453 East |
| Description: |
West end of MG Interlocking |
| Photo Date: |
3/3/1990 Upload Date: 9/23/2013 6:34:28 PM |
| Location: |
MG Tower, PA |
| Author: |
Bob Kise |
| Categories: |
Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CR 6453(SD40-2) |
| Views: |
262 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
CR 6454 West |
| Description: |
Just past MG Tower |
| Photo Date: |
3/3/1990 Upload Date: 9/23/2013 6:35:27 PM |
| Location: |
MG Tower, PA |
| Author: |
Bob Kise |
| Categories: |
Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CR 6454(SD40-2) |
| Views: |
277 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
CR 6660 shoving west |
| Description: |
West end of MG Interlocking |
| Photo Date: |
3/3/1990 Upload Date: 9/23/2013 6:40:44 PM |
| Location: |
MG Tower, PA |
| Author: |
Bob Kise |
| Categories: |
Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CR 6660(SD45-2) |
| Views: |
282 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
CR 6664 West |
| Description: |
By MG Tower |
| Photo Date: |
3/3/1990 Upload Date: 9/23/2013 6:41:28 PM |
| Location: |
MG Tower, PA |
| Author: |
Bob Kise |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
CR 6664(SD45-2) |
| Views: |
342 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
CR 6713 West |
| Description: |
With a fresh paint job |
| Photo Date: |
3/3/1990 Upload Date: 9/23/2013 6:42:01 PM |
| Location: |
MG Tower, PA |
| Author: |
Bob Kise |
| Categories: |
Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CR 6713(SD50) |
| Views: |
429 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
MG Tower, looking east |
| Description: |
"Mid-Grade" |
| Photo Date: |
3/3/1990 Upload Date: 9/19/2014 7:22:50 PM |
| Location: |
MG Tower, PA |
| Author: |
Bob Kise |
| Categories: |
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| Views: |
125 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
NS 7503 |
| Description: |
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| Photo Date: |
12/31/2009 Upload Date: 12/30/2009 1:43:10 AM |
| Location: |
MG Tower, PA |
| Author: |
Drew Mitchem |
| Categories: |
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| Locomotives: |
NS 7503(ES40DC) |
| Views: |
131 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
NS 7503 |
| Description: |
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| Photo Date: |
12/31/2009 Upload Date: 12/30/2009 1:43:11 AM |
| Location: |
MG Tower, PA |
| Author: |
Drew Mitchem |
| Categories: |
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| Locomotives: |
NS 7503(ES40DC) NS 8439(C40-8W) |
| Views: |
200 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
NS 3344 |
| Description: |
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| Photo Date: |
12/31/2009 Upload Date: 12/30/2009 1:43:12 AM |
| Location: |
MG Tower, PA |
| Author: |
Drew Mitchem |
| Categories: |
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| Locomotives: |
NS 3344(SD40-2) |
| Views: |
155 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
NS 3344 |
| Description: |
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| Photo Date: |
12/31/2009 Upload Date: 12/30/2009 1:43:13 AM |
| Location: |
MG Tower, PA |
| Author: |
Drew Mitchem |
| Categories: |
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| Locomotives: |
NS 3344(SD40-2) |
| Views: |
171 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
NS 9565 |
| Description: |
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| Photo Date: |
12/31/2009 Upload Date: 12/30/2009 1:48:25 AM |
| Location: |
MG Tower, PA |
| Author: |
Drew Mitchem |
| Categories: |
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| Locomotives: |
NS 9565(C40-9W) |
| Views: |
129 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
NS 9565 |
| Description: |
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| Photo Date: |
12/31/2009 Upload Date: 12/30/2009 1:48:26 AM |
| Location: |
MG Tower, PA |
| Author: |
Drew Mitchem |
| Categories: |
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| Locomotives: |
NS 9565(C40-9W) |
| Views: |
118 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
NS 9565 |
| Description: |
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| Photo Date: |
12/31/2009 Upload Date: 12/30/2009 1:48:27 AM |
| Location: |
MG Tower, PA |
| Author: |
Drew Mitchem |
| Categories: |
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| Locomotives: |
NS 9565(C40-9W) |
| Views: |
91 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
NS 9638 |
| Description: |
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| Photo Date: |
12/31/2009 Upload Date: 12/30/2009 1:48:28 AM |
| Location: |
MG Tower, PA |
| Author: |
Drew Mitchem |
| Categories: |
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| Locomotives: |
NS 9638(C40-9W) |
| Views: |
122 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
NS 9638 |
| Description: |
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| Photo Date: |
