Eastbound stack train gets a shove up the west slope with the helpers splitting the position lights at Portage.
Amtrak 07T (43), the westbound Pennsylvanian, passes the eastbound PRR position signals in Portage, PA with P42DC 94 leading.
An NS helper set splits the PRR style signals in Portage Pennsylvania.
An empty coal train coast down grade as they pass thru the ex-Pennsy signals at Portage. This busy part of the NS Pittsburgh Line between Altoona and Pittsburgh.
2 pack of SD40E's helpers are on a hard push on the back of this 502 loaded coal train. The train has just hit the hard pull on the west side of the climb over the Alleghenies Mountains. The SD40E... (more)
"HELPER DESCENT" The helpers on 23Z head west down the Slope towards Portage at Jamestown Road. For this and other photos please visit my site at more)
An empty coal train drifts down grade as they past classic Pennsy signals located at Portage. This train is running from Hyco Lake, NC, back to the mine at Shire Oaks, PA.
If you look closely, you will notice that the lead locomotive has a makeshift number board.
The days of the PRR Position Light Signals are numbered. Here in probably its last winter, helper set pushes its ethanol train over the mountain past the vintage mast signals.
NS C42 sits outside of Sonman Mine waiting to go on the mainline.
8099 passes PRR signals near Portage.
An NS SD70M-2 passes the signals at Portage.
