A daylight freight train on the NEC? That's enough to get me out in the snow. SD80MACs on the point? That's enough to get me to stand there in the snow for an hour waiting for it.
As sharp looking a unit as has ridden the rails in many years, Conrail's magnificent SD80MACs were powerful beauties. The 4110 and 4114 lead a 159 car eastbound manifest through Huntingdon, PA on ... (more)
NS 22V (Harrisburg, Pa.-Elizabeth, N.J.).
Norfollk Southern 191 arrives at Waynesboro, GA (Winthrope) to switch the yard before continuing on towards it destination of Macon GA.
C49 switches out power at Altoona, after arriving from South Fork with 7 SD80MACs.
Empty trash train 64J snakes through the curves at Tyrone at last light behind an SD80MAC leader.
C47 heads to South Fork with five SD80MACs for power in the midst of the afternoon rush in Altoona.
565 out of Huff heads through Conpit with a pair of SD80MACs for power.
The C53 crew brings 6 SD80MACs out of Juniata and onto the Pittsburgh Line for a short trip to South Fork.
Westbound intermodal.
After taking the siding to meet eastbound 36T, NS 309 gets back on the move west through Rock Glen, New York with SD80MAC 7216 leading the charge.
Two now-scrapped SD80MACs bring up the rear of a train, grinding around the curve in Lilly. There were two more 80s on the head end...these were the days, it turns out!
An SD80MAC leads Q190 eastbound on Conrail Shared Asset's Lehigh Line.