A pair of snow-covered SD80MACs lead empty hopper train 585 through the winter landscape at Emsworth.

With the sun quickly setting behind the mountains, two SD80MACs struggle to lift a loaded coal train through Lilly. Another three SD80MACs are shoving on the rear of the train.

A pair of 80MAC's have reached the summit of the South Fork Secondary while pushing on the back of a coal train that has just been loaded at the newly reopened Rosebud 78 Mine near Windber, PA.

N38 eases it's way past Cal U just before entering West Brownsville's staging yard.

Showing her age. The late afternoon winter sun highlights the scars symbolizing the rough life of SD80MAC 7205. Built 13 years ago, you can still make out its former Conrail number, 4109, o... (more)

A couple of unexpected locomotives in the form of SD80MAC's sit coupled to a string of coal hoppers at Ashtabula Harbor, if anyone is interested, the second 80MAC is the 7207.

The last car is loaded at Rosebud Mine 78 on NS's Southfork Secondary, the only thing needed now is a crew to take it up to Southfork.

The two types of engines that call the West Slope home, the SD80MAC and the SD40-2, team up on the local switching the R.J. Corman interchange in Cresson. A crew member is walking back to SD80MAC ... (more)

NS power move at Cresson in minus 1 degrees. This was taken during my "snow chase trip" in early 2008.

A South Fork coal drag work its way east as a rail train is also at work on the west slope.

Eastbound coal off the South Fork Secondary.

A freshly painted 80MAC (ex-Conrail 4101, built 12-95) awaits a trip to Altoona and the Juniata Shops. After a rebuild and a fresh paint job this locomotive had quite a few bugs that had to be att... (more)

NS 650 catches a stop signal at CP-MO allowing the photographer to wander around and find a few new angles of a very popular location.

After one of the SD80MACs had problems and caused the loaded coal train to stop at CP MO, the conductor watches from the ground as a pair of SD40-2s are added to the head end for the final climb o... (more)

With one of the two SD80MACs on the point, NS 7215 and 7201, having problems, the loaded coal train crawled up the mountain before stopping on Track 1 at MO in Cresson. SD40-2s 3340 and 3341 were ... (more)