A empty coal bucket heads for Shire Oaks.

Its not to common to find foreign power leading on the NS in PA east of Conway but once in a while a empty coal train will run east on the Mon line with BNSF or UP power and today was one of those... (more)

For over 100 years, the crew of a caboose would look over passing trains for defects. This task is becoming harder to photograph. But the Union Railroad in Pittsburgh still uses cabooses, making... (more)

Four clean MP15's lead a southbound slab train out of Dravosburg Tunnel.

After delivering steel slabs to U.S. Steel's Irvin Plant, URR 18 leads a coil steel train out of the Dravosburg tunnel on it's way back to the Duquesne yard.

A Union RR slab train heads up the ramp to US Steel's Irvin Plant as it diverges from the Clairton Branch at CH.

Just about every paint scheme on the Union is represented on today's Coke train, even a new "Accidents Just Don't Happen" decal on 17.

This might be the brightest engine that I've ever seen.

Cabooses from an empty URR coke train headed to the USX Clairton Plant and a loaded URR slab train headed to the USX Irvin Plant run parallel south of Dravosburg.

Union Railroad pops out of the tunnel at Dravosburg with a coil steel train in tow.

Railroad, road, and industry are all tightly packed into the narrow confines of the Monongahela valley.

Returning to the former Monongahela coal fields for another load, 563 stretches out along Route 837 and the Monongahela River. The train's last car can be seen at the top right of the photo.

The slab train's short journey is almost over, the Irvin Works are just ahead.