The head end of an empty train has just exited the Mt Hope Tunnel on the former Loup Creek Subdivision of the C&O. This is RJ Corman territory nowadays as seen by the trailing SD70M pair in the customary red and silver.

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As of a few days ago, the ancient B&O signal system on the Indiana Sub west of Seymour was finally cut over after nearly a century of service. Seen here are a set of intermediates just west of Vallonia, IN, as the sun rises on a warm August morning.

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It’s a spectacular autumn morning in the Allegheny Mountains of Pennsylvania on October 23, 1988. At famous Horseshoe Curve west of Altoona, a pair of Conrail EMD SD40 pushers lean into a westbound CR freight past the trackside park.

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It’s nearly dusk on March 22, 2017 as not long for the roster SD60I # 8734 and two CW44’s emerge from west portal of Natural Tunnel with 90 system empties from Eastman headed for loading in the Harlan coalfields.

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Eastbound Roseville to Green River freight crosses the Truckee River just west of Floriston, CA on their way towards Reno.

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