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Limited-Clear wrote:You do realize it doesn't matter which way the train is turned, the horns gets blown the same amount of times from both ends, when it gets to the end of the line they change ends and then have to sound for the same crossings going back the other way.You're right, of course. I was thinking more about that particular train's situation, in which there were 3 or more cars on the train, so the second outbound car would not become the lead inbound car.
rslitman wrote:On at least 5 of the 6 weekdays between Monday, October 27 and Monday, November 3, inclusive, the first 4 of the 6 cars on train 6321 were 132-131-330-331. Because of my perspective, boarding a late-running 328 in the station at virtually the sane time, I didn't catch the numbers of the last two, but they appeared to be singles with their own pantagraphs.
This is a run that was formerly run with push-pulls. I wonder if this set is stored in such a place where a push-pull was once stored and is taken out twice a day for one rush hour revenue run plus a deadhead as a push-pull would have been.
I also wonder if this has been going on with 6321 for a while now, but I only noticed it this past week because of 328's slippery-rail induced lateness plus the presence of two x31 cars in this consist.
Trackseventeen wrote:Don't know how unusual this is, but yesterday while waiting for an inbound local at Downington... I saw a westbound freight train. It passed by at around 2:15 pm on Tuesday the 2nd. It was led by two NS locos. The first cars were loaded gondolas... with what I couldn't tell. The rest of the train was hoppers and tank cars. A red flag sporting caboose brought up the rear. I estimate it's speed to be about 40-45.I don't know the current schedule, but NS trains bound for the Trenton Cutoff will use the Keystone Corridor (ex-PRR) main east to GLEN just west of the SEPTA Frazer shops, then go onto the cutoff. They can't use the former Philadelphia & Thorndale low grade freight line in parallel to the active line as that's been abandoned for years. I haven't seen a freight go through Paoli since I was a little kid when Conrail was still running electric freights through there (and on the Trenton Cutoff). Most traffic on the cutoff is east of Norristown, where it intersects the NS Harrisburg line.
My questions are... Is this a regular train? Does NS frequently use AMTRAK west of Frazer? Is it possible that this train used the tracks east of Paoli?
