It’s Tuesday, August 3rd, 2021, and our time trackside starts with the tail end of NS 590, coal ultimately bound for Baltimore, as we pull up Linton Hill Road to get a closer look. It’s about ten minutes to 6 AM. The air is crisp and damp as the land around us slowly eases out of the envelope of darkness. Sunrise is due at 6:07 this foggy late-summer morning, but won't be very distinct through the dense murk all around. Throughout the day, the clouds will part and the blue sky will show. The sun will beat down as it travels across the sky until it officially sets on us at 8:22 PM. We will have seen twenty-nine more trains from six other locations along the Pittsburgh line.
Introduction, NS 590 (0:00)
Driving to Potters (1:04)
Potters Ln. (2:10)
The horn of our second train: NS 12G (3:11)
12G stops (4:31)
Morning B-roll (4:56)
12G gets moving (8:50)
12G stops again (13:27)
12G comes back to life (14:34)
Detector and deer (23:05)
Train 3: NS 294 (24:54)
294 comes into view (26:00)
Train 4: Yesterday's 63V (27:37)
Train 5: NS 25Z (32:15)
Train 6: Today's 63V (37:21)
Train 7: EB manifest (40:40)
Train 8: NS 62V (50:43)
Train 9: NS 741 (1:01:05)
Train 10: EB intermodal (1:05:08)
Buffalo Line reverberations (1:09:59)
Train 11: WB intermodal (1:11:23)
Driving to Bretz (1:16:00)
Bretz Ln. (1:16:44)
Train 12: WB coal empties (1:18:06)
Train 13: WB intermodal (1:22:05)
Train 14: WB intermodal (1:25:10)
Train 15: EB oil at Duncannon, PA (1:27:32)
Train 16: Amtrak 42/"04T" (1:30:23)
Racing westward (1:30:51)
Train 17: WB intermodal at Old Ferry Rd. (1:31:42)
Train 18: EB coal (1:34:31)
Train 19: Amtrak 43/"07T" (1:36:42)
Train 20: WB intermodal (1:37:33)
Train 21: WB manifest (1:39:22)
Train 22: EB oil (1:42:26)
Train 23: EB intermodal at Millerstown, PA (1:44:43)
Millerstown B-roll (1:47:40)
Train 24: EB coal (1:48:57)
Train 25: Surprise EB Intermodal (1:50:58)
Train 26: EB manifest (1:52:20)
Train 27: EB intermodal (1:55:53)
Moving to Mexico... PA (1:59:04)
Train 28: WB intermodal (1:59:57)
Train 29: EB intermodal (2:03:07)
Sunset (2:04:41)
Train 30: WB manifest (2:05:08)
Dusk and final words (2:08:23)
This video is the first of mine to contain narration, and is thus somewhat experimental. I hope you enjoy :)
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