Keystone Generating Station is only a few miles away, but it will take nearly an hour for 562 to get there, due to very slow track speeds.
NS is expected to finish their new route to Shelocta by early fall '06. When this happens, the new track in the foreground will become a critical link in the route to the Keystone Generating Stat... (more)
NS 562 rests with empty hoppers while the Keystone Generating Stacks smoke it up in the background.
The coal truck is probably headed to the same powerplant (background, left) as the 7201.
562's long, roundabout trip is just about over as the rear units creep toward the Keystone Generating Station.
The long, slow trip down the Shelocta Runner is almost over as 562 passes the old station in Shelocta.
Strong backlighting highlights the mains and yard tracks at Etna.
7200 brings up the rear of this loaded coal train, parked in Etna yard.
Usually there are two 80MACs on each end of Shelocta trains, but for some reason there's only one on the rear of this train.
562's rear units shove a loaded Shelocta train past a cut of stored Shawmut hoppers.
The rear set of 80MAC's shove hard on the 562 loaded coal drag passing thru Tarentum on the Conemaugh Line.
At dusk, a northbound NS Shelocta coal train crosses the B&P's Allegheny River Bridge
Last week I photographed these units on a bridge across the Allegheny River. Today they're on the OC Bridge, high above the Ohio River.
Big MACs on a big bridge! The head end pulls the first cut of Shelocta coal up to the B&P main.
The helpers on this Shelocta coal train barely cleared the crossing before this motorist took off in a hurry.
