NS C28 passes through the PRR signalbirdges in Leetsdale. Heading for Island Ave Yard

A set of light helpers head east through the MP 258 signals with NS 6327 on the west end.

After spending much of the day dumping ballast on a few work limits on the NS AGS North-End, we watch work train NS 935 with a combination of two SD40Es, and a D8-40C pulls a long string of Herzog... (more)

NS 6340 and friend at Hahira, Georgia, in 2013.

A 4 set of EMD SD40Es give it all they got to push 130 loaded coal buckets up the west slope of the NS Pittsburgh Line with only 2 units on the head end, seen from the Cassandra overlook at MP 253... (more)

With helper sets on both the rear and front of the train, NS 17G climes the steep grade over the Alleghenies Mountains.

Shoving up the West Slope as evening approaches, SD40E #6318, built as Conrail SD50 #6707 shoves 14G east at Lilly, PA.

Spending the afternoon at Horseshoe Curve, NS 17G is grinding up hill with a helper set on the front and also on the rear to help get this freight over the hill.

A set of SD40E helpers based out of Cresson shoves train 16G through the Horseshoe Curve ignites before arriving in Altoona for crew change. There the helpers will be cut off the train and proceed... (more)

A rare April snowstorm has made the visibility along the mainline in Cassandra nearly zero. A set of SD40E helpers shove the train West toward Johnstown and Pittsburg.

The late afternoon sun illuminates the SD40E helpers on the rear of NS 538 at Summerhill as it slowly makes its way up the West Slope towards Altoona. The view is from the Route 219 bridge high ab... (more)

A pair of SD40E helpers on the rear of NS 25Z rolls westbound into the cut at Ardara, PA. The helpers will be removed from the rear a few miles ahead at Pitcairn and wait to shove the next eastbou... (more)

A pair of SD40E helper units based out of Cresson push a heavy grain train up the grade from Johnstown to Altoona and are seen passing through Cassandra. This is a common occurrence on this line f... (more)

Picking up loaded tie gons with the Herzog tie plate train crossing over to track one.

Westbound helpers head into Horseshoe curve.