Cresson Steel NS 8717 is one of five former-NS C40-8s stored in Cresson, PA. Though they've been parked at a scrap metal facility for the better part of a decade, they're still standing.

The Amtrak Pennsylvanian heads west through Cresson while one of the railfans (a common species in this area) looks at whatever it was that kicked up all that dust.

Nights Break: A pair of EMD SD70ACU helpers set off of the mainline just after nightfall in Cresson, PA, after having just shoved a westbound stack train up the mountain. The helper set was await... (more)

Norfolk Southern W/B Trash Train 63V on Main 2 is battling a very heavy snow storm as you can barely see the train fighting it's way though it as they begin to go down the West Slop of the Alleghe... (more)

Kicking up snow… Norfolk Southern Train 13V kicks up some snow as it takes the old Pennsy mainline through Cresson, Pennsylvania.

The snow may have stopped, but the biting wind certainly didn’t as Norfolk Southern Train 39G makes its daily run through Cresson. The train featured lots of power, including a Union Pacific eng... (more)

Old man winter has let his presence be known on the Pittsburgh Line yesterday. Here NS train 20X rolls through after a fresh blanket of snow has fallen.

A full on Rain Starts as an R.J. Corman crew with Corman Power lead 54K around the Wye at Cresson. From Cresson the train heads North for Clearfield, PA.

Distributed Power on an NS coal train pushes hard toward the Gallitzin Tunnel as an RJ Corman Job grabs a train of Covered Hoppers from the Interchange at Cresson. The Corman Crew will take the tr... (more)

Norfolk Southern empty grain train 45M (Delmarva, MD to Springfield, OH) is seen passing under Route 53 between Gallitzin and Cresson.

Eastbound manifest freight 36A (Conway, PA to Edgemoor, DE) is seen passing under Route 53 between Cresson and Gallitzin on the NS Pittsburgh Line.

Ns 8758 sit's rusting away at the local scrap yard.

Just some SD40-2s passing CP MO in Cresson, nothing special right? Well, there was. This was in 2014, well after they had been generally replaced with the ubiquitous (for the time) SD40E fleet.

Breakfast Stacks: NS 1820 leads intermodal 20X through Cresson, PA, as seen from the porch of the Station Inn B&B that has been a gathering place for rail buffs for nearly 30 years.

Oil 53: NS 7249, a helper engine for the west slope of the Pittsburgh line, helps push loaded oil train 64E down the west slope and toward Gallitzin, where the helper set will have to hold the tr... (more)