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| Title: |
New Operator |
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Equipment from old Big Blue is reunited once more at the south end of the former Reading Company Colebrookdale Branch. Former Conrail GP10 7580, now property of Clinton Terminal Railroad, and a ballast hopper have arrived for the startup of a new shortline operation, the Colebrookdale Railroad. |
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1/16/2014 Upload Date: 4/6/2014 10:02:11 PM |
| Location: |
Pottstown, PA |
| Author: |
Paul Koprowski |
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| Locomotives: |
CTR 7580(GP10) |
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| Title: |
CTR 7580 |
| Description: |
CTR 7580 was originally constructed by EMD in 1957 for the Pennsylvania Railroad as GP-9 7128, carrying that number through Penn Central and into Conrail. Under the ownership of Big Blue, it was rebuilt as a GP10 and renumbered 7580. After retirement in the 1980s, the Geep was sold into private ownership and worked freight and passenger trains on the ex-CNJ line out of Jim Thorpe, PA. Its last place of operation was the Pennsy Supply quarry at Annville, PA, the reason for all the white markings all over the former Conrail paint scheme. |
| Photo Date: |
1/16/2014 Upload Date: 4/6/2014 9:55:37 PM |
| Location: |
Pottstown, PA |
| Author: |
Paul Koprowski |
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| Locomotives: |
CTR 7580(GP10) |
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1166 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Equipment Comes North |
| Description: |
A snowy day in Boyertown finds the first two pieces of equipment for the new Colebrookdale Railroad awaiting the warmth of spring. |
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2/12/2014 Upload Date: 11/12/2014 3:38:46 PM |
| Location: |
Boyertown, PA |
| Author: |
Paul Koprowski |
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| Locomotives: |
CTR 7580(GP10) |
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841 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
CTR 7580 |
| Description: |
The Clinton Terminal Geep has recently seen Colebrookdale's attractive new logo applied over the CTR markings it had originally received upon arriving on this line. |
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3/29/2014 Upload Date: 12/13/2014 3:04:36 AM |
| Location: |
Boyertown, PA |
| Author: |
Paul Koprowski |
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| Locomotives: |
CTR 7580(GP10) |
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738 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
CTR 7580 |
| Description: |
A closer look at the cab side reveals the old Conrail number under the current PRR style paint. |
| Photo Date: |
11/1/2014 Upload Date: 12/1/2014 3:51:13 AM |
| Location: |
Boyertown, PA |
| Author: |
Paul Koprowski |
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| Locomotives: |
CTR 7580(GP10) |
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528 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
CTR 7580 |
| Description: |
A fitting new paint job for a former PRR Geep and a great improvement to the appearance of the unit compared to when it arrived from Annville last winter. Leased CTR 7580 awaits departure from Boyertown for a run up the line. |
| Photo Date: |
11/1/2014 Upload Date: 12/1/2014 3:46:33 AM |
| Location: |
Boyertown, PA |
| Author: |
Paul Koprowski |
| Categories: |
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| Locomotives: |
CTR 7580(GP10) |
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549 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Colebrookdale Easter Bunny Express |
| Description: |
CTR 7580 prepares to run around their train for the return trip to Boyertown |
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4/5/2015 Upload Date: 4/5/2015 6:33:32 PM |
| Location: |
Pottstown, PA |
| Author: |
Michael Gillespie |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Yard,Passenger,Track,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CTR 7580(GP10) |
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1628 Comments: 6 |
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| Title: |
CTR 7580 |
| Description: |
Colebrookdale markings recently applied, the ex-PRR unit runs around its consist in preparation for another run. |
| Photo Date: |
8/9/2015 Upload Date: 9/15/2015 11:49:35 PM |
| Location: |
Boyertown, PA |
| Author: |
Paul Koprowski |
| Categories: |
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| Locomotives: |
CTR 7580(GP10) |
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489 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
CTR 7580 |
| Description: |
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| Photo Date: |
8/9/2015 Upload Date: 9/16/2015 12:31:58 AM |
| Location: |
Boyertown, PA |
| Author: |
Paul Koprowski |
| Categories: |
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| Locomotives: |
CTR 7580(GP10) |
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392 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
CTR 7580 |
| Description: |
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| Photo Date: |
8/9/2015 Upload Date: 9/16/2015 12:34:46 AM |
| Location: |
Pine Forge, PA |
| Author: |
Paul Koprowski |
| Categories: |
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| Locomotives: |
CTR 7580(GP10) |
