6315 pushes 66Q through the PRR lights at Summerhill

Eastbound helper set drifts trough CP-SLOPE two months before the interlocking was retired as part of the Altoona terminal resignaling project.

One for the history books. NS 17G is the last train to pass intact PRR/PC signals at CP ALTO and CP SLOPE. Also of note is Tower operator Ron Heiss (on the right) walking across track 3. He would ... (more)

All she wrote. On June 16, 2012, shortly after 08:00, ALTO and SLOPE were removed from service and the new interlocking of COVE Jct and ALTOONA were put in effect. At 12:03 the block ope... (more)

NS Helper Engine 6319 passes one of the other new signals at CP Works on the signaled siding heading into the yard. In a matter of a few days, all remaining PRR signals through town will be a thin... (more)

6311 holds back a heavy eastbound under the PT245 signals

Another pair of SD40Es shove a string of JB Hunt containers on the rear of eastbound stack train 26T up the grade towards Horseshoe Curve in the early afternoon. An empty coal train sits in a sidi... (more)

A pair of SD40Es assist westbound stack train 25Z west on the assault of the Allegheny mountains. The train is passing the doomed ALTO tower on a gorgeous spring morning. The 6324 began its life a... (more)

SD40E NS 6322 shoves hard up the mountain

NS Empty Herzog Ballast Train 931-13 with NS 6341, NS 6338, NS 9436, NS 8425 and NS 8737 for power heads South through downtown Sunbury, PA on the NS Buffalo Line. This train had just come off the... (more)

A helper set gets ready to push on the rear of this heavy westbound past Alto in quite a snow squall. Thanks to Brad Morocco for the lighting set up.

With a total of 7 SD40E's for power on the this ballast train, NS 926 possibly the last train photographed under the Position lights at the Brick yard work up hill towards the summit at Gallitzin.... (more)

The afternoon shadows grow long as the tail end of 262 passes the helpers assisting 10A down the mountain that are about to roll under the position lights at mp245.