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Viewing Album:  Steamtown Railfest 2015
 
By:Jeff Wilson
Dates:9/5/2015 - 9/5/2015
Album Info:Several great pieces of historic equipment were present at Steamtown for this year's Railfest, which was, in my opinion, the BEST Steamtown has ever put together. Of course, what made it GREAT was the Nickel Plate 765, finally together with her sister NKP 759. In this album, I will follow 765 on her Phoebe Snow run to Delaware Water Gap and back to Scranton. A once in a lifetime chase! I also dabble in a little Black-and-White as well!
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At First light...
Title:  At First light...
Description:  The Amtrak Veterans unit sits in front of Steamtown before the park opens, and Railfest 2015 begins.
Photo Date:  9/5/2015  Upload Date: 9/11/2015 8:43:49 PM
Location:  Scranton, PA
Author:  Jeff Wilson
Categories:  Roster,Passenger
Locomotives:  AMTK 406(F40PHR) AMTK 642(ACS-64)
Views:  294   Comments: 0
Another Amtrak visitor
Title:  Another Amtrak visitor
Description:  Amtrak sent 2 units for this event. This is an older model, but in great condition!
Photo Date:  9/5/2015  Upload Date: 9/11/2015 8:48:25 PM
Location:  Scranton, PA
Author:  Jeff Wilson
Categories:  Roster,Passenger
Locomotives:  AMTK 406(F40PHR)
Views:  240   Comments: 0
This unit makes me get chills..
Title:  This unit makes me get chills..
Description:  It was an honor to stand next to this engine, and the great message it sends
Photo Date:  9/5/2015  Upload Date: 9/11/2015 8:50:16 PM
Location:  Scranton, PA
Author:  Jeff Wilson
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  NS 911(SD60E)
Views:  178   Comments: 0
NKP 759 under steam????
Title:  NKP 759 under steam????
Description:  Not really... The 765 was just behind 759, and was pulling up for a family photo.
Photo Date:  9/5/2015  Upload Date: 9/11/2015 8:51:32 PM
Location:  Scranton, PA
Author:  Jeff Wilson
Categories:  Roster,Steam
Locomotives:  NKP 759(2-8-4) NS 2650(SD70M-2)
Views:  380   Comments: 0
The NKP sisters, finally together!
Title:  The NKP sisters, finally together!
Description:  If only they were both under steam....
Photo Date:  9/5/2015  Upload Date: 9/11/2015 8:54:49 PM
Location:  Scranton, PA
Author:  Jeff Wilson
Categories:  Roster,Steam,Action
Locomotives:  NKP 759(2-8-4) NKP 765(2-8-4)
Views:  419   Comments: 2
Just shooting in B&W brings back the old days....
Title:  Just shooting in B&W brings back the old days....
Description:  Seeing this shot in black & white makes you think of days gone by at the Lackawanna Rail Yards
Photo Date:  9/5/2015  Upload Date: 9/11/2015 8:56:32 PM
Location:  Scranton, PA
Author:  Jeff Wilson
Categories:  Roster,Steam,Action
Locomotives:  NKP 759(2-8-4) NKP 765(2-8-4)
Views:  275   Comments: 2
765 pulls into the roundhouse
Title:  765 pulls into the roundhouse
Description:  About to take her spot on the turntable, our honorable visitor pulls her nose into the turntable yard
Photo Date:  9/5/2015  Upload Date: 9/11/2015 8:58:30 PM
Location:  Scranton, PA
Author:  Jeff Wilson
Categories:  Roster,Steam,Action
Locomotives:  NKP 765(2-8-4)
Views:  213   Comments: 0
The NS911 and NKP 765
Title:  The NS911 and NKP 765
Description:  What a combination of power... Yesterday & today
Photo Date:  9/5/2015  Upload Date: 9/11/2015 9:02:28 PM
Location:  Scranton, PA
Author:  Jeff Wilson
Categories:  Roster,Steam,Action
Locomotives:  NKP 765(2-8-4) NS 911(SD60E) CP 2279(GP20C-ECO)
Views:  391   Comments: 0
Patriotic shot for 9/11
Title:  Patriotic shot for 9/11
Description:  Remembering our veterans in this very cool shot from upstairs
Photo Date:  9/5/2015  Upload Date: 9/11/2015 9:03:40 PM
Location:  Scranton, PA
Author:  Jeff Wilson
Categories:  Roster,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 642(ACS-64) AMTK 406(F40PHR)
Views:  342   Comments: 0
Scrubbing down the tender
Title:  Scrubbing down the tender
Description:  As 765 is in the roundhouse, the crew from the Fort Wayne Historical Society washes down the tender for her excursion
Photo Date:  9/5/2015  Upload Date: 9/11/2015 9:05:07 PM
Location:  Scranton, PA
Author:  Jeff Wilson
Categories:  Roster,Steam
Locomotives:  NKP 759(2-8-4) DLW 664(F3A) LV 414(C420) DLW 663(F3A) DLW 664B(F7B) NS 2650(SD70M-2)
Views:  512   Comments: 0
Railfest is jam-packed with equipment
Title:  Railfest is jam-packed with equipment
Description:  In all my years attending Railfest, this year, Steamtown had more power on line than I have ever seen! The railyard was PACKEd with stuff, and there were trains rolling all over. What a great event! So glad to see this great park starting to come back to life!!!
