Spring in the Steel City : Pittsburgh PA

12 minutes until 0700 hours, March 2nd of 2019 and most Monday through Friday'ers are sleeping in to start the weekend. Folks who don't have a steady schedule are probably awake, sipping their cof... (more)

The Liberty, Panhandle, Smithfield Street, Fort Pitt and West End bridges are an audience of steel over the choppy waters of the Monongahela and Ohio Waters to the breathtaking complement of color... (more)

WE 3067 leads 612 from Connellsville to Rook Yard in Greentree, the sun already faded across the Mon Valley, but keeping the high and mighty east end in just enough light for a few more moments at... (more)

Q370 tackles gravity as it heads towards the summit of the Alleghenies at sunset at Sand Patch, PA.

Amtrak 30, the eastbound Capitol Limited, rides the P&W Subdivision connecting the NS part of its journey to the CSX part of its journey around Pittsburgh, heading through Panther Hollow in Oaklan... (more)

The sun bathes the Yough and Mon River Valley's, rising on a beautiful May morning as a Q276 charges across the PLE bridge in McKeesport PA.

URR 33 slowly making its way towards Edgar Thomson works, just a mile or two ahead, with loaded ore from the B&LE, passing the former headquarters/office in East Pittsburgh, PA.

A sleeping Steel City stands guard as a Q331 heads west along the Monongahela River and Pittsburgh PA.

Finishing up with the floodgates. After a washout that crippled the artery of coal from the coalfields of Southwest Pennsylvania, traffic is non stop on the NS Mon Line. N21 pulls loads north ... (more)

The AVR Glenwood to Island Avenue turn brings cars from the NS back to Glenwood Yard, beginning their journey here at Allegheny Commons Park in Pittsburgh PA.

67X heads westbound through PENN interlocking and through Island Avenue Yard on a gloomy, beautiful day in Pittsburgh PA.

It's the train they call the City of New Orleans. Amtrak 59, The City of New Orleans, begins its journey out of Chicago IL on a beautiful windy city evening.

WE 102 leads the westbound Connellsville to Rook train over the Banning Bridge, spanning the Youghiogheny River, the B&O on the east side of the river and old P&LE Youghiogheny Branch on the West ... (more)

Westbound mixed freight runs along the Mississippi River just outside of Savanna, Illinois.