VIEW Early morning fog rolls across Pitcairn Yard as a work train lead by GP40-2 No.3372 heads west out of the yard. |
VIEW WING interlocking in Wilmerding, PA can be a busy place. A coal train (98 track) and a van train exiting Pitcairn Yard lead (99 track) wait for another van train to pass before heading west. |
VIEW This time two coal trains wait, one on the main and one on the runner, as a van train lead by SD60M 5504 exits 99 track from Pitcain Yard. |
VIEW Love those marker lights! Conrail was the last U.S. Class 1 railroad to have marker lights. SD60M 5539 is seen parked next to Pitcairn Yard in June 1998. |
VIEW SD60M 5589 leads a westbound van train through the sweeping curve approaching Trafford, PA. |
VIEW GE 6167 a C40-8W waits for the signal on 98 track in Wilmerding, PA Oct. 22 1998 |
VIEW Two SD40-2 lead a coal train through Irwin, PA. The empty hoppers are headed for the coal fields of Western Pennsylvania. Note the helper link box on the front porch of 6362. |
VIEW GP10 No.7597 a former PRR unit built in 1959 is mated with a slug and shuffling cuts of cars at Conway Yard on October 10, 1994. |
VIEW Down in the trench. Conrail blue contrasts with mother nature's yellow leaves on the North Side of Pittsburgh, PA October of 1994. |
VIEW 8:00am March 19th 94' on the Lurgan Branch in Shippensburg, PA we find B36-7 No. 5051 leading a RoadRailer train south to Hagerstown, MD on former PRR track. The track to left is former WM and in the background at the signal bridge both tracks merge to a single ex-Reading track. |
VIEW Taken from high atop the Westinghouse Bridge July 1994 we find a duo of SD40-2's leading an empty coal train west on the Port Perry Branch. Its easy to see where East Pgh. yard once was. |
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