SD40Es at night! A pair of SD40Es roll into Cresson for an overnight inspection before hitting the high-iron the following day.
Two SD40E's shove hard on the tail end of a loaded coal train, the shove will soon be over and then the helpers with be providing braking the rest of the way to Altoona.
Cab shot of the 9439 while sitting on 5 West waiting for a RJ Corman crew to show up and take the loaded corn train west.
Once dominating the west slope helper pools the SD40-2, has given way to rebuilt standard cabbed engines SD40E's. A SD40E helper set sits next to one of only two or three SD40-2 helper sets remain... (more)
Whose railroad is this? RJ Corman pulls North out of Cresson with a loaded corn train to get a helper.
NS is really going green these days and not in the form of just GEVO's but weeds. Here we find fresh out of the shops and the latest of the SD40E's 6326 making its way West from the Cresson Engine... (more)
Gypsum empties from the Huff powerplant whiz by on track 1 as an NS 58R corn train awaits an RJ Corman crew to taxi to take the train to the ethanol plant at Clearfield.
As they become more rare interest develops in the old "buttheads". I like the rebuilds and these were rebuilt by PC to 1200HP as evidenced by the larger radiator.
Early morning finds a extremely packed and fog covered Cresson Engine House. There was 13 SD80macs 1 SD60I and 2 helper sets sitting around the servicing area with 4 more engines on there way from... (more)
The late afternoon sun glistens off the side of 20R as it charges eastbound up hill down track one.
Four RJ units are on the tail end of a loaded coal train heading into cresson.
Amtrak 43 rolls west towards Cresson, thanks to scooterb for showing me this spot.
Storm clouds are starting to build back in as two stack trains meets.
Two SD80macs shove hard on a eastbound loaded train,
With a total of 10 engines 8 of them are pushers, and with 6 on the tail end shoving hard towards Gallitzin NS 590 rolls under PA 53 on track 1.