The lights of a helper set bounce off the hills and glow up the tracks for those waiting at the Cassandra All-Nighter 2013 event. This helper set is destined for Johnstown to help assist a loaded ... (more)
NS 20Q with containers bound for Morrisville, PA, is getting a shove over the hill by Helper Set 6324/6302.
A pair of heritage SD70ACes lead empty oil train 65R around the curve at Cassandra. The Penn Central heritage unit is right at home leading over what was once PC trackage.
Amtrak B32-8WH #513 leads train 42, the "Pennsylvanian", east through Cassandra, PA, on December 30th, 2013, in a heavy snowstorm.
Three units lead a westbound around the curve at Cassandra, a day after winter storm Euclid that dumped almost 12" of snow on the West Slope.
NS 1008 leading NS 572 with empty coal cars.
An Empty coal drag cruises down grade as the last of the work crews picks up piles of old railroad spikes from the rail that was just replaced. This train was anything but quiet, as the engineer m... (more)
A lone NS ES40DC leads an empty wellcar train up the 2% grade in Cassandra, as work crews set up for a day of work replacing rails on the #2 track. . . taken with Nikon D7000
NS 9695 Leads around the bend with a train of trailers.
It is as cold as it looks, temperature near 10 degrees as C90 pulls ahead slowly preparing to back into the mine for loading.
A wonderful winter scene unfolds in an instant as 37A heads down the hill through Cassandra
Kicking up dry snow, helpers return east, passing through the popular local railfanning hotspot of Cassandra on the former PRR mainline to Altoona.
A pair of Altoona rebuilt SD40E's assist an eastbound stack train through Cassandra, kicking up snow from winter storm Euclid, which left nearly 12" of snow on the West Slope of the Pittsburgh lin... (more)
While an intermodal makes it's move down the hill, a distant 592 coal train with the Savannah & Atlanta heritage unit battles the slope.
