A 5-pak of URR MP15DC's haul hoppers for coke loading.

Hot off the PRESS. URR has released yet another variation of it's paintscheme. This unit has a bright yellow face to improve visibility to the approach of the train.

Union Railroad pops out of the tunnel at Dravosburg with a coil steel train in tow.

Pittsburgh at it best: One of a kind URR 17 leads over CSX Q353 & Q226 on the north bank and NS 570 (not pictured) on the south bank. With in five mins, NS 510 and two URR drags would pass this lo... (more)

URR 29 and another MP15 sandwich the shortlived URR 61 at the railroad's Classyard.

In the foreground some signs of the major coke train derailment earlier this month can be seen

URR #6 shoves his train into the yard at Duquesne, the busiest yard on the Union.

While photographing NS trains from the Westinghouse Bridge, I wondered if the tracks into the old Westinghouse plant were still used. My question was promptly answered by the URR!

Small only in track mileage, the Union has a sizeable fleet of steel making related cars that it must keep in shape

As soon as the daily slab train to Irvin gets off the Mon River bridge, the daily empty hopper train to the BLE will cross over it

The scrap train comes down off the Mon River bridge and into USS ET. In the background, an empty URR hopper train and a NS Mon line coal train pass by. Also, in the foreground the Mon River locks ... (more)

ET monopolizes most of the URR's time. 30 years ago US Steel alone had four intergraded mills within two miles, of which ET was 2nd smallest! Today, ET is the only intergraded mill in the area.

4 switchers reversing into there caboose as brakemen and cabman are seen on both sides of their equipment.