One of the great rail fan hot spots in North America is the Sand Patch grade in southern Pennsylvania. Here, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad conquered the Allegheny mountains in 1871 on its route from Baltimore to Pittsburgh and the West. The east side of the grade winds along Wills Creek from Hyndman to the summit at Sand Patch Tunnel. In these photos taken at Fairhope, a few miles west of Hyndman, a rail fan shows good train-watching accessories: a cigar, a cold beverage, and a 4-wheel drive truck. Also from this little platform we see CSX 5111, a GE AC4400CW, leading an eastbound coal drag down the grade at 25 mph.
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