Here's another set of photos from my time living near the Baltimore Belt Line where I also had easy access to Penn Station. I was still in school at the time so arguably I had more free time to do rail stuff, but with more limited transport options I had a limited variety of activities to do so I ended up not taking as much advantage as I could. The full set of photos can be found here ( mirror ).
We start off with a bang CSX AC6000 #663 leading a manifest freight with a train of New York City garbage towards The South. At the time since all GE units looked the same and I didn't often look up locomotive class when posting photos on message boards, I didn't realize is wasn't a more "typical" -8 or -9 type loco until I re-processed the photos almost 20 years later. The retaining wall behind the locomotives would collapse after 4 days of heavy rainfall in 2014 and be rebuilt to a similar appearance. Note the special BC2 paint scheme with blue outlined CSX lettering and dual lightning bolts around the number.
Here we see CSX SD40-2 #8081 emerging from the Huntington Ave tunnel with a blast of diesel exhaust smoke. The Baltimore Belt Line features a stiff grade as it works its way up from sea level and around the north side of the city before turning east towards Philly. In 1896 the B&O installed DC third rail electrified helper operation that was in use through the 1950's to pull steam locomotives up the grade with a minimum of coal smoke.
Yeah the photo sets sure were smaller back in the day.
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