All Aboard the Grain Train

In spite of travel warnings thanks to overnight snowfall, a friend and I headed up the mountain for what's probably the last (and only) major blast of winter railroading in Central PA. We had planned to spend time west of Cresson, but when the scanner crackled that an NS 52K was on 5 West, plans changed.

52K is a loaded grain train for the RJ Corman Clearfield Branch. Usually, it will sit tied down on 5 West for several hours, but when NS tied it down, RJCP was already en route with 8 units to pick it up. Here the first of four units on the head end eases over Chest Creek about 2 miles outside Patton.

Done