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431 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
CTR 7580 |
| Description: |
Arriving at the Pottstown station facility alongside Manatawny Park. Passengers on this run would disembark and proceed to the vintage baseball game in progress on one of the park's diamonds. |
| Photo Date: |
8/9/2015 Upload Date: 9/16/2015 12:39:34 AM |
| Location: |
Pottstown, PA |
| Author: |
Paul Koprowski |
| Categories: |
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| Locomotives: |
CTR 7580(GP10) |
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336 Comments: 3 |
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| Title: |
CTR 7580 |
| Description: |
Posed at the edge of the West King Street grade crossing while passengers disembark. The train would then shove north slightly to clear the fouling point so they could perform the runaround move. |
| Photo Date: |
8/9/2015 Upload Date: 9/16/2015 12:48:00 AM |
| Location: |
Pottstown, PA |
| Author: |
Paul Koprowski |
| Categories: |
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| Locomotives: |
CTR 7580(GP10) |
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329 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Inside 7580 |
| Description: |
Inside CTR 7580 |
| Photo Date: |
8/10/2015 Upload Date: 8/10/2015 2:45:38 PM |
| Location: |
Boyertown, PA |
| Author: |
Alexander Wiedlich |
| Categories: |
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| Locomotives: |
CTR 7580(GP10) BDLX 7580(GP10) |
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768 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
CTR 7580 |
| Description: |
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| Photo Date: |
12/5/2015 Upload Date: 12/15/2015 7:09:22 PM |
| Location: |
Pine Forge, PA |
| Author: |
Kevin Painter |
| Categories: |
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| Locomotives: |
CTR 7580(GP10) |
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226 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
CTR 7580 |
| Description: |
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| Photo Date: |
12/5/2015 Upload Date: 12/15/2015 7:09:25 PM |
| Location: |
Pine Forge, PA |
| Author: |
Kevin Painter |
| Categories: |
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| Locomotives: |
CTR 7580(GP10) |
| Views: |
211 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
CTR 7580 |
| Description: |
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| Photo Date: |
12/5/2015 Upload Date: 12/15/2015 7:09:33 PM |
| Location: |
Pine Forge, PA |
| Author: |
Kevin Painter |
| Categories: |
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| Locomotives: |
CTR 7580(GP10) |
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217 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
CTR 7580 |
| Description: |
Constructed in 1957 for the Pennsylvania Railroad, this former GP-9 was one of over two hundred such units the Pennsy operated throughout their vast system. Rebuilt to a GP10 while owned by Conrail, this locomotive has also seen service on freight and passenger trains at Jim Thorpe, and switching service at a quarry near Hershey, before coming to the former Reading Company Colebrookdale Line. Owned by Clinton Terminal Railroad of North Carolina, and leased to the Colebrookdale Railroad at the time of this photo, it has since moved on to Steam Into History at New Freedom, PA. Seen here departing Boyertown with a Christmas special. |
| Photo Date: |
12/19/2015 Upload Date: 6/28/2016 11:42:50 PM |
| Location: |
Boyertown, PA |
| Author: |
Paul Koprowski |
| Categories: |
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| Locomotives: |
CTR 7580(GP10) |
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698 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
CTR 7580 |
| Description: |
Here is CTR 7580 newly arrived on the NCR. /DL |
| Photo Date: |
3/9/2016 Upload Date: 3/10/2016 8:22:40 PM |
| Location: |
New Freedom, PA |
| Author: |
David Larrabee |
| Categories: |
Roster,Yard |
| Locomotives: |
CTR 7580(GP10) |
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426 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
CTR 7580 |
| Description: |
Looking north, here is CTR 7580 newly arrived on the NCRR. The track car is on Stewartstown iron at the interchange. /DL |
| Photo Date: |
3/9/2016 Upload Date: 3/10/2016 8:22:44 PM |
| Location: |
New Freedom, PA |
| Author: |
David Larrabee |
| Categories: |
Roster,Yard |
| Locomotives: |
CTR 7580(GP10) |
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303 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
NCRA 10 in the yard |
| Description: |
Here is CTR 7580 on the NCRR beside Stewartstown #10 which had been under lease to Steam into Hostory. /DL |
| Photo Date: |
3/9/2016 Upload Date: 3/10/2016 8:22:47 PM |
| Location: |
New Freedom, PA |
| Author: |
David Larrabee |
| Categories: |
Roster,Yard |
| Locomotives: |
STRT 10(44Tonner) CTR 7580(GP10) |
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496 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
CTR 7580 |
| Description: |
Here is CTR 7580 newly arrived on the NCRR. /DL |
| Photo Date: |
3/9/2016 Upload Date: 3/10/2016 8:22:50 PM |
| Location: |
New Freedom, PA |
| Author: |
David Larrabee |
| Categories: |
Roster,Yard |
| Locomotives: |
CTR 7580(GP10) |
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378 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
First Encounter |
| Description: |
