The dynamics scream as helpers on a WB help slow the train's decent.
With 35000 horsepower on the head end and 10000 on the rear NS 7203 drifts under the PRR signal bridge at Summerhill with an empty coal train. This train bound for the South Fork branch had 7 SD8... (more)
GATEWAY TRIPPER RETURNS TO ALTOONA FROM PITTSBURGH ON SUNDAY DURING RAILFEST 2008.
Westbound passing under the ex PRR signals in town in late evening.
Fellow railfans and RP contributors Sean Hoyden and Jim Johnston watch as a helper set rolls westbound through Summerhill, PA.
Westbound autorack glides downhill knocking down the 263 signal on the approach to SO.
High and wide move NS 058 passes by the rocks just East of Summerhill. The first car behind the bulk-head flat has an Abrams tanks on it.
NS 650 pulls east to Altoona on #1 track.
Westbound 13G has an ex-Conrail Dash 8 in the lead as it passes under the PRR signal bridge at Summerhill.
A set of rear-end helpers shove a loaded coal drag through Summerhill, PA as the fall colors start to show on some of the trees on the West Slope. This coal train was dropped at Cresson, PA the ni... (more)
The rear end helpers are now along for the ride as a Westbound mixed freight rolls down the West Slope just as the fall colors start to pop out.
Just after a heavy rain NS 3342 helps pull a coal train up hill
