Uploaded August 2014 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
This video is dedicated to High and Wide movements on the Norfolk Southern Harrisburg Line, shot between 2010 and 2014, including a variety of loads, including transformers, a Schnabel car, and a windmill train. Some of these scenes appeared in previous videos uploaded—as long-time subscribers may recall—while half are new. Most of the time we catch the trains twice due to a variety of speed restrictions they have encountered between the shots.
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11/24/10
Still wearing its green livery from the Burlington Northern days, a leased SD40-2 pulls an array of high and wide loads eastbound at a couple of locations.
0:00 - 1:00 - 052 - CEFX SD40-2 7090.
This scene was featured in my video "Railroad Action on the Norfolk Southern H-Line with Lease Locomotives" uploaded in December 2010, which can be viewed at this link: (CTRL "Click" for video to appear in new tab).
youtu.be/uWQpdNngPhc
12/23/10
Led by one of the few ex-Conrail GP40-2's still in blue paint at the time, this high and wide features Schnabel Car PSBX 100 heading east with a transformer load from Brown Boveri Electric, also containing Scale Test Car Conrail 80046 in the consist.
1:45 - 2:40 - 054 - NS GP40-2 3062
This scene was a part of my video "Norfolk Southern Winter Action! Snow, Conrail, Leasers, and Many Railroads" uploaded in January 2011, which can be viewed here: (CTRL "Click" for video to appear in new tab).
youtu.be/I4x7e5ePuJ4
6/20/12
Two and a half years later, we find the next train coming into the previous scene where we left off. 057 works its way up the hill at MP 70 with an unusual combination of foreign power and a transformer in tow. Once again, this train was caught twice (but just barely!), the second scene passing the mill at Avon.
3:15 - 4:00 - 057
NS C40-9W 9250 (Operation Lifesaver)
UP SD70M 5092
UP SD70M 4776
8/12/12
A windmill train heads west on the sparsely used "Turkey Path", which is Norfolk Southern's by-pass route to the Harrisburg Main Line between Reading and Birdsboro, used to access two limestone quarries as well as other local businesses. However, this section of track (where the Reading and Pennsylvania Railroad used to run side-by-side) offers better clearances for windmill trains, except for the locomotives in the beginning of the clip that the train "walked" past.
4:40 - 054
NS C40-9W 9645
NS ES40DC 7683
3/12/13
098 heads east by the Lebanon train station with a triple pack of dimensional loads. Heavy spring rains from the previous night made a good prop for a creative shot.
7:20 - 098
NS C40-8W 8338
NS SD40-2 3372
This scene was a part of my video "Trains on the Norfolk Southern Harrisburg Line March 2013" uploaded in March 2013, which can be viewed here: (CTRL "Click" for video to appear in new tab).
youtu.be/1D2FJ_ppeTc
8/04/14
With a former Southern High-Hood leading the way, 053 walks past the rock cut at MP 77.7 with a transformer in tow, allowing enough time to get ahead for another shot passing Lebanon Chemical in Avon.
8:30 - 10:30 - 053 - NS GP38-2 5098.
This video is dedicated to High and Wide movements on the Norfolk Southern Harrisburg Line, shot between 2010 and 2014, including a variety of loads, including transformers, a Schnabel car, and a windmill train. Some of these scenes appeared in previous videos uploaded—as long-time subscribers may recall—while half are new. Most of the time we catch the trains twice due to a variety of speed restrictions they have encountered between the shots.
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Fan funding: The icon in the upper right corner allows you to make donations to this channel. We'd be more than thrilled by your extra support!
11/24/10
Still wearing its green livery from the Burlington Northern days, a leased SD40-2 pulls an array of high and wide loads eastbound at a couple of locations.
0:00 - 1:00 - 052 - CEFX SD40-2 7090.
This scene was featured in my video "Railroad Action on the Norfolk Southern H-Line with Lease Locomotives" uploaded in December 2010, which can be viewed at this link: (CTRL "Click" for video to appear in new tab).
youtu.be/uWQpdNngPhc
12/23/10
Led by one of the few ex-Conrail GP40-2's still in blue paint at the time, this high and wide features Schnabel Car PSBX 100 heading east with a transformer load from Brown Boveri Electric, also containing Scale Test Car Conrail 80046 in the consist.
