Just the usual 2006 helpers passing the Brickyard and my friend Sean's STI. We put a lot of fun miles on that thing while aggressively chasing down the last vestiges of Conrail blue.
NS P86 flies through the small community of Bonham in northern Union County, SC, at top track speed.
NS P86 rounds the curve at East Spartanburg on its daily trek down the oldest continuously operating railroad mainline in North America, Norfolk Southern's "W" Line.
NS 3425, the power for P86, backs into the Gonvauto plant to pick up a couple of steel coil cars.
NS V36 heads west through Salem on the former Virginian.
The open door on NS 3425 provides some welcome relief from the summer heat not from the smell of trash train 65J which it is pushing!
NS helpers for loaded coal 538 east just before dark at Cassandra, PA.
Two sets of helpers are needed on the rear of this loaded coal bucket to push it to the top from Conemaugh, and hold it back on the journey east down the mountain.
Ex-Conrail, still in Conrail colors, taking 11A west out of Altoona
A matching set of EX-CON's give a long 20Q a helping had towards Altoona.
Light Engine movement in Altoona
With help cut in on the head end the westbound "garbage" train roars out of the Allegheny Tunnel.
