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By:Dave Abeles
Dates:2/4/2011 - 2/4/2011
Album Info:A Friday Morning chase of the Everett Railroad in Central PA.
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All Was Quiet
Title:  All Was Quiet
Description:  At the Everett Railroad shops in Hollidaysburg, PA, all was quiet on Thursday Feburary 3, but we learned from the office employees that the railroad would run the next day. We signed our releases and grabbed a nice roster of the 707.
Photo Date:  2/3/2011  Upload Date: 2/28/2011 8:47:15 AM
Location:  Hollidaysburg, PA
Author:  David Abeles
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Locomotives:  EV 707(GP10)
Views:  382   Comments: 2
Dawn Servicing
Title:  Dawn Servicing
Description:  We arrived on the property just before dawn on a frigid Friday February 4. The crew was adding anti-congeal solution to the fuel tanks as the thermometer showed 16 degrees.
Photo Date:  2/4/2011  Upload Date: 2/28/2011 8:48:08 AM
Location:  Hollidaysburg, PA
Author:  David Abeles
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Locomotives:  EV 707(GP10)
Views:  346   Comments: 0
Interchange
Title:  Interchange
Description:  Everett puts two men on the head end, and has a chaser vehicle with an extra brakeman to facilitate the switching en-route. With the Great Divide of the Alleghenies behind them, and high clouds overhead, the turn comes east through Hollidaysburg with the previous day's interchange from NS.
Photo Date:  2/4/2011  Upload Date: 2/28/2011 8:51:34 AM
Location:  Hollidaysburg, PA
Author:  David Abeles
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Locomotives:  EV 707(GP10) EV 1828(GP16)
Views:  472   Comments: 0
Arranging the Train
Title:  Arranging the Train
Description:  At the west end of the former PRR Hollidaysburg Shop and Yard complex, the crew picks up two covered hoppers from a storage track, and reorganizes their train for the run down to Martinsburg. Wind turbines spin in the distant background along Old U.S. 22, just above 'Muleshoe Curve' on the original Allegheny Portage RR.
Photo Date:  2/4/2011  Upload Date: 2/28/2011 8:49:21 AM
Location:  Hollidaysburg, PA
Author:  David Abeles
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Locomotives:  EV 707(GP10) EV 1828(GP16)
Views:  474   Comments: 1
Finally Underway
Title:  Finally Underway
Description:  The conductor makes his way to the nice, warm cab of the 707 after 45 mintues putting their train together in a frigid breeze. The Allegheny Divide forms the distant backdrop for the city of Hollidaysburg, PA, and the cloud line to the north that will haunt us all day long.
Photo Date:  2/4/2011  Upload Date: 2/28/2011 8:50:04 AM
Location:  Hollidaysburg, PA
Author:  David Abeles
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Locomotives:  EV 707(GP10) EV 1828(GP16)
Views:  526   Comments: 4
Rolling through the Countryside
Title:  Rolling through the Countryside
Description:  The turn rolls easily south from Hollidaysburg, moving along the creek and through backyards at Newry, PA.
Photo Date:  2/4/2011  Upload Date: 2/28/2011 8:51:13 AM
Location:  Roaring Spring, PA
Author:  David Abeles
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Locomotives:  EV 707(GP10) EV 1828(GP16)
Views:  305   Comments: 0
Coming Across Brooks Boulevard
Title:  Coming Across Brooks Boulevard
Description:  The train moves south on the branch to Martinsburg and passes an old homestead on Brooks Boulevard.
Photo Date:  2/4/2011  Upload Date: 2/28/2011 8:48:41 AM
Location:  East Freedom, PA
Author:  David Abeles
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Locomotives:  EV 707(GP10)
Views:  326   Comments: 0
The Old Conrail Ballast Supply
Title:  The Old Conrail Ballast Supply
Description:  The line comes up a significant grade from East Freedom to Roaring Spring, the location of the rock loadout that supplied Conrail with ballast for years. The massive quarry at Roaring Spring is out of view to the right. The crew was running around a few cars during the switching process at Appleton Paper, a mile further up the line.
Photo Date:  2/4/2011  Upload Date: 2/28/2011 8:54:31 AM
Location:  Roaring Spring, PA
Author:  David Abeles
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Locomotives:  EV 707(GP10)
Views:  65912   Comments: 2
Working Appleton Paper
Title:  Working Appleton Paper
Description:  The Everett Crew works Appleton Paser in Roaring Spring, a major customer on the line.
Photo Date:  2/4/2011  Upload Date: 2/28/2011 8:52:31 AM
Location:  Roaring Spring, PA
Author:  David Abeles
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Locomotives:  EV 1828(GP16)
Views:  1613   Comments: 1
Working South
Title:  Working South
Description:  After working the paper mill at Roaring Spring for more than an hour, the crez reassembles their train at the ballast loadout and works upgrade on their way to Martinsburg.
Photo Date:  2/4/2011  Upload Date: 2/28/2011 8:56:13 AM
Location:  Roaring Spring, PA
Author:  David Abeles
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Locomotives:  EV 707(GP10) EV 1828(GP16)
Views:  1003   Comments: 1
Downtown
Title:  Downtown
Description:  After passing the paper mill, which is generating the steam in the background of this image, the train comes through downtown Roaring Spring, past the restored PRR depot there.
Photo Date:  2/4/2011  Upload Date: 2/28/2011 8:53:13 AM
Location:  Roaring Spring, PA
Author:  David Abeles
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Locomotives:  EV 707(GP10)
Views:  299   Comments: 2
Almost like the Midwest
Title:  Almost like the Midwest
Description:  The turn rolls south and passes a farmstead outside Martinsburg, PA, after working a feed mill.
Photo Date:  2/4/2011  Upload Date: 2/28/2011 8:50:37 AM
Location:  Martinsburg, PA
Author:  David Abeles
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Locomotives:  EV 707(GP10) EV 1828(GP16)
Views:  374   Comments: 2


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