As the low sun holds on through the increasing clouds, the Selkirk to South Schenectady/Rotterdam local clatters towards Game Farm Road on Track #1. Leading the local with a big 89 car train for ... (more)

Sequentially numbered SD40E's 6328 and 6329 lead NS local T77 west over the Pope Lick trestle.

With helpers ahead, NS 63V (trash train) heads west through the no longer in service UN PRR era intermediate signal.

Altoona & Rose Yard continue to be busy spot. In a matter of 30 seconds, 4 tracks filled up with action as the helpers await their next assignment.

A matched set of helpers with consecutive numbers (NS 6300 & NS 6301) await their next assignment in Rose Yard.

The NS local to Erie C62 takes the siding at the Wesley control point and will hold as eastbound intermodal 22K passes on the mainline.

A pair of SD40E helpers are shoving on the rear of westbound NS intermodal 25V as the trains heads out of Altoona, passing the tower that once controlled this interlocking. These helpers were adde... (more)

A quartet of EMD SD40E's in helper service move through the yard in Altoona towards their next assignment assisting a train up the grade. To the left of the yard is NS's Juniata Shops, with numero... (more)

NS C28 passes under the old and new signals at Leets, with less than 24 hours to go before the new signals are cutover.

Loaded Norfolk Southern coal train NS 590 is slowly grinding its way over the summit of the Alleghenies with a pair of SD40E helpers on the head of the train's ES40DC and C44-9W. While the PRR pos... (more)

A pair of helpers on the head end of loaded coal train NS 590 as it makes its way down the east slope of the Alleghenies. The train has just come out of the summit tunnels and is heading downgrade... (more)

Norfolk Southern local C62 departs Wesleyville with a long hood forward SD40E after meeting 15M in the siding. A UP AC4400 is waiting pickup from the interchange with GE Transportation.

Norfolk Southern local N1R is using an SD40E as they spot cars on the interchange track with the Buffalo Southern on a Saturday morning. The yard at right is part of the G&W South Buffalo Railway.... (more)

A pair of SD40E helpers shove hard on a loaded coal train as they plunge into the tunnels at Gallitzin as the setting sun casts its golden light on the Pittsburgh Line.

A pair of SD40Es are about to plunge into tunnel at Gallitzen as they push on a long and heavy eastbound freight.