A beautiful 4th of July brings us this beautiful overhead view of Horseshoe Curve as an Eastbound container train makes it way down the grade.

Back in the days before it became a national park with rangers ensuring your eternal safety, one could access the backside, the outer portion of the Horseshoe Curve. Doing so in August of 1986 en... (more)

NS 21M gets ready to make its assault on the Allegheny Grade

Once part of a Tuscan fleet that pulled varnish on the Great Broad Way, this Penn Central E8 has now been stripped of many parts and languishes in Conrail’s Altoona dead line. As soon as its two... (more)

One of Conrail's 35 ex-PC SD38s fresh out of the Juniata Locomotive Shop paint shop switches Rose Yard.

Amtrak Pennsylvanian arrives at Altoona.

A line of SD70ACU locomotives sit in NS Altoona Yard, waiting to be assigned DPU duties.

NS 5631 and 5636 doing switch jobs in NS Altoona Yard.

Two NS SD70ACU locomotives went westbound through downtown Altoona.

Conrail 3323, 3639 stenciled CR but still in Reading Lines colors, and 3230 lead an intermodal west around Horseshoe Curve. PRR 1361 K4s is still on display at the Curve.

The new wide cab face of the mountains shoves a long 21M around the curve and over the hill.

Amtrak P42DC 119 pulls the Pennsylvanian 43 out of Altoona and up the grades of the Appalachians, only running an hour behind schedule.

NS intermodal train appoaches downtown Altoona.

On the final day of May, 35A departs Altoona with 6 engines taking their final ride on NS rails. Dash-9s 9190 and 9144 are heading to GE-Fort Worth for rebuilding in AC44C6Ms. SD75Ms 2801, 2803, 2... (more)