CSX & P&LE around Pittsburg, PA.
Author: Mike Stellpflug
CSX between Youngstown, OH and Sand Patch, PA. Also P&LE stuff between Youngstown and Pittsburg.
Photo Gallery
R-137 crosses the Ohio River Bridge.
A WEPX coal train at Beaver Falls.
R-135 crosses the Ohio River Bridge.
An Eastbound P&LE freight at Wampum, PA.
An Eastbound freight at CP29 in Beaver Falls, PA.
R-136 passes a P&LE freight at CP-29.
A Westbound freight in the Beaver River Valley as seen from the Koppel bridge.
A D&H GP39-2 and a Chessie SD50 lead an empty hopper train thru Aliquippa on the way back to the coal fields
An Eastbound freight at Aliquippa, PA
An Eastbound crosses the massive Ohio River Bridge.
R-138 at UN Tower. This may have been the last un-renumbered Chessie unit on CSX at the time.
An Eastbound coal train at College Station.
R-136 at Aliquippa.
A Westbound coke train with a pair of Chessie engines.
A Westbound at CP-29.
An Eastbound P&LE freight rolls thru College station in Beaver Falls.
A pair of baby boats depart New Castle with L-217 after a crew change. The sound these little engines made was incredible.
Catching this Oakway SD-60 was a nice surprise as it led Q-376 down the "ramp" and onto the ex P&LE main at West Pittsburg, PA.
R352 passe} the Westbound McKeesport signal with older EMD power.
Q-136 is led by an unusual GP38 in PBD colors with a yellow nose.
Q-216 has a CSX and CR blue unit at CP SINNS.
A big C30-7 leads G-165 thru Versailles.
Q-135 rolls by the scrap yard at CP SINNS. For a short time CSX used 6 axle EMD's ol the intermodal trains instead of the usual 4 axle GE's.
G-165 crosses the Youghiogheny River Bridge.
Q-136 crosses the Youghiogheny River Bridge.
Q-382 passes a truthful message.
An old C&O caboose brings up the rear of Y-103 as it crosses the main at Riverton.
Y-103 holds at CP Riverton for Q-216 to pass.
Q-216 passes Y-103 at Riverton.
The condustor watches as Y-103 makes a reverse move at Riverton.
Q-137 at Riverton.
Q-137 is about to pass the caboose on a work train at Riverton.
Q-353 passes the new signals at SINNS.
A Southbound hopper train on the CSX Mon Line passes the Glassport depot.
Q-377 passes the new signals at SINNS.
Q-276 passes the Westbound McKeesport signals.
Q-136 passes the Westbound signals at SINNS.
A GP40-2 was a rare catch to be leading Q353 thru CP SINNS.
S277 crosses the Monongahela River at Homestead, PA.