It looks like there are 3 different gauges there,what are they?
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| Posted by GregCP on September 17, 2010 | |
This is only 20 mins from my home town its is standard gauged and narrow together.
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Andy, there are only 2 gauges there. Standard and Narrow gauge. And just as a further piece of information on this photo, the concrete foundation on the right side of the photo is the base of the old water tank that used to be here for the engine house.
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| Posted by cwian on September 17, 2010 | |
From what I have heard the railroad got a grant to redo some of this and connect into the NS mainline. Can anyone confirm?
Thanks.
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First of all, forgive me for somehow managing to leave info about the DL mainline in this photo since this photo is located about 220 miles from the DL. The EBT has gotten grants for a number of things. Connecting NS, I am not positive, because what is supposed to connect with NS is called the Mt Union Connecting Railroad.
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Narrow gauge? Standard gauge? Doesn't matter - Nice track work photo!
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| Posted by jdayrail on September 17, 2010 | |
I'm dizzy and confused.
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Top of the last 24, well done my friend!
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| Posted by on September 17, 2010 | |
Thankyou all for you kind comments. Darryl, thank you for helping to get the pic description corrected and the additional info about the water tank.
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| Posted by Matt3985 on September 23, 2010 | |
Hopefully, one day the EBT steamers will one day come around that corner steaming once again into Mt Union. :( :) :D
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| Posted by on January 28, 2011 | |
The photo is facing east (RR south) near the Engine house (extant) at the southwest corner of the yard. The gauges are Standard and 3' narrow. The rail to the right is common and the the two the left are used one for each gauge. Behind the photographer is the Mount Union engine house (2 stall). Immediately to his right is the ash pit. As noted the concrete is the Water Tank (enclosed) foundation. The track departing to the left goes to the local delivery coal trestle (non-extant). The narrow gauge only to the right in the distance was the north leg of the Mount Union wye. That track now stops a little ways into the trees. The track diverging to the left in the far distance went to the Merchandise Transfer and the old transfer crane (not the Timber Transfer). If you could see ab bot further you would see the EBT main up higher which this track joins a little ways around the curve.
This track was cleared and repaired (as far as it is) by the Mount Union Connecting Railroad from 1998 until about 2004. The MUCRR has never moved a car over these tracks (or the EBT main), just a tie car, their locomotive (once, towed by a log skidder) and their hi-rail truck.
Last year a $1 million grant was alloted to the EBT/MUCRR for track rehabilitation but because the two parts of the grant were apparently allocated to the EBT and the MUCRR there became some kind of dispute between the two. As a result the grant was lost and the two are reportedly now in some kind of litigation. Meanwhile the track just sits there. At least it is in better shape than before 1998 when it was a forest.
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