Wheeling & Lake Erie (WE) 3049 - Rebuilt EMD SD40-3
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Interchanging from CSX onto W&LE tracks with a small train of 7 total cars.
Heading west on the scenic Banning Bridge over the Youghiogheny River. The were only 13 cars on the train including a buffer, 4 tank cars, and 8 cement cars. Just enough to frame the whole train on the bridge perfectly. The only way to get to this river-level spot is from the Great Allegheny Passage.
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Leaving Connellsville with a very short train of three loaded covered hoppers, ten empty tanker cars, and one buffer gondola. By the way, all of the clover flowers smelled great, especially just before a rain storm.
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Leaving the Connellsville CSX Yard with a very short train of three loaded covered hoppers, ten empty tanker cars, and one buffer gondola.
Power parked at Rook Yard
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This line would see traffic into the CSX days, but was left behind shortly after that merger.
It was preceded by the Valley RR and the Cleveland Terminal & Valley RR.
Eastbound W&LE freight arrives and yards its train at Rook Yard
I could see that I was going to soon be in the way, so out I go.
Didn't have time to walk back and see what the second unit was. There were only 2 here at that time.
A single SD40-3 leads a string of loaded tank cars towards the Connellsville CSX Yard on a very gloomy looking evening.
We've been dealt two pairs.
Thanks for coming along.
