April Showers NS 22X rolls east down the hill into a severe thunderstorm. If you look closely, you can see NS 8025, the Monongahela heritage unit third out.

NS 11K heads eastbound on the Pittsburgh Line, seen here rounding Horseshoe Curve.

Two ex Erie Lackawanna SD45-2s help an intermodal train up the grade nearing the famous Horseshoe curve. It was a fine autumn day and the fall colors were great. April 1st is Conrail's 48th birthd... (more)

Bluebirds and Dandelions NS 3982, a former CIT Rail Leasing AC44, awaits repairs alongside UP 6052, an AC44 that NS wrecked in 2023.

John Deeres NS 8099 and 1069, the Southern and Virginian heritage units, are staged outside the Juniata misc. shop where the Office Car Train is stored. Tomorrow morning, they'll deadhead ... (more)

Whole Lotta Blue PSU 2020, Penn State's donated SD60I sits in its new resting place outside the Railroaders Museum roundhouse. Looming overhead is a preserved PRR position light tower dona... (more)

Better Than 194 Steps. The World Famous Horseshoe Curve in Altoona, Pennsylvania is a busy thoroughfare for both Norfolk Southern and Amtrak. Home to a park in the middle of the curve that ... (more)

Heading east, and upgrade, is a Norfolk Southern Railway manifest, with Dash 9-44CW 9932 and SD70ACe 2708 up front. Assisting this train over the mountain are NS SD40-2s 3362 and 3348. (Altoona,... (more)

Norfolk Southern W/B Manifest Train 39G is rounding the World's Famous Horseshoe Curve under threatening skies with a lot of brand new Norfolk Southern gondolas in tow

Norfolk Southern W/B Manifest train 11K rounds the world's famous Horseshoe Curve in Altoona, PA as the big 6 axle EMD SD70ACU's help on the rear howling uphill

Norfolk Southern W/B Manifest train 11K rounds the world's famous Horseshoe Curve in Altoona, PA as another snow storm rolls in grinding up the East Slope

Rainbow Era Throughout 2023, and now 2024, Norfolk Southern has experienced systemwide power shortages thanks to their 2019 locomotive purge. At the end of the year, after leasing a small ... (more)

Curve Help: A pair of EMD SD70ACUs work their way westbound up the west slope of Horseshoe Curve, as they head west to shove a train eastbound. On the right side of the frame, the headend of mani... (more)

Curve Meets: Manifest train NS 18N and loaded coal train NS 590 race side by side one another, as they round the bend at Horseshoe Curve, as both trains prepare to enter into Altoona at daybreak.

Ns 8688 and other's sit around Altoona Pa.