A Norfolk Southern coal empties passes through Cresson, Pennsylvania, on September 18, 2019. This train had five former Conrail SD80MACs for power: NS 7202 and 7216 up front, and 7201, 7211 and ... (more)

NS AC44C6M 4158 leads 3 other NS units on a loaded trash train down off of the summit of the Pittsburgh Line

Three NS SD60E's lead empty coal train 591 as the train begins to descend the West Slope of the Pittsburgh Line.

On a snowy in Cresson, PA, the diesel fueling center shows it's a busy place. Rebuilt NS 7337, a former SD90MAC, happens to be one of the units caught here on this day.

On a snowy day in Cresson, a couple of cabs from a pair of retired NS units, one tossed on an old school bus, sit at Cresson Steel. Taken from public property.

On a snowy day in Cresson, a couple of cabs from a pair of retired NS units sit at Cresson Steel. Taken from public property.

Heavy snow is falling as a pair of trains, representing two different railroads, NS (with 1101 on the point) and RJ Corman, idle in the RJ Corman yard at Cresson, PA.

Conrail EMD SD45-2 "helper" approaches long gone MO interlocking tower and will continue East back to Altoona for another assignment.

An SD45/SD35 duo is on the point of an eastbound Penn Central coal train at Cresson, PA, on a long summer evening.

The summit of the Alleghenies is just a few miles away but there's still hard work to be done as an SD35/SD45 pusher set shoves on the rear of an eastbound Penn Central mixed freight at Cresson, P... (more)

The head end helper, a backwards-running SD45, has done its work as this westbound Penn Central freight with just a GP38 and a GP9 for road power drops downgrade between Gallitzen and Cresson, PA.... (more)

As the summer sun drops low, a westbound Penn Central freight behind a GP38/U25B duo rolls past MO Tower at Cresson, PA.

E8-powered Penn Central train #16, the Duquesne running from Pittsburgh to New York, overtakes an eastbound coal train with rear end helpers on the climb between Cresson and Gallitzen, PA.

A U25B/GP38 helper set shoves hard on the rear of a Penn Central coal train climbing the final miles to the summit of the Alleghenies. The uphill tracks are covered with sand from the countless ot... (more)