Y131 brings Q031's Baltimore pickup up the hill from the Seagirt Marine Terminal to Bayview, as it crosses over O'Donnell St on the Sparrows Point Industrial Track.

Bug Slug

Countless Alco switchers were rebuilt with Caterpillar or Cummins engines, and sold to small mine operations throughout Appalachia. Most had their cabs removed or sealed s... (more)

Arriving at Locust Point Yard, Q403-13 rounds the loop as it proceeds through the old coal yard. In the background are USNS Antares, and USNS Denebola both of which are ready reserve Navy ships d... (more)

Having pulled empties from Lehigh Cement, the Canton crew is about to cross S. Clinton St, as they make their way back to the coal yard.

A Canton crew pulls empties from the Lehigh Cement pier.

A Canton crew waits for a forklift to move a steel plate off the tracks, so they can pull empties from the Lehigh Cement pier.

Having just entered the Locust Point Branch at HB, R389-04 is east on track 1, as it rounds the bend just west of Leadenhall St, on it's way to Locust Point Yard. On track 2 sits X388-04, who's he... (more)

“Jesus Saves”
With the rowhouses of South Baltimore in the background, CHGN (Chicagoan), lovingly referred to as the “Locust Point Flyer”, with a seven unit lashup (consisting of... (more)

Having just gone through the interlocking at Carroll, W054-27, with a Balfour-Beaty under cutter in tow, approaches the Bush St grade crossing, eastbound on track 2 of the Baltimore Terminal Subdi... (more)

“Best Bib and Tucker”
Photographed at Riverside on June 29, 1986, the newly repainted CSX/B&O 6344 is the former Chessie System/B&O GP40-2 4446. Outshopped from Huntington in early M... (more)

Deadhead office car special, P900-15, speeds east on the single main, approaching the western portal of the Howard St Tunnel.

Loaded ethanol train K498-08, with an old school leader, crosses the Patapsco River, as it approaches Curtis Bay Yard.

Little Joe Stalin’s Locomotives

That’s what Milwaukee Road crews called that road’s twelve big electrics that were nearly identical to this South Shore example, seen here at ... (more)

Q409-04 with an ex New York Central E9 in the consist, rolls through the interlocking at Carroll, with downtown Baltimore towering above in the background.

Loaded coal train 862 approaches O'Donnell St on the President St Branch.