Fall on Cranberry Grade. A total of four AC locomotives ( two leading, two pushing) handle the standard consist of 80 - 286k hoppers into the 2.8 percent grade of Graveyard Curve.
Regular afternoon autoracks Q217 and Q249 are no strangers to having interesting power. Case and point with today's 217 with an ex-Conrail C40-8W and trailing SD40-2.
Cumberland, MD, October, 1989 - A colorful set of road power pulls a general freight past Mexico Tower and out of the Mexico Yard in Cumberland, headed for Brunswick, MD and points east. One of th... (more)