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.
Although a Winter Storm Warning was issued for a possible 6-12 inches, this would be it for the snowfall that weekend as the weather turn into freezing drizzle for this part of Pennsylvania.
A pair of veterans on these rails give a coal drag a push past the the Borough of Lilly on a cold afternoon.
As the helpers on an eastbound (away from photographer) coal lean into the curve at Lilly, a light set drift past on track 2.
Nothing else can show the speed at which trains travel at in the frozen moment of a camera shutter better than a new snowfall.
With the sun quickly setting behind the mountains, two SD80MACs struggle to lift a loaded coal train through Lilly. Another three SD80MACs are shoving on the rear of the train.
Three EMD SD70M-2's help kick up some snow from last night's snowfall.
