The slow moving coal drag in grinding uphill in near white out conditions as a westbound stack train amplifies the snowy situation...
The latest to enter the 40E rebuilds and the helper pool, NS 6332 flies up the hill under the 254 signals about to go lend a "helping" hand up the east slope of things.
Somewhere behind that "sonic boom" is a train....
MACs up the hill.
A empty hopper train blast west through Lilly.
7216 died just east of here, luckily, in front of the engine house at Cresson.
NS 7206 shoves on the tail end of a loaded welded rail train as they slowly work there way through Lilly. The maintainers in the truck are following the progression of the rail being laid.
Another SD40E helper set brings up the rear of eastbound stack train 20T in Lilly, PA.
NS 7206 dropping rail at Lilly PA
An 8-40CW, still wearing its Conrail Quality paint, leads a D9-40CW with a westbound stack train through Lilly..
Pushers on the rear pass the greaser heading East past Carney's Crossing.
The shot I was waiting for the whole weekend finally came late in the day on Sunday: Conrail locomotives crawling up track one at Lilly with a long train in tow!!!
A trio of Dash 9's blast up track 2 with a western visitor and a high priority trailer train in tow...
