NS transfer to PAL

The 533 emits a plume of exhaust into the night sky while throttling up to bring a string of Amfleets out to the yard as an inbound Northeast Regional passes on the adjacent track. Note the Union... (more)

One of Union Railroads MP15's pull hard on the still warm steel slab cars.

Looking west from atop of the yardmaster building, we see an Amtrak MP15 and VRE set, with the Metro facility on the other side of the mainline. Photo taken on RR property with permission.

A pair of Union Railroad MP15's smoke up the valley as they drag a slab train from the ET works in Braddock to Irvin Works in West Mifflin.

In the late afternoon Union's 76 crew battles heavy shadows as it works up hill towards the Dravosburg tunnel and US Steels Irvin Works with a loaded slab train from ET.

76 crew, the slab train shoves up the low grade to head for USS Irvin works. In the background the massive Westinghouse Bridge crosses the valley 240' above the valley floor.

In the late afternoon sand flies and exhaust pours out of 5 MP15's grind up hill with a loaded coke train from Clairton for the Port Perry and Dexter Yards as it nears the Dravosburg tunnel. The s... (more)

URR 11 and 18 are strung out through the Below yard and onto the Keystone as they slowly pull a cut of CSX cars through the loadout at the coal docks. The silver boxes on the front of the 11 are a... (more)

The night turn coke train pulls into Clairton with an empty train of coke cars from the CSX and from the ET plant in Braddock and passes the massive Mammoet crane that is working on the new coke b... (more)

The second to last time I would ever be in the coke works we find four of the Union's 24 MP15's bringing in a string of empty CSX and Union coke cars to be loaded at the plant for various US Steel... (more)

Union RR 14 and URR 21 MP15DC handling interchange traffic with NS at Kenny Yard.

The second turn 66 crew is doubled up and ready to depart the Coke mill with its daily run to ET and to the CSX. A massive thunderstorm builds to the east behind the power.

50 crew rolls to a stop after taking empties up to North Bessemer, they will get a recrew here at the shops. URR 29 takes a spin on the turntable and will replace one of the four MP's on 50 crew.