With a helper ahead, NS 10G blasts through Portage, PA with the ex-PRR signals standing guard.

NS 578 slowly creeps through Lilly, PA on a cold January day. The rear of this train just came off of 5 West in Cresson, a track that is used for RJ Corman to interchange loaded coal trains with N... (more)

NS local C42 heads east through Tipton, PA on its way east to work local industries. In just a few miles the train will switch tracks in Tyrone to access the NBER yard to drop off and pick up cars... (more)

Former CR 6101, now bearing PRR reporting marks, is leading an eastbound manifest beneath the signal bridge at Warrior Ridge, PA - some 4 miles west of Huntingdon. Fuji Velvia.

Former CR 5546 renumbered with PRR reporting marks has a westbound passing the old signal bridge at Leshville, several miles east of Newport, on an autumn afternoon. Fuji Velvia.

When the four-track signal bridges began falling along the old Middle Division in central Pennsylvania, incident to double-tracking and installation of CTC in the mid-80s, east/west facing pedesta... (more)

A pair of Norfolk Southern SD40E's run down grade after assisting an eastbound over the Alleghenies and are about to pass under the PRR signals just outside Cresson.

A Norfolk Southern ES40DC leads a SD60E pulling a long 10N up the slope towards the Gallitzin tunnels. The train is passing the old PRR position light signals here and the old AR control point tow... (more)

A set of Norfolk Southern SD40E helpers glide down the slope at Portage PA. These signals, along with all the other class PRR signals on the line, are quickly disappearing, as PTC installation cre... (more)

Norfolk Southern's Executive train is framed under the fan favorite Pennsy signal bridge on McFarland's Curve in Tipton, Pennsylvania as the train deadheads back to Altoona after a trip from Chica... (more)

Norfolk Southern train 19G passes the WB signals at MP 256 on the Pittsburgh line. These signals, along with all the other class PRR signals on the line, are quickly disappearing, as PTC installat... (more)

Norfolk Southern train 40T's helper set works hard to push the massive loaded unit corn/feed train up the mountain on the Pittsburgh line. The train is seen here under the 'bridgnal' signals at mp... (more)

A power move of SD80MACs heads towards the Cresson Engine House passing under the PRR signal bridge at PT 263. This scene will soon be a thing of the past as the signal upgrade project moves ahead... (more)

NS 957 eases into Harrisburg terminal after crossing Rockville bridge on their way to Norfolk, VA.

Timothy Pavlic's thoroughly distressing image of the removal of the signal bridge at Tipton, PA (#695467) prompted me to view some of my images from several years back in requiem. The autumn of 19... (more)