One word! WOW. The W&LE slab train looks like it's in HO Gauge on the massive Preers Trestle!
Three WE SD40-3's rumble over the massive trestle at Speers!
WE 391 rumbles across the massive Speers trestle with cars from CSX at Connellsville. The small bridge below is the WE's access to the Kopper's coke works.
Following every curve of the Monongahela River, #407 enters Monessen with an empty Somerset train.
I sideview of the WLE 416 power towering above.
The 100-car EB grainer is dwarfed by the huge crane and massive Speers trestle over the Mon River.
The 416's head-end power towers over the streets below in Belle Vernon, PA.
This mill was formerly owned by Wheeling Pitt but was closed when the US steel industry crashed. Koppers reactivated the coke plant here in the mid 90's. (Nikon D1)
The empty coke train was running east through heavy snow at Monessen. ex-WE 2654, exx-NS 2654, nee-SOU 2645 (built 1/65).
Two AC4400s lead a loaded coal through Monessen with the Koppers Coke Works in the right background.
Eastbound coke train with 4 GP's for power. ex-D&RGW 3085 (built 10/69).
ex-D&RGW 3085 (built 10/69).
ex-NS 2645, nee-SOU 2645 (built 1/65).