The two types of engines that call the West Slope home, the SD80MAC and the SD40-2, team up on the local switching the R.J. Corman interchange in Cresson. A crew member is walking back to SD80MAC ... (more)

NS power move at Cresson in minus 1 degrees. This was taken during my "snow chase trip" in early 2008.

Elephant-style EMDs and a GE lead an eastbound intermodal out of the spectacular sunset ending one heck of a weekend on the Middle Division!

NS 650 catches a stop signal at CP-MO allowing the photographer to wander around and find a few new angles of a very popular location.

3806 finishes up work in the Cresson Yard a few minutes before it will join up with fiver other Corman units to load the difficult 'Fallen Timber' coal drag.

After one of the SD80MACs had problems and caused the loaded coal train to stop at CP MO, the conductor watches from the ground as a pair of SD40-2s are added to the head end for the final climb o... (more)

With one of the two SD80MACs on the point, NS 7215 and 7201, having problems, the loaded coal train crawled up the mountain before stopping on Track 1 at MO in Cresson. SD40-2s 3340 and 3341 were ... (more)

Dash 2s on stacks. I wish this could be the power on all stack trains, but unfortunately NS SD40-2s 3337 and 3335 are on the rear of a westbound stacker for braking assistance down the moun... (more)

Auto parts train 13N and its eastbound counterpart 12N were already on the chopping block several months ago before the 'big three' auto crisis, so get your photos of this Pittsburgh Line regular ... (more)

You can't see them all, but 12 80MACs have circled the wagons at Cresson in the first big snow of the year.

NS 9232 and 8886 drag 11 HLCX leasers in various paint schemes east presumably to Altoona through the rock cut seen from the Route 53 bridge.

Dress blues. The main reason for our Cresson trip (besides the snow) was to see if we could find the last two blue ex-Conrail SD80MACs. When we arrived in Cresson on Saturday afternoon, we ... (more)

NS 9436 kicks up some fresh snow as it leads an unknown van train (symbol needed) east through Cresson during a brief snow shower on Saturday afternoon. It is seen passing NS 2686 on an empty coal... (more)

12,000 horsepower shove on the rear of 16,950 tons of coal.