NS 25K illuminates the pickup for NS 25V which is following behind. The 25V's pickup was brought out by LVIR (PB&NE) just about an hour prior, including the two Lehigh Heavy Forge cars seen at ri... (more)
Superliners in Shadyside? Due to severe weather-related train delays, Amtrak decided to annul Capitol Limited service between Pittsburgh and Washington DC today, opting instead to terminate eastb... (more)
URR 578 is apparently used as a parts donor!
A utility man is assisting the addition of 3 6-axles to this loaded PPLX train from the Owens loadout.
NS recently lengthened the siding between Sharp and Etna resulting in both interlockings being replaced by new equipment a few hundred feet distant. Here, a pile of Union Switch & Signal position... (more)
The westbound California Zephyr approaches Solitude Siding, featuring a CZ observation-dome with a lit CZ drumhead. Awesome.
NS 19G begins it's upward climb as NS 20R enters Altoona. Alto Tower is appropriately decorated for the holidays.
The AVR-4 spots a few cars at a time for MetalTech, and then waits while they're transloaded so they can do it over again. The nifty lights in the background are from Heinz Field, the football st... (more)
Many of the crossing flashers were not yet in service, requiring the AVR crew to flag each crossing. If not for this practice we would not have been able to chase this job.
Operator Jim Largent hoops up orders to this eastbound at Derry Road in Hershey. I miss the days of SD80MACs on road trains!
Amtrak 6 just a few minutes late, just a few miles east of Green River, UT.
Just after 8am, three Allegheny Ludlum RELCO switchers - numbers 03, 02, and 01 - followed one another west from the Natrona Plant to the Brackenridge Plant, where they began a variety of switchin... (more)
A utility man is about to assist in adding 3 6-axles to this loaded PPLX train from the Owens loadout.
Cresting Cranberry Grade in the fog.
Monster 8-unit lashup brings Lady Jane coal off the Shawmut into Falls Creek.
