Q136 heads east through downtown Pittsburgh on an absolute beautiful late summer evening. Station Square is on the bottom left, which now features 65 stores, restaurants, and entertainment venues ... (more)

Empty slab train 66Z rolls under the Westinghouse Bridge on which I am standing. There is quite a lot to take in from up here including the NS Pittsburgh Line, NS Port Perry Branch, the Union Rail... (more)

Amtrak 30 rolls east out of the city of Pittsburgh running over two hours late on Labor Day 2008. The NS Pittsburgh Line is on the left and Amtrak just took the AVR connection at Bloom to get onto... (more)

11V starts out a beautiful Labor Day by heading west across the Fort Wayne Bridge on the NS Pittsburgh Line in downtown Pittsburgh. Some boaters also enjoy the Holiday below on the Allegheny river... (more)

Y190 had to stop on it's journey back to Clark Yard because a trucker parked his rig a bit too close to the tracks. The conductor had to get out and go find the trucker to move the truck. Shown he... (more)

As a storm takes place over downtown, L217 heads west in the evening sun. This scene 25 minutes later: http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=237677&nseq=3

Empty CSX coke train K358 heads east at sunset through Rankin. Once dominated by US Steel's Carrie Furnace, it is mainly just an empty field now with a small portion remaining in the distance.

NS 591 heads under the massive Westinghouse Bridge on the single track Port Perry Branch after 20V went east.

As RJ Corman pulls into the CSX derailment from Johnstown, a fireman has a quick word with one of the RJ Corman employees before they get to work. The derailed Q353 sits behind.

The Lakeshore Limited passes Q393 and a string of seven new CSX Gevos awaiting pickup from the GE plant in Erie, PA.

17G is one of the first trains through after sunrise, going through MP 257 on the NS Pittsburgh Line. The Cassandra railfan bridge is visible in the background.

NS 15K rolls over the former NKP trestle above the flats in downtown Cleveland as the sun rises on another day in the big city. The other bridge is Interstate 90.

CSX Q114 drilled a semi truck that stalled on the grade crossing, thus causing a huge delay to traffic on CSX. The driver of the truck was lucky enough to hop out in time and survive with no inju... (more)

The NS OCS takes to the ex-NKP line for the first time and is shown departing Rocky River after picking up some passengers. Here it is headed east over the Rocky River and Cleveland Yacht Club. Wh... (more)

With nearly a foot and a half of snow on the ground, the Cleveland area encountered the worst snowstorm since 1978. Looking back on it, I have no idea how my 1996 Regal made it out of my driveway... (more)