NS and CSX on the Greater Allegheny Passage - May, 2015

The distance between McKeesport and Homestead is roughly an 8 mile walk on the Greater Allegheny Passage Bike Trail. That however, barely covers 3% of the entire trail that runs through the western side of Pennsylvania. Along the trail, you can view trains along the NS Mon Line through the towns of Dravosburg, Duquesne, West Mifflin, Munhall, and Homestead. We start our journey on the south end and move our way north.
The first train is a coal train led by NS 6906 headed south to Shire Oaks, PA, rolling through Dravosburg underneath the McKeesport-Duquesne Bridge.
We head up to Norfolk Southern's CP-16 Junction between the Port Perry Branch and the Mon Line. While waiting for NS, we catch in the distance a TCKR SW1 switching cars and a work crew unloading steel pipes from flat cars.
The NS intermodal train finally rolls over the Port Perry Bridge and onto the Mon Line headed north led by NS 9360. In the midst of the lengthy train, we look to our left to see a workman using a small crane to load old track ties into NS Top Gon Hoppers.
As the intermodal train finally ends, we catch another one headed onto the Mon Line this time from a straight shot onto the bridge. NS 9244 leads the midsized intermodal train north onto the Mon Line.
Moving not too much further up the line, we catch a train that will go from the Mon Line onto the Port Perry Bridge. NS 2578 pulls the train over the crossover switch and a hard left turn onto the bridge headed to the Pittsburgh Line.
Back at our most recognizable spot in Homestead, NS 9476 rolls on by with a heavy coal consist behind it. Fast moving hot-shot trains are the best to watch!
Finally we end the trip with the one and only CSX train in the video. A C40-8W pulls a long autorack train over the Pinkerton's Landing Bridge towards the Waterfront, and eventually through Pittsburgh.
SCT - Episode 19.

[@jbscustomartwork]

Great video!

[@wurlitzer1538]

What are you shooting with? Looks great

[@SteveO.1997]

Is that next to route 28 at the beginning?

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+Steven Oravitz
No sir that would be 837 South!