by rslitman
On Monday night, January 9, I got off an outbound train at Jenkintown around 11:15 p.m. Just as I was about to go down the steps to the tunnel, a train came through in the inbound direction from the Glenside direction. We could hear the horn first, and the closest thing to any SEPTA horns that it sounded like was a push-pull horn. And as the train approached, it certainly sounded like the weight of a push-pull with a diesel locomotive.
It actually turned out to be a fairly short freight train that had two locomotives. Someone who was with me who knows a little more about these things speculated that this train may have been longer but had dropped cars off somewhere (or maybe was going to pick some up).
I don't think I'd ever seen a freight train go through Jenkintown before, but then again, I've rarely been there this late at night, either. Is this fairly common? Where would this train likely have been coming from or going to? Maybe from beyond Lansdale on the "main line" (i.e., not the Doylestown branch)?
Thanks for any answers anyone can give me on this.
It actually turned out to be a fairly short freight train that had two locomotives. Someone who was with me who knows a little more about these things speculated that this train may have been longer but had dropped cars off somewhere (or maybe was going to pick some up).
I don't think I'd ever seen a freight train go through Jenkintown before, but then again, I've rarely been there this late at night, either. Is this fairly common? Where would this train likely have been coming from or going to? Maybe from beyond Lansdale on the "main line" (i.e., not the Doylestown branch)?
Thanks for any answers anyone can give me on this.
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