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The following are the most prevalent Norfolk Southern diesel locomotives in use as of 2022, summarized from Chris Toth's excellent Norfolk Southern Diesel Locomotive Roster.
Road numbers in bold are in the author's collection.
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The Everett Railroad (reporting mark EV) is a shortline and heritage railroad that operates on ex-Pennsylvania Railroad trackage in the Hollidaysburg area of the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. It runs freight trains over two separate lines, one from Brooks Mill and Sproul, and the other, owned by the Morrison's Cove Railroad, from Roaring Spring to Curryville and Martinsburg. The affiliated Hollidaysburg and Roaring Spring Railroad (reporting mark HRS), which the Everett Railroad operates both under contract and via trackage rights, connects the two segments to each other and to the Norfolk Southern Railway (ex-Conrail) in Hollidaysburg. The Everett Railroad name refers to its former location near Everett, abandoned in 1982.
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At this time I refer all interested parties to the Kishacoquillas Valley Railroad FaceBook Group.
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The East Broad Top Railroad (EBT) is a 3 ft narrow gauge historic and heritage railroad headquartered in Rockhill Furnace, Pennsylvania.
Operating from 1871 to 1956, it is one of the nation's oldest and best-preserved narrow-gauge railroads, and was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1964. The railroad is now preserved for use as a tourist attraction. After a nine-year closure, in February 2020 it was announced that the railroad had been purchased by a non-profit foundation and regular train service resumed in the summer of 2021.
There is significant coverage of the railroad elsewhere on the internet, so I am not going to replicate it here. Below are a few links that may be of interest to you...
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Shout out to Kaylee Zheng whose clinic was the initial data for this cheat sheet!
EMD Model DesignationExample: SD 70 AC |
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Unit Type | Locomotive Series | Improvement Series | Options/Modifiers |
F = Cowl/Monocogue Unit SW = Switcher MP = Multi Purpose Switcher GP = General Purpose (4 axle) SD = Special Duty (6 axle) |
If last digit is 9, then 12 cylinder prime mover; otherwise 16 cylinder. Exception: T4 locos are 12 cylinders always |
(blank) = base version -1 = EMD reman. program (late 1960s) -2 EMD reliability improvement series |
A = Special Custom Builds |
GE Model DesignationExample: Dash9 44 C W |
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Locomotive Series | Locomotive HO x 100 | Wheel Arrangement per Truck | Options/Modifiers |
U = Universal |
For AC series, full HP is written out, although, conventional 2 digit HP indicator is also used interchangeably |
C = Cowl Unit |
GE DASH 9-44CW | GE AC44C6M | GE ES44AC GEVO | GE ET44AC Tier 4 GEVO | EMD SD70ACe | EMD/NS SD60E | |
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Photo posted to FaceBook by Marty Biniasz.
By the 1920’s the Warren Tank Car Company of Warren, Pennsylvania, and the Mt. Vernon Car Manufacturing Company of Mt. Vernon, Illinois, were the principle providers of the steel circus flat cars. In 1926, both these companies were competing heavily to get circuses to convert from the 60 foot cars to their new 70 and 72 foot flats.
The 70 foot Mount Vernon flat cars can be distinguished by the pot belly sides with ribs. The 72 foot Warren flat car had no ribs and gently arcing sides on both top and bottom. In the image at right, a Warren flat is in the foreground and the next flat is a Mount Vernon.
The JES acquired numerous truss-rod heavyweight passenger cars in 1948 from the Ringling Brothers. [Smith]
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Timeline:
- 1977: SP/Sea-Land well car begins testing.
- 1981: First SP double-stacks enter service.
- 1983: First Budd/Thrall well cars without bulkheads delivered.
- 1999: First production 53-foot well cars are delivered.
- 2003: TTX begins program for shortening 45- and 48-foot wells.
- 2010: TTX roster almost entirely 40- or 53-foot well platforms.
Notes:
- Thrall merged with Trinity in 2001. Thereafter, Thrall designs were marketed through Trinity Rail Group.
- Gunderson is owned by Greenbrier.
- All TTX well cars carry the reporting marks DTTX.
