A pair of Norfolk Southern SD40E's in helper service on the Alleghenies run downgrade through Portage towards their next assignment, passing by the classic PRR position light signals that have sin... (more)

SD40Es don't escape helper service often and make it south even less. An Altoona, PA to Atlanta, GA deadhead allowed one to escape with rear observation car #5. The Maryland will celebrate it's ... (more)

NS 6304 leads a westbound doublestack onto the Rockville Bridge. On the other track is a westbound manifest train that is slowly working toward Enola Yard.

A pair of Norfolk Southern SD40E's shove hard on the end of a loaded corn train to get it over the west slope. The train is clearing the PRR position lights that were mounted to the Jamestown Road... (more)

Helpers on a 954 ballast train glide under the position lights at Summerhill.

Most people have Independence Day off but it's business as usual for the crew working to assist an ethanol train up the grade through Lilly.

A NS helper set of SD40E's glides down hill and past the now gone MP 256 signal bridge on the West Slope.

A pair of newly built SD40Es sit idle at the Cresson Enginehouse as NS local C90 takes on fuel and sand at the facility. This view is possible from the Arch Street grade crossing located behind th... (more)

A pair of SD40Es ease NS 20Q into the Gallitzin Tunnel on a cold winter day as a westbound intermodal truc train passes by on Track 3.

NS helper 6312 and company hold on to the rear of NS 10G as the train passes through the Gallitzin Tunnel. Most of the train is already descending the hill so the helper is needed at this point fo... (more)

As a westbound manifest descends the hill, NS 6319 and company ascend the hill on track 2, passing under the former PRR signal bridge.

A helper set rolls westbound under the former Pennsylvania Railroad position signals at Jamestown Road. The signals are attached directly to the road bridge.

An Eastbound manifest grinds up the hill at Cresson with helpers on the rear. The train is seen passing the soon ti be removed intermediate signals at Milepost 252.6.

Despite the replacements already being constructed, the Conrail tri-lights at CP C in Johnstown, Pa still guide trains through town.

A "six-banger" heads west through Cresson after exiting the town of Gallitzin as a loaded coal drag from RJ Corman sits parked on 8-Main.