The sun is setting the day before the Altoona N Scale Weekend, which accounts for the crowd gathered in downtown watching the NS action.
Coalin Curve: NS 7236, along with another ACU, shove a doubled-up loaded coal train down the mountain as they pass the world-famous Horseshoe Curve and head into Altoona.
An eastbound helper set drifts back into Altoona while a DPU unit assists a freight train westbound towards the Horseshoe Curve.
The new wide cab face of the mountains shoves a long 21M around the curve and over the hill.
Time to Blow This SceneNS high-and-wide 053 gets underway after waiting at ANTIS. The first load is a pair of new M88A2 tank retrievers fresh from the plant in York, PA, with the re... (more)
Adhesion testing on Starkey Hill with NS homebuilt SD70ACus. The tanks and hoses are for wet rail testing.
Runoff from melting snow and additional rainfall in recent days has the Middle Fork of the Holston River well above normal levels as a former Union Pacific SD90MAC leads 15T across the bridge into... (more)