Conrail provided an Office Car Special train for the opening cermony on North Shore in August 1984

Conrail locomotive #9343 was borrowed for the first two weeks of our operations in 1984

Three Santa Fe CF7s arrived in the third week of August 1984

Santa Fe #2444 became North Shore #44 in 1985

Picture courtesy of: Mike Zollitsch

A unit coal train is being loaded in the LVRR Newberry Rail Yard in Williamsport, PA. Unit coal trains of up to and over 100 rail cars at a time are loaded for export several times a year at this location.

New JacksonTamper passes by our office, on our tracks in Williamsport, PA

Tie Inserter

Ballast Regulator followed by a high-rail dump truck

Paving contractor milling the pavement at a North Shore customer siding

Building a track panel to install in the crossing

Prentice truck laying out ties to build panel

Picture courtesy of: Mike Zollitsch

Two North Shore EMD locomotives sit outside the Northumberland enginehouse

Three locomotives are lined up in Newberry yard with paint schemes representing the JVRR, LVRR, and NSHR

Photo courtesy of Mike Zollitsch.

GP 38 #2004 freshly painted in NSHR colors, waits to depart Lock Haven, destined for Bellefonte, PA

A good example of what railroads can haul is this 100 ton rubber tire crane sold to a customer in Mexico. Rail was the cheapest and easiest method of transportation for this customer.

Two LVRR pups on the Williamsport based Muncy Turn train local cross over the west branch of the Susquehanna River near Muncy, PA

Photo courtesy of Mike Zollitsch.

NBER crew arrives at the tiny isolated hamlet of Driftwood, PA with a trainload of aggregate and awaits the BPRR Dubois, PA based crew to finish their work before handing train off to BPRR. NBER has trackage rights for aggregate shipments to the BPRR over a portion of the NS Buffalo line. Driftwood is now an interchange point for NBER, WNY&P, BPRR, and NS.

Photo courtesy of Mike Zollitsch

LVRR Based train KH25 heads south on NS Buffalo line with interchange traffic for NS and CPRS at Northumberland

Two Nittany & Bald Eagle Geeps cross over Spring Creek in downtown Bellefonte, PA

Photo courtesy of Mike Zollitsch.

Ex C&NW Hi-hood NBER Geep pulls the twice daily stone shuttle. Now no longer in operation, this shuttle provided an alternative to many trucks hauling aggregate between Pleasant Gap, PA and Bellefonte, PA.

Photo courtesy of Mike Zollitsch.

JVRR customer Standard Steel ships railroad wheels all over North America. NSHR employee Tom Avery spotted one such shipment in Anchorage on the Alaska RR while on vacation. Cars interchanged to the ARR move over the ocean on barges as there is no direct rail connection to the USA or Canada.

Looking up the North Shore track, on a tangent

NBER CF7 2427 leads a trainload of aggregate destined for the Allentown area

Photo courtesy of Mike Zollitsch

LVRR 238

Photo courtesy of Mike Zollitsch.

LVRR “Avis Turn” crosses Pine Creek and is headed back to Newberry Yard. Pine Creek cuts through the famous PA Grand Canyon

Photo courtesy of Mike Zollitsch

NSHR Train sits in WNY&P’s Olean NY Rail yard while guests enjoy a BBQ meal during a joint NBER/WNYP Office Car special train in October 2008 that originated in Lock Haven, PA on NBER.

Photo courtesy of Bonnie Zollitsch

Photo courtesy of Mike Zollitsch