Railroading at Cassandra.. On a cold and dreary morning an eastbound intermodal drags upgrade, while a quintet of SD80MAC's make their journey from the South Fork to Cresson for servicing.

With snow flurries blowing in the mountains, a power move of 80MAC's head east next to an intermodal.

With a ton of coal passing over, another heavy crude oil train follows up the hill behind them as helpers push the train up the grade.

As 592 shoves a heavy train up the hill at Cassandra, an empty PPLX coal train makes its trip down the hill with a trio of SD60I's.

NS 592 approaches the Cassandra Railroad Overlook with the Savannah & Atlanta Heritage Unit on the point.

These helpers are shoving hard on the rear of a loaded freight train. The Helpers are all a crutial part of getting trains over this moutatin. Hard to belive that 70 years ago those helpers were b... (more)

64D's helpers scream through Cassandra, PA with crude oil bound for Westville, NJ from BNSF.

Eastbound helpers at mp 255 , on manifest train with fall colors.

Westbound at mp 255 with fall colors.

Eastbound at mp 255 with fall colors.

Helpers push against 20Q up the mountain at Cassandra. The helpers for the super heavy 538 are seen entering stage right. The number for the last unit in that helper set is ironically 6304

The helper of 25Z gets framed within some beautiful fall scenery at Cassandra.

Sand gets dumped on main 1 and heat pours out of these units as this heavy 538 crawls at walking speed up the mountain amidst fall color at Cassandra. The helpers can barely be seen through the h... (more)

While waiting for the 765 Steam special to make it's debut trip on the NS Pittsburgh Line at Cassandra, the last train we saw was an Intermodal with the conductor hanging out the window holding ou... (more)

A trio of GE's all running elephant style pull a Crude Oil train up the grade at Cassandra.