Amtrak Pennsylvanian Train 42 rounds Bennington Curve with a SD70ACu helper set up front. Due to mechanical failure the day prior, the train needed to be towed to Harrisburg without passengers.
Two SD70ACU helpers push a westbound intermodal up track one while the rising sun starts to illuminate the sky.
A set of SD70ACU helpers assist in breaking as a double stack train with international containers heads downgrade through Cresson in the last light of the afternoon.
Four EMD SD70ACU helper locomotives shove a loaded coal train over the Allegheny Mountains. The facility in the background formerly serviced the helper locomotives until recently when operations s... (more)
A helper set leads a container train West out of Altoona towards Horse Shoe Curve.
Fall as arrived on the Pittsburgh Line! This colorful scene is matched with a colorful leader.
For whatever reason, I've always dug second hand power. Power hungry NS did the bare minimum to get this unit in service, in this case hauling a hot UPS intermodal.
Chicago to Atlanta 215 makes a setoff and pickup at Whitaker Yard, while work progresses adding additional ramp tracks.