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Model | Well Configuration |
Qty | TTX Class | Notes | Years Active | HO Scale Model |
Thrall Car Manufacturing | ||||||
100-ton Articulated Cars: | ||||||
Lo-Pac 2000 | 40' 40' 40' 40' 40' | 296 |
TWG5M |
Capable of carrying 48' containers in the top positions. Design licensed from Budd. | 1988- | InterMountain |
40' 45' 48' 45' 40' | 1 | TWG50P | ||||
40' 45' 45' 45' 40' | 25 | TWG50F | 1988- | |||
40' 48' 48' 48' 40' | 408 | TWG50G TWG50K TWG50L |
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45' 45' 45' 45' 45' | 23 | TWG50D TWG50J |
1986- | |||
48' 48' 48' 48' 48' | 40 | TWG50E | 1989- | |||
125-ton Articulated Cars: | ||||||
40' 48' 48' 48' 40' | 292 | TWG52 | ||||
48' 48' 48' 48' 48' | 1,381 | TWG52A TWG52B TWG52C |
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53' 53' 53' 53' 53' | 1 | TWG53P | ||||
53' 53' 53' | 751 | TWG33P TWG33 |
Atlas 728688 |
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Single-Unit COFC-only Cars: | ||||||
Well Runner | 48' | 962 | TWF10 TWF10A TWH10 TWH10P |
Class One Model Works (ordered) | ||
Drawbar-Connected COFC-only Cars: | ||||||
48' 48' 48' | 300 | TWG30 | 1991- | |||
48' 48' 48' 48' | 138 | TWG40 | 1991- | |||
Single-Unit All Purpose Cars: | ||||||
48' | 150 | TWA10 | ||||
Drawbar-Connected All-Purpose Cars: | ||||||
48' 48' 48' | 116 | TWA30 | ||||
Gunderson | ||||||
100-ton Articulated Cars: | ||||||
Twin-Stack | 40' 40' 40' 40' 40' | 343 | GWG50 GWG50A GWG50B GWG50C GWG50D GWG50E GWG50F GWG50G GWG50H GWG50J |
End bulkheads to retain upper containers. | InterMountain | |
125-ton Articulated Cars: | ||||||
Maxi-Stack I | 40' 40' 40' 40' 40' | 3,214 | GWG52 GWG52D GWG52E GWG52G GWG52H GWG52I |
Athearn | ||
40' 48' 48' 48' 40' | 43 | GWG52A | ||||
Maxi-Stack III | 48' 48' 48' 48' 48' | 2,496 | GWG52B GWG52C GWG52F |
Athearn | ||
Maxi-Stack V | 53' 53' 53' 53' 53' | 1 | GWG53P | |||
Maxi-Stack IV | 53' 53' 53' | 7,680 | GWG33 GWG33A GWG33B GWG33C GWG33D GWG33E GWG33P |
InterMountain Kato 766519 |
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Husky Stack | 48' | 875 | GWF10 | 1991- | Athearn InterMountain |
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Husky Stack | 53' | 2,130 | GWF13 | 2003- | Rapido | |
56' | 101 | GWF11 | ||||
Drawbar-Connected COFC-only Cars: | ||||||
48' 48' 48' 48' | 60 | GWG40 | ||||
Single-Unit All Purpose Cars: | ||||||
Husky Stack AP | 48' | 947 | GWA10 | |||
Drawbar-Connected All-Purpose Cars: | ||||||
48' 48' 48' | 873 | GWA30 | ||||
48' 48' 48' 48' | 200 | GWA40 | ||||
Pullman Standard / Trinity Industries | ||||||
100-ton Articulated Cars: | ||||||
BackPacker | 40' 40' 40' 40' 40' | 71 | RWG50 RWG50A RWG50B RWG50C RWG50P |
1986- | ScaleTrains | |
125-ton Articulated Cars: | ||||||
40' 40' 40' 40' 40' | 5 | RWG52A | ||||
40' 48' 48' 48' 40' | 117 | RWG52 | 1987- | |||
Backpacker | 48' 48' 48' 48' 48' | 116 | RWG52B RWG52C RWG53 |
1990- | ||
53' 53' 53' 53' 53' | 1 | |||||
53' 53' 53' | 1,236 | RWG33 RWG33A |
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Single-Unit COFC-only Cars: | ||||||
Well Runner | 48' | 1 | RWH10P | |||
Drawbar-Connected COFC-only Cars: | ||||||
53' 53' 53' | 160 | RWG30 | ||||
Single-Unit All Purpose Cars: | ||||||
48' | 10 | RWA10 | ||||
National Steel Car (NSC) | ||||||
125-ton Articulated Cars: | ||||||
40' 40' 40' 40' 40' | 310 | NWG52 NWG52A |
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48' 48' 48' | 286 | NWA33 | ||||
Super Stack | 53' 53' 53' 53' 53' | 1 | ||||
53' 53' 53' | 5,428 | NWG33A NWG33B NWG33C NWG33D NWG33E NWG33F NWG33P |
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Single-Unit COFC-only Cars: | ||||||
53' | 6,190 | NWF13 NWF13A |
Walthers | |||
Drawbar-Connected COFC-only Cars: | ||||||
48' 48' 48' | 744 | NWG31 | 1998- | |||
53' 53' 53' | 1,022 | NWG33 | ||||
Drawbar-Connected All-Purpose Cars: | ||||||
48' 48' 48' | 80 | NWA31 | 1995 | Walthers | ||
48' 48' 48' 48' | 120 | NWA40 | ||||
Freight Car America | ||||||
125-ton Articulated Cars: | ||||||
Dynastack | 40' 40' 40' 40' 40' | 50 | NWG52L | 2008- | ||
53' 53' 53' | 100 | NWG30 | Walthers | |||
Single-Unit COFC-only Cars: | ||||||
