Local Railroads

Amtrak Train 48, Eastbound Lake Shore Limited, passes Fairview, PA on time 0925 Valentines Day 2008. Temp 16 degrees F.

CSX 815 ES44AC, Eastbound, Valentines Day 2008 at Fairview, PA. 0920AM. 16 degrees F

Meet at CP97, Fairview, PA. 06 March 2008

Amtrak eastbound Train 48, Lake Shore Limited, speeds into a cold March sunrise at CP-110 on the PA/Ohio border.

Westbound CSXT light engine movement brings a little color to a cold early spring morning. MP-113, West Springfield, PA 17 March 2008.

CSXT eastbound solid reefer block at CP-110, 17 March 2008.

Eastbound NS stack train glides over Elk Creek bridge at sunset. 16 April 2008.

CSX westbound CP-94, Millfair Road, Erie, PA 18 April 2008

GE Evolution Hybrid Demonstrator 2010 on static display near Erie Bayfront Convention Center during GE Annual Shareholders' Meeting 23 April 2008.

Rio Tinto Iron Ore 8111, a GE ES44DCi Australian export locomotive, sits on static display near Erie Bayfront Convention Center during GE Annual Stockholders' Meeting 23 April 2008.

NS 7520 (ES40DC) thunders across Walnut Creek bridge, Fairview, PA on humid July morning.

UP C44-9W #9800 and SD60-M #2378 westbound into afternoon thunderstorm. M.P. 99 Fairview, PA 09 AUG 2008

CSXT AC60CW #616 leading SD40-2 #8883 and ES44DC #5222 westbound Fairview, PA near C.P. 100. 02 AUG 2008

Evening Norfolk Southern westbound, Elk Creek bridge, Girard, PA. 15 AUG 2008. Ex-Conrail NS SD50 6754 leading, GE C40-9W 9474 trailing.

Paired Norfolk Southern SD70M-2's 2738 and 2713 head west over Elk Creek shortly after sun-up. 16AUG2008.

C.P. Paterno is the west end of Norfolk Southern's bypass route through the city of Erie, PA. Opened for traffic in September 2001, the new route ended over 100 years of street running, and a corresponding low-speed bottleneck, through Erie along 19th Street. The old mainline remains in place as an industrial secondary track. Crews refer to this Control Point as "JoePa".

"Welcome to the Great Lakes Service Lane" CP-97 at Fairview, PA marks the end of the CSX Lake Shore subdivision and the beginning of the Erie West subdivision.

Light engines lead by CSXT SD40-2 8030 cross over from track 1 to track 2 at CP-97, Fairview, PA.

CSXT GE ES44DC #5316 leads westbound stack train on a luminous fall afternoon at CP-94. Manchester Road, Fairview, PA

Norfolk Southern GE Dash 9-40CW #9195 eastbound train 22K(?) Fairview, PA 31 January 2009. 16 degrees F.