It's getting harder and harder to see all blue on PPLX trains. Still, two out of three is pretty good in '09!
20V's helper set passes MP 254 on its ascension of the West Slope.
7210 is working hard, as the lone helper on C90. Two more 80MACs are up front, leading the coal train upgrade on the West Slope.
A pack of SD40-Es shove a Harrisburg bound intermodal up the west slope...
22W blasts up the west slope with the fall foliage behind, ex-PRR signals above, and the top of the grade only miles away...
227 finds a hole in the gloomy cloud cover!
The colors explode as 10 80Macs pass!
The NS SD80MAC class leader is followed by nine classmates, westbound on track three... you don't see 50K of HP together like this very often...
The sun finally popped out toward the end of the day, just in time to witness an NS ES40DC leading some BNSF units back home...
590 nearly stalling out at Lilly
598 makes an assault on the West Slopes.
As darkness falls this set of light helpers pass the signal bridge at Lilly as they run uphill back to the Cresson Engine House to await for another push and assist.
NS C90 drifts downgrade through Lilly.
