The engineer leans out the window and receives a blast of chilly September air to the face as he rounds the final bend before the US Rt 50 bridge.
NS 1073 roars around the bend on a rainy October day, passing underneath a bridge that no longer exists. The Buffenmeyer Road Bridge had long been closed to traffic, but made for an excellent pho... (more)
NS 8098 sits in the hole at Clarksillve (on the NS Mon Line), waiting for a doubled up MTY coal train to pass before continuing it's journey from Bailey Mine to Shire Oaks Yard.
A remotely-operated SD38-2 pulls a string of empty hoppers underneath the Cumberland Mine Prep Plant's flood loader. The Cumberland Mine RR is a unique operation that is unencumbered by FRA overs... (more)
An August thunderstorm approaches as a five-pack of URR switchers reverse a long cut of loaded coke cars down the ramp into Edgar Thomson's Dexter Yard. The Valley Yard is packed with fresh steel... (more)
A Union Pacific oil train heads east, descending the front face of the Flatirons and down to Denver and the flat plains that stretch eastward. The mid-train DPU's come into view, showing how quic... (more)
A heavy intermodal train grinds around the horseshoe bend in Mance, PA on a beautiful spring evening. After dodging rain clouds all day, this was a welcome break in the weather! This train was r... (more)
Ready? Set? GO!!! It's neck and neck as two boats race off into the sunset under an eastbound coal train. NS 9922 is diverging onto the Island Connector, which will send this train do... (more)
CSXT 412 accelerates across the Pinkerton's Landing Bridge (after waiting for a crew to complete some track-work on the single-track bridge), heading into the rain as it proceeds west towards Pitt... (more)
NS 9479 catches the day's last bit of sunlight as it heads across the Ohio Connecting Bridge and crosses over from the Mon Line onto the Island Connector and down onto the Conemaugh Line.
BPRR 2143 and 2177 shove a pair of tank cars into the siding at Austin's Bleach on a hot, windy Sunday morning.
NS 4343's headlight illuminates the interior of the Allegheny Tunnel as it heaves a stack train westbound over the grade.
NS 4398's headlight cuts through the dense fog as it speeds eastbound, rounding the curve at MP 336 on the NS Pittsburgh Sub.
CSX 3187 idles on a humid July evening in Pittsburgh as a westbound intermodal roars by. The ES44AC is at the head of an eastbound coal train, and had to sit and wait for 3 westbound trains befor... (more)
AVR SD60M 6002 slows as it approaches the NS Island Avenue Yard, rolling through "The Trench" in Pittsburgh, PA.
