Altoona Railfest

Railfest 2007: Saturday, July 7
	PRR 5711 and 5809 are on their way to Altoona as Amtrak special 975. Here they fly through Tipton.
	The train has arrived at Altoona from Philadelphia and Harrisburg.
	Pennsylvania Railroad EP-22 5711.
	This is the first I've seen this MKT car. I heard someone say it is owned by Juniata Terminal as well.
	The Kitchi Gami Club, Warrior Ridge, and Pennsylvania are on the rear of the train.
	In addition to four vintage cars, Railfest barrowed a train of Septa cars and one Amtrak car.
	PRR 5711 and 5809 are probably the premier excursion diesels in the USA.
	Alto tower and the eastbound signal bridge without a train.
	Amtrak special 975 is passing famous Alto tower
	An angle at Alto.
	Eastbound on track 2 at the Brickyard crossing with a SD70M-2 leader.
	Amtrak 975 is in dynamics going down the mountain.
	MKT 403 brings up the rear on this run.
	Black helpers at the rear of a westbound.
	True blue SD60I's on a westbound PPLX hopper train. The leader is EMD-built, while the trailing unit is Juniata-built.
	This former Reading RR SW1001 could be going to Juniata.
	The rest of the power.
	The finaly excursion run of the day is rounding the curve.
	An HO scale Spirit of Conrail poses at the curve.
	The loaded westbound trash train has headend helpers.
	Westbound autoracks at Cresson with an ES40DC leading.
	Finally the sun pops out for the E8's.
Railfest 2008: Saturday, July 12
	The famous E units are back once again.
	A smaller croud than usual greets the shiney classics as they pull their train around the curve.
	Here was the biggest surprise this weekend. Few that looked at this beast knew what it was. It's a Railpower RP14BDB, cabless remote genset switcher.
	NS was kind enough to put two F units on display at the museum.
	The pair was tied down on the turntable.

	NS 4271 looking good.

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