WLE 3049 pushes a local up the Westland Branch on a hot summer day in western Pennsylvania.
A Wheeling & Lake Erie train pulls out of the yard at the end of the Westland Branch on a hot July day.
A Wheeling & Lake Erie train traverses the bucolic western PA countryside with a load from the natural gas processing plant in Westland. This line was completely removed and then later rebuilt an... (more)
Wheeling and Lake Erie, W&LE SD40T-2 ex-DRGW 5413, with train 643, at Westland , Pennsylvania. January 24, 2015. Jack D Kuiphoff © photo
One of the Wheeling's former Rio Grande tunnel motors number 5413 and SD40-2 6310 work as helpers on train 643, the Rook to Westland turn. The train is cresting the grade about halfway between So... (more)
Westland turn crests the hill en route to the MarkWest plant.
GP35-3 #100 and SD40-3 #4016 shove WE643 down into Westland Yard on this fantastic Spring day in May, 2013.
GP35-3 #111 leads Wheeling & Lake Erie business car #1990 toward the top of the grade at "Big Cut" on the Westland Branch.
GP35-3 #111 leads Wheeling & Lake Erie business car #1990 down the Westland branch to Westland Yard before heading to Rook Yard for the evening.
Running in Notch 8, SD40-3 #3068 and SD40-2 #6348 lead a long string of tankers up and out of Westland as they fight the grade towards "Big Cut" on the W&LE's Westland Branch.