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Posted by kp5308 on Wed Feb 10 21:31:55 2021 In 1984 the Everett Railroad opened for business on seven miles of railroad between Brookes Mill and Sproul PA that Conrail had deemed excess. Today the road operates 23 miles of track from Hollidaysburg to Brookes Mill where the line splits, with a branch to Martinsburg and the original route to Sproul forming the "Y" shaped short line. I got my first chance to photograph some of the EV in Hollidaysburg on the 4th.EV GP16 #1712 is stored at the end of track along 3rd Avenue south of the general office & enginehouse. The EMD was built as Clinchfield GP7 #911, rebuilt by Seaboard Coast Line at Uceta FL 1981 and renumbered 4612. Seaboard System same number 1983, renumbered 1712 a year later. To CSX 1712 in 1986. Retired in 1993 and sold to RJ Corman but not renumbered. Purchased by Everett 2002:  Combine #23 was built in 1925 by the Pressed Steel Car Company of Pittsburgh, PA for the Bessemer & Lake Erie. Utilized in passenger service by the Bessemer until the 1950s, it was converted into a diner for business train service and renumbered A-200. B&LE donated the car to the Pennsylvania Trolley Museum in 1964. Sold to Everett in 2012. Restoration completed in 2015:  This ex-Jersey Central coach was picked up from the Ohio Central in 2008. The car retains the as-built 78 seat configuration and will be lettered EVERETT but unfortunately no historical information on the car is listed on the Everett website:  The first piece of motive power is still on the roster but out of service. GE 80 ton center cab #4 was built for the Army in in 1943 and sold to the Albany (NY) Engineering Department as surplus after the war. Everett picked it up in serviceable condition in 1984:  At the other end of the Hollidaysburg yard are the 3 Pullman built ex-Lackawanna MU cars used for the tourist trains. The Horseshoe Curve Chapter of the National Railway Historical Society (NRHS) bought them from NJT and refurbished them in 1985. Renumbered 103, 104, and 105 respectively, the cars served the NRHS for over thirty years before being acquired by the Everett Railroad in early 2018. They will be repainted Pullman Green & receive their original DL&W numbers....2501, 2533 & 2537 respectively:  This New Orleans and Gulf Coast Geep was built as Chicago and NorthWestern GP7 #1625 (EMD 5/1953), rebuilt to GP7R specs at Oelwein IA and renumbered 4283. This is the last GP7R completed and released for service on August 10, 1981. Sold by CNW to OmniTRAX in late 1994 and assigned to Great Western/Saskatchewan Power in Canada. Purchased by NOGC 2003 then sold by NOCG to Chrome Locomotive/National Railway Equipment in Silvis IL 2014. Sold to Everett RR 2020 and delivered at Hollidaysburg January 2021:  The latest occupant of the ex-Pennsylvania Railroad Samuel Rea freight car shop at Hollidaysburg is Curry Rail Services. This ex-New York Central bay window caboose greets visitors at the entrance:  An ex-US Navy 65 ton GE is the shop switcher:  A notable in the yard is this SD60I. Norfolk Southern #6721 (nee Conrail #5582) was donated to Penn State in 2019 to be used for the Penn State Rail Transportation Engineering (RTE) program:  Good night:  |
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