Uploaded September 2021 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
On a hot August day in 2021, I got a report from a railfan Facebook group that stone train 94M was leaving the Annville quarry with a nice trio of EMD standard cab locomotives. As soon as I set up trackside, the dispatcher comes over the radio letting them know they'll met a westbound 65K at DORF, which is the control point in Womelsdorf, Pennsylvania. Track work one main two prevented both trains from continuing past one another, so we get to see the signals and cross overs in action!
Control points on the Norfolk Southern Harrisburg Line are located about 10 miles apart and have dispatcher controlled signals and switches or cross overs so trains can change tracks. Dispatchers communicate with trains letting them know what will happen miles in advance. I include some radio conversations to help explain what the trains are doing.
Scanner conversations were provided by both my Yaesu FT270R radio and Norfolk Southern Harrisburg East Broadcastify feed archives through a premium membership. I highly recommend Broadcastify Premium, it's not very expensive!
On a hot August day in 2021, I got a report from a railfan Facebook group that stone train 94M was leaving the Annville quarry with a nice trio of EMD standard cab locomotives. As soon as I set up trackside, the dispatcher comes over the radio letting them know they'll met a westbound 65K at DORF, which is the control point in Womelsdorf, Pennsylvania. Track work one main two prevented both trains from continuing past one another, so we get to see the signals and cross overs in action!
Control points on the Norfolk Southern Harrisburg Line are located about 10 miles apart and have dispatcher controlled signals and switches or cross overs so trains can change tracks. Dispatchers communicate with trains letting them know what will happen miles in advance. I include some radio conversations to help explain what the trains are doing.
Scanner conversations were provided by both my Yaesu FT270R radio and Norfolk Southern Harrisburg East Broadcastify feed archives through a premium membership. I highly recommend Broadcastify Premium, it's not very expensive!
![Reading & Northern Freight Extra South [4K]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/gX_TnjQiSG8/mqdefault.jpg "Reading & Northern Freight Extra South [4K]
On October 14, 2018 after the 425 excursion, Reading & Northern train JTEX departs Jim Thorpe with red GP39RNs 2534 & 2535 and 5 Cyro-Trans box cars. The red GPs are primarily used as power for the Lehigh Scenic Railway, but with the weekend coming to a close, the locomotives were swiped for this extra move to North Reading. Train and location information and video timestamps are listed below.
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0:00 - Starting at Quakake, MP15DC 1543 idles away, to be picked up en route.
1:15 - While JTEX picked up the switcher, I relocated down the road to East Mahanoy Junction (EMX) to catch the train rounding the curve with the M&S branch in the foreground (Mahanoy & Shamokin).
1:50 - After making a pickup in Tamaqua, JTEX proceeds south at Millers Crossing in Molino, passing a field of soybeans at track speed.
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