On June 7th 2019, a NS stack train passes under the now gone Lilly PA SP signals on the Pittsburgh Line.

Eastbound at Lilly just a few weeks before the position lights were removed.

Most people have Independence Day off but it's business as usual for the crew working to assist an ethanol train up the grade through Lilly.

On one of those moody, overcast autumn afternoons, NS 9147 is slugging it out on the ascent to Gallitzin. Most regrettably, the signal bridge of Pennsylvania Railroad origin no longer stands to sp... (more)

A scene no longer possible. Under the starlit skies of this crisp April evening, a Norfolk Southern manifest rolls down the West Slope of the Alleghenies. On its way, the leading headlights shine ... (more)

As darkness closes in, the headlights of a westbound NS train illuminate the 254.7 signals and the backside of an eastbound hotshot. These position light signals of the Pennsylvania Railroad era a... (more)

A helper set of SD40-2s drifts downhill through Lilly, PA on a crisp autumn morning on the NS West Slope with colorful trees in the background.

Nothing stays the same forever. The truth is this phrase can be seen fully today in the Allegheny Mountains of Pennsylvania. During the wee hours of June 10th, 2019, Norfolk Southern signal crews ... (more)

A lengthy double stack tackles the grueling grade of the West Slope on the NS Pittsburgh line as the sun dips below the horizon and shadows grow upon the scene including the signals which are boun... (more)

A Norfolk Southern train lead by SD60E 6948 thunders upgrade as it passes under the classic PRR position light signals in Lilly PA. These signals, along with all the others on the line, are on bor... (more)

With workers working on track 3, NS 23M slowly exits the Gallitzin Tunnel and cruises past the foreman in charge of the work area in the tunnel.

Norfolk Southern SD70ACu charges upgrade under the PRR signals at Lilly, PA

With two ES44ACs for power, NS 651 rolls down the West Slope toward its destination of South Fork, PA. From there the empty coal train will be placed in the yard to be reloaded and the ACs will co... (more)

An Eastbound intermodal train passes under the soon to be extinct intermediate signals in Lilly, PA on the NS Pittsburgh Line.

Rolling through the curve at MP 254.7 on the NS Pittsburgh Line is NS 17G. The small town of Lilly, PA is in the background behind the exhaust from the locomotives. 17G operates between Morrisvill... (more)