Amtrak 42, known as Amtrak 04T, also known as the eastbound Pennsylvanian, charges east past the PRR signals that stand guard at Portage, PA on a cold February morning.

A SD70M-2 leads NS 20T past the PRR signals that guard MP 258.8 in Portage, PA. NS would later place all of the SD70M-2s into storage in 2019 as part of their precision railroading plan. The PRR s... (more)

An Eastbound loaded unit oil train grinds up the West Slope just East of Portage. The signal in the foreground has stood on the Jamestown Road Bridge for decades. Within a week or two it will be r... (more)

Here is something that is a rarity on the NS Pittsburgh Line. A wide cab unit in pusher service. The weekend I was there a pair of SD60E's were being used alongside the normal SD40-E's as pushers... (more)

An Eastbound coal drag passes under the soon to be extinct signals at Jamestown Road.

As the former PRR signal stands guard, NS 26T grinds up track 1 through Portage, PA with a long stack train in tow.

With a helper ahead, NS 10G blasts through Portage, PA with the ex-PRR signals standing guard.

With a former Conrail locomotive in the lead, NS 10A blasts through Portage and past the former PRR signals in town.

Running west on track one, SD80MAC 7215 leads NS C47, a loaded coal train. With the cab signal project moving west on the Pittsburgh Line, the MP 258 signals at Portage have only a few weeks left ... (more)

An SD60E leads NS 35A by the MP 258 signal masts at Portage, PA.

A set of Norfolk Southern SD40E helpers glide down the slope at Portage PA. These signals, along with all the other class PRR signals on the line, are quickly disappearing, as PTC installation cre... (more)

Norfolk Southern train 19G passes the WB signals at MP 256 on the Pittsburgh line. These signals, along with all the other class PRR signals on the line, are quickly disappearing, as PTC installat... (more)

Norfolk Southern train 40T's helper set works hard to push the massive loaded unit corn/feed train up the mountain on the Pittsburgh line. The train is seen here under the 'bridgnal' signals at mp... (more)

A four pack of SD40E helper locomotives shoves loaded coal drag 590 up the West Slope of the Allegheny Mountains past the soon to be extinct color position lights at Portage.

On a sunny afternoon, NS #7010 leading NS 509 splits the Portage, PA intermediates. SD60E's are going to be the new SD60M/I's on these coal trains as they are being modified and put into regular s... (more)