Lansdale, PA
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It's March 10, 2000 , in Lansdale, Pa. The thoughts of seeing a CSX engine still in Chessie System paint was remote at best. Two at the same time, darn near impossible. But, here we go as 6565 and 6506 are in morning light, and getting ready to work the local out of town. If memory serves me correct, at the time of this image, there were only about 8 total engines remaining on the CSXT roster in Chessie paint.
After an overnight snowfall that left several inches of snow blanketing southeastern Pennsylvania, the first order of business for the crew of Conrail’s North Penn local is to clean walkways and switch points, in order to avoid slips and derailments. The engine platforms appear to be complete, but movable track segments will require work everywhere that cars will be switched.
It’s late afternoon on a March day, and Conrail’s North Penn local is headed into electrified territory to work SEPTA’s North Penn line. The commuter traffic on the line dictated that it be switched pretty much during non-daylight hours.
Conrail’s yard in Lansdale, Pennsylvania served as a staging area for freight traffic on SEPTA’s North Penn, Doylestown, and Stony Creek branches. A local from Abrams Yard near King of Prussia would bring a train of inbound traffic to Lansdale, and return to Abrams with outbound cars. Typically the local from Lansdale operated push-pull style, with a loco on each end. This allowed the crew to serve both facing- and trailing-point sidings. Here a GP15-1 gets ready to leave to work along one of the lines. There’s another GP15-1 out of sight on the other end, ready to go.
Conrail’s North Penn local is switching its train in the Lansdale, Pennsylvania yard, and has pulled a longer cut down to the passenger platforms. A SEPTA employee pauses from his shoveling to watch, and will soon resume clearing access to the Silverliners, which will be Philadelphia-bound in about a half an hour.
Lansdale, PA. These birds are so small and so quick it is really difficult to catch a display like this.
Two ex Conrail engines sit at Lansdale for the weekend. It's interesting to note the color difference on the old "YN2" paint, compared to the newer "YN3" paint.