Three SD80MAC's are struggling hauling coal up the west slope as they approach the Route 53 bridge elephant style.
A great catch to end a day of railfanning was NS local C51 with five SD80MACs moving engines between the Cresson engine house and Altoona Yard.
Early morning finds a extremely packed and fog covered Cresson Engine House. There was 13 SD80macs 1 SD60I and 2 helper sets sitting around the servicing area with 4 more engines on there way from... (more)
No less than ten SD80MACs were serviced the night before and now relax in the seemingly endless light snowfall...
Showing her age. The late afternoon winter sun highlights the scars symbolizing the rough life of SD80MAC 7205. Built 13 years ago, you can still make out its former Conrail number, 4109, o... (more)
The last car is loaded at Rosebud Mine 78 on NS's Southfork Secondary, the only thing needed now is a crew to take it up to Southfork.
3 80 Mac's ease coal train C90 from South Fork downgrade and around world famous Horseshoe Curve on a chilly fall morning.
Dress blues. The main reason for our Cresson trip (besides the snow) was to see if we could find the last two blue ex-Conrail SD80MACs. When we arrived in Cresson on Saturday afternoon, we ... (more)
Three 80 Mac's have brought coal train C90 from South Fork as they now ease around horseshoe curve 4 miles west of Altoona.
A loaded Shelocta train heads up the newly constructed line north of Saltsburg.
A trio of MACs snake a train of new hoppers above W Carson Street with Pittsburgh's south side in the background.
Two NS 80mac's still dressed in Conrail livery pop out of a thick tree canopy and into some late afternoon spring sun, while pulling 100 loads of coal to a power plant at Shelocta, Pennsylvania.
At dusk, a northbound NS Shelocta coal train crosses the B&P's Allegheny River Bridge
Old and new EMD's meet during a thunderstorm at the old P&S station in West Kittanning. A pair of ex-Conrail SD80MAC's on NS 563 pass B&P GP9 626
