Amid muted fall colors, U52 slowly rolls westbound through Blackwood. U52 left Norton with 30 loads and 8 empties. U52 spotted the 8 empties and picked up 12 loads at Blackwood #2, accessed via th... (more)

Conductor Harold Yearwood rides the lead engine on one side as engineer Jim Chafin leans out of the cab on the trailing locomotive on the opposite side. U53 has placed "yellow ball" empt... (more)

U53 has picked up 20 "yellow ball" empties from Westmoreland Coal's Appalachia transloader and backs around the wye in Appalachia. Once U53 clears the wye switch, it will utilize the track in the ... (more)

NS U53 crosses Roaring Fork Creek at Cane Patch on a classic timber trestle. U53 picked up 33 "yellow ball" loads at Roaring Fork, located several miles to the rear, and is en route to W... (more)

NS U52 rolls slowly through the west end of the ex-Interstate Railroad's Norton Yard with loads en route to Andover. At Andover, the loads will be weighed and assembled into a coal train leaving A... (more)

NS U52 passes Westmoreland Coal's Prescott Complex at Osaka en route to Roda with 22 "yellow ball" empties.

The headend and midtrain power, along with a midtrain radio control car and cab, wait in the clear at Appalachia for a crew to return to Andover Yard. The units will then venture to Westmoreland C... (more)

An eastbound mixed freight follows South Boulder Creek through the Tolland area.

An eastbound mixed freight grinds upgrade along the Eagle River between Minturn and Red Cliff.

A coal train loaded west of Steamboat Springs on the Craig Branch rolls through Byers Canyon alongside beside the Colorado River as it approaches Hot Sulfur Springs on its eastward journey.

NS 708 slowly departs Appalachia with another unit train of coal destined to hungry southeastern power plants. The track to the right of 708 is the ex-L&N Cumberland Valley main line; two L&N-Sout... (more)

Eastbound 04T (Amtrak 42) rolls through Wilmerding (WING) on Track 1 as westbound NS11A waits on Track 2 to enter the Port Perry Branch and an empty hopper train is tied down on Track 99.

Ballast train I29 rolls under the Westinghouse Bridge in East Pittsburgh.

Eastbound NS 04T (Amtrak 42) splits the signals at Wegley, PA at MP 328.5.