A pair of helpers shove manifest freight 17G, passing the head end of intermodal 16N on the mountainside just west of Horseshoe Curve.

Locomotives:
NS 17G:
NS 6332 SD40E
NS 16N:more)

A helper set shoves the rear of a coal train up the Allegheny Mountains while passing under a PRR signal bridge in this ten second exposure.

A helper set holds back a heavy manifest in less-than-desirable weather. Nearby, a car descends the hill, passing the rear end of the manifest train.

The NS local to Erie, C65, waits in Dean Siding for a recrew before they head back west to Conneaut.

Locomotives:
NS 6353 SD40E

NS high & wide special special 054 shoves back from the Lake Erie District and on to the Youngstown Line, preparing to head south, passing by one of the few Nickel Plate signals left on the line. ... (more)

CP 686 turns down the IHB with an NS SD40E leading.

NS SD40E 6336 leads CP 686 east through LaGrange, ducking under the old BN as well as Ogden Ave.

NS 6336 awaits further assignment in Bensenville Yard.

SNAKE OIL An eastbound loaded oil train glides carefully down Horseshoe Curve in perfect light. It was a battle between Sun and clouds on my visit. In the end, the Sun won and this photo was the ... (more)

An eastbound auto rack train grinds down the mountain towards Altoona around the world famous horseshoe curve.

The NS local to Erie works the CSX-NS interchange at the Erie yard with SD40E 6353. A military train passes by in the background on the CSX mainline as it heads east.

Locomotives:
NS 63... (more)

A pair of Norfolk Southern SD40E locomotives exit the west end portal of the Allegheny Tunnel as they provide extra power for a westbound trash train from New Jersey.

Norfolk Southern extra intermodal train i32 (eye 32) heads south by a platform loaded with railfans providing a nice surprise of classic EMD's pulling a road intermodal train in 2015.

A pair of SD40E helpers shove a unit tank car train past the color poisiton lights at Portage.