NS Track Work
In pouring rain along the Pittsburgh line on Saturday, October 21, 2023, an NS crew readies track panels for the following weekend’s work to replace Track 2 in the Allegheny Tunnel. Track 3 was replaced the prior weekend. The foreman is seen at the far right, with three-step protection, between the cars giving hand signals to the equipment operator to pick up a panel in the gondola, part of work train NS 96M, parked on Track 3. Passing on Track 2 is an intermodal as NS kept moving the freight while the work proceeded. More new track panels and a pile of ties from the previous work are on the left in front of the closed Gallitzin Tunnel.
The former backhoe from CAT is set up as a high-rail device and it arrived on the rails behind the MOW train itself.
NS Track Work
In pouring rain along the Pittsburgh line on Saturday, October 21, 2023, an NS crew readies track panels for the following weekend’s work to replace Track 2 in the Allegheny Tunnel. Track 3 was replaced the prior weekend. The foreman is seen at the far right, with three-step protection, between the cars giving hand signals to the equipment operator to pick up a panel in the gondola, part of work train NS 96M, parked on Track 3. Passing on Track 2 is an intermodal as NS kept moving the freight while the work proceeded. More new track panels and a pile of ties from the previous work are on the left in front of the closed Gallitzin Tunnel.
The former backhoe from CAT is set up as a high-rail device and it arrived on the rails behind the MOW train itself.