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My final shot of any of the PRR position light signals on the West Slope before they were retired and removed. NS 746 approaches the Jamestown Road bridge and the 257 signals just after 4am on June 7, 2019.

NEW FREEDOM, PA - The "William H. Simpson" York #17 is a faithful replica of a Civil War era 4-4-0 steam locomotive. In 1863, a locomotive of this type pulled President Abraham Lincoln's train from Baltimore along this line to Hanover Junction roughly 10 miles to the North where he transferred onto another train and head West to Gettysburg to deliver his now famous seven minute address commemorating the new cemetery where thousands from that summer's battle had perished. The locomotive is named in honored of Mr. Simpson who was a driving force behind the creation of Steam Into History, the company that runs the excursions between New Freedom and Hanover Junction. He died in May, 2012 not having seen his vision come to life. Lighting provided by Sean R. Hoyden

Western Maryland Railway 7471 sits idling and awaits for it's crew to board at Cumberland and take it and its train to Connellsville. Actually it was 2012 and the engine had recently been shipped "home" after repainted into its former WM glory for use on the George's Creek Railroad. On this night a few friends and I with permission from the railroad did a mini night shoot at the Cumberland station

A pair of KCS de Mexico GE AC4400's idle away on the point of an Atlanta bound stack train as a southbound NS freight passes on the NO&NE main one track over. The KCS crew brought the train from Shreveport and tied the train down. It will be well after dark before an NS AGS South crew boards to take the train eastward.