Blue skies, lush green foliage and SD40-2s...must be summer in the Allegheny Mountains. Westbound 11A (Reading to Conway) manifest struggles up and around Horseshoe Curve with a pair of SD40-2 hel... (more)
NS C46 heads west at CP Pitt in Pittsburgh with two SD40-2s heading light to Island Ave Yard.
Local freight C46 switches industries in Latrobe with 3 SD40-2s doing the work.
Empty rail train 929 heads west around the curve at milepost 300 on the NS Pittsburgh Line, CP PACK, with SD40-2 3352 on the point.
V40 rolls on its way back home to Bristol.
With a total of 10 engines 8 of them are pushers, and with 6 on the tail end shoving hard towards Gallitzin NS 590 rolls under PA 53 on track 1.
3352 will soon be working a little harder on the back of 20Q as it nears the base of the grade just east of Johnstown. CP JW on Track 1 is the beginning of the yard lead for Woodvale Yard, which d... (more)
NS 3352 and 5682 lead a two-car OLS special east out of Manville Yard a few minutes late thanks to a CSX freight also heading east.
A mother and her son watch intentively as NS 955 an Operation Lifesaver special passes through on its way west.
Shoving emtpy autoracks under the signal bridge at Slope!
A helper set uses its dynamics to hold back nearly 3 million gallons of ethanol in eastbound 64R.
An empty coal train heads downhill past the Cassandra overlook where large icicles have formed, with a pair of helpers supplying braking.
Two 40s and two widecabs are giving it all they got as the bring a coal train west through Jamestown just before sunset.
Lending a helping hand.
With 9,325 feet worth of train these pushers were added to 12N at Leetsdale. They sure have a long way to push!
