Oil 53: NS 7249, a helper engine for the west slope of the Pittsburgh line, helps push loaded oil train 64E down the west slope and toward Gallitzin, where the helper set will have to hold the tr... (more)
The new face of helper service on NS’s West Slope of the Alleghenies, work hard to assist a coal drag to the summit at Cresson.
NS 22V with a 2016 rebuild of an ex-Union Pacific SD90MAC (ex-UP 3475/ex-UP 8020) passes by the early signs of spring in New Jersey. NS 9712 (C44-9W) and NS 7606 (ES44DC) are the trailing units.
NS 7249 (SD70ACU) battles the grade at Lilly, PA on Norfolk Southern's Pittsburgh Line. The lead engine started out as a UP SD9043MAC and was rebuilt by NS's shops in Altoona, PA to a SD70ACU in D... (more)
A pair of former UP 90macs cross over Westfield Avenue with manifest train 18G.