Photo Date:  9/5/2015  Upload Date: 9/11/2015 9:08:34 PM
Location:  Scranton, PA
Author:  Jeff Wilson
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  NKP 759(2-8-4) UP 4012(4-8-8-4) DLW 664(F3A) DLW 664B(F7B) DLW 663(F3A) DL 405(C420) DL 4118(RS3) LV 414(C420) NS 2654(SD70M-2) NKP 759(2-8-4) UP 4012(4-8-8-4) DL 405(C420) DLW 664(F3A) DLW 663(F3A) DLW 664B(F7B) LV 414(C420) DL 4118(RS3) NS 2654(SD70M-2) RDG 467(RS3) DL 4103(RS3)
Views:  600   Comments: 0
On the turntable
Title:  On the turntable
Description:  765 steams it up on the turntable at Steamtown, wowing the railfans of what is soon to come, the run of the Phoebe Snow!!!
Photo Date:  9/5/2015  Upload Date: 9/11/2015 9:17:32 PM
Location:  Scranton, PA
Author:  Jeff Wilson
Categories:  Yard,Steam,Action
Locomotives:  NKP 765(2-8-4) NS 911(SD60E) IC 790(2-8-0)
Views:  350   Comments: 0
From inside the Roundhouse
Title:  From inside the Roundhouse
Description:  A peek at 765 from inside her sister's stall in the roundhouse
Photo Date:  9/5/2015  Upload Date: 9/11/2015 9:18:39 PM
Location:  Scranton, PA
Author:  Jeff Wilson
Categories:  Yard,Steam,Action
Locomotives:  NKP 765(2-8-4)
Views:  205   Comments: 0
DLs newest Renovation project
Title:  DLs newest Renovation project
Description:  DL just finished rebuilding this unit and bringing her back to life, and she looks good. They used this engine to run yard shuttles all weekend
Photo Date:  9/5/2015  Upload Date: 9/11/2015 9:47:06 PM
Location:  Scranton, PA
Author:  Jeff Wilson
Categories:  Roster,Yard,Action
Locomotives:  DLW 426(SC)
Views:  210   Comments: 0
A shot from the 1940s??
Title:  A shot from the 1940s??
Description:  Except for the railfans with their cellphones and digital cameras, this could have easily been a shot from the first half of the 20th century!!
Photo Date:  9/5/2015  Upload Date: 9/11/2015 9:22:27 PM
Location:  Scranton, PA
Author:  Jeff Wilson
Categories:  Roster,Yard,Steam,Action
Locomotives:  NKP 765(2-8-4) DLW 664(F3A) DLW 664B(F7B)
Views:  348   Comments: 1
..and it would have looked like this...
Title:  ..and it would have looked like this...
Description:  Black & white makes this shot look like old-time Scranton...
Photo Date:  9/5/2015  Upload Date: 9/11/2015 9:23:48 PM
Location:  Scranton, PA
Author:  Jeff Wilson
Categories:  Yard,Steam,Action
Locomotives:  NKP 765(2-8-4) DLW 664(F3A) DLW 664B(F7B) UP 4012(4-8-8-4)
Views:  489   Comments: 0
Pulling up the grade...
Title:  Pulling up the grade...
Description:  The 765 pulls out of Scranton and onto the Pocono Main in Dunmore, as the run of the Phoebe Snow begins!!
Photo Date:  9/5/2015  Upload Date: 9/11/2015 9:25:39 PM
Location:  Dunmore, PA
Author:  Jeff Wilson
Categories:  Scenic,Steam,Action
Locomotives:  NKP 765(2-8-4)
Views:  176   Comments: 0
Black smoke turns to white steam
Title:  Black smoke turns to white steam
Description:  As she finally starts picking up steam, 765 passes under the signal bridge and heads toward Gouldsboro
Photo Date:  9/5/2015  Upload Date: 9/11/2015 9:27:16 PM
Location:  Dunmore, PA
Author:  Jeff Wilson
Categories:  Scenic,Steam,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  NKP 765(2-8-4)
Views:  194   Comments: 1
Gazing across Larsen Lake
Title:  Gazing across Larsen Lake
Description:  This beautiful setting makes for a great setting for steam in the Poconos
Photo Date:  9/5/2015  Upload Date: 9/11/2015 9:29:17 PM
Location:  Gouldsboro, PA
Author:  Jeff Wilson
Categories:  Scenic,Steam,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  NKP 765(2-8-4)
Views:  176   Comments: 1
Crossing the Larsen Lake Causeway
Title:  Crossing the Larsen Lake Causeway
Description:  The leaves are just beginning to lose that deep green of summer, and start to show a little red, a sign that Autumn is just around the corner
Photo Date:  9/5/2015  Upload Date: 9/11/2015 9:30:58 PM
Location:  Gouldsboro, PA
Author:  Jeff Wilson
Categories:  Scenic,Steam,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  NKP 765(2-8-4)
Views:  205   Comments: 0
Crossing the trestle at Larsen Lake
Title:  Crossing the trestle at Larsen Lake
Description:  765 Crosses the small trestle on the causeway, as the trees just start to send out little peeks of fall colors, as a sign of things to come..
