Still in her proud but chipped Conrail Quality dress, NS "Big Mac" 7214 creeps onto the Sang Hollow main. The smokestack of Reliant Energy's Seward Generating Station towers in the background.
Shelocta trains no longer pass through here, having been re-routed onto NS's new Keystone Branch.
It's incongruous to see such decrepit rail and a 420,000 pound locomotive in the same picture.
Popping out of the Pennsylvania jungle, 7214 leads a northbound empty Shelocta train.
NS, BPRR, and Allegheny Valley power idle at Riker.
Loaded 562 passes the B&P trackage at Crrekside on the way to the power plant.
NS 7214 rolling thru Home,PA in early AM sun.
The 563 rolls down the straight away at Rochester Mills.
The 562 is disappearing into the very thick vegatation on the Shelocta Runner.
The pile of scrap rail is almost the condition of the running rail on the Shelocta Runner.
562's rear helper shoves the train on one of the 3 crossings on Chambersville Road.
This pair of 80MAC's will be the head end power for the returning empty hoppers from Shelocta.
NS 562 rests with empty hoppers while the Keystone Generating Stacks smoke it up in the background.
Photo was taken from the top of the remnants of the South Fork Dam
