[TVRRMAN]

I was fortunate enough to have a decent color camera on me this warm and sunny Spring afternoon in 1952.

We're standing trackside on the PRR Panhandle Division, awaiting a steam powered freight out of Pitcairn, but were instead given the treat of watching a Montour crew pickup Empties for Champion.

While the operation went smoothly enough that I almost any decent shot eluded me, fortune struck in my favor. An airline halfway back had become disconnected and dumped the trains air, sending the three SW9's and fifty empties, into Emergency.

here's the train stalled on the viaduct, awaiting an extremely unhappy brakeman to run back and reconnect it.



Not too long after though, the ground around be began to shake. A Coal drag, powered by Alcp RS3's, Rolled past and under the viaduct.



Not content with one though, I snapped off any shots I could get.





The sound of loaded hoppers rolling over jointed rail is almost rhythmic. To think, this load will probably be delivered to one of the major Steel Mills in the Pittsburgh Area.

With that, an N5c brings up the markers

[captain_bazza]

The old sim still has chutzpah!

Cheers Bazzpah.

[TVRRMAN]

 captain_bazza, on Jun 13 2009, 09:30 PM, said:

The old sim still has chutzpah!

Cheers Bazzpah.

Capt,

Thanks for the kind words there. On a side note, mind me asking: What's Chutzpah? Never heard the expression before.

[Former Member]

lol if you don't mind my asking...what route?

[dantheman]

PRR-ER

[TVRRMAN]

 dantheman, on Jun 15 2009, 07:07 PM, said:

PRR-ER

Dan,

No this isn't PRR East, nowhere near it (and glad for that fact). This is McDonald PA on the PRR Panhandle Division, a route by Mike Derr. It was originally released as a bare bones route with little if any scenery except for select areas. until a week ago, this area, ad the area as far as Oakdale PA, was a barren, no scenery except hills, run.

Overall I chose to rework these sections just to see if I could do anything with them, and make them feel more "like home."

A Little history:

The PRR Panhandle Division ran out of Pittsburgh and for points in West Virginia and Ohio, with trackage into both, Columbus and Cincinnati Ohio, by way of Weirton Junction, WV, and Mingo Junction. Along the way, it ran through such towns as Carnegie, Walker's Mill, Rennerdale, Oakdale, McDonald, and many others in PA, WV. and Ohio.

Along the route, it handled numerous mining operations, and interchanges with smaller roads such as the Montour RR at McDonald, and both, the Norfolk and Western, and Baltimore and Ohio, just to name a handful.