Uploaded December 2018 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Trains on the Norfolk Southern Harrisburg Line Winter 2018 was shot between Reading and Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, from the beginning of December, 2017 to the beginning of March 2018. Train descriptions, and the time they appear in the video are listed below.
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0:40 - (Skip Intro)
12/9/17 - Late in the fall, the first flurries of the year foreshadow the winter 2018 season ahead. Our camera captured 4 trains on this Saturday, starting with 20K emerging from the rock cut in Richland.
0:40 - 20K - Chicago, IL - Croxton, NJ
NS C44-9W 9676
NS C40-9 8860
Next, after recloating to Palmyra, 21M passes under the 95 signal bridge at Forge Rd. More houses are being built right along the tracks, how long before they complain about noise?
1:50 - 21M - Croxton, NJ - Chicago, IL
NS ES44DC 7649
NS SD70M 2641
Canadian Pacific ES44AC 9368
19G then passes the train station as the wet snow tries to stick to the warm ground.
3:40 - 19G - Oak Island, NJ - Conway, PA
NS C44-9W 9778
NS C44-9W 9037
Last train for the day would be 20W, a stack train off of BNSF in Chicago that originates in LA, working many terminals in route, including Rutherford Yard just east of Harrisburg, or about 10 miles west of this location.
4:50 - 20W - Chicago, IL - Croxton, NJ
NS C44-9W 9269
NS ES44DC 7569
NS C44-9W 9849
12/30/17 - Another light snow squall ends out the year as a pair of EMD's take mixed freight 35Q west.
6:00 - 35Q - Allentownm PA - Linwood, NC
NS SD70M 2610
NS SD70 2524
1/1/18 - A clear sky greets the new year, as 19G heads west with a nice set of locomotives led by an SD40E (SD50 rebuild). These have not been common lead locomotives around here in close to 5 years when trios of them were assigned to ballast service in and out of nearby quarries. 19G would ease to a stop to wait for traffic at PRESCOTT a couple miles to the west.
7:10 - 19G - Oak Island, NJ - Conway, PA
NS SD40E 6355
NS C44-9W 9393
CSX ET44AC 3361
NS SD70ACe 1046
1/16/18 - A 60N gon train loaded with steel slabs heads west through Richland. Most of the heritage units are going on 6 years of age at the time of this shot, yet this is finally the first good shot I got of the N&W Heritage unit, finally concluding my hunt for all 20.
8:30 - 60N - Paulsboro, NJ - Farrell, PA
NS ES44AC 8103 "Norfolk & Western"
NS SD70M-2 2715
1/18/18 - 15T with a pair of UP locomotives rounds the bend in the farmland at milepost 78. The pole line on the north side of the tracks would soon be replaced later in the winter.
10:15 - 15T - Allentown, PA - Birmingham, AL
UP AC4400CW 6495
UP SD70M 4745
1/27/18 - Triple M Farm's 1963 B-model Mack truck is ideally parked as 211 heads west on the close track with an endangered standard cab SD70 leading the way.
12:30 - 211 - Croxton, NJ - Atlanta, GA
NS SD70 2570
NS SD70ACe 1032
NS C44-9W 9463
NS ES44AC 8077
2/24/18 - A soggy Saturday didn't stop our camera from capturing one of the "blue mane" units added as a cab signal leader to a couple of UP EMD's on eastbound ethanol train 64E at Railroad Street in Myerstown.
14:00 - 64E - Chicago, IL - Linden, NJ
NS AC44C6M 4004 "Blue Mane"
UP SD70M 4513
UP SD70ACe 9006
3/10/18 - Another Saturday afternoon 211 passes by a red barn just west of Myerstown near milepost 81. This angle is a bit cluttered, and after years of driving by here never giving it much thought, I figured I would try a new angle not seen before in my Harrisburg Line videos.
15:20 - 211 - Croxton, NJ - Atlanta, GA
UP SD70M 4100
UP AC4400CW 6276
NS C44-9W 9865
3/11/18 - The next day further east on the lower portion of the Harrisburg Line when the word got out a triclops SD60M was the leader on 39G. The signals for the new LORANE interlocking were being installed, eventually crossover tracks and switches would follow, thus eliminated the out-dated "slip-switch" at TITUS a couple miles to the west.
16:45 - 39G - Pavonia, NJ - Allentown, PA
NS SD60M 6814
NS SD60 6677
UP AC4400CW 6558
3/13/18 - A week before the arrival of Spring, H31 heads west through the farmlands east of Richland at sunset.
