Unexpected surprise. The LORAM Shoulder Ballast Cleaner (MoW) train heads west on the Norfolk Southern Lurgan Branch at 1512 at Leidigh Park.

The newly painted Norfolk Southern Executive units leading the Office Car Special thru the farm country of southern Pennsylvania during the "Golden Hour."

Less than 20 miles from its destination of Harrisburg, stack train 202 accelerates up the small grade out of Boiling Springs on a splendid late-spring evening.

Westbound manifest 13R prepares to cross Leidigh Drive outside of Boiling Springs, PA on the NS Lurgan Branch. A 1969 Oldsmobile Cutlass belonging to a good friend of mine looks on from the should... (more)

NS and UP EMDs lead hotshot stack train 211 through the farm fields outside Boiling Springs on a bitterly cold and windy winter morning.

This Norfolk Southern Knoxville, TN to Enola, PA train is on the last leg of its journey at Boiling Springs, PA. 38Q is passing over Yellow Breeches Creek on the former Reading line between Shipp... (more)

A rather large assortment of power heads up train 37Q heading west toward Boiling Springs, PA on the Lurgan Branch south of Harrisburg. In addition to the increasingly rare SD60 leader, CP, CN and... (more)

The latest NAFTA consist to strike Pennsylvania was one for the record books! Enola to Knoxville manifest 37Q sports an extremely eclectic consist. We'll start with the leader, a 25 year old SD60 ... (more)

The tranquility of the Cumberland Valley is amazing, even on a humid fall afternoon. Three horses pass a farmstead outside of Boiling Springs on their way west.

The Canadian invasion continues on NS, evident here by a CN/CP sandwich leading 11R westbound on the Lurgan Branch outside Boiling Springs. Of note, the CP unit is one of the four reactivated SD90... (more)

An intermodal train races into the night down the Lurgan Branch seen only with the light of automobile headlights.

After track upgrades on the Lurgan Branch, NS has been running trains at higher speed such as this train that is streaking over the Yellow Breeches creek.

A rather late running 12R prepares to cross the Yellow Breeches Creek between Boiling Springs and Brandtsville on the NS Lurgan Branch. Leased CREX 1339 leads a faded ex-ATSF warbonnet and, of cou... (more)

One of several export GEs destined for Mozambique is in consist on westbound manifest 11R passing through Boiling Springs on the NS Lurgan Branch.

15T heads through Boiling Springs in late evening light.