Pittsburgh, City of Bridges

A pair of F40PHM-2s appear to be getting some work done while the rest of the Meta fleet is busy dealing with the heart of rush hour.

CSX bridge to the right, CN bridge to left. Two of four train bridges side by side at Blue Island.

I call this the 'Noah's Arc' of GE widecabs, two of everything (except AC60Ws, only one of them).

Once common place in countless interlockings across America; JB's operator gives a friendly wave to the crew on a passing coal train

CSX's Greenwich Sub briefly takes on the appearance of a western coal line as V740 passes a recrewing N886. As luck would have it, I would run into the V740 on the Indiana Harbor Belt two days lat... (more)

Not to often you see a 40 year old switcher drilling spine cars, just another cool thing about 'the J.'

J-Baaaaalin'. A rare (I'm told) daylight move by the EJE is seen here passing JB Tower. JB was busy today, about 5 mins later a work train would pass followed shortly after by a BNSF coal train.

A busy line in Conrail days, the Lake Front has been reduced to only a few trains a day, making a meet particular special. Notice the dog running down the grade 10 cars back. It refused to get of ... (more)

The 'Crow' is seen here loading five bottle cars at Mittal's Cleveland blast furnace. The new Mittal sign looks very out of place on these old massive bottle cars, which in all likelihood entered ... (more)