12/31/2009 Upload Date: 12/30/2009 1:48:29 AM |
| Location: |
MG Tower, PA |
| Author: |
Drew Mitchem |
| Categories: |
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| Locomotives: |
NS 9638(C40-9W) |
| Views: |
116 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Crossing Over |
| Description: |
Right behind the 925 was the 501, coal empties for points west. The trains both crossed over, 3 to 2 at MG, to get around work in the tunnels on Track 3. A clear signal is lined up for an eastbound on 1. |
| Photo Date: |
8/4/2010 Upload Date: 9/8/2010 6:04:19 PM |
| Location: |
MG Tower, PA |
| Author: |
David Abeles |
| Categories: |
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| Locomotives: |
NS 9362(C40-9W) |
| Views: |
271 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
What I'll Do for SD40-2's in Run-8... |
| Description: |
NS 925, a loaded Herzog Inc. ballast train, was reported to have SD40-2 help out of Altoona. Where better to get the full experience of westbound 40-2's in Run-8 than MG Tower on the east slope? We made for MG and made the image of the head end here as the clouds rolled in, 1:40 p.m. August 4. |
| Photo Date: |
8/4/2010 Upload Date: 9/8/2010 6:04:31 PM |
| Location: |
MG Tower, PA |
| Author: |
David Abeles |
| Categories: |
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| Locomotives: |
NS 9727(C40-9W) |
| Views: |
395 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Somewhat pure |
| Description: |
But for the shamefully cemented-in windows of former MG Block Station, the missing old No.1 track and the rearing horse rather than keystone, this might still be a Pennsy scene at one of very few remaining locations retaining an original PRR appearance. |
| Photo Date: |
10/16/2010 Upload Date: 11/5/2010 11:29:38 AM |
| Location: |
MG Tower, PA |
| Author: |
Rick Erben |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 6312(SD40E) NS 6325(SD40E) NS 2724(SD70M-2) |
| Views: |
508 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Autumn Serenade |
| Description: |
Ahhh, the exquisite pleasure of hearing locomotives smoothly assaulting the grade amidst the piquant air and eye-candy surroundings of autumn foliage. A helper set is coupled ahead of the lone road unit to snap a hopper train up the grade. |
| Photo Date: |
10/16/2010 Upload Date: 11/5/2010 11:35:19 AM |
| Location: |
MG Tower, PA |
| Author: |
Rick Erben |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 6312(SD40E) NS 6325(SD40E) NS 2724(SD70M-2) |
| Views: |
677 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
Aint that a kick in the head? |
| Description: |
How many times have you said to yourself, "just a few minutes difference...damn!" ? At least it is better than nothing. |
| Photo Date: |
10/16/2010 Upload Date: 11/5/2010 1:13:52 PM |
| Location: |
MG Tower, PA |
| Author: |
Rick Erben |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 6313(SD40E) |
| Views: |
158 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
And awaaaay they go. |
| Description: |
Helpers descending, helpers ascending. That is the way it is on The Mountain. |
| Photo Date: |
10/16/2010 Upload Date: 11/5/2010 1:15:34 PM |
| Location: |
MG Tower, PA |
| Author: |
Rick Erben |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 6317(SD40E) |
| Views: |
135 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Mountain Railroading |
| Description: |
The essence. As late as 1951, there were some 54 first class schedules, twenty four of which passed MG between 11pm and 6am. Ten years later, the schedules were more than cut in half. That one time volume with all of the freight traffic and helper movements associated therewith accounts for the necessity of an interlocking mid-grade on the east slope of The Mountain, hence the presence of this architecturally superb block station deep in the Allegheny forest. |
| Photo Date: |
10/16/2010 Upload Date: 11/5/2010 12:16:50 PM |
| Location: |
MG Tower, PA |
| Author: |
Rick Erben |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 6327(SD40E) |
| Views: |
764 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
You can count on it |
| Description: |
Usta be in pre-CR breakup days there was a virtually steady procession of westbound manifests through the morning and afternoon: OIPI, LMPI, MOPI, BEPI, CAPI, EDPI, ESPI, BAPI; and in PC/PRR days the fleet of PR or LCL trains, et al. Manifest business isnt the same with NS, but the one thing you can count upon is a trash train. 65J is not so odiferous in milder weather and has a helper set first out. |
| Photo Date: |
10/16/2010 Upload Date: 11/5/2010 12:20:09 PM |
| Location: |
MG Tower, PA |
| Author: |
Rick Erben |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 6327(SD40E) |
| Views: |
496 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Timelines |
| Description: |
