P&LE, Pittsburgh and Lake Erie U28B 2812, leads a northbound loaded coal train on the Monongahela Rwy at mp8 Clarksville, Pennsylvania. April 23, 1986. Jack D Kuiphoff © photo
Norfolk Southern, Penn Central Heritage unit 1073 NS 1017, leads a northbound coal train N07 on the ex Monongahela Railway, at Clarksville, Pennsylvania. October 25, 2012. Jack D Kuiphoff © photo
NS 8098 sits in the hole at Clarksillve (on the NS Mon Line), waiting for a doubled up MTY coal train to pass before continuing it's journey from Bailey Mine to Shire Oaks Yard.
Enroute to Bailey mine with 110 empty coal hoppers, N73 passes Clarksville.
Finishing up with the floodgates. After a washout that crippled the artery of coal from the coalfields of Southwest Pennsylvania, traffic is non stop on the NS Mon Line. N21 pulls loads north ... (more)
591 heads south on the former MGA that is now the NS Mon Line across Ten Mile Creek in Clarksville PA.
Rain pours down upon the Mon Valley as southbound empties bound for Bailey Mine prepare to meet counterpart N21 between CP ARK and GATE on the NS Mon Line.
After a repair to a washout on the Mon Line, an endless parade of coal loads and empties go up and down the NS Mon Line at a frequency I've never witnessed before. N21 heads north through the doub... (more)
A CSX Duke Power coal train finds a hole in the tree line west of Clarksville on the former MGA line between Waynesburg and West Brownsville.
Freshly painted CR 2038, formerly MGA 2308, leads empties southbound through Clarksville, PA. The empties are destined for loading at Bailey Mine at the end of the Manor Branch.
Northbound coal loads follow the South Fork of Tenmile Creek as MGA 2305 North approaches Clarksville, Pa.
An empty southbound hopper train approaches Clarksville, Pa.
The sun glints off the numberboard of MGA 2307 as it leads empties south at Clarksville, Pa.
A southbound Detroit Edison empty hopper train approaches Clarksville en route to Bailey Mine on the MGA's Manor Branch for loading.
A train of empty Wisconsin Electric hoppers rolls through Clarksville, Pennsylvania on the Monongahela Railway. The WEEX trains were always easy to spot, as they almost always had a C&NW unit with... (more)