A little late to see the afternoon departure from New Freedom, I decided to head north and wait in Glen Rock, about halfway into the northbound run. Soon enough they entered town, the old GP shoving on the south end. |
| Photo Date: |
4/10/2016 Upload Date: 4/19/2018 3:34:55 PM |
| Location: |
Glen Rock, PA |
| Author: |
Paul Koprowski |
| Categories: |
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| Locomotives: |
CTR 7580(GP10) |
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179 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Passing the Old Inn |
| Description: |
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| Photo Date: |
4/10/2016 Upload Date: 4/19/2018 3:38:53 PM |
| Location: |
Glen Rock, PA |
| Author: |
Paul Koprowski |
| Categories: |
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| Locomotives: |
CTR 7580(GP10) |
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161 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Crossing Seitzville Road |
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| Photo Date: |
4/10/2016 Upload Date: 4/19/2018 3:45:10 PM |
| Location: |
Seven Valleys, PA |
| Author: |
Paul Koprowski |
| Categories: |
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| Locomotives: |
CTR 7580(GP10) |
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172 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Arrival |
| Description: |
The ex-PRR Geep arrives at the historic Hanover Junction station, now operated as a museum that the passengers can visit during the layover. It was at this location in November of 1863 that President Abraham Lincoln changed trains on his way to the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetary following the Battle of Gettysburg. It was at this dedication that Lincoln would present his now famous Gettysburg Address. |
| Photo Date: |
4/10/2016 Upload Date: 4/19/2018 5:03:10 PM |
| Location: |
Hanover Junction, PA |
| Author: |
Paul Koprowski |
| Categories: |
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| Locomotives: |
CTR 7580(GP10) |
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143 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Laying Over |
| Description: |
Posing alongside some of the historic buildings at this once busy railroad junction. |
| Photo Date: |
4/10/2016 Upload Date: 4/19/2018 5:11:04 PM |
| Location: |
Hanover Junction, PA |
| Author: |
Paul Koprowski |
| Categories: |
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| Locomotives: |
CTR 7580(GP10) |
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140 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
CTR 7580 |
| Description: |
A well traveled locomotive waits for departure from the historic Hanover Junction station. Built by EMD in 1957 as a GP9 for the Pennsylvania Railroad, the unit was numbered 7128, and was one of over two hundred the Pennsy owned at one time. Working in freight service for its original owner for a little over ten years, the unit also saw service on Penn Central and Conrail. Conrail had 7128 rebuilt to a GP10 in 1978, along with thirty five other units, at the Illinois Central Gulf shops at Paducah, KY and renumbered it 7580. The unit would work for Big Blue for into the 1980s, when it was then sold off into private ownership. It would then see service in a variety of places, including Rail Tours Inc. and C&S Railroad at Jim Thorpe, PA and the Pennsy Supply quarry at Annville, PA. The Clinton Terminal acquired the locomotive in late 2013 and leased it to the Colebrookdale Railroad, where it gained its current paint scheme. Number 7580 operated there until the end of 2015 when Colebrookdale Railroad acquired their own unit, coincidentally another rebuilt ex-PRR GP10, and the 7580 would move south to the Northern Central. |
| Photo Date: |
4/10/2016 Upload Date: 4/19/2018 5:14:28 PM |
| Location: |
Hanover Junction, PA |
| Author: |
Paul Koprowski |
| Categories: |
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| Locomotives: |
CTR 7580(GP10) |
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202 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Long Hood Nose Details |
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| Photo Date: |
4/10/2016 Upload Date: 4/19/2018 5:24:56 PM |
| Location: |
Hanover Junction, PA |
| Author: |
Paul Koprowski |
| Categories: |
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| Locomotives: |
CTR 7580(GP10) |
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119 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
CTR 7580 |
| Description: |
A few months prior I had caught this locomotive on the head end of a Christmas themed excursion on the Colebrookdale Railroad up in Boyertown. |
| Photo Date: |
4/10/2016 Upload Date: 4/19/2018 5:26:51 PM |
| Location: |
Hanover Junction, PA |
| Author: |
Paul Koprowski |
| Categories: |
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| Locomotives: |
CTR 7580(GP10) |
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155 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Comparison of Eras |
| Description: |
Despite outward looks, the combine behind the 7580 is younger than the locomotive itself, having been built in 2013 as a replica of former Northern Central Railroad equipment, fitting in with the railroad's Civil War theme. |
| Photo Date: |
4/10/2016 Upload Date: 4/19/2018 5:30:20 PM |
| Location: |
Hanover Junction, PA |
| Author: |
Paul Koprowski |
| Categories: |
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| Locomotives: |
CTR 7580(GP10) |
