WMSR station looking clean as a whistle in preparation for the 2007 season starting in another week.
Amtrak #42 gives a Richard Nixon impersonation from the cab while approaching the North Branch overpass on a very rainy day.
Q394 with a dirty BNSF leader, and a CEFX "bluebird" CW44AC behind, rolls past the power off of hopper train E819, which is waiting for a work crew to fix a turnout at Viaduct Jct.
An eastbound coal train leaves Cumberland, Maryland.
A westbound train has just knocked down the signal as it enters the yard at Cumberland, Maryland. An eastbound train waits for it to clear so it can go on its way.
Like a scene from a 1940's movie, WMSR's Baldwin #734 is shrouded in steam as it pops off after arriving in Cumberland.
Taking advantage of a heavy overcast providing strong backlighting, I captured a timeless image of a WMSR fireman filling #734's tender before her 16 mile uphill battle to Frostburg.
A shiny brightly painted BNSF 6200 sits in downtown Cumberland.
I stopped downtown to photograph some west-facing BNSF engines...thanks to railfan Trevor for giving me the heads-up about an approaching CSX Eastbound.
One of the four SD40-2's assigned to the Cumberland hump sits on the PPG lead at Mexico waiting for a work crew to clear up. This and the other hump units are set up for remote control operation, ... (more)
A pair of western visitors, BNSF ES44DC 7666 and GP60B 327, provide the power for Q368, which sits at the Bud board waiting to get into Cumberland.
21 year old CSX veteran 5900 provided a pleasant surprise on the point of inbound Q641 rolling through the Franklin St. Crossing.
Squeaky clean 5427 rolls into Cumberland with three Geeps trailing on the head of Q394.
Former CR 6115 leads Q130 past helper 8528 at the Baltimore St. crossing in Cumberland.
CSX Q130 crosses from main#1 to #2 at Viaduct and heads east to the yard for a crew and power swap before continuing east to Portsmouth,VA.
