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By:Jacob Rink
Dates:12/1/2021 - 12/31/2021
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Middletown Curve
Title:  Middletown Curve
Description:  Amtrak 50th Anniversary P42 #108 leads a 6 car 42 through Middletown
Photo Date:  12/6/2021  Upload Date: 2/17/2022 9:22:52 AM
Location:  Middletown, PA
Author:  Jacob Rink
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Locomotives:  AMTK 108(P42DC)
Views:  101   Comments: 0
Borrowed Time
Title:  Borrowed Time
Description:  Amtrak 43 passes the soon to be replaced Middletown 'station'
Photo Date:  12/6/2021  Upload Date: 2/17/2022 9:23:19 AM
Location:  Middletown, PA
Author:  Jacob Rink
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Locomotives:  AMTK 119(P42DC)
Views:  124   Comments: 0
Steam in the Fog
Title:  Steam in the Fog
Description:  CNJ 113 leads the first Santa excursion of the day back to Minersville
Photo Date:  12/11/2021  Upload Date: 2/17/2022 9:24:57 AM
Location:  Beckville, PA
Author:  Jacob Rink
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Locomotives:  CNJ 113(0-6-0)
Views:  91   Comments: 0
Through the Cut
Title:  Through the Cut
Description:  CNJ 113 approaches Minersville with the first of three Santa trains of the day
Photo Date:  12/11/2021  Upload Date: 2/17/2022 9:26:29 AM
Location:  Marlin, PA
Author:  Jacob Rink
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Locomotives:  CNJ 113(0-6-0)
Views:  92   Comments: 0
Ready to Go!
Title:  Ready to Go!
Description:  Jersey Central 0-6-0 #113 has coupled up to its consist and gets ready to head to Schuylkill Haven
Photo Date:  12/11/2021  Upload Date: 2/17/2022 9:27:02 AM
Location:  Minersville, PA
Author:  Jacob Rink
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Locomotives:  CNJ 113(0-6-0)
Views:  90   Comments: 0
Trackspeed on the Main
Title:  Trackspeed on the Main
Description:  CNJ 113 gets up to speed on the RBMN Pottsville main as they start back to Minersville
Photo Date:  12/11/2021  Upload Date: 2/17/2022 9:28:06 AM
Location:  Schuylkill Haven, PA
Author:  Jacob Rink
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Locomotives:  CNJ 113(0-6-0)
Views:  86   Comments: 0
Westwood Junction
Title:  Westwood Junction
Description:  The 2nd Santa train of the day rolls through Westwood Jct with CNJ 0-6-0 #113 up front
Photo Date:  12/11/2021  Upload Date: 2/17/2022 9:30:56 AM
Location:  Westwood Junction, PA
Author:  Jacob Rink
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Locomotives:  CNJ 113(0-6-0)
Views:  82   Comments: 0
Over the River
Title:  Over the River
Description:  Amtrak 42 is about to cross over the Swatara Creek with 108 leading yet again
Photo Date:  12/13/2021  Upload Date: 2/17/2022 6:11:43 PM
Location:  Royalton, PA
Author:  Jacob Rink
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Locomotives:  AMTK 108(P42DC)
Views:  115   Comments: 0
Poles and Feed Mills
Title:  Poles and Feed Mills
Description:  Amtrak 43 rolls west through Mt Joy
Photo Date:  12/18/2021  Upload Date: 2/17/2022 6:13:46 PM
Location:  Mount Joy, PA
Author:  Jacob Rink
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Locomotives:  AMTK 108(P42DC)
Views:  110   Comments: 0
Awaiting a Crew
Title:  Awaiting a Crew
Description:  With Amtrak and MARC back to running a normal number of trains, by this time most daylight Port Road runs had come to an end. Here a 592 sits tied down at COLA until evening
Photo Date:  12/18/2021  Upload Date: 2/17/2022 6:14:15 PM
Location:  Columbia, PA
Author:  Jacob Rink
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Locomotives:  NS 4105(AC44C6M) NS 3664(ET44AC)
Views:  147   Comments: 0
Meet Me on the Port Road
Title:  Meet Me on the Port Road
Description:  NS H19 passes a tied down 592 at CP COLA.
