At the end of a good day on Sand Patch, a W&LE grain train descends the east slope. Looks like the 2nd unit is having some mechanical problems!
4016 leads a train of steel coils past the turned signals at Longview. The CTC system had been deactivated a few years earlier and the signals have since been removed.
Detouring due to a derailment on the Pittsburgh Sub, Q261 rolls west on the W&LE, passing the vintage station at Bruceton.
The snow continues to fall as the rear end of the slab train crosses a traffic-free Parkway. The inclement weather probably kept people with more common sense from driving anywhere!
Displaced geeps from the Rio Grande and Union Pacific have found new homes on the W&LE.
It's been a busy day for the 391 crew, which worked the Clairton Branch before taking this trip to Mifflin Jct with a very short train.
Motorists on parallel Interstate 70 are treated to a spectacular view as a long empty coke train crosses the Mon while enroute to Monessen.
Mon Fayette Expressway toll: $.50. Seeing the W&LE on this bridge: Priceless. Please click on "Mingo Creek Viaduct" to see other views of this impressive structure.
Working upgrade in the snow, Z415 heads for home rails in Connellsville. It's been years since Z415 carried empty hoppers, today he's simply a light engine move.
Using trackage rights on CSX, an eastbound W&LE grainer departs Cumberland.
A head on shot at Sudan greatly diminishes the apparent size of this impressive viaduct.
One of the many smaller bridges on the former P&WV is this one, above Zippay Rd.
Mingo Creek is the tallest bridge on the former P&WV, but the Mon Fayette Expressway crosses the valley on an even higher span.
Returning from Clairton, this light engine move looks great on the vintage through truss bridge over Peters Creek.
The 416 grain train sits at Connellsville while the crew takes rest.
