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By:Bruce Aldred
Dates:7/24/2013 - 8/24/2013
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Swing Bridge Action
Title:  Swing Bridge Action
Description:  Just your average train on a bridge. Wrong! This is a human-powered swing bridge. Thats right- it takes two strong guys cranking a large gear for a couple minutes to move this massive structure into place. With the Atlantic ocean only two miles away, this short eastbound tanker train is running out of rail as it nears the last customer on the line. (Check out a time-lapse of the bridge being opened here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIvZ9_0q9xs)
Photo Date:  8/13/2013  Upload Date: 8/14/2013 12:38:51 AM
Location:  Lewes, DE
Author:  Bruce Aldred
Categories:  Bridge,Action
Locomotives:  DCLR 4054(B23-7)
Views:  646   Comments: 3
DCLR 4054
Title:  DCLR 4054
Description:  DCLR 4054 was originally built for Conrail in 1978. Its gray and yellow paint isnt as regal as its original blue but it still looks crisp and cool in my opinion.
Photo Date:  8/13/2013  Upload Date: 8/14/2013 12:40:54 AM
Location:  Lewes, DE
Author:  Bruce Aldred
Categories:  Bridge,Action
Locomotives:  DCLR 4054(B23-7)
Views:  310   Comments: 0
Two Relics
Title:  Two Relics
Description:  Two relics of times past. A forlorn and splintered old dock in the foreground. A hand-cranked swing bridge behind. And one of them is still alive and kicking! The DCLR run to Lewes returns west with empty tankers and a caboose. (Check out a time-lapse of the bridge being manually opened here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIvZ9_0q9xs)
Photo Date:  8/13/2013  Upload Date: 8/14/2013 12:42:31 AM
Location:  Lewes, DE
Author:  Bruce Aldred
Categories:  Bridge,Action
Locomotives:  DCLR 4054(B23-7)
Views:  431   Comments: 3
Delaware Coast Line
Title:  Delaware Coast Line
Description:  Running long hood forward, the Barcroft sodium hydroxide train rolls out of beautiful Lewes, Delaware.
Photo Date:  8/13/2013  Upload Date: 8/14/2013 12:44:04 AM
Location:  Lewes, DE
Author:  Bruce Aldred
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  DCLR 4054(B23-7)
Views:  412   Comments: 1
Leaving Lewes Behind
Title:  Leaving Lewes Behind
Description:  A 35 year-old locomotive commanding a caboose and three tanker cars. It is short-line railroading at its finest, baby! Long hood forward and rumbling powerfully, this DCLR train leaves Lewes behind.
Photo Date:  8/13/2013  Upload Date: 8/14/2013 12:44:55 AM
Location:  Lewes, DE
Author:  Bruce Aldred
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  DCLR 4054(B23-7)
Views:  1607   Comments: 2
NS in Ellendale, DE
Title:  NS in Ellendale, DE
Description:  68 loaded hoppers of stone plus a few gondolas rumble southbound along the NS Indian River Secondary. The switch is an interchange with the Delaware Coast Line Railroad.
Photo Date:  8/23/2013  Upload Date: 8/23/2013 10:25:11 PM
Location:  Ellendale, DE
Author:  Bruce Aldred
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  NS 9941(C40-9W) NS 9540(C40-9W)
Views:  163   Comments: 1
Caboose watches the action
Title:  Caboose watches the action
Description:  Gettysburg Railway caboose #101 stands sentinel in the midday heat as a NS local rolls south along the Indian River Secondary. In a minute the 15-car train will be gone, leaving only the quiet buzz of a small town at work.
Photo Date:  8/24/2013  Upload Date: 7/25/2013 12:13:58 AM
Location:  Georgetown, DE
Author:  Bruce Aldred
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  NS 2765(SD70M-2)
Views:  239   Comments: 1
H42- Georgetown
Title:  H42- Georgetown
Description:  A lone SD70M-2 easily commands this 15-car local train along the Indian River Secondary. She slowly rolls past the current resting place of one-time Gettysburg Railway caboose #101.
Photo Date:  8/24/2013  Upload Date: 7/25/2013 12:15:03 AM
Location:  Georgetown, DE
Author:  Bruce Aldred
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  NS 2765(SD70M-2)
Views:  227   Comments: 3


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