Along the Line 2016


RIGHT: With paint inspired by the Denver & Rio Grande Western, Pennsylvania Northeastern GP9RM 7010 and SD40-2W 5342 are together for the first time on a run at Souderton, Pa., on September 23. AENGUS HABERSAAT


ABOVE: A North American Railcar Operators Association track car operator turns his Canadian National motorcar in Versailles, Conn. NARCOA organized the first sanctioned trackcar ride on the Providence & Worcester Railroad, which took place on August 6 from Worcester, Mass., south to Plainfield on the P&W’s Norwich Branch, then on to Versailles on P&W’s Willimantic Branch. CALLIE NANOS


ABOVE: Moving 39 cars loaded with logs collected from the Woss and Camp A reloads, Englewood Logging Railway locomotives 304 and 302 drop down the 2.2 percent grade through the Tsulton River Valley, crossing the East Fork in a scene dominated by Mount Holdsworth, on September 11. Beaver Cove, B.C., the end of both the railroad and this crew’s shift, is only a few miles ahead. The isolated railroad located on Vancouver Island is the last true logging railroad in North America. DAVID HONAN


ABOVE RIGHT: The Allegheny Lundlum Steel plant in Natrona, Pa., is actually two plants separated by a residential neighborhood. Several times a day, the company operates trains on its in-plant railroad between the two, which runs along a Norfolk Southern line that is easily photographed from public property. Republic Locomotive model RX500 No. 5 leads a train of slag pots on August 26. Trains of ingots and scrap cars can also be seen. DOUG KROLL


BELOW: A loaded Deseret Power coal train eases down the electrified line eight miles northeast of Rangely, Colo., on July 13. The train is headed to the Bonanza Power Plant near Bonanza, Utah, where it will be unloaded on a loop track before it heads back to the Deserado Coal Mine near Rangely to be reloaded. The Deseret Power Railroad is an isolated line, not connected to the national rail network. Trains are powered by General Electric E60C-2 locomotives, and draw current from a 50 Kv, 60 Hz overhead catenary. ALEX MAYES


54 APRIL 2017 • RAILFAN.COM


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