Two sets of helpers are needed on the rear of this loaded coal bucket to push it to the top from Conemaugh, and hold it back on the journey east down the mountain.
From one crossing to the next which is next to me on the left, 23M snakes through the S curve about ready to knock down the signal at MP225 on track 2.
Connellsville Helper set heads back west light after shoving an autorack to the top.
11A (Reading to Conway) glides west thru Cresson with an Altoona crew headed to The Sewickley Country Inn for the night to bring the 18G back the next day.
NS Helper Engines shove hard through "MO" on the rear of the 18G as it heads for the top.
The start of good things to come foreign power wise for the day. Eastbound PPLX train rolls through the long sweeping curve out of SO interlocking with BNSF SD60M in the H1 Paint Scheme!
Altoona to Harrisburg Crew and the 14G head into Cove on track one with all the railroad from Banks to the Fuel pad at Harrisburg. The crew will either turn on a train and head back to Altoona or ... (more)
Another Tank in the lead with a lot of Maersk Containers, heading west into the setting sun on a mostly clear January afternoon.
Yet another day the weatherman was wrong but this time for the good! Sun most of the day and temps in the upper 60's made it a great day to train watch. UPS train 21E makes a run for the hill up t... (more)
The Altoona to Hollidaysburg local heads through South Altoona. In about 30 cars they'd stop due to a traction motor fire on the second unit.
NS Helper Engine 3343 helps hold back an eastbound stack train down the hill.
Q138 snakes it's way through the curves at Glade City and Keystone as it makes its journey to the "top" in the last mins of sun on a clear fall evening.
Helper Engine 3339 shoves a big long string of mty intermodal cars up to the top to AR.
