A four pack of SD40E have had their work cut out for them assisting PP&L coal train 614 east. They've helped it fight gravity to get over the top of the grade at AR, now they're helping it brake a... (more)

At CP AR, the 1% grade of the West Slope ends and levels out before hitting the steep descending grade of the Slide. A trio of Ex-CRQ SD60I's are still laying on the throttle with a South Fork to ... (more)

The fog from the valley and mountains below and in the air above, diffuse the already warm early AM sun as it rises above the hills. Newer SD40E's provide additional braking to an Eastbound manif... (more)

Early morning eastbound 36A pops out of the shadows as it starts down "The Slide" from the New Portage Tunnel.

A couple of now NS SD80MACS lead its load of coal at Gallitzin. For this first time visitor this was a nice gift to have a Conrail blue 80MAC on the point for my 50th birthday.

One of the very few sets of SD40-2 pushers drifts downgrade while an NS container train slugs upgrade at the famous tunnels on the west slope.

An Amtrak train storms the summit and is about to head into the tunnel

NS SD40E pushers help control an intermodal train downgrade from the tunnel

An NS coal creeps over the crest of the mountain as freezing fog hovers near the summit.

A blue veteran leads an empty coal drag up the mountain as a trailer train eases downgrade. The rear of the empty hopper train can be seen just above the beginning of it.

This westbound double stacker is about to crest the grade at Gallitzin as the early morning sun rises above the Allegheny Mountains. Photo taken with Canon 7D.

Peeling paint and patches adorn one of the last Conrail blue SD40-2's helping 14G up and over the mountain and down the "slide". A winter storm has coated the surrounding landscape with snow and i... (more)

An early snow storm coats the fall foilage and the town of Gallitzin in a blanket of snow as a westbound autorack train has completed its trek up the east slope of the Allegheny Mountains.

The weather outside is frightful but the business of railroading goes on as head end helpers keep 567 moving west through the snow.