York Railway Rare Move in Downtown York, PA | Street Running Train Action
On October 4th, 2023, I ran into the York Railway completing a rare locomotive move in downtown York, PA. The move consisted of transporting Maryland and Pennsylvania switcher locomotive #84 south to the interchange with the Northern Central Railway to be transported to the Stewartstown Railroad, and then picking up Pennsylvania Railroad GP10 #7580 from the Northern Central Railway to be transported to the East Penn Railroad. I began chasing this move at the point that the YRC had picked up #7580 and was grabbing #84 from the outskirts of York College of Pennsylvania to transport it south to the interchange point with Northern Central Railway. Come along and check out this special move on this rare downtown action, including a street running portion as the YRC crew returned to their mainline.
If you wanna see #84 being delivered to the Stewartstown Railroad, check out this short: • Maryland & Pennsylvani...
filmed by Nick from @NixCrossing.
0:00 Intro
0:46 Picking up MA & PA #84 from a siding by York College of PA
3:06 Traveling South to interchange with Northern Central Railway
4:08 Crossing Golf Club Dr.
5:01 After dropping off #84, YRC heads back North with #7580
6:55 Crossing over S Richland Ave
7:36 Crossing Kings Mill Rd
8:20 Running down N Pershing Ave
9:48 Outro
Music in this video:
Song: Straight Fuse
Artist: French Fuse
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The only customer on this spur line is J&K Salvage, which gets a gondola car of scrap metal hauled out once every few years. There are other branch tracks off the line into warehouses near J&K but they have all been disconnected. A few hundred feet south of J&K Salvage the line is owned by Northern Central RR and the rail has been removed as a d-mark to show the property line. Strange that a line that is so little used has had all new LED grade xing lights installed.
@xavienchatman
21 күн бұрын
J&K stopped paying NS and YRC’s bills to get train cars so they stopped giving them Gondola cars
What an awesome surprise for you! So glad you were in the right place at the right time to catch that one-of-a-kind move. And this showed up just in time for me to enjoy watching while I have my morning coffee, so nice surprise for me too lol. Hope you'll be able to do more railfanning on that line during your college years.
@PANortheasternRailfan
9 ай бұрын
Thanks Jamie! Glad I could provide some entertainment for your morning! And yes, I definitely wanna get into filming some more around York. There is a good diverse range of older locomotives still used, as well as NS, plus lots of nice old scenery almost everywhere you look. Lots of possibilities!
@JamieMakin
9 ай бұрын
@@PANortheasternRailfan awesome! That'll make for a fun few years while you have limited access to our favorite railroad.
Great catches and awesome video collin
@PANortheasternRailfan
9 ай бұрын
Thank you very much!
Cool 😊
Good morning collin how you doing
Nicely done brother
@PANortheasternRailfan
9 ай бұрын
Thanks!
What a great catch!
Awesome video 👍😎🚂🇺🇸👍
@PANortheasternRailfan
9 ай бұрын
Thank you!
So let me ask you.. how did the NCR and Stewartstown power arrive there? I was told by the rail bike folks there is a physical break in the line from NCR to YCR outside the billiard station... The NCR wants to run to downtown York eventually
@PANortheasternRailfan
2 ай бұрын
As far as I know there isn’t a break in the tracks that stops train movement; there might be a derail switch installed that can control when trains can pass over it, however, I am not sure
Excellent video, what will become of the 7580?
@PANortheasternRailfan
9 ай бұрын
It was purchased by the east Penn railroad and will mainly be used as a shoving platform for now
@RTS4018
9 ай бұрын
@@PANortheasternRailfan Interesting, Many Thanks.
Genesee and Wyoming is buying up short lines everywhere. They have the Maryland Midland now too. Is that part of the old Northern Central?
@PANortheasternRailfan
9 ай бұрын
I’m not entirely sure what railroad it was prior to being owned by York Railway other than it was originally PRR mainline
@xavienchatman
9 ай бұрын
They own a small part of the NCR trackage until you get to the Hyde on the rail trail
@erikbunty2016
8 ай бұрын
So you're saying that this particular line is York Railway from downtown York to a certain point in which it turns into Northern Central?
@frederickschulkind8431
8 ай бұрын
@@erikbunty2016 Not really. The Northern Central was a line from Baltimore to Harrisburg running through York, long owned by the Pennsy. It was washed out in Maryland in 1972. The southern end is used by the Baltimore light rail. Some excursion trains run north of New Freedom, but I don't think there is any freight service there. I think that it is still an active line north of York. I was asking if what he showed is that line.
@erikbunty2016
8 ай бұрын
And there are actually several branches of York Railway, the main one going from York (at a junction with Norfolk Southern) to Porters Sideling (joining CSX).
So what happened with locomotive 84?
@PANortheasternRailfan
6 ай бұрын
It was sold to the Stewartstown Railroad. Currently it is sitting in New Freedom on a siding waiting to be picked up one day when the line between New Freedom and Stewartstown is repaired
York Railway is the successor to the ma and pa correct?
@PANortheasternRailfan
5 ай бұрын
They did take over the tracks that were originally ma and pa