Lilly, PA

West bounder  hurries down hill through Lilly with a UP in the power lineup. These shots are shot from the road bridge on March 31, 2006. I have been coming to Lilly for years and never used this bridge. A fellow railfan from UK introduced me to it. Mick and I spent the afternoon on the bridge. East bounder  crawls up hill through Lilly with a BNSF and a primer in the power lineup. These shots are shot from the road bridge on March 31, 2006. West bounder  races down hill through Lilly while an east bounder struggles up to Cresson. These shots are shot from the road bridge on March 31, 2006. East bounder  eases through the village of Lilly toward Altoona. Around noon is a good time to shoot here because the line is close to East-West at this point. The signal bridge is catchy too. These shots are from October 21, 2000. West bound  freight heads toward Johnstown and Pittsburg. Lilly has a detector so you have some help. NS has changed the detectors. They now call the mile posts and not the location. West bound  Amtrak hurries through the East side of Lilly. This was a great weekend for photos. The weather was perfect. But we were about a week late on the leaves. 10/21/00 West bound  coal drag passes our spot with a Conrail Dash-8 on the headend. We kept bumping into the same railfans all weekend at most spots we chose. This is one of the few spots we had to ourselves. West bound coal drag plows up the snow. We saw alot of coal trains this weekend as opposed to October when we saw very few. This set was shot Jan. 27, 2001. A West bound TV train plows through the snow. It was really coming down, which is exactly what we had hoped for. East bound ducks under the signal tower. East bound  again only close up and personal.

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Last Update: 04/03/2006
Ed Houk