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I couldn't be completely sure , I believe it's a N5f . But the cupola doesn't look correct in my mind . The N5 sires had a lot of varying stiles .
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Well after a long vacation to the Poconos and Virginia, it was nice to get back home and take a trip down the Wildwood Branch. Great shots everyone, keep it up!

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This Cresson Lower Yard has been the most difficult so far

As this was a coal branchline storage yard, I would presume that no kersosene lantern switchstands were used, and that metal yard target switchstands were used here. Kerosene lantern switchstands must have cost allot for fuel, and would have required allot of switchman hours to replace wicks, trim wicks, and fill with kerosene, so branchline use would have been un-needed, as there was not allot of freight traffic daily.

South Fork Yard and Cresson Upper & Lower Yard(s) still need switchstands to be applied

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You are killing me here :mop:

Again trackwork , fantastic .

On the lanterns ? I had thought Pennsey's thinking was for around the clock running . And Altoona was one of the busiest yards ?

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I would think that any important track, that saw many, many trains daily, and especially saw several trains at night, these major turnouts would have kerosene lanterns ... and any track that was very seldomly used, had metal flag turnouts, like unimportant yard tracks, and branchline yards, that only saw possibly one train daily, or maybe only several trains per week. Keeping each and every turnout lit up, with kerosene lanterns would have cost a huge fortune in lamp oil, wicks, and switch maintainers time ... costing millions of dollars ... just like each and every yard track being lit up with signals ... it just wasn't done ... and allot of unimportant tracks were dark, with no signals, or switch lanterns.
 
When talking about cost of overhead to the Railroad , I would agree . But labor was vary cheap , along with kerosene . And speed of operations , or time saved by knowing what way a switch is thrown . would be a factor . I know that section of the Delmarva Peninsula had lanterns , on tracks that were lucky to see a train a day ? I've read that many were just simply left unlit , and that the lenses reflectiveness would suffice . But why lanterns instead of flags ?

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