A sea of brown and white occupies a good portion of the yard in Altoona. Soon these hi-cubes will vanish into the history books as have so many of their family members dressed in blue.

Built as CR 6437, 3375's old number is beginning to show through nearly a decade after it's former owner vanished from the Pittsburgh Line.

Helper duty is nothing new for the '44', it has spent the better part of the last 20 years shoving trains out of Johnstown. Wearing builder number 766078-27, and having rolled out of La Grange in ... (more)

Normally when you think about ratty, rusty, faded out locos you think UP, SP, or CSX, but this SD70 seems to be an anomaly on an other wise clean looking NS roster.

The sun has broken through the clouds to illuminate this Ex Seaboard SD50, which is the lone helper waiting on the City track this morning.

CW40-8 7706 may be a little worse for ware, but it has once again reached the summit of the Alleghenies at the 'Patch of Sand', this time with Cumberland to Cincy freight Q375.

Rollin' along the broadway.

Mountains, bridges, churches and coal trains, all things that you will find plenty of in Johnstown.

Three of Erie's finest lead a load of UPS trailers west into the floodcity. In the background is one of the many former Bethlehem Steel buildings in Johnstown.

Normally some of EMD's biggest work this yard in the form of SD80MAC's on the locals out of South Fork. However, this little fellow was just visiting, and was picked up later in the week with out ... (more)

The Kings of The Mountain. For nearly the past 20 years the SD40-2's have been the only game in town when it came to helpers out of Johnstown and Altoona. However, the guard may soon... (more)

2258 and mate 6487 are no more than a couple of weeks out of the paint shop at Huntington as they work the D703 on the S&C Sub. Here the pair and GP38-2 2755 switch the Pepsi transload facility ne... (more)

C tower is empty these days, however the Pittsburgh Line in front of it is anything but. Here a local out of South Fork has finished its pick up of covered hoppers for the salt plant in Cresson an... (more)

For a good portion of its life the 3354 was assigned to coal trains bound for Pennsylvania Power and Light's Strawberry Ridge plant. However, with a change of paint, came a change in duties. Today... (more)

Most of the time 21M finds itself at the top of the pecking order when it comes to trains on the Pittsburgh Line. However, the one train that will put this hotshot in the hole doesn't have a hors... (more)