PRR E-44 #4465 is in the Pennsylvania Transportation Museum at Strasburg, PA. Interesting that GE upgraded the E-44 pantograph to a single hinge for the PRR from the double hinge on the VGN/NH E-33.
Noting there are two, (one is collapsed), of them. I might theorize they wanted two up there, as if one is damaged, the other can be used to get the unit back home again.
An interesting trackmobile variant hiding in plain sight in the Longbeach, MS Industrial Park 20 March 2023.
A scene which cannot be repeated, this CHS elevator is now gone, and their Trackmobile is at another site in town:
Could well be. Fun Fact: The PRR generally raised the rearmost pantograph on their electrics, so that should it foul in the wire, it wouldn't carry back and tear the other from the roof. I'm guessing other roads also worked this same strategy.
Peckville, PA in 1911, NYO&W 2-8-0 Class S camelback and bobber caboose. The chalked "BR+T 94" on the hack marks the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, Lodge 94. [Collection of the Ontario & Western Railway Historical Society] The 172 was built by Dickson (later part of Alco) in 1892, scrapped 1923.
I worked at a plant site during my career with a dozen miles of railroad on the property, worked by a contract switching company. An area within the site wanted their railcars switched on a moment's notice, which wasn't possible because switching was provided on a scheduled basis. Displeased, the area asked me to gather quotes on a Trackmobile so that they could do it themselves. Alarmed, I said that there was no way we could safely allow a locomotive and a Trackmobile to work in proximity for fear of a collision. I was ignored. I mean what could Hardcoaler possibly know about railroading? I was ready to take my concerns higher, but the Trackmobile plan was soon ditched because we'd have needed a monstrous unit to handle loaded cars on a curving grade and it was far outside of the budget.
Interestingly, The Reading on their electric MU cars always kept the pantograph raised on the car end which was facing Reading Terminal. So outbound it was on the trailing end, and inbound it was on the head end. In pictures of the MU Cars during the Reading era, you can always tell which direction the consist was heading.
Just putt-puttering around: They could use a weed whacker in there... very uncouth compared to the station's surroundings... Ste-Therese, QC, October 1982, at the other end of the facility. My Dad's photo.
An eastbound 4x1 Z train wastes no time crossing Gassman Coulee Trestle a few minutes till midnight at track speed as the aurora borealis dances overhead. Fog is rolling in, and the light pollution of the Magic City makes it hard to capture the delicate colors of the aurora.
