A pair of SD60M's lead the Allegheny Valley Railroad's AVR-06 job as it waits for permission into Norfolk Southern's Island Ave. Yard in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to interchange cars. The train is ... (more)

A pair of Carload Express SD60M's emerge from Schenley Tunnel in the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. This is the Allegheny Valley Railroad's AVR-06 job, returning from Norfolk So... (more)

Westbound ballast train rounds the curve into Finleyville.

AVR SD60M 6002 slows as it approaches the NS Island Avenue Yard, rolling through "The Trench" in Pittsburgh, PA.

The daily Allegheny Valley Railroad train rolls through the trench in West Park as it approaches Island Ave. Yard where it will interchange with Norfolk Southern on a partly cloudy November 14, 20... (more)

Ballast train passes what's left of the former Baltimore & Ohio Finleyville station.

A ballast train signals the beginning of the summer trackwork season on the AVR W&P Sub.

On a Saturday morning outside Pittsburgh, the Allegheny Valley Railroad AVR-06 crew works the yard in Glenwood, Pennsylvania, putting together their train with an SD60M and SD40M-2. Once the train... (more)

Serving the greater Pittsburgh area, the Carload Express owned Allegheny Valley Railroad has recently acquired new power in the form of ex-Norfolk Southern SD60M's. On a March morning before the ... (more)

On a sunny March morning, one of the AVR's newly arrived SD60M's is on the point of AVR-06 as it makes up its train at the yard in Glenwood, Pennsylvania. Once the double is completed, the train w... (more)

Serving the greater Pittsburgh area, the Carload Express owned Allegheny Valley Railroad has recently acquired new power in the form of ex-Norfolk Southern SD60M's. On a sunny March morning, one ... (more)

AVR 4001 leads AVR1 towards Island Ave Yard with Pittsburgh in the background, and surrounded by a golden cityscape at the popular spot commonly referred to as the trench.

The AVR Glenwood to NS Island Ave turn departs Island Ave Yard with its cut from NS in Pittsburgh PA

AVR5 heads up the W&LE interchange at Bruceton where they will swap trains and head back to Glenwood yard..

The daily AVR job creeps through the trench in Pittsburgh, PA as it approaches Island Ave Yard where it will interchange with NS on November 15, 2020.