Peeling paint and patches adorn one of the last Conrail blue SD40-2's helping 14G up and over the mountain and down the "slide". A winter storm has coated the surrounding landscape with snow and i... (more)
It's only a few months into the Conrail merger and this ex EL pup has yet to be renumbered, and it is still working in former EL territory. A former Erie searchlight signal looms above.
NS RP-E4C slug 701 leads a rail train east through Brady Lake, Ohio. The sun has made a brief appearance as the train kicks up some "lake powder" deposited earlier in the afternoon.