The last of the blue SD40-2's in the Johnstown-Altoona helper pool, battered 3347 is tied on to the back of a loaded PPL coal train on a cold and snowy night.

Back in '05 the Black Lick was still using the front doors of their shop building, and the 2000, finished with its work for the day, is being readied to be backed into the cavernous shop for the n... (more)

A pair of MACs get ready to load a train of emtpy hoppers at Rosebud 78 near Windber.

Uni-Brow equipped. NS home-grown concoction SD60E 6900 is mated up with another JBS product, SD40E 6319, as the pair get ready to provide a shove to eastbound 18G. The 6900 is out fo... (more)

A pair of geeps roll along a frosted hillside in the Ferndale section of Johnstown.

The 'Jet' rolls over the Stoney Creek River and into Holsopple. Their work completed in Johnstown, the crew still has some switching to tackle at Abex near Hooversville and in Somerset before tyin... (more)

Western PA gets its fair share of snow, but it isn't too often that you can find yourself up to your neck in it. I found myself literally up to my neck in the white stuff while walking across a fi... (more)

One of only three units on the roster, this little GE spent its time isolated from the rest of the Turtle Creek operation, having been stationed at the Dura-Bond plant in Port Vue.

One of the many joggers on the Montour Trail is unphased by AVR's three gray and yellow behemoths trundling across one of the many trestles dotting the Wheeling's former P&WV 'Hi-Line'.

One of the few remaining two-track Pennsy signal bridges is illuminated by an approaching eastbound roadrailer.

Dino Thunder! One of only six SD45-2's on the NS roster provides for a rare leader on today's 11V. The 1705 is former CR 6666 having been built in November of 1972 as Erie Lackawanna... (more)

End of the road. The shops which they called home, the birthplace of thousands upon thousands of flatcars, hoppers and gondolas, the famed Johnstown Car Shops of Bethlehem Steel are now but... (more)

A Heritage 2 adorned Gevo leads a like painted CW44-9 mate eastbound on Q368 through the congested area between Braddock and McKeesport. The Union Railroad lays claim to the trackage in the foregr... (more)

An increasingly rare CSX GP39 and a far more common GP40-2 mate head up this day's Johnstown Jet. Here the duo pull a cut of tankcars loaded with corn syrup off the storage track in preperation to... (more)