Symbol BAPI4 (Baltimore-Conway) is just getting started into the long grade to Gallitzin as it passes Brickyard Crossing. Two SD40 "snappers" are coupled ahead of the Dash8 road power an... (more)
NS 1148 is a lone DPU as it rolls downhill around Horseshoe Curve.
It's a humid July evening as westbound CAPI slowly approaches the derailment scene shown in photo no. 787832. Two SD40-2 "snappers" are coupled ahead of the road power. A couple gondolas... (more)
Eastbound PIBE derailed in Altoona the morning of July 13, 1995, tearing up railroad in the process to the extent that traffic was shut off for most of the day. By evening a few trains were slowly... (more)
Eastbound intermodal, NS 20T, rolls into Altoona after nightfall.
A pair of SD45 helpers push hard on the ex-EL caboose on the tail end of a westbound van train just 7 tenths of a mile below the apex of Horseshoe Curve.
Last of the Fall Colors With the last vestiges of fall color clinging to the trees, Amtrak's daily Pennsylvanian makes its decent around the World Famous Horseshoe Curve. ... (more)
Yes, It's Supposed to Be Green A lonely pair of 70DACUs in helper service drift past Pennsylvania Railroad EFS-17M (aka EMD GP9) #7048, which replaced K4s #1361 as a display at H... (more)
Eastbound intermodal descends the east slope, passing ALTO tower.
The helper set on symbol ALPI shoves against 137 cars moving up the mountain between Horseshoe Curve and MG.
A pair of crusty old dash 9's lead a westbound manifest by the "brickyard crossing" in Altoona, Pa just east of Horseshoe curve.
CR 6067, Edge Moor to Conway symbol EDPI, passes beneath the westward signal bridge at MG interlocking on an October afternoon.
A Dash 9 and SD70M lead a string of auto racks through the woods at MG on an October afternoon.
CR 6386 SD40-2 & 6189 SD45 are the helper set assisting this eastbound manifest freight with two cabooses around Horseshoe Curve descending the east slope.
