Q261 grinds through an autumnal Mance.

A maintenance window resulted in only two trains in six hours. The iconic post office patiently waits for the next train. The photographer not so much.

It's a chilly and cloudy fall day in southwestern Pennsylvania as the sound of screaming flanges, dynamic brakes, and a horn break the silence of the deathly quiet valley at Mance, PA on the east ... (more)

Big power in the form of 2 matched YN2 AC6000's try to hold Q358 back descending on the eastern side of Sand Patch Grade amidst great fall color at Mance, PA.

L261 makes their way through the curve at Mance on a beautiful September morning.

Csx K145-01 rounds the horseshoe curve of csx located at Mance,Pa crawling its way wb up the steep slope of sandpatch with a newer crex unit in the lead

A CitiRail unit leads two BNSF units by the old post office at Mance, PA.

Fellow RP contributor Anthony Randall and I took a Saturday day trip up onto Sand Patch and were not disappointed. Here an EMD leader does the honors on a heavy manifest. The indescribable sound o... (more)

Running slightly late, the Capitol Limited glides downgrade as it heads east past the iconic Mance Post Office on a blustery spring morning.

A morning westbound intermodal rounds the broad curve at Mance on a beautiful October day. Tree growth, both in the foreground and background, in the 20 years since this was taken makes it nearly ... (more)

A westbound intermodal rolls around the broad curve at Mance.

A westbound intermodal negotiates the broad curve at Mance amid blazing fall foliage.

In one of the more colorful falls, R353 leans into the S curve at Mance.

After a long sojourn in the coal fields of southern Illinois the Conrail Heritage Unit finally returned to the Northeast, on CSX no less. Q368 negotiates the horseshoe curve at Mance, PA on the ea... (more)

About an hour after cresting the grade at Sand Patch, loaded Virginia Power coal drag U245 finally starts its descent. The engineer has set a minimum reduction and is in dynamics to slow their des... (more)