URR 10 sits bad ordered at Irvin waiting to be hosteled back to the Hall shops.

URR 8 switches in the confines of what is left of the former National Tube works in Mckeesport. The Mckeesport Connecting uses two Union SW1500's, #6 and 8 to switch out US steels Tube works. Thi... (more)

Five buttheads shove a train load of coke up the Munhall Branch ramp, through J Interlocking, and on to the Union's Port Perry bridge. The train originated at US Steel's Clairton coke plant and ha... (more)

A pair of Blue MP15's leads a cut of empty slab racks back to ET from Irvin as they pass under the 110 signal bridge, the only position lights left on the railroad.

A pair of MP15's bark up Bull Run with another load of hot slabs from Edgar Thomson headed for the Irvin Works a couple miles to the south.

There is never a boring moment in the Mon Valley, here a 4 way Mill meet happens at ET. URR 1 is building up a cut of scrap and lime cars to spot at the BOP, 76A sits on the Cinder bridge with a ... (more)

Only a mile outside of the Clairton yard limits, 66 is already in run 8 and doing less them 10mph as the engineer tackles the steep grade out of the Mon valley with 5 MP15's and a heavy coke train... (more)

URR 31 leads a quartet of MP15 switchers into N Bessemer Yard with a long cut of empty B&LE ore hoppers. Late this same evening, these hoppers will be exchanged for ore loads delivered by the Can... (more)

After a long and slow climb up hill from ET, BMEX 259 starts down grade with its small train of slabs after exiting the 1919 build Dravosburg tunnel. After testing on the URR and also at ET the 25... (more)

BMEX 259 the first of three Gensets to test on the Union railroad leads a train of fresh slabs from the USSX Edgar Thompson Works to the rolling mills of the USSX Irvin Works. Here the train strug... (more)

A pair of Union engines back their train down the long ramp into the USS Mill at Braddock. The Union trackage around the steel mill, and across the river in Duquesne, looks like a model railroad g... (more)

A pair of Union RR trains head out across the Mon River Bridge.

After trading places a few days before with BMEX 259, RPRX 2010 finally hits the main line performing some tests that will possibly lead to the Union Railroad buy some gensets. Here 2010 leads a t... (more)