With the derail restored and locked the C91 finally gets out at YD and heads west to Conemaugh with the 5 80MAC's and 11 mty salt cars while the 578 power is still stuck on 1 west at the engine ho... (more)

The cloud/sun line is perfect, and the deep mean roar of thunder far in the distance overtaken, as a power move heads West into the sinking sun of a somewhat warm summer evening.

CSX has quite the helper set lashups on the Keystone Sub consisting of this set plus a set of D8-40C's with the "link" to cut on the fly, plus a pair consisting of a GEVO and SD40-2 and a few more... (more)

The sun cloud line was playing games with me for about 15 mins before I won and the train came at the same time. Two CR 60I's haul mty PPL hoppers West to be loaded out once again along with the f... (more)

Q317 heads out the Mt. Sub over the Viaduct in Cumberland with it's usual bevy of power on the head end with a total of 7 units today.

Eastbound Q394 actually is hauling the train down the mountain, and is not using dymanics at all.

Well you can tell that spring is upon us just by looking up and down the railroad from Ellerslie to Fairhope to Glencoe and even Mance curve. Fresh new ties and in places new ballast, await placem... (more)

Eastbound Q130 glides through the curves on it's journey to Cumberland.

Q317 puts the hammer down on the Mountain sub as it snakes through the long rolling S curves at Pinto MD.

Rear end helper is out of the hole holding back a loaded coal bucket, up ahead is the last bunch of cars on an autorack that is passing, and just a few minutes earlier, all three trains were passi... (more)

I love this shot. The bridge and well what's left of the steel mill in Franklin makes for a great back drop. Westbound truck train glides down through C interlocking.

Amtraks Capitol Limited races eastbound on number 1 track at Mexico as the Q370, the last of 3 eastbounds out of terminal, heads out 2 East Lead to 2 Main. Amtrak will eventually cross over down t... (more)

Mty Unit coal bucket grinds up the East slope of the Keystone Sub. The 3rd and 4th unit will be set out at Rockwood for a coal bucket on the Coleman Sub. In a few weeks the corn will be harvested ... (more)

Outside of Cresson it's corn corn and more corn, in the covered hoppers and in the field. The corn train is heading for the Ethanol plant in Clearfield PA.

The second rack train back to back to climb the Sandpatch grade grinds around the horseshoe at Mance under the last rays of sun in this neck of the woods surrounded by the mountain tops.