As the fall colors start to show in the Tennessee Valley, NS T42 makes its way back to the Charleston depot with an SD40E and a SD40-2.

A pair of NS SD40Es head west out of Norris Yard. Visible in the background is former Southern Railway Bay Window Caboose X500, owned by the City of Irondale and used as a train-viewing platform.

Packing 3,000 horsepower, this rebuilt EMD shoves some cars in the city of Bremen. I got a snapshot of it from the new viewing platform that was built several years ago.

A pair of SD40E's push on the rear of M4G as it nears the top of the grade between Cresson and Gallitzin.

The helper set on NS 12G work hard as they push the long freight up and over the hill.

A pair of SD40E helpers shove eastbound 20T up the West Slope at CP SO, South Fork, PA on a bitter cold January day..

Keeping traffic moving over the mountain grades in the Alleghenies is these set of helpers based out of Altoona. Helper crews keep busy shoving or moving around to be in position for the next shov... (more)

After helping shove Eastbound mixed freight 10G over the West Slope of the Allegheny Mountains in Central Pennsylvania, a pair of EMD SD40E helps assist with braking as the long train eases downgr... (more)

First revenue run leading NS 11A from Altoona, PA. to Conway, PA.

A helper set pushes a heavy stack train across PRR's stone arch bridge that survived the devastating flood in 1889.

From a different perspective of the Gallitzin tunnel see the NS 6323 & 6319 which provide assistance to NS 21t just exited the tunnel and now provide assistance to for braking down the west slope,... (more)

Helpers shove hard on the rear of NS 650 as it passes thru the cut between Portage & Cassandra

20R's helpers hold back the train going down the slide.