The Golden Days: NS 25Zs rear SD40E pushers help shove the heavy train toward Pittsburgh as it furthers west on the west slope. Just 10 years later and these 40Es have been retired from helper se... (more)

Black Snake at Sunrise

A four pack of helpers assists braking for an eastbound oil train shortly after sunrise. As is common with trains on the Allegheny slopes, the train fills the ... (more)

With helper sets on both the rear and front of the train, NS 17G climes the steep grade over the Alleghenies Mountains.

Spending the afternoon at Horseshoe Curve, NS 17G is grinding up hill with a helper set on the front and also on the rear to help get this freight over the hill.

NS 6325 takes a ride on the turntable at Juniata before being put back into helper service.

A 4-unit set of SD40E's shove on the rear of PPLX coal train 538, splitting the tri-light signals at CP-MO in Cresson as he assaults the West Slope.

A helper set, with a bag of ice on its nose, passes Alto Tower in Altoona, PA.

Helpers on the rear of 11J push west as an eastbound intermodal passes on the adjacent track during the height of a snowstorm on the NS West Slope.

A set of helpers head east back to the mountains at they pass under the PRR signal bridge at Larimer.

A pair of helpers shove on the rear of a coal train as it traverses the west slope.

Cresson, PA 2/23/2013 - Awaiting its next assignment as a helper on the former Pennsylvania Railroad's "West Slope", SD-40E 6325 is in the small engine house at Cresson. About a dozen locomotives ... (more)

A pair of Altoona rebuilt SD40E's assist an eastbound stack train through Cassandra, kicking up snow from winter storm Euclid, which left nearly 12" of snow on the West Slope of the Pittsburgh lin... (more)

A pair of helpers shove the rear of manifest train 10G into the yard at Altoona after traversing the west slope. Intermodal 21E to the left heads up the mountain.

With a fresh dusting on the ground and Snow fog laying heavy over the top of the mountain, NS 6325 shoves hard on a westbound mixed freight as it rolls under the CPL's at MG. MG tower can be seen ... (more)