One of the (thankfully) less known East Penn Railroad operations in SE Pennsylvania is the Bristol, PA operations, located about a half hour outside of Philadelphia. This operation interchanges with CSAO at Grundy, located along Amtrak's NEC and works the Bristol Industrial Park, receiving boxcars for a paper recycling facility within the plant. The branch which connects the complex to the NEC is known as the Bristol Industrial Track, which crosses Route 13 before passing through the backyards of Bristol's Green Lane Neighborhood, before passing under the PA Turnpike and entering the park's limits. Power for this operation is ESPN NW2 81, a former Conrail/PRR locomotive, still lettered for ESPN's precursor, PRL, also known as Penn Rail Lines.
Due to the sun being in the totally wrong spot for this run this time of year, I chose the cloudy morning of January 18th to document them. The BIT-18 (BIT for Bristol Industrial Track, 18 for the date) is seen running lite towards Route 13 before pulling four boxcars across Route 13, and disrupting rush hour traffic in the process. After a quick chase, they're seen shoving a cut of outbound cars to the interchange before calling it a day.
14 авг 2024