Eastern Railroad Discussion > Over / under oil thru Philly

If you like your trains sloooooow.....this video is for you!
Here's an empty oil train crawling through Philadelphia as a loaded train arrives from the north/west.
Lots of oil moving through town these days
 

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nice Jon ... when was that video taken today ??? ... the reason i ask if your vid was Tues I was driving wb down the Schuylkill around 11:00am and i saw an empty oil train (didn't see the power) rolling through Belmont heading towards CP-River and i saw that another oil train, a loaded K train for PES was waiting on the Schuylkill River Bridge at CP-River ...

at first i thought the train with the NS power and GO unit on the B&O was an empty K train from PES then i was wondering if it was an 67W from Eddystone ... then i thought with 3 units my guess was that it was an empty K train from PES ... Eddystone trains usually only rate 2 units plus Septa's window for their Airport Line is between 12:30am and 4:40am but on rare occasions NS has utilized a 3 unit power consist on the Eddystone trains ...
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when i was returning home eb around 5pm i saw a standing oil train across the stone bridge at Belmont ... didn't see the power so i don't know what direction it was traveling ...

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THis was on Sunday - presumably the backlog of trains after the the maintenence embargo lifted on CSX

Slow indeed, looks like 5 mph to me. Nice cacth to get an empty and loaded oil train.
John