A pair of EX-CON's head up V738 @ GTC.
Pastoral farmland gives this location an almost Midwestern appearance.
One dirty hopper spoils an otherwise "perfect" NS consist.
7202 emerges from the long shadows at Marion Center, where a church's steeple towers above the train.
7202 tiptoes past wildflowers which line the ROW at Barton.
Much of the Shelocta Runner is heavily treed in, but there are several open areas between Hamill and Home.
NS 563's helper set passes a quiet farm scene along the Shelocta Runner.
562's head end units part a sea of green, just west of Rochester Mills.
It's the end of an era as the last 562 on the Indiana Branch approaches Rochester Mills.
The first time I ever chased a loaded Shelocta train (3/30/05), the 7200 was the rearmost unit on the train. Fittingly, the 7200 is in the same position on the final 562 to use the old route via ... (more)
For a very short distance, the BR&P (left) and PRR ran parallel just outside of Punxsutawney.
Crawling northward at a leisurely 10MPH, 563 rolls past an old barn at Locust.
Shelocta trains no longer pass through here, having been re-routed onto NS's new Keystone Branch.
Bringing up the rear of 563, 7201 heads north 15 miles away from the junction with the B&P mainline.
It's incongruous to see such decrepit rail and a 420,000 pound locomotive in the same picture.
