Pushers assist an intermodal up the mountain. Lots of things have changed since my last visit here about 9 years ago. But the volume of trains has not changed at all.

NS trains pass at Casandra as the first big winter storm of the season moves into the region.

An NS train rolls west as the first major winter storm of the season gets started on the west slope. This was one of the very few coal trains we saw, dramatically less than 10 years ago.

NS 4071 glides under the overlook at Cassandra leading a stack train

22W heads upgrade at the long stretch at Cassandra, viewed from the railfan overlook bridge.

591 flies downhill at the Jamestown Road overpass just West of Cassandra, with the unique PRR signals mounting the highway bridge above.

Three Way Meet at The Railroad Overlook

With the amount of volume the Norfolk Southern Pittsburgh Line sees freight meets occur all day and night, however when two Eastbound t... (more)

A quad of NS SD40Es push the loaded coal train 534 up the grade towards Altoona.

A morning intermodal ducks under the Cassandra Bridge

A solo GEVO leads empty autorack I(eye)7N through the rain

Coming down track 3 through Cassandra is NS 11J with a NS Tier 4 in the lead.

NS Train 23M races the Amtrak "Pennsylvanian" down the West Slope at Cassandra.

Two eastbounds tackle the west slope at Cassandra

Under the leadership of a now increasingly rare Dash 8, a westbound autorack train heads down the West Slope, underneath the footbridge at the Cassandra Overlook

A heavy eastbound gives it all its got heading up the mountain of the West Slope through some dramatic, spontaneous weather conditions through the cut at Cassandra, PA.