Hurry up and wait. Trains were running infrequently and very slow down Sandpatch Grade today, presumably due to another derailment in Hyndman. Eastbounds were running on the westbound track a... (more)

After spending time at the opening of the CSX intermodal facility in McKees Rocks, PA near Pittsburgh, the OCS makes a relatively rare move over Sand Patch on its dead head trip back to Jacksonvil... (more)

The late day sun glints off an eastbound manifest as is works its way down Sand Patch grade at Foley.

Amtrak's Phase 3 P40DC #822 leads today's eastbound Capital Limited through Fairhope on a beautiful fall morning.

Fall and Pumpkins on Sand Patch Grade deep in the Pennsylvania countryside on CSX's Keystone Sub.

UP foreign power leads a westbound grain train downgrade through Foley.

Eastbound Capital Limited rolls through Philson.

Shortly after the sun rises above the mountain ridge, Q352 grinds its way up Sand Patch Grade at the namesake Sand Patch, PA.

Loaded coal drifts around Mance Curve with two YN2 motors up front holding back the train on Sand Patch Grade.

Welded rail train W025-29 heads east through the small town of Confluence.

The Capital Limited heads through Foley as it continues it's trip east from Chicago to Washington DC on a sunny summer morning.

A single unit is on the point working through the S curve at Fairhope.

The silence in Hyndman is temporarily disrupted as another eastbound freight rolls through town.

After shoving Q353 and K522 up and over the hill from Cumberland, the two helper sets combine to head back east towards The Queen City to shove another freight over Sand Patch Grade, as seen from ... (more)

K552 crawls up Sand Patch Grade, splitting the hills and mountains of Pennsylvania, the SD50 trying to keep the loaded steel slab train moving West along CSX's Keystone Sub as seen from the Foley ... (more)