5/29/2022 (Day 2) & 5/30/2022 (Day 3, Memorial Day Monday)
Link to video from day 1 & prior: • 2022 Memorial Day Long...
Same strategy for day 2: I have decided to just chill at one spot for most of the day and let the trains come to me, this time in South Fork, PA. Action was a mixture of a few pockets of busy action including a few meets and same direction racing. I was again unable to visit the spot north of the tracks due to another train backed in and tied down on the same track after the prior grain train was out of the way.
The next day was just the usual routine: Wake up, watch the morning action (no video) and pick up at Huntingdon, PA and follow the tracks east to Harrisburg.
Anyway, it was overall a very enjoyable long weekend!
Note: This video was filmed a few months BEFORE NS changed the intermodal train symbols (200 series).
Video timestamps (note: not related to time the train's head end passed me):
0:00 Title
Cresson, PA
0:19 Eastbound intermodal 294 (NS 1077 lead)
2:04 Eastbound intermodal 20K (NS 4336 lead), blocked by 294
4:33 Westbound mixed 13V (NS 4268 lead)
South Fork, PA
7:37 Eastbound mixed 36A (NS 4338 lead)
10:30 Westbound mixed 11V (NS 4588 lead)
13:33 Eastbound oil (L) Z6X (NS 1007 lead)
15:25 Eastbound intermodal 22W (NS 1212 lead) & Westbound grain (E) 55K (NS 4485 lead)
18:27 Westbound coal (E) 593 (NS 4322 lead)
21:10 Westbound intermodal 21G (NS 4577 lead)
23:47 Westbound intermodal 21J (NS 4061 lead)
25:14 Eastbound coal (L) Y90 (NS 9658 lead)
27:25 Westbound intermodal 21E (NS 4311 lead)
28:48 Westbound & eastbound mixed 11K (NS 1079 lead) & 18N (NS 1818 lead)
Lilly, PA - Carneys Crossing
32:15 Westbound intermodal 21M (NS 8063 lead)
Cresson, PA
33:36 Eastbound intermodal 20T (NS 4571 lead)
36:15 Eastbound coal (L) Y92 (w/ NS 4004 "Blue Mane") Head end
37:05 Eastbound coal (L) Y92 (w/ NS 4004 "Blue Mane") on the move
42:05 Westbound intermodal 21T (NS 4358 lead)
Ryde, PA (Next day)
43:57 Eastbound mixed 10K (NS 1179 lead)
Horningford, PA
46:28 Westbound intermodal 21J (NS 4439 lead)
47:28 Eastbound Amtrak 42 (AMTK 46 "50 Years" Livery)
48:27 Westbound intermodal 21E (NS 8021 lead)
10:30 Westbound mixed 11V (NS 4588 lead)
13:33 Eastbound oil (L) Z6X (NS 1007 lead)
Milepost 172
49:36 Westbound coal (E) 593 (NS 4483 lead)
51:51 Eastbound coal (L) 592 (NS 8118 lead) & Westbound intermodal 21G (NS 9956 lead)
Granville, PA - CP Long
54:47 Westbound mixed 11V (NS 1170 lead)