With the B&O CPL's between Paw Paw and Orleans Road officially gone, scenes like this are increasingly rare on the B&O mainline to Brunswick, as an eastbound autotrain train passes through "Grassh... (more)

Specially adorned CSX caboose 904000, celebrating the 175th anniversary of the Baltimore and Ohio, brings up the tail end of a rail train on the Cumberland Sub east of Hancock.

A westbound B&O manifest passes HO Tower at Hancock, WV on May 1, 1977 with B&O GP7 No. 6659 and a C&O GP30.

A short train for the U.S. Silica plant near Berkeley Springs heads down the branch, caboose first.

A CSX scale car bides time next to an old C36-7 (CSXT 7138) under a favorite tree. The nearest two tracks are the mainlines. For a shot of the Dash 7 from the same location and day, see more)

Last train of the year! Amtrak blasts by an already quiet yard, and the line goes quiet for the rest of the day. The tree on the right, a long time resident, contemplates another year pas... (more)

In a scene that's changed considerably over the past two decades, an eastbound rack train rolls past Hancock's classic B&O CPL signal bridge.

HO tower, still on duty, looks over the quiet railyard during a snowstorm. What the tower, and the tree!, have seen over the years. Sadly, only the tree remains.

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Westbound CSX Q217 proceeds west with a short train of autoracks west of Hancock.

An eastbound CSX coal drag passes the interlocking near the west end of Hancock.

It never occured to me that what I was shooting on this spring afternoon would be history in just three years. AMTK 131 and the westbound Capitol Limited passes by HO Tower and ducks under ... (more)

A caboose is still needed for the local at Hancock for long shoving moves.

A CSX slug set switches the small yard in Hancock West Virginia on a cool sunny morning.

An eastbound CSX train flies passed the now empty HO tower in Hancock WV.