The Deuce is loose! Number 2 heads east on Number 2 at Mexico. E819 waits on Number 1 for it to clear behind lone ES44AH 811.

In this day and age of Class 1 railroading it is not all that often that one comes across a consist with five spartan cabs in it. When fresh from the factory the lashup would have been CR 6740, UP... (more)

Wearing GE builder number 49544, and having rolled out of Erie in December of 1996, CSX CW44AC 256 leads a coal train out of the Cumberland Terminal. The train loaded at Bailey Mine on the former ... (more)

Just about as colorful a lash up as you will find on the Pittsburgh Line. While I really like C40-8's, the Taco Belle dosen't do much for me, nor does the cloud which was trying to creep into the ... (more)

Business has picked up at CP C on this evening. Westbound stacker 23M has stopped just east of the interlocking to drop its head end helper off on Track 3. Meanwhile on Track 1 eastbound freight 1... (more)

It's crew change time in the small village of Dysart. This is the second half of a Pennsylvania Power and Light coal train that has loaded on RJ Corman's Fallen Timber branch. The new engineer, th... (more)

The hills have been turned a multitude of colors as fall begins to take hold on Sand Patch. Meanwhile holding back grain train G388 is Cumberland helper B254, 8517, as the train comes out of the S... (more)

Normally CSX's Rockwood to Johnstown local is an early morning arrival to the Flood City. However due to track work on the S&C Sub the train has been pushed back to an early evening arrival, and a... (more)

The grass is still green, but most of the color has been stripped from the trees at Mance. On this warm fall afternoon one of the elder members of CSX's GE family leads a short work train west aro... (more)

An almost solid consist of Trinity RDL hoppers trails a pair of GE products just west of the Cumberland Terminal. The RDL's feature longitudinal hoppers which allows a very rapid unloading of the ... (more)

Fresh out of the paint shop GP30 bodied Road Slug 2258, a former ICG unit, leads the Johnstown Jet south through the Krings section of Johnstown. Located in the Stony Creek valley, Krings is the l... (more)

A westbound stacker has reached the summit behind three black ponies. While the first two units may be your run of the mill NS dash 9's, the third unit proves to be a nice surprise, one of only te... (more)

All black, all the time. That is the way I like it when it comes to the MAC's, and thankfully the blue abominations should be gone for good in the near future. Here a pair of the former Conrail be... (more)

Freshly equipped with cab signals, 1993 built SD70 2531 leads Conway bound freight train 13G past the hometown of actor Charles Bronson.