"Just another day in Paradise"
W&LE Z416 "wheels" around the horseshoe curve at Mance, PA on another day extending a remarkable "January Thaw"
Autumn embraces Mance, PA on the east slope of CSX Sand Patch grade.
Eastbound CSX K951 meets westbound Q373 at the river.
Eastbound CSX manifest scatters the late autumn leaves and activates the mp215 detector just short of the old passenger depot in Meyersdale, PA on the former B7O mainline.
Westbound CSX manifest is "framed by foliage" as it begins to ascend the steepest portion of the eastern slope of Sand Patch grade, two miles short of the "Summit of the Alleghenies"
Two CSX auto rack trains meet and pass under the former Western Maryland "Keystone Viaduct" 1.5 miles west of the "Summit of the Alleghenies" on the former B&O mainline.
"A silver thread among the gold"
Eastbound auto rack train descends the Alleghenies on the often-photographed Sand Patch grade.
A westbound intermodal runs for Cajon Summit.
Double Your Pleasure!
"All (Armor) Yellow" at canyon siding on former SP
Mother Nature's grandeur can dwarf virtually anything...even an eastbound stack train climbing Cajon Pass
A westbound stacker eases down the 3% past the monument to two fallen railroaders.
An eastbound climbs out of the basin.
