NS 512 is stopped to get two more helpers on the head end as two Conrail blue SD40-2's pass them.
Right before breakfast on the morning of April 17, A former Conrail SD60 passes by the picture window of the Station Inn breaking the silence in the chilly morning air.
A set of SD40-2's rest up in the Cresson Engine Facility awaiting their turn to assist a train on the "hill". Although SD45-2's no longer rule the Middle Division, one is still supplied with a ste... (more)
Aside from the number boards now reflecting their heritage, this could be a shot from 10 years prior as they cut the helpers on at Cresson
A string of 40's waits their turn for service on "the pit" as to the right a string of 80MAC's are fresh in from a load out at the mine south of South Fork PA.
Light helpers kick up snow as they head east for another push.
NS 69J slab train westbound at CP MO with an Ex-Conrail Dash-8 that has seen its better days and a BNSF unit in the cream and green scheme. They have just cut-off their head-end helpers and one s... (more)
The conductor on the NS 646 power backs his units west to pick up two more engines and then tie on to their coal train. The BNSF unit looks a little out of place hanging around Cresson with all t... (more)
A pair of pushers work hard on the rear of a freight train that disappears in the distance.
Busy night! A coal train waiting to be picked up by R.J. Corman sits in the foreground with its EOTD blinking as a WB's EOTD is seen flashing away. An EB is lighting up the trees and side of the c... (more)
The consist of the weekend leads 10N under the Route 53 bridge as it climbs towards Gallitzin. Included in the consist is another C40-9W 9719, ex-Central of Georgia high-nose SD40-2 3322, high-hoo... (more)
Two ex Erie Lackawanna SD45-2's cross the main line at Cresson, as a faster moving west bound trailer train over takes another.
A westbound auto rack passes the engine house as she knocks the signal down.
On a bitter cold winter night a helper set waits to get back on the road after being topped off with fuel and sand.
A PPX unit coal drag holds for a signal to continue her journey down the mountain toward Altoona and the old Pennsy Bald Eagle branch.
