With an exceptionally heavy Johnsonburg turn, Buffalo & Pittsburgh GP38-2 #2031 grinds upgrade into Clarendon Heights, bound for Sheffield, Kane, and points south.

Not bad for my first night shot! Leading the Warren-Johnsonburg local southbound past an old barn, Rochester & Southern GP40 #102 breaks the still silence of the Pennsylvania winter woods.

A Buffalo & Pittsburgh extra bound for D&I Silica in Sheffield, PA passes on its way through Clarendon, PA with seven carloads of silica sand for use in "fracking" gas wells. The rise of the Marc... (more)