Test Time: CSX W001 holds in Brunswick, Maryland just west of the entry to the yard as the train led by CSXT 6025 waits to begin their inspection work in the area.

GEVO in ya face! An empty Curtis Bay coal train is tied down waiting for a crew to head back to the coal fields on the ramp at West Baltimore Interlocking.

Charging Grove: AMTK 330, a new Siemans ALC-42, leads the Eastbound capital limited through Washington Grove, as it approaches its next stop in Rockville.

A westbound "filleted" intermodal cruises into Charm city on a sunny, but snowy, March day.

“They Don't Build 'Em Like That Anymore”
E. Francis Baldwin, B&O’s principal architect, designed the railroad’s third Oakland station (1884), which opened for business in 1885. ... (more)

I love the area between Bailey's Wye and Riverside yard in Baltimore. It's got a very "urban" vibe, and you can see all sorts of stuff, even commuter trains. This time, I caught some... (more)

Here is CSX M216 passing thru the Railroad street Crossing before heading in the the Derwood Dip.

I032-22 nears the east end of the massive Susquehanna River bridge.

A lashup straight out of the late 90's and early 2000s. Sister YN2 GE C44-9W's, CSXT 9005 and CSXT 9006 lead M216 eastbound through the Montrose interlocking.

Amtrak's eastbound Capitol Limited from Chicago, IL to Washington, D.C. gets back up to track speed after stopping at the Rockville Amtrak station. Four locomotives on the point, led by ALC-42 329... (more)

A side trip to Mainline Hobby Supply in Blue Ridge Summit PA brought me through Highfield. It was Sunday, nothing should be happening, right? Much to my pleasant surprise CSX was working the M... (more)

I031 arrives at Bayview Yard, where it's pickup awaits.

I stumbled onto a photo freight at Helmstetter's and just happened to catch 734 coming around the bend before the sun dropped below the mountain.

734 doing what it did for years: hauling passengers up and down the mountain. Here she does that around the famous Helmstetter's Curve.

But the WM didn't HAVE GP30s! Doesn't matter. The 501 still looks great in the sun in front of the Cumberland station.