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In today's linked video, a crew tells me to stand back a bit.

I made another trip back to Pittsburgh to do some railfanning and get the car inspected. Today's trip was an afternoon on Norfolk Southern's line along the Ohio River, called the Bayard Branch on PRR maps and by modern railfans (the name is a subject of some controversy). I learned a few years ago that this line is the last in the Pittsburgh area (if west of Beaver and eastern Ohio count as "Pittsburgh area.") to have Pennsy-style CPLs in service.  The line sees regular service from local trains and the 62V/63V trash trains, but with one main out of service on the Fort Wayne Line in East Palestine for environmental remediation, several manifest and tank trains are detouring on the Bayard, making it much easier to get signal shots. Such is the case in this photo, where what I believe is 35N heads west through East Liverpool, OH, in a brief pocket of sunlight on this otherwise cloudy day. The train has what's become a fairly ordinary array of run-through power, as NS struggles to find enough power for its trains after downsizing its active fleet in 2019. 7A0545CC-F276-4A64-9CB2-2269D500A322_1_201_a

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