Hi, This day was to be given over to the East Penn with an afternoon stop at Prospect Park, PA on the Northeast Corridor. Here we expected to meet Wilmington Chapter members Steve Barry and Mike Burkhart and hoped to film a SEPTA AEM-7.
As a result of a stop at the East Penn office in Kennett Square, PA we learned that the crew would go on duty at 10:00 AM and drive to Pocopson, PA to get there train. As we got to Kennett Square about 8:30 AM we decided to explore a bit. When we returned to Pocopson the crew had already arrived and started their power. When I asked, one of the crewmen told me that after setting the 2800 over on the other siding they would proceed with the remaining two units directly to Wilsmere Yard in Wilmington, DE. The photographs above and two below were taken during these maneuvers in Pocopson.
We had spotted some open spots south of Pocopson and easily beat the train here. Track speed generally is 10 MPH.
The next spot was at Winterthur, DE.
We got a last shot at Greenville, DE. The train beat us into Wilsmere Yard and we could not find it so we went to lunch thinking it would be there awhile. It wasn't. Even though we go fast food it left town before us and, although we tried to find it, we were unsuccessful so we headed for Prospect Park.
The remaining photographs all were taken at Prospect Park. This location provided a nice signal bridge and station building on the east side of the tracks as well as some interesting angles and a variety of equipment.
Our final train of the day was this SEPTA express pulled by a soon to be retired AEM-7.
Thanks for looking.
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Nice !!
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