NS empty oil train 65R passes the intermodal facility in Greencastle, PA along the Lurgan Branch on a beautiful Sunday morning. Due to congestion in Altoona, NS has been routing some empty oil tra... (more)

The tranquility of the Cumberland Valley is amazing, even on a humid fall afternoon. Three horses pass a farmstead outside of Boiling Springs on their way west.

The Canadian invasion continues on NS, evident here by a CN/CP sandwich leading 11R westbound on the Lurgan Branch outside Boiling Springs. Of note, the CP unit is one of the four reactivated SD90... (more)

Three NS GEs haul a manifest through the cool early morning air around Lees Cross Roads, just outside Shippensburg, on their way toward Allentown.

Empty coal train 747 pauses on the Reading Bridge in sweet morning sunlight. Over three dozen railfans from four states were in town to photograph this train as it sat here for two and a half hour... (more)

Fellow railfan and RP contributor Austin MacDougall grabs his shots of westbound stack train 211, led by a UP GEVO, meeting an eastbound empty hopper train, with a pair of heritage units, on the o... (more)

A pair of western visitors do the honors of piloting Birmingham, AL bound manifest 15T west through Grantham just before sunset.

A rather late running 12R prepares to cross the Yellow Breeches Creek between Boiling Springs and Brandtsville on the NS Lurgan Branch. Leased CREX 1339 leads a faded ex-ATSF warbonnet and, of cou... (more)

One of several export GEs destined for Mozambique is in consist on westbound manifest 11R passing through Boiling Springs on the NS Lurgan Branch.

An old standard cab workhorse GE leads daily manifest 15T down the Lurgan in the late evening.

A single SD70ACe leads a camp car train east by MP 27 on the Lurgan Branch. He'll take the siding in Mount Holly Springs to wait for 11R.

Spring has finally began to show itself in Central Pennsylvania, evidenced by the budding trees, splendid sunshine and our first 70 degree day, but that still has not stopped the constant parade o... (more)

Westbound priority train 211 plows some newly fallen snow on the Lurgan branch passing though the 'tree tunnel' at the main entrance to Messiah College with a pair of BNSF GEs in charge.

A trio of BNSF GEs take Atlanta bound stack train 203 west down the Lurgan Branch during a raging snow storm. This was one of the many snow storms that impacted the northeast this winter. In all, ... (more)

Norfolk Southern's Pennsylvania heritage unit leads a stack train eastbound just outside Shippensburg through snow covered fields on a beautiful winter morning.