The evening southbound manifest has foreign power with Union Pacific and BNSF power as it heads towards Youngstown on a steamy summer day.

With the trademark Alco smoke, the crew shuttles covered hoppers of plastic pellets for its customer WL Plastics which make extruded plastic pipe in a myriad of sizes.

The last train in Clarksville is this GP9 and caboose combo on static display at the station made famous by The Monkees. RJ Carman railroad operates this shortline now.

Held up in High Bridge. A Cincy bound grain train stretched out across the Kentucky High Bridge is tied down awaiting a new crew. In the background is the E. W. Brown generating station. It is uni... (more)

A Cincinnati bound intermodal soars across the the Kentucky River on the Rathole Sub

Heading east towards a Punxsutawney, the daily afternoon manifest rolls across the Goodville Trestle built in 1899

As the afternoon shadows grow, an eastbound manifest rolls through town with a GE ES44AC in DPU mode pushing hard. Most of the DPU's I've seen on the Conemaugh have been inserted about 2/3 back. W... (more)

Dashing through snow, 8907 in DPU mode does double double duty as a caboose as the Northbound MT at CP SX South is 17 miles into its journey to Greenville,PA

The new face of helper service on NS’s West Slope of the Alleghenies, work hard to assist a coal drag to the summit at Cresson.

On a beautiful fall day, the stillness of the valley is interrupted by the sounds of 8800HP. A symphony in EmD as ore loads climb the .6% grade.

On a beautiful Veterans Day eve afternoon, 3384 along with 3385 and 3386 in numerical order, soars over the Allegheny River at 10MPH on its way to Butler.

Soaring over the Little Mahoning Creek valley on a trestle built by the Pencoyd Iron Works in 1899 and upgraded in 1941, engine 5020 leads three other EMD engines northbound to Riker Yard in Punxs... (more)

The Punxsutawney to Butler manifest is rounding the curve before crossing over Goodville Road with a quintette of EMD power.

North to Johnsonburg the daily manifest has reached track speed. In the consist directly behind the last BPRR engine is new electric engine for Iron Ore of Canada.

North to Johnsonburg the daily manifest has reached track speed. At Johnsonburg the crew will swap trains with the crew heading south from Salamanca,NY and bring SIRI back to Ricker’s Yard in Pu... (more)