Holiday Railfanning In and Around Empire City Part 1

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Holiday Railfanning In and Around Empire City Part 1

Starting in early November I started adding Holiday decorations to Empire City Station and the surrounding commercial establishments to give the area the holiday spirit. The era of operations was backdated to the New York Central era (in most cases!) 

I dug deep under the layout to provide enough motive power and rolling stock in order to handle the anticipation of a holiday surge in both passenger and freight traffic.

Freight Traffic included Alco FAs, Fairbanks Morse C-Liners.

Lightning striped RS2s with an EMD GP7 .

A trio of Sharks swimming past an Alco FA-FB consist.

C-Liners with heavy tonnage cross the High Line.

Passenger trains featured lots of head end traffic. 

The REA equipment around the station and in the trains was plentiful to handle Holiday express parcels.

Several railfans set up shop near RA Tower to watch the parade of trains in and out of Empire City Station. 

Two Alco PAs bring Train # 78 The Mercury past the tower towards the station.

NYC Lightning Stripes and varnish were the order of the week!!

NYC E8s, the pride of the passenger locomotive fleet easily handled the increase in passenger traffic.

An E7A-E8A combo with a long train sit on track 2 while and Alco PA with plenty of mail and express traffic is on track 1.

See the trains in action!!!

Thanks for reading and watching!!!

Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!