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| Canadian Pacific Railway Taylor Yard & Northbound to Clark's Summit |
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| Taylor Train Watching | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| While most of Taylor Yard is inaccessable, the south end is a great location for train watchers. Locomotives will often tie up near this location, northbound trains often hold for a signal and southbound trains often stop for refueling (as do the northbounds). The Taylor local is based here and does switching from the south end and uses the former DL&W station as their office. DL and R&N local trains also frequent the yard. Four NS trains pass through the yard on a daily basis as well All this action can be taken in, legally, from an overhead ridge adjacent to a back alley and a road which leads to the yard itself. Do note that the public road ends at the tracks, if you go over the tracks without permission, you are tresspassing! |
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| Ocassionally an unusual engine will appear on the local freight. Behind the first unit is a former B&M GP-40 in patched Guilford paint. (5/01) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Another good vantage point is the public road that overlooks the south end of Taylor Yard. In the upper right is the former DL&W freight station. 3/96 | The same train on the left tied up for lunch, as viewed from the public road. 3/96 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| A great deal of the freight moved over the former D&H is now intermodal, in the form of containers and truck trailers. Here a southbound intermodal departs Taylor. (2/94) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Power from Canadian Pacific subsidiary SOO Line also frequents the former D&H main. Here a set of SOO SD-50's powers a southbound freight. 11/93 | At the same location we see the local job preparing to depart Taylor with a former D&H GP-38 in the lead. (4/00) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| North to Clark's Summit | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| A rare solid lashup of 3 SD-40-2F's pulles north from Taylor as seen from the Lackawanna Avenue overpass 5/06 | Here we see a northbound freight struggling to crest the grade at Clark's Summit with a typical lashup of SD-40-2's. (8/96) | Several NS trains were routed over CP Rail in 2001. Here we see a southbound NS 40T in West Scranton. 4/04 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Taylor Night Life... | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Due to the accessablity of Taylor Yard and the common practice of laying-over motive power at night it is easy to spot locomotives there at all hours. With a tripod and a little enginuity anyone can create an impromptu night photo session with the ample ambient light present. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| CP Rail GP-9 & caboose at rest. (6/93) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| D&H "Heritage" GP-38 7312 & CP GP-38. (7/00) | Crew change, former Union Pacific SD-40-2 (2/98) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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