Bennett Levin's E8 PRR 5809 is seen here trailing its mate, PRR 5711, against the open-platform observation that is the first car in a special train for the Lexington Group, south of Binghamton, New York on October 13, 2007.
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After bringing her train into WUT, Penn Central 4927 is released from her train and rumbles back north into the Ivy City engine yards. Engines have to squeeze under a B&O rail bridge, that tends to flatten the pantographs. A couple of insulators on the tensioning lines help keep the catenary electrically isolated as it hangs from the metal girder bridge supporting the B&O.
There was lots of interesting stuff at Ivy City Yard and the mainline between Washington DC and New York was just to the east of the yard and it hosted a plethora of trains. Here Penn Central 4937 is heading a passenger train (I think this is a southbound). My notes say it was captured at 11:59 AM and I'm pretty sure this is a southbound train given it's on the western track and the retaining wall is in the background. The trailing pantograph was typically used to get power off the overhead. This location is only about 5 minutes out of Washington Union Station.