Photo Date:  12/18/2021  Upload Date: 2/17/2022 6:16:28 PM
Location:  Columbia, PA
Author:  Jacob Rink
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Locomotives:  NS 6967(SD60E) NS 6947(SD60E) NS 4105(AC44C6M)
Views:  120   Comments: 0
Smoking Down Brown Street
Title:  Smoking Down Brown Street
Description:  The M&H crew brings a cut of freight cars down the middle of Brown St
Photo Date:  12/19/2021  Upload Date: 2/17/2022 6:17:19 PM
Location:  Middletown, PA
Author:  Jacob Rink
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Locomotives:  MIDH 151(S6)
Views:  92   Comments: 0
Great Meals Start With an Alco
Title:  Great Meals Start With an Alco
Description:  The Middletown & Hummelstown freight passes the Karns Grocery store as they head for the NS interchange
Photo Date:  12/19/2021  Upload Date: 2/17/2022 6:17:42 PM
Location:  Middletown, PA
Author:  Jacob Rink
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Locomotives:  MIDH 151(S6)
Views:  116   Comments: 0
Over Route 230
Title:  Over Route 230
Description:  While shifting out cars, the M&H makes a rare move across Rt 230 on the remains of the Fruehauf Branch
Photo Date:  12/19/2021  Upload Date: 2/17/2022 6:18:10 PM
Location:  Middletown, PA
Author:  Jacob Rink
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Locomotives:  MIDH 151(S6)
Views:  106   Comments: 0
End of the Line
Title:  End of the Line
Description:  The M&H freight takes headroom across Rt 230 on what was once the US Army's Fruehauf Branch, which is abandoned and ripped out past this point
Photo Date:  12/19/2021  Upload Date: 2/17/2022 6:18:35 PM
Location:  Middletown, PA
Author:  Jacob Rink
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Locomotives:  MIDH 151(S6)
Views:  96   Comments: 0
Splitting the Highway
Title:  Splitting the Highway
Description:  Western Maryland Alco S6 #151 shoves its train across 230 and onto the siding. The Penn State Harrisburg campus can be seen in the background.
Photo Date:  12/19/2021  Upload Date: 2/17/2022 6:19:14 PM
Location:  Middletown, PA
Author:  Jacob Rink
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Locomotives:  MIDH 151(S6)
Views:  125   Comments: 0
Working the East Penn Interchange
Title:  Working the East Penn Interchange
Description:  NS H23 prepares to drop off cars at the wye in Manheim for ESPN
Photo Date:  12/20/2021  Upload Date: 2/17/2022 6:57:36 PM
Location:  Manheim, PA
Author:  Jacob Rink
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Locomotives:  NS 5670(GP38-2) NS 5655(GP38-2)
Views:  111   Comments: 0
Pennsylvania Farmlands
Title:  Pennsylvania Farmlands
Description:  Norfolk Southern H23 passes through Limerock as they head east on the Lititz Secondary
Photo Date:  12/20/2021  Upload Date: 2/17/2022 6:58:23 PM
Location:  Limerock, PA
Author:  Jacob Rink
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Locomotives:  NS 5670(GP38-2) NS 5655(GP38-2)
Views:  125   Comments: 0
Fall Still Hanging On
Title:  Fall Still Hanging On
Description:  NS H23 passes a forgotten pumpkin in one of the fields outside of Lititz on the last day of fall
Photo Date:  12/20/2021  Upload Date: 2/17/2022 6:58:51 PM
Location:  Lititz, PA
Author:  Jacob Rink
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Locomotives:  NS 5670(GP38-2) NS 5655(GP38-2)
Views:  110   Comments: 0
Toy Train Meets the Real Deal
Title:  Toy Train Meets the Real Deal
Description:  The Lititz Park wooden train was recently replaced, and the old one awaits its fate as NS H23 begins to work Johnson & Johnson
Photo Date:  12/20/2021  Upload Date: 2/17/2022 6:59:22 PM
Location:  Lititz, PA
Author:  Jacob Rink
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Locomotives:  NS 5670(GP38-2) NS 5655(GP38-2)
Views:  133   Comments: 0
50 Years of Amtrak
Title:  50 Years of Amtrak
Description:  50th Anniversary heritage unit #108 leads WB Pennsylvanian #43 under Maibach Lane, which was built to replace the Eby Chiques grade crossing.
Photo Date:  12/20/2021  Upload Date: 2/17/2022 7:00:22 PM
Location:  Mount Joy, PA
Author:  Jacob Rink
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Locomotives:  AMTK 108(P42DC)
Views:  108   Comments: 0
Mt Joy Switching Power
Title:  Mt Joy Switching Power
Description:  A former PRR SW7 and a GE 65 tonner are used for switching duties at a propane company outside Mt Joy
Photo Date:  12/20/2021  Upload Date: 2/17/2022 7:00:50 PM
Location:  Mount Joy, PA
Author:  Jacob Rink
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Locomotives:  SUEX 919(SW1200) GECX 65(65Tonner )
Views:  160   Comments: 0
Another Day with 108
Title:  Another Day with 108
Description:  Amtrak 108 leads train #43 west at Jednota along the Keystone Corridor
Photo Date:  12/22/2021  Upload Date: 2/17/2022 7:01:24 PM
Location:  Jednota, PA
Author:  Jacob Rink
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Locomotives:  AMTK 108(P42DC)
Views:  130   Comments: 0
Unusual Poles
Title:  Unusual Poles
Description:  Amtrak 42 rolls east with 108 on the point, passing some of the few 3 track wide "half poles" on the former PRR system. These were built due to the now abandoned Reading Chester Valley Branch RoW taking up any extra space needed to build full caternary poles by the Pennsy
Photo Date:  12/27/2021  Upload Date: 2/17/2022 7:02:24 PM
Location:  Downingtown, PA
Author:  Jacob Rink
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Locomotives:  AMTK 108(P42DC)
Views:  119   Comments: 0


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