It's sunny in the valley, but there is a storm brewin' up on the mountain as a loaded PPLX train rolls east behind a trio of elephant style 60's.

Kicking up snow at a pretty good clip, this empty hopper train seems worlds away from the menacing Seventeen Mile grade that it has just over come as it blows past silent MK Tower and the town of ... (more)

A couple inches of snow over night have provided a frosting for the trees, but are no match for the three geeps powering today's Rockwood Switcher. Behind the empty corn syrup cars from Pepsi are ... (more)

The Johnstown Jet heads south out of the Flood City on a snowy afternoon behind a matching trio of geeps.

NS runs upwards of 50 trains a day through Johnstown, CSX runs 1 train, three times a week. When it comes to serving local industries though CSX gets the upper hand delivering cars for Pepsi, Safe... (more)

Summer is a couple of months away, but it looks like the 2206 is getting a head start with the shedding process. Having bounced around the Baltimore Division for the past couple of years, I have r... (more)

The Cumberland Locomotive Shop is aglow as a pair of EMD's await their outbound train.

The headlight of a lone SD70MAC illuminates the former Western Maryland Railway Keystone Viaduct. Completed in 1913, the Connellsville Extension of the WM was mostly abandonned in May 1976 after C... (more)

A near full moon illuminates an interesting consist tied on to the fromer B&O 3506 and its mate. The former Fruit Growers Express car and Chessie caboose are just part of a loaded rail train which... (more)

A trio of CSX Dash 8's provided the power for Q130 during its trip over Sand Patch to the west. However, the less mountainous terrain to the east allow for one of the units to be dropped at Cumber... (more)

Ten years ago I thought nothing of seeing four or five 4 axle -7's on CSX piggyback trains. Now the great -7 fleet has been relegated mostly to local and MOW jobs, which is where the 5850 finds it... (more)

A light mist is in the air on Christmas Eve as 2206 and mate 6468 idle away in CSX's Sandyvale Yard waiting for a crew to arrive on Saturday morning for the trip south to Rockwood.

Over ten years after the Conrail split there is (thankfully) only one blue unit left in the Johnstown-Altoona helper pool. This fine specimen, patches, chipped paint and all, was built as Conrail ... (more)

One of no fewer than five eastbound trailer trains with in an hour lights the lamps at milepost 258.8 on 'The Broadway'.