The lengthy shadows from a low mid-October sun are, in effect, timelines of distance from the age of steam when cinders kept the trackside foliage at bay. Here former CR 5571 leads empty hoppers from No.3 to No.2 track and past the eastward home signals for MG amidst autumn splendor. |
| Photo Date: |
10/16/2010 Upload Date: 11/5/2010 11:49:45 AM |
| Location: |
MG Tower, PA |
| Author: |
Rick Erben |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 6804(SD60M) NS 8763(C40-8) |
| Views: |
490 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Midday action |
| Description: |
The intermodal trains begin to show come afternoon and, here, NS 9475 brings a westbound through MG on No.2 track. It hasnt taken the sun long to move to the opposite side of the tracks as the days become much shorter now. |
| Photo Date: |
10/16/2010 Upload Date: 11/5/2010 1:41:30 PM |
| Location: |
MG Tower, PA |
| Author: |
Rick Erben |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 9475(C40-9W) |
| Views: |
159 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
Seriously trainfked |
| Description: |
There was a westbound manifest moving up the mountain. From here, you can hear it way down in the valley around MP240 working upgrade and, after awhile, whistling for the sightseers at Horseshoe Curve. Now, the eastward signal for No.1 track had been standing at clear for awhile but, wouldnt you know (why dont apostrophes work on this site?), just as the westbound and my presumed catch of the day is getting closer, the sun is right, the leaves are lovely and all is right with the world.....an eastbound manifest shows. There cannot be more than a bare handful a day! As the eastbound consist rumbles past, the westbound passes on an inside track and that is that! As Dean Martin sang, "Aint that a kick in the head?" |
| Photo Date: |
10/16/2010 Upload Date: 11/5/2010 1:01:24 PM |
| Location: |
MG Tower, PA |
| Author: |
Rick Erben |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 9751(C40-9W) NS 8919(C40-9W) |
| Views: |
156 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
NS 8392 |
| Description: |
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| Photo Date: |
10/8/2011 Upload Date: 10/10/2011 4:41:37 PM |
| Location: |
MG Tower, PA |
| Author: |
Todd Dillon |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 8392(C40-8W) |
| Views: |
185 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
NS 6327 |
| Description: |
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| Photo Date: |
10/8/2011 Upload Date: 10/10/2011 4:37:06 PM |
| Location: |
MG Tower, PA |
| Author: |
Todd Dillon |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 6327(SD40E) |
| Views: |
220 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
NS 9379 |
| Description: |
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| Photo Date: |
10/8/2011 Upload Date: 10/10/2011 4:46:03 PM |
| Location: |
MG Tower, PA |
| Author: |
Todd Dillon |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 9379(C40-9W) |
| Views: |
139 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Untitled |
| Description: |
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| Photo Date: |
10/8/2011 Upload Date: 10/10/2011 4:49:57 PM |
| Location: |
MG Tower, PA |
| Author: |
Todd Dillon |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
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| Views: |
162 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
NS 6530 |
| Description: |
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| Photo Date: |
10/8/2011 Upload Date: 10/10/2011 4:58:19 PM |
| Location: |
MG Tower, PA |
| Author: |
Todd Dillon |
| Categories: |
Roster,Scenic |
| Locomotives: |
NS 6530(SD60) |
| Views: |
291 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
NS 6327 |
| Description: |
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| Photo Date: |
10/8/2011 Upload Date: 10/10/2011 4:51:38 PM |
| Location: |
MG Tower, PA |
| Author: |
Todd Dillon |
| Categories: |
Roster,Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 6327(SD40E) |
| Views: |
175 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
NS 6738-II |
| Description: |
Heading around the mountain. In Pennsy, PC and CR days, MG was the place to be, but density of traffic is not the same anymore. |
| Photo Date: |
6/8/2012 Upload Date: 7/17/2012 1:36:17 AM |
| Location: |
MG Tower, PA |
| Author: |
Rick Erben |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 6738(SD60I) |
| Views: |
121 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
NS 6738-I |
| Description: |
NS 6738 leads empty hoppers upgrade past former MG Block Station, the windows of which are regrettably walled in, detracting from the classic architecture of this isolated outpost on the mountain. |
| Photo Date: |
6/8/2012 Upload Date: 7/17/2012 1:33:40 AM |
| Location: |
MG Tower, PA |
| Author: |
Rick Erben |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 6738(SD60I) |
| Views: |
185 Comments: 1 |
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