A PC passenger train drifts downgrade around Horseshoe Curve on a hot and hazy summer day.

NS 25V rolls westbound through Altoona, Pa on the Pittsburgh Line with a double heritage consist at the brickyard crossing. Up front is the Contrail heritage unit and second is the Reading heritag... (more)

NS train 25V rounds Horseshoe Curve in Altoona, PA with both Conrail and Reading NS heritage units. It was a lengthy wait from Altoona as the original set of helpers to shove the train over the hi... (more)

Norfolk Southern priority intermodal train 25V rounds Horseshoe Curve with the Conrail and Reading heritage units.

Norfolk Southern priority intermodal train 25V rounds Horseshoe Curve with the Conrail heritage unit leading the Reading heritage unit.

It's sort of a gloomy day on the mountain but the trains keep coming. Oak Island-Conway manifest OIPI is slugging it out on the grade as it passes lonely MG Block Station, deep in the woods. Ektac... (more)

In the endless parade of trains around Horseshoe Curve another westbound freight grinds up the eastern slope of the Alleghenies with an SD-45 and SD-40 shoving hard on the cabin car.

The SD-45 and C-636 are in notch 8 as they shove a freight up the eastern slope of the Alleghenies. The open cab windows and doors provide little relief for the pusher crew from the cloud of exhau... (more)

A trio of SD80MAC's fight 130 cars of coal down and around Horseshoe Curve.

With newly rebuilt AC44C6M locomotives being added to the roster with numbers in the 4000 series, the Norfolk Southern Executive units had to be renumbered and repainted. Here, in Altoona, the F ... (more)

Flowers at the Gravesite

Conrail GP9B 3807 awaits the torch in the Altoona dead line. The curvature of the frame is a good indicator of the cause of death.

A pair of NS GEs ease a loaded coal train down the slide and into Bennington curve on an absolutely freezing cold fall morning.

Back in the good ole days of Big Blue, symbol freight ALPI (Allentown-Conway) is beginning its ascent to Gallitzin at Brickyard crossing with a pair of SD40-2 helpers coupled ahead of the road pow... (more)

Five prototype “DC to AC” rebuild locomotives gathered together on the circle tracks in front of Juniata Locomotive Shop’s newly installed turntable for a family portrait in Altoona, PA, on ... (more)

You'd Think I Would Have Learned My Lesson

...after last year's adventure to the west leg of Horseshoe Curve in the snow, right?

Wrong.

In spite of 4 inches of ... (more)