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Yesterday we had our third successful excursion this one to the Delaware water gap founders day festival, I missed out the other two . All the trips went well without any problems. The 3,000 horse power F-3 set was given a train of six heavy weight cars of CNJ and DL&W heritage to pull. This may sound like over kill for only six cars but the step grade in and out of Scranton is too much for one unit. Once the B-unit is road ready we can handle a larger train. I did take a few pics of the train as it pulled into the water gap station to post here. I was having so camera trouble as far as focus goes so all the pics are a little off.

    With 664 in the lead the consists pulls into Water gap station right on time.




    With the train at a stop and the passengers off to get some lunch we did a walk around of the train to check for any thing that could have happened during the trip.





    All the passenger equipment was from the steam town collection as this is really one of their excursions, we are just filling in motive power while the two Steamers form Steamtown are down for repairs. They are all 1920-ish heavy weights that are used on all the Steamtown fan trips.




This link is to the excursion schedule for this year. Although we are not listed as power for all the trips we are doing all of them except the daily shuttles in Steamtown, those are handled by the Nickle plate geep from Steamtown. <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.nps.gov/stea/planyourvisit/upload/2012-Excursion-Schedule.pdf">http://www.nps.gov/stea/planyourvisit/u ... hedule.pdf</a><!-- m -->