Eastbound ridge train with loaded coal train on NS Watsontown secondary, approaching power plant.

Eastbound ridge train with loaded coal train on NS Watsontown secondary.

Southbound ridge train approaching CP Wat , with loaded coal train to go east out the NS Watsontown secondary.

NS 536 follows the NS 10G east on the Conemaugh Line, passing under the RD Fleming Bridge (62nd St).

A shot we've wanted for a few years... the NS 536 takes loaded PPLX aluminum-bodied hoppers slowly past the Station Inn.

This loaded PP&L coal train with nine EMDs for power cruises past a stopped Baltimore-bound 650 coal train.

Southbound in morning light passing mp 242.

NS 6720, 6731, & 6723, with a trainload of coal from southwestern PA bound for PPL's Montour Power Plant two miles east of here, roll past Great Dane Trailers manufacturing plant.

The 536 has reached its destination as it approaches the dumper with two blue SD60Is, 6731 and 6723 running elephant style. Nikon D70.

Conrail Lives Three EX-CR SD60I's haul a loaded "Silver Snake" thru Vandergrift.

We've all stood here and from this park, so here is my shot. An NS coal drag slips past some MofW at Cassandra, Pa. on Monday May 7, 2007.

Apparently the 6720 has been assigned to Strawberry Ridge coal train service. Note the small notches in the unit's plow.

Eastbound coal drag along the west bank of the Allegheny River. Two SD-70's pulling a consist of new aluminum bodied hopper cars.

An eastbound doublestack train kept me from getting a shot of the approaching 536, but I was able to manage a going away shot of the train's new hoppers glistening in the evening sun.

Southbound with a trio of SD60Is!, railroad testing them to see if they can replace the aging SD40-2s. Train also has new PPLX coal hoppers .