1:45 - 2:40 - 054 - NS GP40-2 3062
This scene was a part of my video "Norfolk Southern Winter Action! Snow, Conrail, Leasers, and Many Railroads" uploaded in January 2011, which can be viewed here: (CTRL "Click" for video to appear in new tab).
youtu.be/I4x7e5ePuJ4
6/20/12
Two and a half years later, we find the next train coming into the previous scene where we left off. 057 works its way up the hill at MP 70 with an unusual combination of foreign power and a transformer in tow. Once again, this train was caught twice (but just barely!), the second scene passing the mill at Avon.
3:15 - 4:00 - 057
NS C40-9W 9250 (Operation Lifesaver)
UP SD70M 5092
UP SD70M 4776
8/12/12
A windmill train heads west on the sparsely used "Turkey Path", which is Norfolk Southern's by-pass route to the Harrisburg Main Line between Reading and Birdsboro, used to access two limestone quarries as well as other local businesses. However, this section of track (where the Reading and Pennsylvania Railroad used to run side-by-side) offers better clearances for windmill trains, except for the locomotives in the beginning of the clip that the train "walked" past.
4:40 - 054
NS C40-9W 9645
NS ES40DC 7683
3/12/13
098 heads east by the Lebanon train station with a triple pack of dimensional loads. Heavy spring rains from the previous night made a good prop for a creative shot.
7:20 - 098
NS C40-8W 8338
NS SD40-2 3372
This scene was a part of my video "Trains on the Norfolk Southern Harrisburg Line March 2013" uploaded in March 2013, which can be viewed here: (CTRL "Click" for video to appear in new tab).
youtu.be/1D2FJ_ppeTc
8/04/14
With a former Southern High-Hood leading the way, 053 walks past the rock cut at MP 77.7 with a transformer in tow, allowing enough time to get ahead for another shot passing Lebanon Chemical in Avon.
8:30 - 10:30 - 053 - NS GP38-2 5098.
![High Hood on the Selinsgrove Industrial Track [4K]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/qW8Js5C1v-4/mqdefault.jpg "High Hood on the Selinsgrove Industrial Track [4K]
On June 25, 2018, an odd occurrence allowed us to chase a train on some rare and endangered mileage. K21 departs south out of Northumberland with cars for Herndon Reload; however, they have the added task of rescuing an engine and car off of the Selinsgrove IT—a job normally done at night, which apparently had a minor derailment at the mill in Kreamer on their last run. NS GP38-2 5004 will head down light to the end of the line at Kreamer. The P5 horn on the long hood is so clogged and out of tune that only the #4 chime seems to be sounding. While this isnt the most thrilling video in terms of train action, this is, as far as I know, this is the only existing video documenting this line to date on YouTube, and may be the last time anyone films a train here.
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We first catch the whole train heading south on the Buffalo Line through Sunbury passing the endangered PRR Position Lights at SF on its way to Selinsgrove Junction. After uncoupling from their train on the Susquehanna River bridge, 5004 proceeds by itself down the branch toward the end of the line, first passing depot in Selinsgrove. We then set up by the lumber plant east of Kreamer, then shot 5004 in the middle of town. The mill was busy with trucks so we were not able to get a shot there (not to mention incredibly back lit). The train then heads back east through Kreamer with a much better sounding P5 horn on the the forward hood.
The Selinsgrove Industrial Track was formerly part of the Pennsylvania Railroads Selinsgrove-Lewistown Line, severed in 1956 between Maitland and Kreamer, the eastern portion, along with the the lead to the power plant in Shamokin Dam, are the last few remaining rails in Snyder County, Pennsylvania. The power plant is no longer served by rail after the coal-fired generators were retired for new natural gas ones built adjacent to the old plant. With a feed mill in Kreamer, as well as another mill just east of there, keeping this short stretch of rails polished, it is very likely that someday soon this line will be abandoned and ripped up, leaving another county in Pennsylvania without any trace of railroad activity (there are currently three: Fulton, Clarion, and Forest). With slow speeds and an expensive river crossing to maintain over the Susquehanna River, Norfolk Southern has been pushing to move the service to the eastern shore to their facility in Herndon. Whether it be politics, logistics, or a strong storm or flood wiping out the river crossing, time will tell just how long these few miles of rails will last.
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Presented in 4K-30p from the Sony AX-100")
