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.
Q390 storms east through the Lake Erie snow machine in one of the first bigger snow storms of the year.
205 is running about 8 hours later than usual allowing for this photo as it heads west through what is left of an area once dominated by steel mills and industry.
The Maersk unit leads the Youngstown-Conway local, C66, under CP Rochester
NS 708, the Wheeling and Lake Erie coke train, goes into Campbell Yard with an engine on the rear-a nice GP35 Kodachrome unit. CSX's Clark Avenue Yard and the defunct tower stand in the background... (more)
Q138 splits the CPLs signals which still are in service despite the new signals in the background that have been up for several months now.
Q264 has just started it's journey from Cleveland to New Jersey as it zips east through Painesville. Pan shot at 1/30 of a second.
D753 departs Clark Avenue Yard to head south to Lester and points in between to do its work.
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)
While being rerouted on the Empire Builder and running about five hours late, we passed through a BNSF yard just before getting back onto the CP with a nice line up of a CN dash-9 and two Warbonne... (more)
Q217 heads by what is just a small fraction of the remaining steel works in Pittsburgh.
The Reading heritage unit acts as the DPU on Z4R as it clears Drawbridge 1.
V980 heads east to Conneaut to unload through another Lake Effect snowstorm created by Lake Erie.
WE 304 is on the rear on train 392 while the recently repainted 300 sits deeper in the yard with a mixed freight.
What a lashup! FURX 7257 in H2 leads a whole rainbow of power: ex-EMD demo unit, BNSF SD70MAC Creme and Green, BNSF H2 dash-9, ex-CR SD40-2, Warbonnett dash-8, and two brand new H3 BNSF GEVOs on ... (more)
