NS Train 40T Chase Buffalo Line. Eldred to Emporium, PA. 10-13-2000.

Filmed alot of the train action here in Emporium for the movie "Unstoppable." That was awesome to watch, especially the big explosion and the helicopters flying all around

Excellent video work, Mark......that's definitely a "Hey A**hole" blast of the horn at 1:24.

This brings back memories when I worked for Penn Central out of my hometown Emporium as a trackman during summers from Penn State. I started in ‘68 not long after the merger with the Pennsy. Our crew worked our way north (opposite of this video) from Emporium, staying in a camp car M-F. The southbound grade from Keating Summit to Emporium is notable for a approx 7-mile 2.6% stretch, the steepest in Pa, and is the subject of a recently published booklet of true stories that I am reading by Paul Haynes, “It Happened On Keating Summit Hill”. The worst incident was a southbound NS derailment at 70mph in 2006 releasing chemicals into the creek killing 30 miles of fish. It was routine to only take half the cars to Emporium on this stretch then return to Port Allegany for the others. As I came back from college each summer, work was progressing north, to Eldred, then into N.Y. to Olean, Franklinville, and Delevan. My last summer started in June ‘70 when Penn Central went bankrupt, and I remember our camp cook having troubles with the local grocery stores taking the company check! Thank you Mark for posting your excellent video.

It would be only 2 yrs later the last of the run thru freights the NS Buffalo line would making its last pass thru Emporium up over Keating Summit. Only a few years later the long standing Pennsy position lites go dark all long this historic main line!

I also do miss seeing Conrail and NS train going past my grandfather's house along Sizerville, Road.

3:17 I know exactly where that is. My grandfather lives in Emporium and when we go to Olean from there to visit my Aunt that's along the road.

Awesome video! What track was to the right at 6:50?

Excellent video.

Yeah,seems people never learn with the grade crossings;but hey! How come markers on the head end?

Why were they on the siding at Port Allegany? Did they meet something?

Its still owned by NS, WNYP leases it. s of now, Emporium became as frac sand railyard and Turtlepoint has another railyard built and owned by Lansberry Trucking for frac sand.

C®S consolidated statement running at two forty million assets in lien three hundred seventy million if merger goes through hundred eighy million plus two hundred forty ,three hundred twenty million that forty million in debt as value of rail road