Pennsylvania Railfanning, August 1994: Conrail Juniata Shops and Altoona Yard
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- Ghosts, skeletons, and otherwordly visitors filled the locomotive storage and freight car deadlines around the yard and shops in Altoona on August 5, 1994. The points of interest here were numerous - ex-Santa Fe C30-7s awaited rebuild with a GP35 or two peeking through in the background (is that Reading paint I saw?), scores of end-cab switchers including a white-lined SW1, and various other locomotive oddities.
The car graveyard had a variety of Conrail predecessor logos visible, with a solitary keystone serving as a reminder of whose railroad this was originally. The black-and-yellow SW1500s were a mystery, but shortly after returning home I discovered they were the remaining power for the nearby Cambria & Indiana Railroad which had shut down recently. One mystery I never solved - what were the spine cars doing in cold storage, old prototypes maybe?
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Those Gold-Yellow and Black switchers units were from the Cambria and Indiana RR that ran from around Ebensburg, PA out to points west and north in Indiana County PA. It was mostly a coal branch that brought coal loads from the mines out to the mainline in Cresson, PA. The line ran right past my parents house where I grew up in Ebensburg. The line has since been ripped up and is now a rails to trails.
Wow I remember when all that rolling stock was sitting there rusting away. There were a lot in Holidaysburg PA too.
The biggest regret I have of that trip is passing on the opportunity to stop and film the storage tracks at Hollidaysburg as we drove out to Altoona in sunny weather. I got a good look as we sat in a little traffic; I'd swear I saw at least one car of every Conrail predecessor there, plus every variation on Penn Central lettering and some early Conrail one-offs. Now it's all empty, as is the area where the cars are seen in the video.
13 original conrail units left in blue on the ns roster 1 is left on the csx but is in storage and will be painted for the sd40-3 rebuilds
wow...i wish i was old enough to understand how amazing it would have been to see erie lackawanna cars a PRR cars......Now im old enought the oldest cars ive seen were some old Penn Central grain hopper. =-(
Nice catch with the Kodachrome Dash-7s
great video the days of corail wish i was able to see them
I agree.. The oldest car I have ever seen was a P&LE coal car.. :(
not to long ago i was in Chester Ma and I saw an un-patched Erie Lakawanna car still in good condition
I live about 5 blocks from here ...I keep telling people how cool this is but the townies think I'm crazy!
WHOA holy switchers batman
Those spine cars were CR's 7900XX series 53' cars that they acquired that year from (GBRX??) You saw them before they were repainted and sent into service- they were all out of service (again) by 1998.
I love your videos, and I didn't know that Conrail bought a SP atsf merger painted santa Fe. And Conrail had alot of switchers
Thanks for watching! The ATSF C30-7s were part of a group that were bought for the Conrail Leasing (CRL) fleet, I think. They were eventually painted solid blue and put out on the road with minimal CRL stencils and numbering. As far as the switchers go, I think most, if not all that were visible here were being prepped for a one-way trip to the scrapper. The SW1001s, SW1500s, and MP15s survived into NS.
Stuff youll never see again....-Reading hopper- Penn Central Auto Parts boxcar-Kodachrome Dash 7- Santa Fe Dash 7-Yard full of CONRAIL locomotives-That Southern Pacific High-Cube-CNW Boxcars-Pennsy Boxcar-EL Hopper-P&LE Hopper!!!
Well my grand parents live in hollidaysburg and we would always pass the shops and see the cars......i wish i could of been born 10 years earlier =-(......oh and by the way the hollidaysburg shops are now full of RailBox cars and TTX spine cars. =-)
This is all stuff you will only find in museums of railroading: santa Fe, southern Pacific/Santa Fe merger painted U30B PRR 40ft boxcar, Penn central Jade green boxcar, and a conrail caboose. And were those yellow SW1500s from conemough and black licks, or Cambria and Indiana?
The switchers were Cambria & Indiana; they had shut down shortly before I shot the video. I found out after the fact when I was trying to ID the switchers and happened across a picture of one of them in Trains Magazine with a caption mentioning the shutdown.
I live right next to their abandoned tracks, which was the ebensburg, to.. I don't know where the rest of the line went. But, most of it is removed. Exept the yard at the power plant
Cool. The 80's and 90's were my favorite time period. Why allthe car horn honking?
That scene with the pennsy hopper gone infact that whol yard os gone NS scraped all of it!
What this venue must have been 60 years ago: T-1s, K-4s, M-1s and I-1sc's belching smoke and steam in all their glory.
I have a model of 6600! And that Kodachrome!
Will the person honking the car horn, PLEASE STOP!
lol