More Quick Photos From The Pittsburgh Div.

All of these photos are from Monday 8/4 on our trip to the Pittsburgh area.

This is New Brighton where the Youngstown Line (center tracks) drop down under in a flying junction and emerge where the ethanol train burned up a bridge a year or two ago. This was a westbound coal train pulling out of Conway. I just like the blue leader.

This eastbound emerged from the Youngstown Line and surprised us with GRS 309 which is on NS working off horsepower hours.


Here we are relaxing on the porch at the Fallston Flagstop. Those are ex-P&LE tracks in Terry Stuart's back yard. You can just see the NS line across the Beaver River in this photo but we had a panoramic view albeit with a few trees mixed in.

We saw quite a few eastbounds on the old P&LE but saw no westbounds when we were trackside. Those snuck by while we were distracted by Conway Yard. I have no idea what that sign says. I meant to go look but this train came along and I took this while simultaneously talking to Terry on the cell phone about the OCS - which was leaving West Conway. Time to run.

Here is the full view of the NS OCS at New Brighton as it eases into the curves. It was following a double stack train and had to slow for the work zone west of us. We received a nice leisurely look at the whole train as a result. Thanks Terry!

At about 4:30pm we headed east via Butler to see if we could scare up something on the B&LE (now CN) or B&P (GWI). The B&P engine house area was stuffed with old SD45's and these ex-UP SD90AC's. Not much was moving since it was past supper time and likely the day's work was done. We were running late and didn't want to take the vast quantities of time required to scout out (find) the B&LE so we took the convenient US422 back to Altoona for dinner with Phil and Rita.

Today we have rain so we are enjoying a slow paced morning on the covered "veranda" watching the world go by chatting with the other railfans here. Phil even stopped in to pick up a tour customer. Maybe this will be a good day to go to the hobby shop.

I'll have more later when time allows. I also need to catch up on the last visit to Pittsburgh in January which happened a month before starting this blog.

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