If you follow professional photographers from Pittsburgh on Instagram, every fall you will see at least one post of the changing colors and a train in what we call "The Trench," a cut built by the PRR that separated their mainline from the downtown streets and the Allegheny Commons Park. While not quite as scenic during the summer, the area is still fairly photogenic, although difficult to shoot with the sun unless the photographer (or their tripod) is six feet tall and able to see over the fence. In this video, a friend and I were hoping to catch the Allegheny Valley Railroad's turn to Island Avenue and the Norfolk Southern interchange; instead, we were treated to multiple EMDs and a meet between two manifests, both with cuts of slab gondolas.
We did pop over to the AVR's yard to see if AVR-6 had left yet, and found the usual eclectic assortment of power; an SD40-3 rebuilt from an SD45, a GP59, and a mother-slug GP40-3/ex-N&W/NS/leaser GP40 set.
One of the by-then a few months old SD60Ms that Carload acquired from NS and had rebuilt at MEI.
I'm not old enough to have grown up with 80s cartoons, but apparently someone felt nostalgic for a certain MTV animated teenager.
