NS 591 Tied down at Peters Creek waiting for a crew to go south.

561 leaves a parked empty in it's snowy dust racing towards Shire Oaks through the Peters Creek interlocking.

URR 66CL2 departs Clairton and passes 4 crew as they start there evening trip through the Mon Valley.

An empty coke train returning from the ET Works in Braddock Pa to the coke plant in Clairton Pa. The two facilities are approx. 10 miles apart. This process is repeated several times a day.

Union Railroad MP15 no. 19 pulls a empty coke train.

URR 9 shoves a cut of empty coke cars into #2 coke battery in Clairton.

URR 7 slowly pulls over the scales in Clairton with a cut of coke from #1 and #2 coke unit.

With a fresh crew on board, the Bluebird waits to head south into Shire Oaks with an empty coal train.

1070 has just pulled down to Peters Creek where it will be tied down and await a new crew.

561 slows for a stop at Peter Creek where it will be tied down till a new crew comes on duty.

With a steady rain falling we find NS 8100 sitting tied down in Clairton next to the USS Clairton Coke works on a wet and cold May night.

Only a mile outside of the Clairton yard limits, 66 is already in run 8 and doing less them 10mph as the engineer tackles the steep grade out of the Mon valley with 5 MP15's and a heavy coke train... (more)

A pair of big SD80MACs pass the USS Coke Works at Clairton.

As winter brings cold and snow it also brings color to the Mon valley in the form of BNSF power. During the winter months BNSF power will be found on coal trains that load at the mines in southern... (more)