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The westbound Hancock Turn, a.k.a. CSX D721, exits 93 year old Carothers Tunnel on its way back to Cumberland Yard. The crew has a nice quiet ride in the cab of Road Slug #2265 (former B&O GP30 #6902) which is mated to GP40-2 #6482. Several cars from the U.S. Silica plant in nearby...
It's 7:53am and patches of morning fog are still holding on to areas of the CSX Cumberland Sub. The temperatures would rise above 70 on this day, but Q217 doesn't seem to mind the early chill in the wilds of West Virginia as it sprints the remaining 48 miles towards Cumberland Yard
Ex-Conrail C40-8W #7349 has her former colors shining through with red class lights on the leader of Q261 destined for the GM plant in Lordstown, Ohio. The train going away from the camera is Q370 for Philly with a junk manifest. CPL's still burn brightly on much of the Cumberland Sub as their...
E747 rounds the curve at Green Spring, West Virginia about 7 miles shy of Cumberland Yard. After a crew change there, these 85 empties will route back to the mines, down the CSX Mountain Sub towards Grafton
Q276 eases under the road bridge nearing the interlocking at Hancock, West Virginia with a pair of SD40-2's. Q276 runs daily between Walbridge, Ohio and Baltimore hauling scores of new autos
NS 214 eases into Vardo Yard at Hagerstown for a crew change prior to continuing northward. 11R from Binghamton had 3 units in charge of a manifest freight ready to roll south as soon as this guy clears
Former K651, now Q741 Tropicana Juice empties roll south past Amtrak King Street station with a few intermodals ahead of all the reefers. The sun appeared very briefly during this shot (woo hoo) before returning to gray skies and thick clouds
NS C26 works a cut of MOW cars at the West Brownsville Yard with three geeps and plenty of water below her. The Monongahela River sets the stage for operations in this area south of Pittsburgh resulting in coal traffic galore for both NS and CSX.
Q226 eases into the west end of Connellsville Yard with scores of freshly built Kentucky automobiles behind her. The Q226 would drop off 19 racks in the yard before proceeding to Baltimore. An old Western Maryland trestle still stands guard in the background
Amtrak PO30, the Capitol Limited, navigates a series of sharp curves at Ohiopyle, Pennsylvania on CSX rails, towards Sandpatch grade and eventually Washington, DC
An SD60M and an SD70M-2 round the curve at Greensburg with a hot load of double stacks bound for the east coast. The 20Q was one of 5 trains in an hour here.
NS 21J hustles a very short intermodal train through the roller coaster like terrain at Greensburg, while 20R scoots off in the distance eastbound on number one track towards Harrisburg
NS local N20 moves through the wye track at West Brownsville with 9 cars of fly ash past the American Legion monument near the Monongahela River. This train would make it as far south as Clarksville before they would get on the horn with the NS Mon Line DS to work out a recrew.
NS N21 with 105 loads of coal from the Waynesburg, PA area, lumbers along northbound at walking speed down the middle of Main Street in West Brownsville. With only a few feet of clearance between parked cars along the 1/2 mile or so stretch of street running, it's quite a sight to witness first...
A pair of GE's ease empty coal train E729 westbound on the CSX Mountain Sub on its way to Grafton, WV for more loads. The rear of the train is still in Cumberland Yard and snaking through Viaduct Junction.
Three UP SD70M's and a leaser lug CSX manifest freight Q641 up the west slope of Sandpatch Grade on a snowy and bitterly cold Easter Sunday. Having stopped a couple of miles to the rear to let the eastbound Capitol Limited pass by and crossover, these 12,000 horsies (the leaser was isolated)...
CSX Q370 with 122 cars in tow makes its way by a relic of the past just west of Hancock, West Virginia, The fading light and a bitterly cold Easter Sunday, along with snow in the mountains, made this a tough catch. The 2 UP trailing units came into Cumberland, Maryland on Q130 from Chicago...
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