An NS SD40E leads a special high & wide train of industrial heat exchangers as it crosses the trestle over Walnut Creek in Fairview, PA.

Locomotives:
NS 6337 SD40E
NS 7528 ES40DC more)

An NS SD40E leads high & wide special train 054 hauling a unit train of industrial heat exchangers as it crosses over Strong Creek on the trestle in Ashtabula, Ohio.

Locomotives:
NS 633... (more)

An NS SD40E leads high & wide special train 054 hauling a unit train of industrial heat exchangers around the sweeping curve at Bort Road.

Locomotives:
NS 6337 SD40E
NS 7528 ES40DC <... (more)

An SD40E leads a GEVO and a GP on NS 054, a high & wide special with a unit train of industrial heat exchangers. I first caught the train here just before the Whitehouse control point near Westfie... (more)

The NS local to Erie, C65, shoves down the industrial trackage on Erie's west side over what used to be the NKP/NS mainline through the city.

Locomotives:
NS 6353 SD40E

A single SD40E on local C65 waits on Dean Siding in Erie for a recrew to arrive. The new crew will take the local back west to Conneaut, Ohio, working industries along the way.

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NS Local C65 heads west at the point where the NS mainline joins the CSX mainline grade through Erie, PA. The local will pull down the tracks to CP Paterno before backing into the industrial lead ... (more)

What was once the Norfolk Southern mainline through Erie leading to the street running down 19th Street is now just an overgrown industrial lead used by local C65 to serve customers on the track t... (more)

What better place to see true mountain railroading than the legendary West Slope? NS 6311 is the rearmost helper on eastbound freight NS 14G. This pair of SD40Es are giving it all they have to kee... (more)

A quad of NS SD40Es push the loaded coal train 534 up the grade towards Altoona.

NS 6356 leads train B09 west through Ogden Dunes IN, at milepost 488 on the Chicago Line.

To help trains traverse the steep grades between Altoona and Cresson, helper engines are added to the front and back ends of trains. Here is one such Railroad: Norfolk Southern
Locomotive: EMD SD40E
Location: Cresson, Pennsylvania, USA
Locomotive #: NS 6310
Train ID: Unknown
Photo Date: June 24, 2011

NS coal train 592 gets pushed up the West Slope by a helper set passing under the PRR signal bridge at Summerhill.

A set of helpers push an intermodal West through Summerhill, assisting with dynamic braking as the train descends the West Slope.

A helper set pushes an Eastbound oil train up the West Slope through Cresson into Gallitzin.