Clean Up, Track 3...

At 8:40 PM on the evening of July 5, 2019, westbound manifest 34A derailed the first 11 cars as it entered the main arc of Horseshoe Curve. The three locomotives... (more)

Lightning Up the Signals

A series of severe thunderstorms rolled through Pennsylvania on May 28, 2019. Dodging hail and tornadoes do to keep me away from this classic location in its... (more)

Over the Top

20R inches over the top at CP AR (Allegheny Ridge) in Gallitzin, PA. A telephoto does wonders to show off the grade on both sides of the summit here.

Summerhill Soliloquy

21E, finally underway after a long wait at MG for the PTC gang to clear up MO, rolls through Summerhill. This is probably my last chance to photograph anything r... (more)

Can Opener on the Curve

21E crawls by the popular west overlook on Horseshoe Curve with a little Conrail blue in command.

Worse for Wear

Eastbound mixed freight 16N crawls by AR Tower as it prepares to descend 'The Slide.' The tower, one of three still standing on the mountains between Altoona and Johns... (more)

A Classic's Demise

It was a dreary morning, appropriate for this scene. The signal bridge at milepost 225 on the old PRR Middle Division hangs in the air as work crews guide it along... (more)

The Last Hurrah?

An original negative dated April 15, 1956 (63 years to the day of this submission), original photographer unknown, from my personal collection:

Pennsylva... (more)

Tight Quarters

The NS OCS, freshly painted and renumbered to make room for more AC44C6M rebuilds, rolls under the 218 automatics at Birmingham, PA south of Tyrone. The former PRR Br... (more)

Their Mortal Remains

The NS Office Car Special descends 'The Slide' between the summit at AR Tower and Bennington Curve, passing the last notable remnant of the iron furnace town for... (more)

Heads or Tails?

While 67Z was stopped at CP MO to cut his helper off, I booked it into Lilly. An eastbound manifest came out of the cut at Cassandra to the west, and being blocked se... (more)

Boring History

NS 1800 pokes out of the Allegheny Tunnel on its way west.

This tunnel is actually the oldest of the three bores through the summit of the Allegheny Escarpm... (more)

You'd Think I Would Have Learned My Lesson

...after last year's adventure to the west leg of Horseshoe Curve in the snow, right?

Wrong.

In spite of 4 inches of ... (more)

Bring It On Home

In the middle of the night on Feb 12 2019, a special Norfolk Southern move rolls by the 1849 Pennsylvania Railroad station at Lewistown Junction. The star of the sho... (more)

That's a New One

From my understanding of the resignaling project, SIP boxes are replacing intermediary signals on the Pittsburgh Line. But 216.3 (Union Furnace) was never a signal, ... (more)