A trio of former lease SD40-2's take headroom on the trestle over I-376 as the Wheeling & Lake Erie 610 yard job puts together cars for the Westland Turn at Rook Yard in Rook, Pennsylvania.
WE 6989, a former CN 5041(SD40) BNSF 7329(SD40-2) BNSF 6989(SD40-2), leads a Westbound along Millers Run Road between Bridgeville and Cecil, PA.
Golden hour at Rook, WE 6385 (WLE paint), 3067 (WLE paint), 3016 (WLE paint), 6358 (BC Rail), 6989 (BNSF paint), 6988 (FURX paint) sit on the runner. WE 6985 (FURX paint), 4003 (WLE paint) sit on ... (more)
Usually the only cars you see in Rook are tank cars, sand hoppers, Gondolas, keywells and a occasional boxcar but not to often a flatcar. Here is WLE 103 switching west Rook as the pass a flatcar ... (more)
Wheeling and Lake Erie 6382 switching Rook
WLE 4003, 6353, 103, 302 sit in front of the Rook yard office
WE 112 rebuilt from WE 2769 is seen here at the helm of WE 610 coming back from Bruceton with a nice sized train from the AVR, here at Castle Shannon, PA.
Another railfan takes his shot as a W&LE train crosses the Parkway West.
4016 leads a train of steel coils past the turned signals at Longview. The CTC system had been deactivated a few years earlier and the signals have since been removed.
Westbound freight from Mifflin Jct., PA.