534 grinds upgrade and leans into the curves at Lilly as a light set of helpers drift downgrade under the classic Pennsy's.

The helper of 25Z gets framed within some beautiful fall scenery at Cassandra.

Sand gets dumped on main 1 and heat pours out of these units as this heavy 538 crawls at walking speed up the mountain amidst fall color at Cassandra. The helpers can barely be seen through the h... (more)

Now a non functioning tower, then ALTO tower and it's operator watches as a light set heads under the old and the new signal bridge at the ALTO interlocking.

The Capitol Limited, P030, clears the still standing B&O signal CP-FIELD on the P&W sub, the AVR connection between NS and CSX rails.

After holding at Center Street for a couple of Eastbounds, Q389 heads West across the McKeesport Wharf.

3002, once belonging to one odd looking GE BQ23-7, now is assigned to a new GEVO. All decked out with boxcars! N73 crawls down the street in West Brownsville adorning the new scheme.

Q352 throttles up out of the foggy abyss of McKeesport heading east towards Cumberland, MD.

Conrail Lives.

After a pretty much straight shot from Bridgeport, NS 507 finally gets a rest after running across PA tied down under Route 51

All morning and part of the afternoon I was greeted with overcast skies, as evident in the background. I was expecting much of the same for the 507, which had SOU 8099K on the point. As soon as ... (more)

After a few switch moves, 643 finally heads down the reopened Westland Branch. Just under a mile from this location, this train came off the mainline that is passing UNDER. A grueling grade off ... (more)

The recently reopened Westland Branch carries 643 as it heads down into Markwest.

On a very frigid, frosty, and down right cold January early morning, a NS crew boards the empty CSX coal train at Newell Yard. The train will snake through the Mon Valley, across from California ... (more)

The unmistakeable landmarks of Southern PA stand tall as Q358 with helper ahead grinds it's way up the grueling grade of Sand Patch.