18:15 - H31 - Reading, PA - Lebanon, PA
NS GP38-2 5304
NS GP40-2 3031
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Trains on the Norfolk Southern Harrisburg Line Winter 2018 was shot between Reading and Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, from the beginning of December, 2017 to the beginning of March 2018. Train descriptions, and the time they appear in the video are listed below.
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0:40 - (Skip Intro)
12/9/17 - Late in the fall, the first flurries of the year foreshadow the winter 2018 season ahead. Our camera captured 4 trains on this Saturday, starting with 20K emerging from the rock cut in Richland.
0:40 - 20K - Chicago, IL - Croxton, NJ
NS C44-9W 9676
NS C40-9 8860
Next, after recloating to Palmyra, 21M passes under the 95 signal bridge at Forge Rd. More houses are being built right along the tracks, how long before they complain about noise?
1:50 - 21M - Croxton, NJ - Chicago, IL
NS ES44DC 7649
NS SD70M 2641
Canadian Pacific ES44AC 9368
19G then passes the train station as the wet snow tries to stick to the warm ground.
3:40 - 19G - Oak Island, NJ - Conway, PA
NS C44-9W 9778
NS C44-9W 9037
Last train for the day would be 20W, a stack train off of BNSF in Chicago that originates in LA, working many terminals in route, including Rutherford Yard just east of Harrisburg, or about 10 miles west of this location.
4:50 - 20W - Chicago, IL - Croxton, NJ
NS C44-9W 9269
NS ES44DC 7569
NS C44-9W 9849
12/30/17 - Another light snow squall ends out the year as a pair of EMD's take mixed freight 35Q west.
6:00 - 35Q - Allentownm PA - Linwood, NC
NS SD70M 2610
NS SD70 2524
1/1/18 - A clear sky greets the new year, as 19G heads west with a nice set of locomotives led by an SD40E (SD50 rebuild). These have not been common lead locomotives around here in close to 5 years when trios of them were assigned to ballast service in and out of nearby quarries. 19G would ease to a stop to wait for traffic at PRESCOTT a couple miles to the west.
7:10 - 19G - Oak Island, NJ - Conway, PA
NS SD40E 6355
NS C44-9W 9393
CSX ET44AC 3361
NS SD70ACe 1046
1/16/18 - A 60N gon train loaded with steel slabs heads west through Richland. Most of the heritage units are going on 6 years of age at the time of this shot, yet this is finally the first good shot I got of the N&W Heritage unit, finally concluding my hunt for all 20.
8:30 - 60N - Paulsboro, NJ - Farrell, PA
NS ES44AC 8103 "Norfolk & Western"
NS SD70M-2 2715
1/18/18 - 15T with a pair of UP locomotives rounds the bend in the farmland at milepost 78. The pole line on the north side of the tracks would soon be replaced later in the winter.
10:15 - 15T - Allentown, PA - Birmingham, AL
UP AC4400CW 6495
UP SD70M 4745
1/27/18 - Triple M Farm's 1963 B-model Mack truck is ideally parked as 211 heads west on the close track with an endangered standard cab SD70 leading the way.
12:30 - 211 - Croxton, NJ - Atlanta, GA
NS SD70 2570
NS SD70ACe 1032
NS C44-9W 9463
NS ES44AC 8077
2/24/18 - A soggy Saturday didn't stop our camera from capturing one of the "blue mane" units added as a cab signal leader to a couple of UP EMD's on eastbound ethanol train 64E at Railroad Street in Myerstown.
14:00 - 64E - Chicago, IL - Linden, NJ
NS AC44C6M 4004 "Blue Mane"
UP SD70M 4513
UP SD70ACe 9006
3/10/18 - Another Saturday afternoon 211 passes by a red barn just west of Myerstown near milepost 81. This angle is a bit cluttered, and after years of driving by here never giving it much thought, I figured I would try a new angle not seen before in my Harrisburg Line videos.
15:20 - 211 - Croxton, NJ - Atlanta, GA
UP SD70M 4100
UP AC4400CW 6276
NS C44-9W 9865
3/11/18 - The next day further east on the lower portion of the Harrisburg Line when the word got out a triclops SD60M was the leader on 39G. The signals for the new LORANE interlocking were being installed, eventually crossover tracks and switches would follow, thus eliminated the out-dated "slip-switch" at TITUS a couple miles to the west.
16:45 - 39G - Pavonia, NJ - Allentown, PA
NS SD60M 6814
NS SD60 6677
UP AC4400CW 6558
3/13/18 - A week before the arrival of Spring, H31 heads west through the farmlands east of Richland at sunset.
18:15 - H31 - Reading, PA - Lebanon, PA
NS GP38-2 5304
NS GP40-2 3031
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![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")
