Clattering along at a good pace on NS trackage the daily northbound train is headed for home rail on up the valley. Note the missing front fairing on the dynamic brakes.

Hot diggity! Every once in a while fortune shines on idiots. We showed up here and there they were taking the northbound interchange out. From NYC to PC to CR to a shortline like so many of the... (more)

Caboose in 2024 LBR 551980, an ex-BN caboose brings up the rear on an 054 high-wide train carrying telephone poles and an empty Schnabel car. This train was restricted to 25MPH the whole w... (more)

Southerners Headed Home NS 8099 and 1069 lead a Georgia-bound Office Car Special through some not-so-ideal weather. In a few days, they'll arrive in Augusta, GA, where Norfolk Southern exe... (more)

A Norfolk Soouthern mixed freight rounds the corner in Tyrone, PA.

Street Storms: North Shore 2012 brings the Nittany & Bald Eagle local out of the interchange yard with NS in Tyrone, PA as it runs the streets in downtown Tyrone, as it tries to outpace the bloo... (more)

The Bald Eagle Branch is far quieter than the main show on the Pittsburgh Line on the outskirts of town, and while it's exciting to catch a road freight running down the middle of the street, Tyro... (more)

Amtrak 42, the Pennsylvanian, pulls into its stop at Tyrone.

An empty coal train comes off the NBER in heavy snowfall as they cut through Tyrone.

The last seconds of the evening sun hit the cab of the C42 local as the train returns to Altoona.

Empty trash train 64J snakes through the curves at Tyrone at last light behind an SD80MAC leader.

23Z rounds the curve at Tyrone near sunset.

NS 955 heads around the sweeping curve at Tyrone this afternoon behind the 4 Fs and several business cars. This train was running from Delaware to Chicago on a tour of what was the primary oil tra... (more)

A Dash 9 leads 21M around the curve in Tyrone on a cool October afternoon.

NS 537's conductor tosses Peppermint Patties to some excited youths in Tyrone, PA as the train proceeds down Washington Avenue on the NBER with a cut of coal empties bound for the ex-Monongahela.