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Photos & Videos Photos Photo Galleries Elmira Branch photos by Jim Shaughnessy

Elmira Branch photos by Jim Shaughnessy

By Angela Cotey | October 19, 2015

| Last updated on December 4, 2020

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View additional photos from the Pennsylvania Railroad's Elmira Branch, featured in "The Shaughnessy Files" in Fall 2011 Classic Trains magazine.

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Hippos lend a hand
Two PRR class I1 2-10-0's -- Hippos -- lean against the cabin car of a coal train en route from Williamsport, Pa., to Sodus Point, N.Y.
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Switching at Sodus Point
Decapod 4524 noses toward a string of coal hoppers at Sodus Point. The 2-10-0 will pull out six cars and shove them onto the dock for loading into a lake steamer.
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Look at all those wheels!
Pennsy I1 4414 rolls up the Elmira Branch beside U.S. highway 14 with more coal for Sodus Point.
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Hippo beside Lycoming Creek
An I1 makes slow progress with a northbound coal train near Bodines, Pa., in 1956. The lower portion of the Elmira Branch hugged the bank of Lycoming Creek.
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Not just coal
Though coal was the major commodity on PRR's Elmira Branch, it was not the only one. Hippo 4315 attacks the grade south of Troy, Pa., with a northbound mixed freight train.
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Hippo helpers running light
After pushing a coal train north, two I1's run light back to Williamsport for another assignment.
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A touch of class
A pair of PA passenger diesels, looking elegant in Pennsy pinstripes, assist an I1 2-10-0 in pushing yet another coal train north on the Elmira Branch.
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Hippo on the coal pier
With timbers creaking beneath it, a Hippo eases hopper cars out onto the coal pier at Sodus Point as the self-unloading steamship Fontana is loaded.
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    March 29, 2023 at 1:52 pm

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      March 29, 2023 at 1:53 pm

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