The funicular just starts down as eastbound manifest 10N, with a helper set on the lead and on the rear, strolls down the hill toward Altoona rolling around Horseshoe Curve.
The rear end helpers are now along for the ride as a Westbound mixed freight rolls down the West Slope just as the fall colors start to pop out.
Helper Engine 3339 shoves a big long string of mty intermodal cars up to the top to AR.
With helpers cut in on the head end and two more sets shoving on the rear end this heavy coal drag grinds up through one of the deepest cuts on the old Pennsy.
Norfolk Southern lending a helping hand to Amtrak after its locomotive died in Pittsburgh. Here a pair of SD 40-2’s leads the eastbound Pennsylvanian across the Sherman’s Creek Bridge. The tr... (more)
The helpers of an eastbound mixed freight drift past the Altoona Railroaders Memorial Museum.
The helper engineer on the rear of 227 exchanges waves with a 4-year old railfan.
A four-pak of Horsehead Helpers shove a heavy 67Z west in Ludwig!
A light helper heads east to assist a westbound out of Altoona. Lights provided by Gallitzin Tunnels Park during their Railfest-weekend slide show.
NS 3339 gets ready to lead this slab train down the hill after rescuing it in Lilly after it stalled.
NS 422's helper set shoves hard against the loaded coke cars.
This helper set is giving some downgrade braking assist to its westbound unit gondola train, passing under the classic PRR signal bridge at Lilly.
NS 3339's front wheel clears the thin layer of snow that has fallen, off of track 2.
Framed by the Latrobe station, the helpers on this heavy 69Q steel train shove west. This train symbol is now used for the westbound ethanol train.
My first Horsehead, idling on the crossover/helper pocket near ALTO
