NS C39 takes an Approach Medium at CP Leech with power on both ends. A New replacement stands today next to the current signal.
A trip out with my dad this morning resulted in us stopping by the yard to see the local getting their train ready before heading out to work the Conemaugh Line.
Working hard to overtake the coal train on the adjacent track, C39 accelerates by the Federal Street flyover.
C39 departs Island Ave. for Etna with the unusual combination of one GP38-2 and one SD80MAC.
Running long hood forward, 3012 leads C39 east on the Conemaugh.
5804 began life as Southern GP50 #7056 in 1980. No longer assigned to Southern piggyback trains, this geep is working local C39 today.
C39 heads west on the Conemaugh, destined for Island Avenue yard.
Local C39 pauses in Pittsburgh's West Park, just east of Penn. The two outer tracks are the Fort Wayne Line, and the two inner are the Conemaugh.
C39 backs through the interlocking at Penn while making a double out of Island Ave.
Conemaugh Line local C39 departs Etna with 19 cars for points east.
C39 departs the yard and enters the Conemaugh main at Sharp. Today's train featured a long cut of gondolas, destined for Allegheny Ludlum.
Etna based local C39 creeps past the remnants of a bad derailment which occurred on 1/31/05.