The lead unit died and the trailing SD60 is pulling the entire train.
NS 3351 couples to NS 6777. The crews BS.
Three NS units, with a phase 2b SD70M in lead, haul a Herzog ballast train over the summit. Two helpers brought up the rear.
The train comes to a stop at Cresson to let off the helpers.
NS 590 stops at CP-MO.
Empty hoppers lead by an SD60 head west through CP-MO.
Wind turbine generators are being erected along the mountain nearby. They are being unloaded in the MW yard at Cresson. Here one sits over the weekend.
The train is pulling out of the siding with the helpers pushing hard.
I thought this shot was timed pretty well.
Kicking up lots of snow.
The helpers trail in a perpetual snow cloud.
This train has crested the grade and is now coasting through Cresson.
Two helper sets and one lone SD40-2 are at the Cresson enginehouse.
The NS F units are making their first main line test run this evening.. The move passes through the signal bridge at Rt 53.
This pair of GP38-2 rebuilds is along for the ride to provide dynamic braking to simulate a train.
Helpers on a westbound pass the helpers on a stopped westbound.
538 is eastbound with two blue SD60I's.
538 has a four-banger of helpers on the rear.
Eastbound intermodal.
A rare daylight 262.
A 966 refuels at Cresson. The power is a C39-8 and an SD50.
The usual suspects bring up the rear of a heavy intermodal.
And under the signal bridge.
And off they go.
In this photo, the main goes from right to left. The Cresson Enginehouse is in the center, and RJ Corman PA lines makes up the west tail of the wye. The boxcars in the RJCP yard are for scrap.
Closer up on the Cresson Enginehouse.
Helpers come to the rescue of the 10N.
The helper power couples up the the head end of the 10N under the direction of a road foreman.
A ballast train stored on "main 8" between CP-MO and CP-AR has a pair of blue SD60I's for power.
Another shot of the ballast train power.
For the Conrail Historical Society's 2008 Convention, NS arranged to have some locomotives available for photos and cab tours in South Fork yard. Lots of blue in this shot. Photos taken on railroad property with permission.
NS 7208 and 3410.
33336 and 3338 will probably be the last blue helper set around.
3347 brings up the rear of a heavy coal train.
Helpers on the rear of a mixed freight.
Westbound intermodal.
Lite SD40E helpers westbound at MP 251.
NS 5297 is still blue as a trailing unit on 36A.
Three SD80MACs lay over at the Cresson enginehouse.
572 westbound coal train with SD70ACes up front, 85 loaded RBMN hoppers, and four SD40Es on the rear. By the time the train got the Cresson the sunlight was pretty much head-on unfortunately.
Westbound geometry train at CP-MO.
This old PRR signal bridge at MP 263 is unusual in that the eastbound signals are mounted on masts the raise them above a bridge.
Westbound intermodal on track 3.
Lite helpers.
Eastbound intermodal on track 1.
Helpers shoving containers up the mountain.
Tier 1 SD70M leading a stack train.
Stack train meets a coal train with one of the few white-face dash9s remaining.