Fall is in full wing throughout Pennsylvania providing the landscape with a brilliant mix of oranges, yellows, and reds. A coal train sails around the curve in Cassandra as it hurries west.
Strange Train: NS J46 rushes eastbound over the Welch trestle as it heads towards Bluefield. Normally, the J symboled trains consist of two to three unit helper sets that shove heavy trains east ... (more)
The rumble of a passing freight interrupts the silence in the crop fields along the Norfolk Southern Lurgan Branch.
A brand-new GE Wabtec AC44C6M rebuild locomotive. NS 4607 was originally built as NS D9-44CW 9386 in 1999.
Still in EMD paint NS GP59 4607 waits for its next call to duty.
Former GP59 demonstrator EMD 9 leads eastbound train #384 at East Hannibal in October 1996. The train was in the Pass waiting on tri-weekly westbound stack train #279.
Former EMD GP59 demonstrator 9 now NS 4607 sits by the shops at Ludlow Ky. waiting to be put into service.
I do not think the modern EMD attempt at a streamlined cab can compete with 611.
A close up look at the streamlined cab of this former EMD demonstrator GP59.
Former EMD demonstrator GP59 that became a Southern Railway unit, then NS, leads local H5A west across the high line on a bright morning; unit features rounded edging on the cab.
NS local H6A returns west on track 2 through Bridgeport on the Harrisburg Line on a sunny afternoon; interesting power with pair of former Southern Railway units - the 4607 being one of three unit... (more)
Ex EMD demonstrator working the local
NS 4607 with the Lawrenceburg Hotel. Note the rounded cab, this was one of the former EMD demonstrators for the GP59 model.
