{"id":32417,"date":"2021-12-07T07:02:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-07T12:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=32417"},"modified":"2021-12-06T20:49:34","modified_gmt":"2021-12-07T01:49:34","slug":"conrail-and-norfolk-southern-23-years-november-at-cassandra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/conrail-and-norfolk-southern-23-years-november-at-cassandra\/","title":{"rendered":"Conrail and Norfolk Southern\u201423 Years November at Cassandra"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Way back in the days of Blue, Mike Gardner and I paid a visit to Cassandra, Pennsylvania. We called into the Railfan’s Welcome Center and were given a memorable tour by the mayor of the borough, and then spent the afternoon photographing Conrail trains from the famous Overlook Bridge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That was November 1998, and only a few months before Conrail’s class 1 operations there were to become part of Norfolk Southern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some 23 years later (has it really been THAT long?), Kris and I paid a visit to the same bridge. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The paint has changed. The old PRR position-light signals are gone. The trains are longer. But Cassandra is much the way I remember it back in 1998.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1998, I was photographing on Fujichrome with a Nikon N90S with an 80-200mm f2.8 Nikkor zoom. Last month, it was a Nikon Z6 with 70-200mm f2.8 zoom. (But many other cameras in between.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Conrail SD50 6773 leads a heavy westward freight at Cassandra, Pennsylvania in November 1998.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Looking the other way: Helpers on trailing on Conrail 6773 west at Cassandra in November 1998.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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November 2021; Norfolk Southern double stacks westbound at Cassandra, Pennsylvania.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Westward helpers trailing at Cassandra.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Eastbound stacks at Cassandra.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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