Reading & Northern PNPV - EMD SW800s work Yuengling Brewery and More!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ก.ค. 2024
- Back in September, my good pal Danny was visiting home from Chicago for a week, and I decided to take a Friday off work so that the guys and our pal from the windy city could get out for a fun day of buffing. With a beautiful day of weather on tap on this late summer day and some solid info, we hit the road to the Reading and Northern. R&N PNPV, the twice-a-week local that departs Port Clinton up the Pottsville Branch to work the Pottsville/Cressona area customers, would be using a pair of the coolest locomotives on the roster, RBMN SW8M 803 and SW8 801, both former Lehigh Valley veterans, with a big train in tow for their customers. The PNPV usually works the transload facility in West Cressona Yard, Hydro in Pottsville and the Yuengling Brewery in Port Carbon. We've chased the PNPV a few years ago when they used a GP38-2, but never caught this run with a pair of switchers, so needless to say, we were pretty stoked. The switcher pair sounded awesome, with the 803 sporting a Nathan M3 horn, and plenty of Lehigh Valley red showing thorugh the green. Talk about classic!
Starting out in Port Clinton, the PNPV can be seen putting their train together as the sun begins to rise, before the pair of switchers lift the husky train onto the Pottsville Branch, friendly crew on this train, as is often the case on the R&N. We catch the train again as they round the bend through a mostly empty West Cressona Yard, where they will arrange their train for their work. Something about the heavy train with the SW800s under power coming straight out of the sun into Cressona was very cool to me. After working Hydro, which is pretty much totally inaccessible to the public, we see them begin their work at Yuengling, which receives covered hopper cars with malt and hops in them. After drilling out the brewery for a while, the PNPV would depart, headed back down the Schuylkill Haven at Mine Junction, where they would reverse into West Cressona to assemble their train of outbounds for Port Clinton. Enjoy the video!
R&N PNPV - September 15th, 2023
RBMN SW8M 803
RBMN SW8 801
00:00 - Port Clinton, PA
10:19 - West Cressona Yard - Cressona, PA
13:47 - Yuengling Brewery - Port Carbon, PA
24:07 - Commerce Street - Port Carbon, PA
25:32 - Pottsville Street - Pottsville, PA
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Great catches awesome chase and nice video
Great video.
Thank you very much!
Awesome video as usual
Thank you Steven!
My Father started working for the Erie Railroad 🛤 in December of 1945, soon 🔜 after returning home 🏡 from Burma 🇲🇲 at the end of WW2. He had a Pass, and we rode the trains 🚂 for free. The Pennsylvania Railroad’s 4-track Main Line ran on a raised bridge running from the Jersey City Waterfront, which was one block away from me in the Italian Village. This long overpass was over Railroad Avenue, now named Christopher Columbus Drive. At the end of the bridge, we could walk up ⬆️ to the track level and watch the Pensey Pups (SW 800s) work the nearby Paper 📝 Mill and freight cars coming off the bridge from barges down the river on Exchange Place. Passenger trains, usually led by Diesel-Electric EMD Cab Units, sped by at high speed, heading out to the Hackensack Bridge. By 1958, at six years old, I remember my first look 👀 at a working Steam Engine on the main line, though they were still rarely seen even at this date. The Pennsylvania RR also ran, from the waterfront, another 2-track freight line where SW 800s took freight to and from the pier, sometimes with animals in stock cars traveling out of the 6th Street Stockyards. And since overhead lines were installed here, the black and yellow Pennsylvania GG-1s could be observed cruising by. I recently discovered in a railroad book 📕 that these engines were geared ⚙️ for running at 111 Miles Per Hour! They sounded and looked even more powerful and intimidating than the EMD Cab Units. 🚞 🚥 🚃 🚦 thanks 🎌 🚩
Thank you for watching! That’s a cool story about your father too.
Always videos of quality.
Thank you for watching!
Great video as always. I was drinking a Guiness while watching them switch Yuengling though. Lol.
Thank you! I appreciate you checking it out! Hey, I was drinking a few high lifes while I was editing, cheers!
That was really enjoyable, thanks
Thank you for watching!
Awesome video and enjoyed watching. Have a wonderful rest of your Wednesday.(Steve)
Thanks Steve! I appreciate you checking it out, enjoy your Friday!
@@trainutjob Your very welcome. Thanks and you also.
Since their ranks are quite diminished it was nice to hear an older EMD Switcher. A small.brewery hanging in there sorry they don't have the more classical SOOcolor mark .or the CNW Maltster in yellow
I agree! Seeing a pair of old school switchers in action was very cool to see!