After a series of heavy rains, the Buffalo & Pittsburgh suffered some flooding along its former Pennsylvania Railroad low-grade line near DuBois, Pennsylvania, stranding a coal train at the Lady Jane prep plant and isolating a large string of cars bound for Falls Creek yard. With frac sand being a hot commodity on the B&P, the decision was made to run everything waiting at Driftwood up to Salamanca on the Western New York & Pennsylvania to interchange with B&P there.
After battling the treacherous grades of Keating Summit, the four big MLWs (a C630M and three M636s) cool their heels and drift downgrade with 110 cars through Port Allegany, Pennsylvania.
Photographs where trains and people mix, weather it's street running, plant switching or carrying a unit grain train out of an elevator, it will be put here.
