A pair of SD40E helpers are on the head end of loaded trash train 63V as it descends the West Slope grade of the Alleghenies in Lilly, Pennsylvania. PRR position light signals stood guard here for... (more)

38500 Horsepower! Eleven big DC traction locomotives lift 13000 tons of Carbon County coal up the 2.4% grade of the Price River Canyon. 5 motors up front and 6 more manned helpers 2/3 dee... (more)

BNSF 6728 leads a pair of helpers down from Cajon summit in October 2000.

A pair of IC helpers help pull M340 up Byron Hill.

A pair of IC helpers help pull M340 up Byron Hill.

Manned helpers UP 3395 and UP 3652 bring a long, loaded grain train into the Yermo Yard, while UP 3073 and UP 3684 wait for their next assignment.

Essex helpers on the 756 East approach the summit of the grade at Marias Pass.

A pair of SD40E helpers bring up the read of westbound intermodal 21Q as it heads down the west slope, passing under the PRR position light signals mounted on a I-Beam bridge in Greensburg, Pennsy... (more)

The BN coal train seen arriving at Palmer Lake in my pervious submission had three BN SD40-2’s on... (more)

A 4 pack of helpers wait to enter Rose Yard after assisting a heavy eastbound mixed freight over the mountain. A westbound mixed freight can be seen making its run on the hill in the foreground.

Helpers push a westbound stack train past the closed Alto tower.

E8-powered Penn Central train #16, the Duquesne running from Pittsburgh to New York, overtakes an eastbound coal train with rear end helpers on the climb between Cresson and Gallitzen, PA.

The Byron Hill helpers head light northbound until County F.

A Nebraska Northwestern train with RCPE power rolls into Crawford past a dirty set of BNSF helpers. The BNSF local out of Alliance will soon be arriving with an 80+ car train for the NNW crew to t... (more)

It's a chilly morning on the mountain as symbol PIMO for Morrisville, PA eases downgrade just past the westward home signals for MG. The 135 car tonnage outfit had five locomotives on the point pl... (more)