Helpers 6384 and 6390 pull an empty UDM Detroit Edison train over the Port Perry Branch. It detoured over the mainline due to a rock slide on the Mon Line near Pittsburgh. The double track mainl... (more)
Union 18 shoves into Valley Yard before an awesome early Fall sunset.
Sweet power on a westbound 11a!
A southbound scrap train passes the last remaining set of postition light signals on the Union RR as it rolls under the Westinghouse Bridge.
For a brief period of time, the Union Railroad used five ex-B&LE SD38-2's in road service. Four of the big EMD's were heading south thru East Pittsburgh with an ore train from North Bessemer. Th... (more)
The Union Railroad shoves through East Pittsburgh with loads of scrap for USX's Edgar Thompson (ET) Steel Works in North Braddock. ET is located just beyond the Westinghouse Bridge in the distance... (more)
Amtrak's Pennsylvanian heads east on the Pittsburgh Line as a Conrail empty hopper train rolls west on the Port Perry Branch in the foreground.
A URR caboose is being used as a shoving platform leading this empty hopper train until the train clears the switch and goes the other way.
Shadows hide the creeping empty Union RR train clinging to the mountainside, as the Turtle Creek valley still basks in the spring sunshine.
Empty slab train 66Z rolls under the Westinghouse Bridge on which I am standing. There is quite a lot to take in from up here including the NS Pittsburgh Line, NS Port Perry Branch, the Union Rail... (more)
Long hopper trains are a staple of the Union, one of which is seen here heading back to North Bessemer and interchange with the BLE.