On a brisk, chilly day in Lancaster county, Strasburg Rail Road would be continuing their long standing tradition of running "Santa's Paradise Express". These trips would be pulling happy passengers to Paradise and back to East Strasburg for a short ride through the countryside. The locomotives assigned to pull these jolly trains were N&W 475 and CN 89. N&W 475 is a 4-8-0 "M" Class built in 1906 by the Baldwin Locomotive Works for the Norfolk and Western Railway and CN 89 is a 2-6-0 mogul built in 1910 by the Canadian Locomotive Company built for the Grand Truck Railway, which would later be the Canadian National Railway. CN 89 would sport a Pennsylvania Railroad 3 chime whistle and 475 would sport a 12-inch hooter whistle.
In charge of the half-hour trains today would be 89, and 475 would be pulling the hourly excursions. The two trains would meet at Cherry Hill, where one would pass on a passing siding while the other waited for the clear. Both 89 and 475 really put on quite the show today, pounding up and down the grade to East Strasburg with plenty of stack talk. Each train would terminate at Paradise, or Leaman Place Junction. Today we catch 89 twice at Paradise, once for a short clip and again for a longer clip that even featured two awesome Amtrak meets. It was a great opportunity to see these perfectly timed meets with 89 at Paradise!
We were also able to try out some new angles today, including some different ones at Cherry Hill. LO&S 10 and Cagney locomotive 3 were also in operation today, pulling some shorter excursions at East Strasburg. Please mind the wind noise, as it was extremely windy in Lancaster today. Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!
Filmed Sunday, December 8, 2019
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