Photo Date:  9/5/2015  Upload Date: 9/11/2015 9:39:41 PM
Location:  Gouldsboro, PA
Author:  Jeff Wilson
Categories:  Scenic,Steam,Track,Action
Locomotives:  NKP 765(2-8-4)
Views:  244   Comments: 0
Last shot at Larsen Lake
Title:  Last shot at Larsen Lake
Description:  This was a beautiful spot, and myself, and 2 friends were the only ones there! The station, just down the road, had hundreds of eager railfans...
Photo Date:  9/5/2015  Upload Date: 9/11/2015 9:49:38 PM
Location:  Gouldsboro, PA
Author:  Jeff Wilson
Categories:  Scenic,Steam,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  NKP 765(2-8-4)
Views:  357   Comments: 0
The Phoebe Snow rolls into town
Title:  The Phoebe Snow rolls into town
Description:  The 765 and her train roll into East Stroudsburg, and past the old control tower, to the thrill of the dozens of railfans waiting her arrival
Photo Date:  9/5/2015  Upload Date: 9/11/2015 9:51:41 PM
Location:  East Stroudsburg, PA
Author:  Jeff Wilson
Categories:  Steam,Track,Action
Locomotives:  NKP 765(2-8-4)
Views:  230   Comments: 1
Smoking it up
Title:  Smoking it up
Description:  765 chugs past us in this pretty town in the Poconos
Photo Date:  9/5/2015  Upload Date: 9/11/2015 9:53:08 PM
Location:  East Stroudsburg, PA
Author:  Jeff Wilson
Categories:  Roster,Scenic,Steam,Passenger,Track,Action
Locomotives:  NKP 765(2-8-4)
Views:  254   Comments: 1
Under the Cutoff
Title:  Under the Cutoff
Description:  765 passes under the Lackawanna Cutoff, a main line that crossed the Delaware River and into New Jersey.
Photo Date:  9/5/2015  Upload Date: 9/11/2015 9:54:59 PM
Location:  Slateford Junction, PA
Author:  Jeff Wilson
Categories:  Scenic,Tunnel,Steam,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  NKP 765(2-8-4)
Views:  286   Comments: 1
Another scene from days gone by
Title:  Another scene from days gone by
Description:  The 765 rolls under the old Lackawanna Cutoff on her way to wye at Portland, and then make her way back to Steamtown
Photo Date:  9/5/2015  Upload Date: 9/11/2015 9:56:29 PM
Location:  Slateford Junction, PA
Author:  Jeff Wilson
Categories:  Scenic,Tunnel,Steam,Passenger,Track,Action
Locomotives:  NKP 765(2-8-4)
Views:  236   Comments: 0
Back in East Stroudsburg
Title:  Back in East Stroudsburg
Description:  Now heading north, the 765 passes under Interstate Route 80 on her way back to Scranton
Photo Date:  9/5/2015  Upload Date: 9/11/2015 9:58:10 PM
Location:  East Stroudsburg, PA
Author:  Jeff Wilson
Categories:  Steam,Passenger,Track,Action
Locomotives:  NKP 765(2-8-4)
Views:  214   Comments: 1
Rolling past CP Toby
Title:  Rolling past CP Toby
Description:  765 flys by the railfans at Tobyhanna Station
Photo Date:  9/5/2015  Upload Date: 9/11/2015 9:59:23 PM
Location:  Tobyhanna, PA
Author:  Jeff Wilson
Categories:  Steam,Passenger,Track,Action
Locomotives:  NKP 765(2-8-4)
Views:  195   Comments: 0
Back in Scranton, at the end of a very long day
Title:  Back in Scranton, at the end of a very long day
Description:  the 765 returns back to Scranton as she passes under the soon to be demolished Rt. 307 bridge
Photo Date:  9/5/2015  Upload Date: 9/11/2015 10:00:54 PM
Location:  Scranton, PA
Author:  Jeff Wilson
Categories:  Scenic,Bridge,Steam,Passenger,Track,Action
Locomotives:  NKP 765(2-8-4)
Views:  197   Comments: 0

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