An oddball pairing of an NS SD70M and an IC SD 40-2 team up on CSX Q359.

What a wild lash up! Featuring a Dark Future GP15-1, Bright Future SW1001 and a stealth RDMT. The plack in the foreground marks the spot where Frick's Pinkerton guards were attacked by locked out ... (more)

There is more than one way to move coal up the Mon Valley! Thanks RAS

4708 leads a coal train across the Mon on CSX's former P&LE through truss bridge.

A coal drag rumbles across the Mon into Munhall, heading west for Pittsburgh.

Industrial relics provide an interesting foreground as K381 crosses the Mon with a long train of coke.

Q137 rolls west, crossing the placid waters of the Monongahela River.

I don't pay much attention to lease rosters - and this proves that I should. The lead unit still wears its original SDP40 carbody - it was built as Great Northern 323 in 1966!

This big ugly thing looks like the top of a Mercury capsule, but was part of USS Homestead Works.

This vantage point was once a steel mill, today it is a Lowe's parking lot. The old Carrie Furnace is visible at the extreme right, this blast furnace used to provide molten steel for the Homeste... (more)

It's about 8pm as Q297 bridges the Monongahela and enters Munhall.

Coal train from the Mon Branch.

Crossing the Mon River with loaded Clairton coke, bound for Detroit.

A former Conrail unit in the new scheme leads S389 across the Monongahela River.

My first new CSX SD70MAC leads the Monday section of Q133 across the Monongahela River from Rankin into Munhall.