Yes, you read right. NS 9535 travels through West Newton on the CSX Pittsburgh Sub line.
The sun is just starting to crest the top of the hill out of view and into the left as the geometry train wakes up the sleeping West Newton.
It is rare enough to see NS on the Keystone but "Big Blue" at that is even more. To think it is 9 a.m. and already 86 degrees outside too.
Q368 passes the spot where color light signals are being installed to replace the CPL's on the east end (Hog Pen) and west end (Yough Slope) of West Newton.
The few CPL's remaining between McKeesport and Connellsville are on borrowed time. Get your photos while you can.
Yough Slope giving some of it's last indications
A winter storm begins hitting West Newton hard as this manifest passes the CPL's of the Keystone. Engineer McMarline is seen driving the train when he is usually caught driving Q137 westward.
Two AC4400CW's leads this eastbound black diamond train through the curve of West Newton on its way to Maryland.
A light wind moves across the small pond as Q389 whisks West past Goehring Park.
The name is quite fitting.
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Q641 heading east through West Newton
