...was out in the Elizabethtown and Hershey area on Sunday after watching the Harrisburg Senators lose to the Akron Aeros in a baseball game by the score of 11 to 5. On the drive back home, our route took us into Elizabethtown where I had an opportunity to check out Amtrak's station renovations. Work has been completed and was very well done. In my opinion, it is one of the nicer stations to be seen along this corridor. While I was there, Amtrak's Keystone Service train 664 made its stop on the way to Philadelphia. Amtrak 936 could have used a run through the wash rack.
Next stop would be Hershey (mmm... real good chocolate!) where I managed to catch NS 10N (Conway, PA to Allentown, PA) general merchandise freight. NS 9488 and two other unidentified diesels were bringing this mixed consist east.
There were a couple of "fallen flags" mixed in this train. First one to pass by was a Rio Grande hopper wearing RBMX markings. Two boxcars from the northwest corner of the United States also passed by. The first one was still wearing Oregon Northwestern RR; and finally, bringing up this train's marker was a Seattle & North Coast boxcar.
This boxcar wore the marking "CIC 8018" which means it is now owned by Cedar Rapids & Iowa City RR. I was able to photograph that car. Looking at that image, I had to wonder if that floor-less roller coaster would make a good photo location? After all it is said elevation is everything. All in all, not a bad road trip on this go around...