K212 heads west before heading north and then east.

A pair of former Conrail engines lead a SW1500 to a stop in Braddock as they wait for a eastbound manifest to pass. The tail end of the train can be seen just right of the engines

A CSX westbound rack train starts to pull at Braddock after waiting for traffic ahead to clear before it heading across the single track.

ET-5 (yellow/red) and ET-1 (blue/white) stand by for their next assignment while ET-4 heads in to grab 2 bottle cars.

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)

The little train in a big world. With the operator riding on the front of the first bottle car (the little orange speck) the remote controlled ET-1 begins to build speed for the ramp to the BOF ah... (more)

A CSX autorack train passes the last steel mill in the Mon Valley.

A lone SW1500 goes to work on some gons on the east side of ET. Meanwhile a pair of MP15's have pulled up along Turtle Creek to await their turn to head back over to Duquesne on the south side of ... (more)

Some early morning fog lingers in the valley as a trio of MP15's trundle down into the bowels of the ET Works. They will emerge later in the day with a load of slabs bound for the Irvin works furt... (more)

A Heritage 2 adorned Gevo leads a like painted CW44-9 mate eastbound on Q368 through the congested area between Braddock and McKeesport. The Union Railroad lays claim to the trackage in the foregr... (more)

As a NS empty coal drag glides across the port perry bridge, Q389 ZIPS underneath and along the river on CSX's Pittsburgh Sub.

U.S. Steel Edgar Thomson Works

On a hazy morning in the Mon Valley, Amtrak's eastbound Capitol Limited passes Union RR MP15 #20 as the mill crew switches US Steel's Edgar Thomson Plant.

A loaded coal train heads north along the Monongahela River through the very busy Port Perry area. The USS Edgar Thomson Works are in the background and the maze of trackage in the foreground belo... (more)