Last-Mile Railroading in Johnstown, PA
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 12 ก.ค. 2024
- Time for a slower-paced video this time, showing the Conemaugh & Black Lick Railroad operating on a cold March morning in Johnstown, PA. This railroad was once part of Bethlehem Steel and primarily served the company's various mills in and around Johnstown. After the dissolution of the once giant steelmaker, Conemaugh & Black Lick was taken over by Lehigh Valley Rail Management, who continues to operate the CBL along with some facilities in Bethlehem. Once a fairly busy shortline, the CBL's activity has dwindled to a few runs each week servicing a handful of remaining industries in the "Flood City", as well as exchanging cars with Norfolk Southern and CSX. Providing power is a fleet of vintage NW2 and SW7 EMD locomotives, many of which have spent their entire operating lives on the CBL.
On this particular day's run SW7 unit 111, built in 1949 for the shortline, picked up empty cars from Johnstown Wire and Gautier Steel (which operates in one of the ex-Bethlehem facilities), and switched around a few cars before exchanging freight with Norfolk Southern and heading back to the engine shops. Catching action on this line is tough, crews are on duty early in the morning, finish their work quickly, and train movements on a given day are never a guarantee. Nonetheless, with some patience and a few early mornings it is possible to see the railroad's operations. As always, I hope you enjoy the video and thanks for watching!
Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
00:12 Shoving from Johnstown Wire
01:30 4th Avenue overpass
02:14 Spotting cars behind Iron Street
02:56 Switching Gautier Steel
16:51 Heading to Norfolk Southern interchange
19:35 NS interchange
22:02 Returning to Johnstown
22:40 Dropping off cars by Iron Street
24:25 Tying down for the day
25:51 Outro
My home town. I have copies of surveys from Bethlehem Steel, mainly of the steel mill in Franklin but it does show all the rail in Johnstown.
Love these switching videos around those old industrial sites!
Glad you liked the video! Thanks for watching!
Very well done. Luckily I get to see them run everyday
When do these guys run? i’m going up on monday and don’t know much, any help is appreciated.
Early. Just gotta wait by the engine shops and hope something comes out.
They run between 5am and 8am but all depends on how busy they are , they operate Mondays when the mill opens at the start of the week and then they only run operations about 3 times a week and it's a hit or miss of whether or not you would catch them because they're pretty fast at their work and a lot of their line is in restricted area so you can only catch them when they are close to the crossings.
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not quite a switchman...