2/9/24

Delmarva Central Railroad and Norfolk Southern Trains in the Snow!

CORRECTION: DCR-5 is the train symbol for the train that was working the Ellendale - Milton Line. Not HA-5, I am always seem to be thrown off by that ID.

Snow, Snow, Snow! This is what our new Delmarva Rail Productions video has in store! Train action in the snow, and heavy snow! Come watch us chase the K64 interchange with the Delmarva Central Railroad in Clayton, with ES44DC #8180 with a sweet Nathan Airchime P5! See the Delmarva Central Railroad HA-5 (extra relief train crew) battle out the heavy snow working the Ellendale to Milton Line! We have the action a switching in this Delmarva Rail Productions video!

Timestamps are located for your convenience!

0:00 - Intro/opening

0:11 - Norfolk Southern 63W crosses over Wrangle Hill Rd in Kirkwood, DE with Norfolk Southern ES44DC #7650 and AC44C6M #4444.

0:44 - Crossing Church RD

1:40 - Crossing over the US 13 / US 40 split

2:24 - Norfolk Southern K64 departs and crosses over Christiana Ave near Port-of-Wilmington with Norfolk Southern ES44DC #8180 with a superb Nathan P5, and Norfolk Southern AC44C6M #4538!

3:52 - Crossing SR-9 in New Castle

4:39 - Bear - Crossing SR 7

5:33 - passing by a field

6:28 - South of Boyds Corner

7:07 - Climbing slight grade at Townsend

8:42 - Clayton - Greenspring at Delmarva Central Railroad / Norfolk Southern Interchange. HA-1 has two SD40-2 (SD40-3's) #3506 and #3502

12:02 - HA-1 departs heading South to Harrington

14:18 - K64 departs Northbound with Norfolk Southern AC44C6M #4538 with a GEVO Style K5HLL.

15:13 - Back to Townsend

20:30 - Porter crossing the Diamond / Reybold Branch.

21:55 - Crossing SR7

22:50 - Crossing SR9 at New Castle

23:42 - Tying down at Lambson Ln

24:00 - Georgetown - Delmarva Central Railroad DCR-5 (relief Crew for HA-3) heads through Georgetown with Delmarva Central Railroad GP40-2's #2501 and 2502

24:59 - Passing through Redden

26:00 - Ellendale - Fetching Propane cars and to work the Milton - Ellendale Industrial Track (Milton I.T.) to deliver needed propane for Baker's Petrol.

33:14: Crossing over Spicer Rd, Paralleling State Route 16. SR-16 parallels most of the Milton I.T. track starting at Spicer Rd and branches off at Sawmill RD. Speeds are only limited to 10MPH for the train so its east to get to spots multiple times

34:31 - Crossing over the backroad of Orchard Rd. As you can tell by how the back roads looks, roads are becoming to get slick. At this point, we will head to one more spot before calling it quits.

35:18 - Working on the short siding at Saw Mill Rd, coupling to back of the two propane tankers to shove back to Baker's. This was our last spot due to road conditions deteriorating. Also back roads were our only choice to get home, so we had to get home safely before it got worse.

40:45 - this tanker screams written on it "GOAL!" such a GOAL to get a train in the falling snow after waiting years!

42:05 - End of Video!!

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