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170 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Highballin' Down the Main |
| Description: |
A little imagination and this could be the late 1950s and a Pennsylvania Railroad freight heading south for Baltimore, possibly stopping at New Freedom to interchange cars with the Stewartstown Railroad's tiny Plymouth. |
| Photo Date: |
4/10/2016 Upload Date: 4/19/2018 5:33:30 PM |
| Location: |
Seven Valleys, PA |
| Author: |
Paul Koprowski |
| Categories: |
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| Locomotives: |
CTR 7580(GP10) |
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173 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
CTR 7580 |
| Description: |
Just south of the junction along Seven Valleys Road on the way back to New Freedom. The York County Heritage Rail Trail is off to the right of the train, utilizing a portion of the old right of way. |
| Photo Date: |
4/10/2016 Upload Date: 4/19/2018 5:38:14 PM |
| Location: |
Seven Valleys, PA |
| Author: |
Paul Koprowski |
| Categories: |
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| Locomotives: |
CTR 7580(GP10) |
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131 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Through the Countryside |
| Description: |
Approaching Granary Road, passing one of the many farms along the route. |
| Photo Date: |
4/10/2016 Upload Date: 4/19/2018 5:42:37 PM |
| Location: |
Seven Valleys, PA |
| Author: |
Paul Koprowski |
| Categories: |
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| Locomotives: |
CTR 7580(GP10) |
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130 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Back in Town |
| Description: |
The excursion returns to Glen Rock, passing the historic Glen Rock Mill Inn and other historic brick buildings. |
| Photo Date: |
4/10/2016 Upload Date: 4/19/2018 5:49:02 PM |
| Location: |
Glen Rock, PA |
| Author: |
Paul Koprowski |
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| Locomotives: |
CTR 7580(GP10) |
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155 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Nice Ads |
| Description: |
The Geep slides past some old advertisements that appear to have been touched up fairly recently. |
| Photo Date: |
4/10/2016 Upload Date: 4/19/2018 5:49:33 PM |
| Location: |
Glen Rock, PA |
| Author: |
Paul Koprowski |
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| Locomotives: |
CTR 7580(GP10) |
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183 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
The Choir |
| Description: |
Passing through town, the 7580 and consist eases by a statue of the Glen Rock Carolers, a tradition in Glen Rock since 1848. |
| Photo Date: |
4/10/2016 Upload Date: 4/19/2018 5:49:59 PM |
| Location: |
Glen Rock, PA |
| Author: |
Paul Koprowski |
| Categories: |
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| Locomotives: |
CTR 7580(GP10) |
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167 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Rounding the Curve |
| Description: |
Entering the appropriately named village of Railroad, the last before the train's final stop in New Freedom. |
| Photo Date: |
4/10/2016 Upload Date: 4/19/2018 5:58:35 PM |
| Location: |
Railroad, PA |
| Author: |
Paul Koprowski |
| Categories: |
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| Locomotives: |
CTR 7580(GP10) |
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151 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Pennsy Meets Stewartstown |
| Description: |
CTR 7580 brings its train through the former New Freedom station site and yard, splitting the former PRR position light signals and passing Stewartstown Railroad 10. The GE built 44 ton was on lease to Steam Into History as a backup to their replica 4-4-0 steamer until the arrival of the former Pennsy Geep. |
| Photo Date: |
4/10/2016 Upload Date: 4/19/2018 7:09:55 PM |
| Location: |
New Freedom, PA |
| Author: |
Paul Koprowski |
| Categories: |
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| Locomotives: |
CTR 7580(GP10) STRT 10(44Tonner) |
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294 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
CTR 7580 aka NCR 7580 |
| Description: |
The CTR reporting mark has been removed but not replaced with NCR, so.... /DL |
| Photo Date: |
11/12/2016 Upload Date: 11/20/2016 4:54:02 PM |
| Location: |
New Freedom, PA |
| Author: |
David Larrabee |
| Categories: |
Roster |
| Locomotives: |
CTR 7580(GP10) NCR 7580(UNKNOWN) |
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349 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
CTR 7580 aka NCR 7580 |
| Description: |
The CTR reporting mark has been removed but not replaced with NCR, so.... /DL |
| Photo Date: |
11/12/2016 Upload Date: 11/20/2016 4:54:11 PM |
| Location: |
New Freedom, PA |
| Author: |
David Larrabee |
| Categories: |
Roster |
| Locomotives: |
CTR 7580(GP10) |
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239 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
CTR 7580 |
| Description: |
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8/26/2017 Upload Date: 11/2/2017 10:03:48 PM |
| Location: |
New Freedom, PA |
| Author: |
Paul Koprowski |
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| Locomotives: |
CTR 7580(GP10) |
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446 Comments: 1 |
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