Down to the bottom of the photographic barrel this week (these may even be reposts), but fortunately our semester is done next week because COVID inspired a compressed academic schedule, so I will be socially-distancing trackside again soon.
NS 951 was an office car special that ran on the Fort Wayne Line back in July. Shorter than most, it featured just the Penn Central heritage unit, Buena Vista, and one additional office car. Here, the train passes Glenfield, PA, 10 minutes from a quick stop in Conway Yard.
Under normal circumstances, chasing a train along PA-65 would be difficult to do without breaking traffic laws, but the 20-minute stop for a crew change allowed me to make it to Rochester at the western end of Conway.
The train would eventually make it to Chicago before making a run through the South. Rumor had it that the train was staffed by NS bean-counters who were looking to cut costs, but thus far the only change has been to re-assign the routes of two manifests and to fold the Pittsburgh and Harrisburg Divisions (not lines) into one Keystone Division.
Finally, here's a shot of a KCS GEVO and SD70ACe leading a military logistics train to Fort Eustis south of Williamsburg. The full video can be found on my YouTube channel below.
