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Blazeman

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Horse Shoe Curve and Keddie Wye in One
« on: February 25, 2020, 12:48:22 PM »
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What drone videos give us is fabulous.  Music though has me thinking sesame chicken.


https://www.rbmnrr.com/happenings/2020/2/19/ej0b9oiluel2ksc8rfud2j2hx0bm6w
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Re: Horse Shoe Curve and Keddie Wye in One
« Reply #1 on: February 25, 2020, 02:27:14 PM »
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Re: Horse Shoe Curve and Keddie Wye in One
« Reply #2 on: February 25, 2020, 06:13:20 PM »
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That would make a great module.
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Re: Horse Shoe Curve and Keddie Wye in One
« Reply #3 on: February 26, 2020, 12:52:32 PM »
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Yeah...

That length of train with no DPUs.  One day a train like that is going to get stopped on that bridge and stringline a bunch of tank cars into that river.  Looks pretty though.

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Re: Horse Shoe Curve and Keddie Wye in One
« Reply #4 on: February 28, 2020, 09:25:44 AM »
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One of my favorite things about this all is that the R&N is building new track out of a bunch of lines that were, about 30 years ago, left for dead (as depicted in my basement).
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Re: Horse Shoe Curve and Keddie Wye in One
« Reply #5 on: March 01, 2020, 05:34:18 PM »
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Quote from: Ed Kapuscinski on February 28, 2020, 09:25:44 AM
One of my favorite things about this all is that the R&N is building new track out of a bunch of lines that were, about 30 years ago, left for dead (as depicted in my basement).

Short lines are making a fortune off of branches that the Class 1 railroads no longer wanted to spend the money on manpower to service.

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Re: Horse Shoe Curve and Keddie Wye in One
« Reply #6 on: March 02, 2020, 08:15:55 PM »
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Ya this has been a long time in the making. Now train NRFF (North Reading Fast Freight) makes a direct trip from Reading to Scranton. Before they had to take the train to Jim Thorpe and then a second set would grab it from the rear and haul it up the Lehigh Gorge.  So now that its running up the Lehigh Gorge in daylight (1-1.5% grade) with 3-4 units, and super on time the photo ops are going to be good. Funny this bridge went online near the same week Norfolk Southern bailed on its twice daily thru freights from Bethlehem Pa to Bingingtom NY which pass on the right side of this video, then merge on to the Reading and Northern mainline about 7 miles north of this bridge.

The President Andy is such a RR fan, he piloted the first revenue train over the bridge.

https://www.rbmnrr.com/happenings/2020/2/5/a6pzai4ox0tofh4t30v40dcgm38pcy

I'm seriously trying to figure out how to incorporate this into my layout.

Oh and here is the second horseshoe curve on that mainline about 12 miles north in the gorge.

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