Slope Push:
NS 7246, an EMD SD70ACU, helps shove doubled up empty coal train NS 595 up the mountain and toward Horseshoe Curve as it begins its steep climb up the mountain.
Back when there were auto manufacturing plants in the Northeast, Linden and Metuchen, NJ generated appreciable traffic - such as symbol LMPI that carried auto racks and hi cube boxcars. The train ... (more)
Conrail looked great in the 1990s and traffic moved right along over the mountain. Here symbol OIPI snarls through MG interlocking on the east slope with one of the daily succession of manifests o... (more)
MG was so sequestered a location that one only heard bird calls punctuating the silence until a distant westbound's locomotives began to fill the valley below Horseshoe with the sound of power. Ev... (more)