After conquering the hill, The Kentucky Derby Train begins to open it up down the West Slope as it continues west through Lilly. According to Delorme Street Atlas the drive between HSC and Lilly i... (more)

NS 9889 through the elevated curve at Lilly Pa

As a common place scene that takes place everyday on the Pittsburgh Line these helpers or some have called (snappers).....is that right?...is assisting this EB on the 1.05% grade to the summit at ... (more)

A pair of Dash 9's fight their way upgrade thru the town of Lilly.

SD80MAC in Conrail colors leads a trio of 80MACs on a coal train that just departed from South Fork, PA. Two of the 80MACs were left on the head end when the train left Altoona for Baltimore.

A pair of SD60M's lead a coal train in near whiteout conditions. At the time, it was snowing so hard, the signal bridge at Lilly had disappeared.

As a local girl hurries home in the steady rain, NS 058 creeps through the small town of Lilly, PA. The rain can be seen in the beam of the headlight.

A set of SD40-2's push hard moving this double-stack train across NS's Pittsburgh Line and reducing the number on the highways.

NS helpers drift downgrade.

Empty coal cars return down grade, dashing thru the snow with 8,000 horses.

Looking like winter has arrived for good on the west slope. Note: must not forget to bring gloves next time.

Norfolk Southern freight train repeats the scene played out by Conrail, Penn Central and the Pennsylania Railroad, as man and machine battle against elements of nature for 150 years.

A fairly short container train plods its way up the West Slope at Lilly. Traffic was slow due to 2 derailments on either side of the West Slope, one in Harrisburg and another near Johnstown. We we... (more)

22W pounds away at the mountain in the heavy snow with 3 70M-2's. Even with 3 tanks the thing still had trouble heading up the hill to MO with snow covered rails, and no helper.