On a cold and snowy Saturday afternoon, BNSF’s Provo, UT to Lincoln, NE manifest emerges from Tunnel 4 next to the Flatirons of the Rocky Mountains on January 12th, 2019.
WE 112 pauses just outside the coke plant in Monessen, PA waiting for the conductor to walk back to the head end so they can bring 43 loads up the Matt Branch to the Wheeling mainline.
North to Chester. Valley Railroad Mikado #40 takes the second, sold-out, Santa Special of the day north across Chester Creek, heading for North Chester, just about a mile and a half further... (more)