"Heading back to the West Coast"

An NS intermodal heads West into the setting sun with a visitor from the West Coast trailing.

20R passes the CP 88 signal on a cold January morning.

Eastbound 16E crosses the Beaver River Bridge.

NS 228 rolls eastbound across Cotton Mill Trestle over the former Southern at Durmid. This train just went under this same trestle on the tracks in the forground just ten minutes ago. His counter ... (more)

Eastbound trailer train passes a westbound stack heading to Chicago in this meet of stack trains at the Big Four Depot in Lafayette. A family watches the action from the deopt railing.

A single unit struggles to haul 20T to the summit of the Ft. Wayne Line at Highland Cut.

Perhaps a sign that NS is a bit power short, 20T departs Pitcairn with a single Dash 9 up front. Two SD40-2s were added on the rear to ensure that the train doesn't stall on the grades ahead.

A single Dash-9 struggles through the S-curve at Highland Cut.

NS 9591 leads the NS 64J trash train across the MP 131.7 Defect Detector in Newport, as it begins to lean into the turn that passes through the signals at MP 131.

A westbound mixed bag rolls under what is left of the old EL main line. The old EL line still sees a couple of trains a year in the form of excursions out of Kent, OH.

This sleeping giant gets a lengthy rest awaiting a fresh crew on this, a delightful fall day.

18G drifts through CP Wyomissing Jct @ 11:27am

9591 and sister waits for service in snow.