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News photos: Northern Central’s celebration

By Dan Cupper | June 19, 2023

Railroad carries more than 500 passengers on six trains as part of weekend events

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Passenger train with replica vintage steam locomotive and 0-4-0T engine.
Northern Central Railway of York capped its 10th-anniversary celebration with a June 18 steam doubleheader pulling all available rolling stock. NCR 4-4-0 engine No. 17 (Kloke Locomotive Works, 2013) leads the much-traveled Gramling Locomotive Works 0-4-0T engine No. 85 (Vulcan Iron Works, 1928) southward up the grade at Railroad Park in Railroad, Pa., 2 miles north of NCR’s headquarters at New Freedom, Pa. Dan Cupper

NEW FREEDOM, Pa. — Northern Central Railway of York hauled more than 500 passengers on six trips during the weekend-long 10th anniversary celebration for the non-profit operation [see “Pennsylvania’s Northern Central Railway to mark 10th anniversary,” Trains News Wire, June 14, 2023]. Trips were powered by the railway’s Kloke 4-4-0 No. 17; Northern Central GP9 No. 6076; and Gramling traveling 0-4-0T No. 85. The two steam engines teamed up for a doubleheader on the weekend’s final trip.

Two steam locomotives and one diesel posed for photos
\During 10th-anniversary events at the Northern Central Railway, the railroad posed this lineup of NCR’s GP9 No 6076 (EMD, 1959), Gramling Locomotive Works Jeddo Coal Co. No. 85, and NCR’s 4-4-0 engine No. 17. Dan Cupper

 

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