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CF7 #2427 comes around a tight curve with an eastbound emtpy stone train at Axemann, PA on August 31, 2009. The ex-Santa Fe rebuild (same #) wears a modified warbonnet scheme.
NITTANY & BALD EAGLE
The Nittany & Bald Eagle RR was created in 1984 when the SEDA-COG Joint Rail Authority purchased the old Pennsy Bald Eagle Valley Branch from Conrail and awarded the operating rights to the N&BE. The line runs from Tyrone on the ex-Pennsy mainline north about 65 miles to Lock Haven, PA and the NS (also ex-Pennsy) Buffalo Line. A branch at Milesburg runs to Bellefonte, where the old Bellefonte Central RR shops are used and on to Pleasant Gap and Lemont.
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CF7 #2427 comes around a tight curve with an eastbound emtpy stone train at Axemann, PA on August 31, 2009. The ex-Santa Fe rebuild (same #) wears a modified warbonnet scheme. |
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The train has arrived at the end of the line in Pleasant Gap, PA and will switch empties for stone loads from the Hawbaker Quarry here. The stone is destined for the asphalt plant in Montoursville, PA on sister road Lycoming Valley. |
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GP8's #1601 & 1603 are at the yard in Lock Haven, PA on September 9, 2000. These units were obtained from Conrail and were their #5401 & 5400 having been rebuilt by ICG at Paducah in 1976-77. |
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GP8's #1601 & 1603 are switching the yard at Bellefonte, PA on August 31, 2009. This yard was the interchange point between the old Bellefonte Central RR and the Penn Central. |
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GP8's #1602, 1601, Lycoming Valley GP9u #9050 and CF7 #2427 are getting their train together at the NS Lock Haven, PA yard on June 10, 2010. Lycoming Valley train KH27 has just left the other end of the yard with the stone loads, and this train will now take the empties back to the quarry. |
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The train of empties cuts through the thick northern Pennsylvania forests on it's own tracks now and headed south back to the yard at Bellefonte, PA. In a day or two those empties will then be taken to the Hawbaker quarry in Pleasant Gap for loading. |
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GP10 #1804 in the yard at Lock Haven, PA on August 10, 2000. This unit was the ex-Conrail #7569 and was an ICG Paducah rebuild of PC GP9 #7118 in 1977. |
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GP10 #1804, Lycoming Valley SW9 #239 and CF7 #2427 are headed west with the loaded stone train at Axemann, PA on August 31, 2009. |
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The train continues through downtown Bellefonte and will be turned over to the Lycoming Valley at the yard in Lock Haven for the remainder of the trip to Montoursville. |