21Q helpers give a push under the PRR signals at Derry
Having finished their assistance of truck train 23M a pair of SD40-2 helpers prepare to cut off the headend just east of CP C.
Twilight is the best time to watch trains at the Curve - you're the only one there and you can hear the echoes of trains much further away...
An eastbound stack train glides downgrade on track two at the MP 238.4 signal bridge with a pair of former Conrail SD40-2s bringing up the rear as the last rays of sunlight close in on Altoona.
Another helper crew with NS 3372 & 3357, head up hill and around the curve at Mineral Point, Pa., shoving hard on the rear of loaded grain train 44T.
NS coal train 518 climbs the Blairsville Industrial Track towards the Indiana 22 Dumper as coal train 590 passes underneath. The PPLX hoppers are on the Conemaugh Line in a stretch of track known ... (more)
The rear of train 518 approaches CP ALUM on the Conemaugh Line. On the right is the steep grade of the Blairsville Industrial Track which leads to the Indiana 22 Dumper.
Rear end helper is out of the hole holding back a loaded coal bucket, up ahead is the last bunch of cars on an autorack that is passing, and just a few minutes earlier, all three trains were passi... (more)
NS 578's helper power meets perfectly with 20W's headend at Carney Hill.
A quartet of SD40's shove the rear of a coal drag at Cassandra, Pa. on Monday May 7, 2007.
A pair of clean helper engines hold back westbound 11A as it descends the West Slope
A four-year old railfan exchanges waves with the helper conductor shoving 11A through Benny.
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