While "chasing trains" along the Original Baltimore and Ohio Railroad; I made several attempts to catch well equipped trains over this river bridge. As it turned out this was the first of a few trains I found myself positioned to photograph. With a railroad scanner I could hear this one weaving through Braddock, Pennsylvania, about 7 miles westward along the tracks. I hurried through West Mckeesport to the area of the Pitteburgh and Lake Erie bridge over the Youghiogheny River. I Parked down in the part of town under the railroad bridge as well as the street bridge ramp to the motorway bridge that crossed over the railroad bridge.

Climbing up the passenger car ramp, I had plenty of this to set up for the shot. As the Eastbound Coal train rolled onto the steel bridge I managed several images of the passing CSX train. The railroad bridge originally belonged to the P&LE, leased later to the B&O which bought out the P&LE, then merged with the Chesapeake and Ohio becoming CSX.

Camera was a Nikon D200, lens 18-70mm iso: 400, f/5.0, 1/1250