Eastern Railroad Discussion > NS meet Monday

I've been lucky to be able to spend some time in Pittsburgh recently due to a family member relocating there. A fellow TO member has graciously taken the time to show me a few photo spots, one of which is Leetsdale PA just east of NS Conway Yard.

I headed up there on May 28 and despite the variable weather, was rewarded with a nice period of activity in the early afternoon.

In this series, NS Local C28 passed a 13V that was holding for train congestion. C28 has an interesting GP59-slug combination. It crossed over from track 3 to track 2 in front of the waiting 13V  (Allentown to Conway), which had a CN SD75i to add some variety to the usual black and white.

 



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A little later after the 13V cleared, NS operated a Shire Oaks to North Carolina coal train westbound through CP Leet on track 3. It was a rather dusty affair featuring a 2x2x2 DP configuration, presumably for its rather hilly trip off its usual east-then-south routing via Hagerstown.



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The rear of the coal train passed and the headlight seen thru the dust turned out to be an eastbound 26E Chicago to Morrisville intermodal on track one with BNSF power sharing the burden for the trip over the Allegheny mountains in a few miles.

Thanks for looking,

Bob
Omaha



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 06/13/22 10:32 by King_Coal.

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Nice bunch, I always tried to hit up Leetsdale when I was in town...

JG

Nice set of photos!

Dan

Posted from iPhone

Well done Bob, you had good luck.
Safe trip home !