Early on a Sunday morning..all is quiet, and this trio are the Sand Patch helpers resting in the "pocket" at Cumberland. Note the early CSX paint on the middle unit, the 8508.

The ladies are lined up for a late afternoon shot...my goodness, it looks like 4418 "pooted"

SD 50 8562 shoves on a manifest led by 7305. She working hard as she passes the privately owned Chessie cabooses stored along the right of way at Hydman.

This is in the lovely Potomac Valley, 24 leading Q 317 west toward Keyser, WVA. Former B&O as the old cpl's suggest.

916 and 721 forward eighty loads of coal east out of Cumberland after a recrew for the crew that brought the train down from Grafton.

The "Cap" cants around the east side of the rock cut at Patterson's Creek. The signals guard a crossover and a passing siding on the eastbound main. She's on the westbound main here, traveling eas... (more)

916 and friend bring 80 loads east toward Cumberland on the westbound main down through the beautiful Potomac Valley, their train strung out in a long s curve.

734's graphited nose gleams in the sun after another completed trip up the hill to Frostburg. The crew has tied down the passenger cars and will cut 734 so she can move on to the turntable, and th... (more)

IN DA HOOD..734 struts over the Rt 28 road crossing in Ridgely on her way to Cumberland for the day's run. Wonder if the dishes were rattling in that house next to the bridge! H. O. "Hogie" Hovatt... (more)

2006 may have been 734's finest season ever. Here, strutting up the Narrows on a brisk fall morning, her stack is clear except for condensing steam. Clean and sharp, rods polished, what a pretty s... (more)

Coal is king in Keyser! 573 and friend have just brought loads in from the west as AC44CW 382 and AC60CW 5014 zip by west bound with 115 empty aluminum hoppers trailing, moments away from an ass... (more)

A pure BNSF engine consist..with a "Swoosh" leading a hot manifest will not stop in the yards, the train is on the easbound main at track speed. The trackage in the foreground are leads for the y... (more)

2629 is stopped on the eastbound "hi iron" here, waiting for the interlocking signaling so she can deposit her cars on the eastbound storage track in the foreground, which features a new switch po... (more)

A symbol "U" coal haul led by 877 heads east. The train on the right is a 10,000 tonner ready to head west. 540 and friend will be led by two 44's up front and use the old Western Maryland Thomas ... (more)

Big ol 7642 makes a pretty sight in the late afternoon sun as she and a friend zip an autorack eastbound toward Cumberland.