Pittsburgh Stream Details

This site is currently in "beta", meaning that what you get is what you get, no guarantees.

Thanks go to the Carnegie Mellon Radio Club (W3VC) for hosting the site.

Current equipment:

• Gateway P4 donated by an anonymous alum from the former CMU Model RR Club
• Motorola Radius provided by RRRadio.net
• Cush-Craft AR-2 Colinear antenna graciously provided and installed by Tim Colbert (K3HX) and assisted by Jason Meyers of the CMU Radio Club
  

• 160.800 - Norfolk Southern channel 1 - Pittsburgh Line, Ft Wayne Line, Conemaugh Line
• 161.070 - Norfolk Southern channel 2 - Mon Line, Pitcairn Yard
  
• 160.230 - CSXT Road
  
• 160.320 - CSXT Dispatcher (old; the current freq is 160.665 but hasn't been programmed into the radio yet)
  
• 160.830 - Bessemer & Lake Erie (Canadian National)
  
• 161.025 - Wheeling & Lake Erie

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These youtube videos provided courtesy of xxxDeath9572xxx

Be sure and check out his many, many videos in the Pittsburgh and surrounding areas.

Here's an interesting video on the Union Railroad (a subsidiary of US Steel).  

The URR owns 16 miles of trackage and normally runs about 5 trains daily. They run 1 Loaded Coke, 1 Empty Coke, 1 Hot Slabs, and eventually ( after 4 or 5 separate trains) they run one train back as well as the occasional  steel coil train for the Irvin Plant from their Mifflin scrap yard with interchange's with the Wheeling & Lake Erie At some point. The coke train will always have 5 MP15DC's on point and a ex: Bessemer & Lake Erie Caboose on the rear. Cabooses are still needed on the Union railroad due to complicated backing maneuvers throughout the line and to get into the mills. The Coil train, will normally have 2-3 Mp15dc's on point as well. The Loaded Slabs can have 3 to even 4 units on point, all MP15Dc's as well. The line isn't a cakewalk to move freight on and off of as  when departing from the USS Clairton Works, they have to battle a stiff 2.1% grade until reaching Sandy Lake at the Irvin Plant. Then after clearing the Bettis Tunnel  the train enters Bull Run, the steepest part of the line between the 3 mills, where grades are around 2.4 to 2.5% .

This is a perfect meet between two CSX Freights, one with SOO Line units in charge! 

Here's a video that is a study in railroad sound and sights