53' | 1 | |||||
Unidentified Builder | ||||||
40' 40' 40' 40' 40' | 50 | JWG52 | 2013- | |||
53' 53' 53' | JWG33 | 2016- | ||||
TTX Double-Stack Rebuilds |
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Articulated Cars or Drawbar-Connected COFC-only Cars: | ||||||
40' 40' 40' 40' 40 |
TWG51P |
Walthers 748410 |
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40' 40' 40' 40' 40 | GW52AM GW52BM GW52CM GW52FM |
Walthers | ||||
40' 40' 40' 40' 40' | RW52M RW52BM RW52CM RW53M |
1988- | ||||
40' 40' 40' 40' 40' | NWG32M | |||||
40' 48' 48' 48' 40' | TWG50K TWG52 |
1987 | ||||
48' 48' 48' | 1 | TWG32C | 1992 | |||
Single-Unit COFC-only Cars: | ||||||
40' | TWF10F TWF10M TWF10N |
1991- | Walthers | |||
40' | GWF10F GWF10M |
1991- | ||||
40' | NWF10F NWF11F |
1994- | ||||
53' | GW13SF GWF13S |
1994- | Walthers | |||
53' | NWF13 NW13SF NW14SF |
1993- | ||||
Single-Unit All Purpose Cars: | ||||||
48' | GWA10 | 1994- | Atlas Walthers 456164 |
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The Reading Blue Mountain and Northern Railroad (reporting mark RBMN), sometimes shortened to Reading and Northern Railroad, is a regional railroad in eastern Pennsylvania. Its headquarters is in Port Clinton. The RBMN provides freight service on 300 miles of track. Its mainline consists of the Reading Division between Reading and Packerton and the Lehigh Division between Lehighton and Dupont. Its main freight cargo is anthracite coal.
Passenger excursions also run on RBMN tracks. The RBMN itself operates excursion service from Reading and Port Clinton to Jim Thorpe, while the Lehigh Gorge Scenic Railway (LGSR) offers service between Jim Thorpe and Lehigh Gorge State Park. [Wikipedia]
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JES Winter Quarters in Florida.
One thing that can be said about the JES paint schemes was that... they were flexible!
There were always deviations from the norm.
In addition, the names of the cars were typically changed each year to represent the towns where the carnival was scheduled.
Read more: The James E. Strates Shows: Train Car Paint Schemes
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Nope, no Pennsy content here! I've always been a closet Auto Train fan, ever since it was first featured in Model Railroader in December 1972 and January 1973. I had the privilege of riding the train later in 1973.
Auto-Train Corporation (reporting mark AUT) was a privately owned railroad which used its own rolling stock, and traveled on rails leased from major railroads along the route of its trains, serving central Florida from points in the Mid-Atlantic region near Washington, DC, and the Midwest near Louisville, Kentucky, during the 1970s. Despite the popularity of the service on its primary route, which parallels busy Interstate 95 along much of the eastern coast of the United States in five states, the company failed financially after operating for almost 10 years. After a hiatus, a similarly named and operated service (Auto Train) was begun under the government-financed Amtrak in 1983, which became one of the railroad's most popular services.
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Strates Shows, America's only railroad carnival, travels the United States during a seven-month season, transporting personnel and equipment with 61 rail cars and 34 trucks. Traveling with the show are some 400 employees and families who operate the many rides, games and concessions.
Strates Shows has a history dating back to 1923 when James E. Strates, a Greek immigrant, began his first show. Mr. Strates came to America in 1909 and, like many immigrants, worked at a number of odd jobs. In 1919, he joined a carnival athletic show as a wrestler taking on all challengers. In 1923, James E. Strates acquired Southern Tier Shows and in 1932 changed its name to James E. Strates Shows. Mr. Strates continued to build and manage the carnival until his death in 1959. At that time his son, E. James Strates, assumed responsibility for the carnival and still operates it today.
Strates Shows are known to have ridden the rails of the Pennsy during the era being modeled.
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